Untitled 1988

This untitled piece was made by Mihai Olos, but it's hard to pin down when, or what with. I can only imagine the artist in the studio, meticulously applying each individual mark, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. The texture looks like the weave of a basket. The color palette is muted, with a mix of blues, greens, and browns. It reminds me of work by Agnes Martin. I can imagine Olos being inspired by her grid-like compositions, but bringing his own unique sensibility to the work, which feels very much like a conversation between artists across time. Painting is this form of embodied expression, which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.