Katharina Grosse

Grosse used a spraying technique to alternate thin loops of blue, yellow, green, and magenta with wide, dense applications of white for this work. The white became variegated and indistinct as it mixed with drips of excess color. Numerous circles in the lower half of the painting intersect to form a grid—a motif central to Grosse’s work in the early 2000s. Here she re-engaged with that form, this time spraying her lines freely and spontaneously, rather than applying them meticulously with multiple strokes of a paintbrush. The grid becomes even more irregular as the curved lines drip, deform, and merge into one another.