Saw below recently at LACMA along with work by Craig and Peter.
Roland Reiss began working with plastics in the early 1960s in order, in his words, “to move away from the brushstrokes, paint, and canvas of the Abstract Expressionists… The technical elements of painting could be replaced with new surfaces, colors, textures, reflectivities, and physical strength.” Red Edge is one of a series of works he created by making latex molds of ceiling panels used to diffuse fluorescent lights, then spraying the molds with polyester resin in candy-colored hues and backing them with fiberglass. The resulting honeycomb-textured surface reflects light, generating an optical effect that causes it to appear to vibrate. As Reiss described it,
“You have the surface of [the] painting itself moving in space.”
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Painting After Art is Dead 