Collection of Arthur B. Kouwenhoven, Jr. Roy Colmer (British/American, b. 1935), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1969, signed and dated "69" on the top stretcher, depicting op-art gradient of blue stripes, in a silvered frame. Frame size 41 in. height x 41 in. width. Together with printed material relating to the artist. Roy Colmer's Abstract paintings recall interference patterns viewed on a cathdoe ray tube. Painted in acrylic with an industrial spray gun they depict a fluid fuzzy haze of colors dissolving into colors against a counterpoint of terse, taped, horizontal lines. Colmer's paintings reflect the period's concerns in continuing to make paintings after painting's so-called demise, and doing so in the glare of emerging media. The work has the brillant visual crackle of a maleficent color TV. In this way the paintings capture a historical moment when experimental excursions between different media were being actively oursued and boundries blurred; Colmer's subsequent abandonment of painting is less brusque than it at first appears. (Source: Mitchell Algus Gallery) Colmer showed at Mitchell Algus Gallery, 511 West 25 Street, 206 New York in 2007, ONETWENTYEIGHT Gallery, 128 Rivington Street, New York in 1988. Provenance Purchased directly from the artist.