B 106 1964

Curator: Soothing, isn’t it? Like gazing into a still pond where someone just dropped a pebble. Editor: It is oddly calming, this *B 106*, crafted in 1964. We’re looking at work by Tadasky, an artist deeply embedded in the world of hard-edge painting and kinetic art. Tell me, what strikes you first about this piece? Curator: Definitely the hypnotic concentric circles, radiating outward. It’s like…a portal. I feel drawn in, losing myself in the subtle gradations of light and shadow. Does that resonate, at all? Editor: Absolutely, but let's think about those circles. Tadasky achieved this incredible precision with airbrush on canvas. The application itself—controlled, repetitive, almost meditative— speaks to post-war industrial processes, where even 'art' began engaging with production lines. Do you get a sense of craft challenging the 'aura' of traditional painting here? Curator: Maybe, although, what’s compelling here, I feel, is less about challenging and more about transforming. He takes an industrial medium, that airbrush, and coaxes something almost ethereal from it. There's a gentle vibration I find personally soothing— almost meditative in spirit if not execution. It asks, can mass production touch the sublime? Editor: Interesting. But this surface…it appears incredibly smooth in the image, hinting at multiple, careful layering techniques. Tadasky meticulously constructed this vortex; what about how he used material to manufacture this specific, controlled visual effect? The work of countless hours is invisibly layered within the aesthetic enjoyment of this work. Curator: I can see that tension you describe…mass versus minute care, industrial versus transcendent. Still, that central point draws me into some alternate space beyond that. It’s a really effective, if deceptively simple illusion. Editor: Exactly. That controlled execution opens up those tensions you mention, prompting reflection on the nature of work itself as well as on the function and manufacturing of painting. Curator: It reminds us of a drop rippling eternally on the lake, endlessly creating its moment again and again. Editor: A perfect image to suggest what Tadasky and art itself strives for. Thanks.