Roto

© Ronald Davis
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Roto

United States, 1968
Sculpture
Polyester resin and fiberglass
62 x 136 in. (157.48 x 345.44 cm)
Contemporary Art Council Fund (M.69.8)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

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Ronald Davis began his art career making gestural oil-on-canvas paintings but was soon inspired to explore geometric forms and optical illusions....
Ronald Davis began his art career making gestural oil-on-canvas paintings but was soon inspired to explore geometric forms and optical illusions. In order to experiment with the representation of space, he needed a medium that allowed him to create unusual shapes and illusionistic depth, and that permitted the viewer to look at and intothe work simultaneously: polyester resin. Roto is from his second series of resin paintings, made in 1968–69, known as the Dodecagons, or twelve-sided forms. Roto’s composition appears both to recede from and extend into the viewer’s space.

Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
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Bibliography

  • Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
  • Tuchman, Maurice.  Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
  • Tuchman, Maurice.  Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

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  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez.  Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley:  University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

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