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Poet Barbara Guest praised her friend Helen Frankenthaler<\/a>\u2019s work for embodying opposing qualities of \u201cfreedom with restraint, extravagance with discipline, suggestion and definition\u201d saying that in Frankenthaler\u2019s work, \u201cthe moment becomes the distance.\u201d The phrase is the title of a museum-quality exhibition of Frankenthaler\u2019s work at Gagosian<\/a> Gallery\u2019s 21st<\/sup> Street location which tracks her stylistic development from the 1960s through the 1990s.\u00a0 These two large canvases from the late \u201860s at the show\u2019s entrance engulf viewers in fields of color that are both washy and firm and recall Frankenthaler\u2019s stated intention to paint \u201cclimates,\u201d hinting at moods conjured by changing natural conditions.\u00a0 (On view through July 2nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Helen Frankenthaler, installation view featuring: Moontide, 1968, acrylic on canvas (left) and Gamut, 1968, acrylic on canvas (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poet Barbara Guest praised her friend Helen Frankenthaler\u2019s work for embodying opposing qualities of \u201cfreedom with restraint, extravagance with discipline, suggestion and definition\u201d saying that in Frankenthaler\u2019s work, \u201cthe moment becomes the distance.\u201d The phrase is the title of a museum-quality exhibition of Frankenthaler\u2019s work at Gagosian Gallery\u2019s 21st Street location which tracks her stylistic … <\/p>\n

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