Willis has used interlocking bars since the seventies, and amongst his cast of squares, rectangles, zigs, and zags, these long bars of color that float, and sometimes intersect, have been his means of creating a sense of illusory space. But in a painting such as homage to the first generation (2021), it is the singular form of a tall yellow vertical intersected two-thirds of the way up its length by a heavy blue horizontal which takes prominence against a robin’s egg blue background.
It's the perfect time of year to begin plotting adventures around the Yakima Valley from water fights to outdoor movies, fishing, live music, cruising, and more
It's the perfect time of year to begin plotting adventures around the Yakima Valley from water fights to outdoor movies, fishing, live music, cruising, and more