- Artist or Maker
- Roy Thurston
United States, New York, Huntington, born 1949 - Title
- Untitled (2005-2)
- Date Made
- 2005
- Medium
- Acrylic polyurethane on milled aluminum
- Dimensions
- 24 1/4 x 5 x 2 1/2 in. (61.60 x 12.7 x 6.35 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2005.80.2
- Collecting Area
- Contemporary Art
- Curatorial Notes
Since the mid-1990s, Roy Thurston—who early in his career worked as an assistant for James Turrell—has painted on metal, usually aluminum. He painstakingly milled the metal surface of Untitled (2005-2) by hand before painting it with acrylic polyurethane, chosen for its absolute clarity (as opposed to the slightly yellowish tone of so-called clear lacquer). Thurston typically burnished his polyurethane paintings to create energized surfaces that reflect and refract light in different ways as the viewer moves around them.
Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
- Selected Bibliography
- Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
