Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance surveys four decades of painting from 1960 to 1992, featuring more than twenty of Frankenthaler's largest and most ambitious canvases arranged by decade. Taking its title from a 1975 essay by poet Barbara Guest, the exhibition traces Frankenthaler's continual reinvention — from diluted oil on untreated canvas through her shift to large flat slabs of acrylic color, to the layered accumulations of her final decade. Allusions to landscape, conversations with art history, and the fluid interplay of freedom and restraint run throughout a practice she described as "inner amorphous worlds or depths exploding on the surface."
