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Numbers, signage and text in late American Expressionist painter Alfred Jensen<\/a>\u2019s thickly painted canvases suggest dry, instructional diagrams while at the same time attracting attention with bold color and form. Now on view at 125 Newbury<\/a> in Tribeca, a selection of Jensen\u2019s work from the late \u201850s to the mid-70s titled \u2018Diagrammatic Mysteries\u2019 reaffirms the simultaneous significance and impenetrability of the work, backed up by a quote from iconic Minimalist Donald Judd in a gallery handout – \u201cThe theories are important to him and completely irrelevant to the viewer.\u201d \u00a0Freed from the need to uncover Jensen\u2019s meanings, visitors can discover pleasure in the works\u2019 formal qualities and suggestive text, patterns and sequences.\u00a0 (On view through Feb 28th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Alfred Jensen, Physical Optics, oil on canvas, 7\u20192\u201d x 12\u2019 9\u201d, 1975.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Numbers, signage and text in late American Expressionist painter Alfred Jensen\u2019s thickly painted canvases suggest dry, instructional diagrams while at the same time attracting attention with bold color and form. Now on view at 125 Newbury in Tribeca, a selection of Jensen\u2019s work from the late \u201850s to the mid-70s titled \u2018Diagrammatic Mysteries\u2019 reaffirms the … <\/p>\n

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