Ruth Pastine: Limitless

The first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed artist and her minimalist colour-focused practice Ruth Pastine (b. New York City, 1964; lives and works in Los Angeles) is known for her minimalist colour field paintings and multi-panel installations that extend the sensibilities of the 1960s Southern California Light and Space movement. For more than forty years, Pastine has pursued a phenomenological investigation of visual perception, which she explores through the materiality of paint and the elusive and relative qualities of colour, radiance, and depth. Her luminous canvases engage her philosophical interests in the sublime, allowing for direct experience and heightened perception through resonant colour relationships. The fully illustrated monograph Ruth Pastine: Limitless situates the artist's work in the context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century painting, abstraction, minimalism, and perceptual art in relation to Light and Space through an examination of the tensions that drive her practice: materiality and immateriality, the known and the unknown, the finite and the limitless. Ruth Pastine: Limitless also contributes new scholarship from practitioners who demonstrate a longstanding commitment to contemporary painting, Light and Space, post-war abstraction, and minimalism, and to the growing swell of critical interest in women artists who have been historically influential but underrepresented and less known internationally.