Numerous exhibitions have examined to varying degrees the now-fluid boundaries between painting and sculpture. Color in Space highlights a specific and important aspect of the transtion from the painterly sensibility from its traditional identification with the wall to the occupation of a position in space as sculpture. Covering the period from the early 1960s to the 1990s, the Bell gallery included the work of fourteen artists who emphasize the important role of color in the transformation of pictorial ideas into three-dimensional space. These fourteen artists were Jennifer Bartlett, John Chamberlain, Willie Cole, Vernon Fisher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Graves, Ruth Hardinger, Oliver Herring, Ellsworth Kelly, Wendy Lehman, Italo Scanga, Jessica Stockholder, Anne Truitt and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.

Co-curated by Diana L. Johnson and George Hofmann
image: John Chamberlain, Debonaire Apache, 1991