Stephen Mueller R.I.P


(Thanks Marlene Sarroff)

Color field painter dies at 63 Stephen Mueller – Sept 24, 1947 – Sept 16, 2011

Stephen Mueller obit at ARTCRITICAL

He would have been 64 years old today.

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His Bombsite interview (lots of interesting stuff here)

I’m interested in demonstrating the folly of duality; I’m deliberately toying with that thing about figure/ground, which is which. The ground being the way we set up what we think reality is, the warp and woof of how we see our situation. The paintings are not constricted or rigidly mathematical; it’s like the fiction of our perception is ready to fall apart, the whole grid is ready to collapse, or change.