Mark Jenkins
April 22, 2025
WHILE LEON BERKOWITZ AND WAYSON R. JONES CAN EACH BE DESCRIBED as color field painters, their ideas of a field are rather different. Berkowitz (1911-1987) made airy paintings whose surfaces are utterly flat, yet seem to glow from some submerged light source. Jones has long made earthy pictures whose facades are chunky and heavily worked; his early work was monochromatic, but it now appears to overflow, sometimes literally, with color.