Yellow Tile

Gayle Johnson

Yellow Tile , 1979

Artwork Type: Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 8 4 x 66 ½ in. (254.0 x 168.91 cm)
Accession #: 19790586
Department: Thesis Exhibition 1979
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Gayle Johnson
Related Exhibitions:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
Copyright: © Gayle Johnson
Object Label:
Gayle Johnson’s (1953–1995,
American) paintings operate in the
language of the commonplace. Relying
on everyday objects such as those found
in a domestic kitchen, period romance
paperbacks, and images culled from
1950s B-movies, Johnson captured
the mundane and the overlooked with
a meticulous exactness. Geometric
in its compositional arrangement,
Yellow Tile (1979) suggests a kinship
with the de Stijl painter Piet Mondrian,
in its relationship to the grid. Johnson
utilizes a similar primary-color palette,
only softer, more muted, and with a
visual precision toward the play of light
and shadow.
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