Fjord

Since the 1960s, pioneering Conceptual artist Mel Bochner has produced a diverse and compelling body of work focusing on language, geometric forms, and colors. Fjord is an example of the artist’s work with shaped canvases in the 1980s. The painting exhibits an ordered chaos of tactile colors and energetic lines. Bochner started with washes of gray-green then drew in red, blue, and forest green—first as washes, then as rivulets of pigment with paint thinner. The artist has said the beauty found in these works offers “an infinite number of unpredictable combinations. And because of the way geometry and biology are intertwined, the combinations are simultaneously geometric and organic.”