Stephen Pentak

Stephen Pentak

  • Paintings 2024
  • Broadwaters
  • Edge Waters
  • Diptychs, Triptychs
  • Selected Works on paper Paper, 2006-2019
  • Trasimeno 2007
  • Near Wilson Bridge 1998
  • Dormant Trees 1997
  • Early Broadwaters and Pools 1986-1993
  • Mac-O-Chee 2003
  • 1984 first pools
  • 1983 Spiral/Helix
  • Bursts, Bends, Splits 1981-82
  • 1979- 1980. Embedded and Keystone Variants
  • Eccentrics 1978-79
  • Graduate Work 1976-78
  • First Work 1975
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first white
1975
oil on unprimed paper
14x11

The first painting. What constitutes a painting? What is white? The paint? The paper ? The glimmer of light on the edge of impasto? The golden halo is the oil stain leaching into the paper over 50 years. The small "T" is a note that this white is Titanium Dioxide.