Shades of Red, 2018
96 x 216 Inches,
Wooden cubes on Plywood
Water based Liquitex
32 panels of 16x16
Made of 32 square 16x16” wood panels layered with formations of woodblocks Shades of Red is overlaid with two tones of red : Old Glory Red of the American flag ( Pantone:193C) and red as appears in the Mexican flag (Pantone 186 C).
...In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is -
as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative
medium in art
— Joseph Albers,
Interaction of color
