White Ground Paintings presents paintings by Joseph Raffael made in the mid-1960s following a bout of hepatitis and the death of his father. Painted fragments—body parts, machinery, consumer products—are carefully organized on white grounds, resembling collage, reflecting a fragmented state of mind shaped by illness, grief, and psychoanalysis. Neither narrative nor connected, the images coexist in open tension, inviting the viewer to complete the picture.
