Charles Seliger: The Structure of Matter presents a rare comprehensive survey spanning 1944 to 1993, celebrating the centennial of Seliger's birth.Charles Seliger: [title needed] presents a rare comprehensive survey spanning 1944 to 1993, celebrating the centennial of Seliger's birth. At 18, he was already producing hallmark organic abstractions; at 20, he became the youngest artist represented in MoMA's permanent collection, having shown the previous year at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century alongside Pollock and Rothko. Where his contemporaries overwhelmed through scale, Seliger's intimately sized paintings invite close contemplation of strange, evocative natural worlds — strata of earth, botanical and biological forms, ocean depths — built through laborious cycles of paint application and scraping that mimic the alternating revelation and concealment found in nature itself.
