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March Blue
Painting

1996
37 x 27 in. (93.98 x 68.58 cm)

David Simpson (Pasadena, California, 1928 - )

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Acrylic on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Katherine and James Gentry
Accession Number: 1998.23.11.03

Exhibition


Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 20, 2004 - July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, South Metro A and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

Collection Highlights, November 2, 2002 - September 12, 2004, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.

Is the Medium the Message?: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, March 2, 2002 - June 2, 2002, New Wing, Metro A, Skylight and South Galleries, Second Floor, San José Museum of Art.

Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the Katherine and James Gentry Collection,
February 28, 1999 - May 2, 1999, Second floor, New Wing, Skylight Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection (2004-2006)

For all their austerity, Quick Shift Green, Gold Shift, March Blue, and Radical Red are quietly glamorous because of their soft shimmer, as well as elusive, difficult to quantify, and ultimately subjective. Although the work visually resembles minimalism, David Simpson remarks, "I am not a minimalist; if anything, I am an essentialist. Art for me is belief made visible."

Simpson painted these works with over 30 thin layers of acrylic-based paint containing particles of mica electronically coated with titanium oxide, which causes the surfaces to dramatically reflect and refract the ambient light. Depending on the viewer’s vantage point, the color and light undergo subtle shifts in hue and intensity, like shifting clouds that block and reveal the sun.

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  • Image Dimensions: 37 x 27 in. (93.98 x 68.58 cm)

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Image of Radical Red
Radical Red

1998.23.11.01
Image of Gold Shift
Gold Shift

1998.23.11.02
Image of Quick Shift Green
Quick Shift Green

1998.23.11.04

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