NEW YORK, NY.- Del Deo & Barzune announces the opening of Paul Mogensen—Painting, the artist’s first solo exhibition held in New York in almost twenty years. Featured is a selection of his signature multi-paneled paintings from the late 1960s including no title (Persian red),1968—a work comprising six (joined) canvases.

Also included is no title, 1968-71—a work composed of nine (separated) canvases painted in oil, measuring 90 x 90 inches overall.

The use of mathematically-based systems of ordering and progression have been central to Mogensen’s practice from early on. Traced historically to antiquity, these concepts are by no means exclusive to visual art. Their counterparts can be found in disciplines ranging from Renaissance architecture to music.

In addition to Mogensen’s early-period works, the exhibition features select examples of recent paintings dating from 2015 to the present. Among them is an eight foot square canvas of radiating oblique lines. Combining the media of gouache and acrylic, Sasanian, black, 2015 explores concerns of matte, gloss, and (black) monochrome. Reflective bands or “rays”, painted in acrylic, spin off of a centrally located velvety-black disk.

The artist’s interest in the ordering of form and progressions encompasses other timeless configurations and shapes, such as the spiral—a motif that has preoccupied Mogensen for decades. Recent examples of coiled-band (polychrome) “spiral” paintings, such as no title, 2016, allow for a progression of both form and color, as determined by their order in the spectrum.

Born in Los Angeles in 1941, Paul Mogensen was first represented in New York by the legendary Bykert Gallery from the time of its founding in 1966 until its closing in 1975. At Bykert, Mogensen kept company with a pioneering group of artists which included Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Dorothea Rockburne, David Novros, Barry Le Va, Alan Saret, and Joe Zucker, among others.

Paul Mogensen’s work can be found in the collections of major museums in the U.S. and abroad, including: The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York Public Library, NY; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

The exhibition in its entirety is available for viewing on line at deldeobarzune.com.