Mary Boone Gallery opened at its Fifth Avenue location My Dear Dear Letter, an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of new paintings by Math Bass. My Dear Dear Letter presents a recent item to Math Basss ongoing Newz! paintings, adding to the artists evolving formal vocabulary. Basss entries emerge through a process of excision. A contour traced from a pre-existing shape is then abstracted away. In this case, nothing is ripped or destroyed, rather the form yields another through its re-orientation, comparable to how N when rotated can appear as Z, and E could be flipped to read as W. Similarly, Basss work explores the contour of a shape through repetition, often within one composition. What follows is a sequence whose legibility asks to be read as mutable, or as toward multiple. In this exhibition, Bass builds in shifts of focus, altering the image by scaling up the field on which it rest
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