Untitled 1988

Moshe Kupferman made this untitled painting with what looks like graphite and maybe watercolor, creating a series of horizontal lines. It’s all about the process, you know? It’s about the doing. Up close, you can see these marks aren't perfect, and the graphite varies in density, giving the surface a kind of pulsating, shimmering quality. The color is muted, almost monochromatic, but with subtle shifts from grey to lavender, creating a melancholic yet strangely calming effect. There's a vertical line drawn in the middle of the piece as well, but rather than providing a point of focus, this adds to the sense of the painting being the product of repetitive action, the record of a sustained performance. It reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin, especially in its meditative quality and use of the grid. But where Martin's lines are precise and ethereal, Kupferman's are more vulnerable, more human. Art, for me, is not about answers, but about creating spaces where we can sit with uncertainty, with not-knowing.