Untitled (White Black Red Yellow Blue)
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Mary Corse wrote this description of her artwork for the U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles:
"The composition of my courthouse painting includes three vertical bands of primary colors (red, yellow and blue), each separated and flanked by vertical bands of white and black. This is the first painting in which I have combined all three primary colors in one composition.
"Glass microspheres are incorporated into the color fields, which refract the light and offer constant perceptual change for viewers as they move around the lobby, and as the ambient light changes throughout the day.
"I particularly like the physical position of the painting in relationship to the architecture of the lobby and building, because of SOM’s geometric design and also because of the way SOM has incorporated light as an important element into the space. I also was interested in contrasting the neutral palate of the building finishes with the primary colors in the painting.
"I am interested in metaphysics and the transformative experience of abstraction; an unseen reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses. For me, a painting must have infinite meanings."
