Rakuko Naito, RN1468-64, 1964, Acrylic and metallic acrylic on linen, 68" x 68" Op Infinitum: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After May 29 - July 6, 2015 Opening reception with the curators: Friday, May 29, 5:00 - 7:00 PM David Richard Gallery, LLC Railyard Arts District 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 p 505-983-9555 | f 505-983-1284 www.DavidRichardGallery.com David Richard Gallery Presents “Op Infinitum: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After”, Fe

Click here to view catalog THE RESPONSIVE OTHER EYE: OPTICAL ABSTRACTION IN AND OUT OF MOMA By Peter Frank “The Responsive Eye,” the New York Museum of Modern Art’s controversial 1965 survey of a new kind of “optical” abstraction, was not the instigator, or even definer, of this abstraction, but merely its critical and popular apotheosis. I say “merely” because the MOMA exhibition – a result of several years of research and travel by curator William C. Seitz – served neither

Click here to view catalog OP SPRINGS ETERNAL: “THE RESPONSIVE EYE” FIFTY YEARS ON By Peter Frank Exactly half a century ago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York — the fount of authority for contemporary American art (and, it was supposed in America, for art around the world) — mounted a large survey of art designed to stimulate the eye of the beholder simply and directly, without reliance on extra-visual content. Here, the exhibition proclaimed, was a kind of art, practiced

Tadasky, C143, 1965, Acrylic on canvas, 47 x 47 " Post-Op: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After February 25 - April 12, 2015 Opening reception with the curators: Friday, February 27, 5:00 - 7:00 PM Gallery talk: Saturday, February 28, 2:00 - 3:00 PM with Peter Frank, David Eichholtz, and artist Tom Martinelli David Richard Gallery, LLC Railyard Arts District 544 South Guadalupe Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 p 505-983-9555 www.DavidRichardGallery.com David Richard G