Thomas Downing
Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Thomas Downing paintings 1961 鈥� 1975 on view from November 11th to December 19th, 2015.
Thomas Downing was a key member of the Washington Color School along with Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis and Howard Mehring. Like Noland and Louis, the artist stained the surfaces of his unprimed canvases directly with acrylic paint in order to attain a completely flat surface. Downing is best known for his use of dots 鈥� arranged in circles and grids 鈥� as a compositional device. His work was most directly influenced by the formalism and color theory of Josef Albers.
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Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Thomas Downing paintings 1961 鈥� 1975 on view from November 11th to December 19th, 2015.
Thomas Downing was a key member of the Washington Color School along with Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis and Howard Mehring. Like Noland and Louis, the artist stained the surfaces of his unprimed canvases directly with acrylic paint in order to attain a completely flat surface. Downing is best known for his use of dots 鈥� arranged in circles and grids 鈥� as a compositional device. His work was most directly influenced by the formalism and color theory of Josef Albers.
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