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Mary Ann Corse

Mary Ann Corse (Born 1945) is active/lives in New York, California.  Mary Corse is known for Monochromatic and grid pattern painting, glass on canvas, light and space.

Following is a review written by Linda Yablonsky and published in The New York Times Magazine, February 24, 2012.  The exhibition was titled "Artifacts/Mary Corse"

Who could have imagined that quantum mechanics could inspire a revelation in painting? It did for Mary Corse, an under-sung veteran of the Southern California Light and Space movement, who is finally getting her due in New York, at the Chelsea branch of Lehmann Maupin Gallery. The greater benefit, though, goes to those who see the work. Or rather those who bask in it.

Thanks partly to a long-ago class in physics, Corse's five, luminescent white monochromes play marvelous, now-you-see-it/now-you-don't tricks on the eye, the mind and the body. There's no passive looking to be done here.

From one angle, each painting looks perfectly opaque, blank and flat. Move a few steps closer or away, and silvery gray vertical bands appear like invisible ink exposed to ultraviolet light. Move again and the b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5638 characters.]  Artist bio

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