Mary Corse, Untitled (White Grid, Vertical Strokes), 1969 [also refers to Untitled (White Grid), 1969]

Kim Conaty: The work you see in front of you, as well as the one to the right, represent a new compositional format, using glass microspheres, that Corse began to explore shortly after Untitled (First White Light Series). In both of these paintings, Corse is using a grid. The difference between the two canvases was important for Corse. While earlier in her career she had tended to hide the brushstrokes, to hide any sign of her own hand in the making of the work, in these works, she decided to foreground it. She did so by differentiating the paintings by the direction of the brushstrokes themselves.