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Ronald Davis – First Solo Show, 1965
Monochromatic Shaped Series

Large Red, 1966

Large Red, 1965
120 X 120 X 4 inches (two shaped panels)
Acrylic on Canvas, Collection: the Artist
3-D Computer Generated Virtual Gallery Installation

Large Red was included in my first one-man show at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles. This show of shaped monochromatic paintings was a radical approach at the time, but differed from minimal art of the period in that the painting shapes were either isometric or one-point perspective illusions.