Jaan Poldaas
(2.1.3) / 5 Colours
Painting
EastGallery

Toronto Artist

PRESS RELEASE

"(2, 1,3) / 5 COLOURS" is an open-ended series of paintings begun in early 1981. Each painting consists of 25 solid-coloured rectangles separated by narrow,black recessed outlines. Five colours are 'invented" for each painting, andare arranged in a horizontal row across its centre. Above the centre are theten two-part mixtures of these five colours, arranged in the shape of astepped pyramid. The ten three-part mixtures form the same shape, inverted,below the centre. Each painting is six feet high and six feet eight incheswide, alkyd or enamel on plywood.

Six paintings from this series willbe on view at Mercer Union for the duration of the exhibition.