Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose consistently evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction artwork actions, died Saturday at his house in Manhattan. He was 87.

Gallery proprietor Jeffrey Deitch, who spoke with Stella’s household, confirmed his demise to The Related Press. Stella’s spouse, Harriet McGurk, informed the New York Occasions that he died of lymphoma.

Born Might 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied at Princeton College earlier than shifting to New York Metropolis within the late Fifties.

At the moment many outstanding American artists had embraced summary expressionism, however Stella started exploring minimalism. By age 23 he had created a collection of flat, black work with gridlike bands and stripes utilizing home paint and uncovered canvas that drew widespread vital acclaim.

Over the subsequent decade, Stella’s works retained his rigorous construction however started incorporating curved traces and vibrant colours, comparable to in his influential Protractor collection, named after the geometry software he used to create the curved shapes of the large-scale work.

Within the late Nineteen Seventies, Stella started including three-dimensionality to his visible artwork, utilizing metals and different blended media to blur the boundary between portray and sculpture.

Stella continued to be productive properly into his 80s, and his new work is presently on show on the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York Metropolis. The colourful sculptures are large and but nearly appear to drift, made up of shining polychromatic bands that twist and coil by way of area.

“The present work is astonishing,” Deitch informed AP on Saturday. “He felt that the work that he confirmed was the fruits of a decades-long effort to create a brand new pictorial area and to fuse portray and sculpture.”