Larry Poons (b. 1937)

“In Poons’ paintings there is a sense that the applied pigment has risen like an iceberg up through its representational plane into a new resolution. The relative thickness or thinness, brightness or darkness of a Poons’ painting depends on the moment that the painting feels finished and not on the moment it looks like something else.” (Dave Hickey, Larry Poons Radical Surface: 1985-1989, exh. cat., Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, 2010, p. 5)