Ensenada Windows 1962

William Brice made ‘Ensenada Windows’ using lithography. Look at the marks. Aren’t they delicious? They remind me of Cy Twombly and Brice’s mark-making shares something with him. I'm imagining Brice in the process of making this print; the considerations of each little window view, framing something he saw. In each window a different outside bursts in: a tree, and an undefined landscape. I am wondering if he spent some time in Mexico and made studies of the place. There’s a joy in the discovery of seeing something that one wants to frame. The hand-drawn quality of the work makes me feel like I am peering into Brice's world. And then the inside of the house! Like Matisse, he is interested in the conversation between the inside and outside. Artists like Brice and Matisse are talking to each other across time. Making art is an ongoing exchange of ideas.