Protoist Series: Selected Forms. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; December 13 2014 - April 5, 2015. Director: Michael Govan. Sponsor: Lannan Foundation

Protoist Series: Selected Forms Photo: © 2015 Museum Associates/LACMA

touch indexically registers memory on the material surface as rust–

an intimate yet shared public surface.

Forms of this Protoist Series began as a painter replacing paint with heat; investigating material states through tremendous melting cuts of great temperature suspending elements of iron, carbon, manganese, copper and silicon in a moment between solid and liquid states as well as between sensory stimulus and definition.

Curators: Franklin Sirmans, Holly Harrison

Protoist Series: Selected Forms Photo:©2015 Museum Associates/LACMA