Prolific painter, sculptor, and printmaker Frank Stella is recognized for his pivotal contributions to minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, and color field painting. Born in Massachusetts, he studied art at Princeton University, New Jersey, before relocating to New York, where he quickly gained acclaim for his first major series, the Black Paintings, which were included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Despite early success, Stella continued to experiment with form, geometry, space, and material to push the limits of abstraction. The lithograph Multicolored Squares is representative of his exploration into printmaking and in 1973, he installed a print studio in his New York home. Later in his career, Stella expanded his practice into three-dimensional works, developing sculptures and deep-relief paintings that challenged conventional definitions of abstraction. Rejecting many of the norms associated with artmaking, and in discussing minimalism, Stella famously remarked, “What you see is what you see.”
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