Into That Light

There is a front hall at Gallery 215 in Taos.

Thick adobe walls. Ancient wooden floors. Carvings.

Space holding silence the way only very old walls do.

Home to Untitled Orange and Yellow, 1994. Agnes Martin. Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Sixty inches by sixty inches. A grid painting from the final decade of her life, having already re-rooted in New Mexico. She stripped everything unnecessary from her practice. She became one of the most consequential painters of the twentieth century.

Humbly, on July 18, my work steps into that hall.