Among America’s foremost abstract painters of the late twentieth century, Dan Christensen was devoted over the course of a forty-year career to exploring the limits, range, and possibilities of paint and pictorial form. A leading figure in the Color Field movement, he both carried on the legacy of this approach while stepping outside of it. Drawing from a wide variety of Modernist sources, he used many idiosyncratic techniques, often employing methods more commonly associated with the action painting methods of Abstract Expressionism. The result is a distinctive body of work that is original, surprising, and filled with pleasure in the act of painting. This exhibition at Berry Campbell focuses on Dan Christensen's spray paintings from 1988-1994.
