Richard Gubernick (1933-2019)

Richard Gubernick was a Buffalo State College professor of fine arts who worked in geometric abstraction during the 1970s. In this hard-edge painting, he balanced flat and modulated squares of different colors to give an illusion of luminosity within a saturated field of bright red. His style rejected discernible brushwork, striving for smoothness and perfection. At this time in his career he used the same geometric pattern, a symmetrical shape of interlocking squares, with a focus on the center. Each painting changed through different applications of color, extending the concepts demonstrated earlier by Josef Albers and his Homage to a Square series.