The Moment and the Distance — Helen Frankenthaler

Gagosian is pleased to announce Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Surveying four decades of paintings from 1960 to 1992, the exhibition features more than twenty of Frankenthaler’s largest, most ambitious works. Arranged by decade, these canvases—with their monumental scale, sensuous color, and innovative compositions—offer new perspectives on the artist’s continual reinvention of her practice. The exhibition’s title is derived from an incisive 1975 essay by Barbara Guest, a poet and friend of the artist, who wrote: “She has rewarded us with the astonishing combination of freedom with restraint, extravagance with discipline, suggestion and definition. The moment becomes the distance.” Embodying Frankenthaler’s exploratory, lyrical approach to abstraction, the canvases on view benefit from an expansive scale that enhances the exceptional visual impact of their brilliant colors and varied gestures.