Warren Rohrer: Recollection

Within Warren Rohrer’s quiet yet meticulously composed paintings lies a series of paradoxes. From a distance, his gradient squares of color appear as simple swaths, but upon closer inspection, the repetitious system of daubs and strokes becomes an ever-shifting field of experience. Emerging out of the 1970s, Rohrer’s unvarnished compositions adopt a loose grid through which he orients his mark-making—opaque slants of color are layered atop one another to create subtle shifts of hue and directionality that reflect a rhythmic movement across the canvas. Painting