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Lot Essay
Related work: Untitled 1967, acrylic on canvas, 187 x 176 cm, included in The Field exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 21 August - 28 September 1968
Elwyn Lynn in The Field catalogue speaks of the series of works which this painting is from
"What is implied in sequential hard-edge is not at all an infinite series but the inevitable limitations; something similar occurs with those who are illusionistically ironic; what looks like an illusion of depth is always corrected by a simultaneous assertion of the surface. Dale Hickey's rows of saw-toothed pyramids, discs and semidiscs signal that they are both flat and deceptively three-dimensional at the same time" (E Lynn, The Field, cat, Melbourne, 1968, p. 85)
Elwyn Lynn in The Field catalogue speaks of the series of works which this painting is from
"What is implied in sequential hard-edge is not at all an infinite series but the inevitable limitations; something similar occurs with those who are illusionistically ironic; what looks like an illusion of depth is always corrected by a simultaneous assertion of the surface. Dale Hickey's rows of saw-toothed pyramids, discs and semidiscs signal that they are both flat and deceptively three-dimensional at the same time" (E Lynn, The Field, cat, Melbourne, 1968, p. 85)