Larry Poons, “To Speak” (1987), acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 49 3/4 x 72 1/4 in (all images courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery) In comparing Jean Dubuffet’s early paintings from the 1950s with ...

Larry Poons might be considered one of the top painters working today, and he knows it. Over his five-decade career he has painted seminal works that have been shown and owned by an illustrious list ...

This phenomenally scaled and effervescently vibrant work captures the transformation that Larry Poons experienced in the late 1960s as he drifted further from his semigeometric and proto-Minimalist ...

What can an artist do with a dot? A lot —if he is Larry Poons. His works are gigantic fields of solid color, spangled with hard-edged dots; when gazed at for any length of time, they seem to dance out ...

“I want to get it all. Dark and light, everything. To put as much into my painting as I possibly can. I’d like to really do overloaded paintings. Not just a little overloaded, but really overloaded” ...

Recording has static, crackling and grinding noises, muffled speech and overall low sound quality. Piri Halasz interviews Larry Poons. Discussion topics include Poons's life, education and career as ...