Window Pots 1968

Warren Rohrer’s ‘Window Pots’ is a painting that, to me, looks like it was made with a real sense of exploration and a limited palette. Rohrer is playing with these muted browns and grays, then BAM, there is this vertical slash of orange! It’s like a surprise guest at a very serious party. I love the materiality of this piece, you can really feel the texture. The way the paint sits on the surface makes the pots and window feel like they're emerging from the canvas. It's almost sculptural, like Rohrer was building this scene rather than just painting it. Look at the bottom left corner, see how the grey paint is almost curdled? Rohrer reminds me a little of Morandi, who also spent his life quietly investigating a few simple objects. Both artists show us that there's endless fascination to be found in the everyday. It's this kind of looking, this kind of attention, that makes art so endlessly rewarding.