Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance

This book was published on the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Featuring more than twenty of Frankenthaler’s largest paintings dating from 1960 to 1992, the exhibition explores her use of expansive scale. Throughout her career, the artist pushed beyond the boundaries of easel painting to create extraordinary works, some of which occupied the entire expanse of her studio floor. Arranged chronologically, the monumental canvases presented in The Moment and the Distance offer new perspectives on Frankenthaler’s continual reinvention of her painting practice across four decades.

The catalogue includes reproductions of the exhibited paintings as well as full-bleed details that reveal key aspects of Frankenthaler’s technique and studio photographs that document her materials and working methods. An illustrated essay by Ara H. Merjian discusses the artist’s sustained engagement with abstraction and Surrealism.