A through L Colored Maze 1966

Frank Stella made "A through L Colored Maze," with colored pencil on graph paper. Just imagine Stella with his pencils, meticulously filling in each band of color. It’s a super cool, geometric abstraction, but it's also kind of warm, you know? There is something about the hand drawn quality of it - the imperfections, the wobbly lines - that makes the image feel very intimate. I can imagine Stella thinking about color theory, about how different colors interact with each other, how they pop and recede. It's all about the surface, the texture, and the little imperfections that make it sing. This really resonates with what so many painters have been doing, like, since forever.