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Lot Essay
"I haven't seen Advance in so many years....the strap-like elements that hold the painting to the wall were a blue color, and made of Acrylivin, a very tough kind of plastic material, almost indestructible. It was much tougher than Plexiglas. And, compositionally you had the blue edge of the Acrylivin, and...the blue edge of the vinyl going across the surface, which reflected light. And then of course the actual painted surface absorbed the light, and you had the steel bolts, two at the top, two at the bottom. So it was very active visually, this painting.
...the Elvacite I got from Orrin Riley,...It was a building material, used for things like subway cars. It was a very tough plastic, almost like a flooring material. It was used for baseboards and things like that in subway cars. It's flexible, but not like Plexiglas; it isn't breakable like Plexiglas. And it came in colors- that's what interested me. And also, it had a surface that would hold paint. So it was the color of it and the toughness of it that I liked. And of course the thinness, too. It was only one-eighth of an inch thick" (Robert Ryman in R. Storr, Robert Ryman, London 1993, p. 160).
...the Elvacite I got from Orrin Riley,...It was a building material, used for things like subway cars. It was a very tough plastic, almost like a flooring material. It was used for baseboards and things like that in subway cars. It's flexible, but not like Plexiglas; it isn't breakable like Plexiglas. And it came in colors- that's what interested me. And also, it had a surface that would hold paint. So it was the color of it and the toughness of it that I liked. And of course the thinness, too. It was only one-eighth of an inch thick" (Robert Ryman in R. Storr, Robert Ryman, London 1993, p. 160).