These four studies demonstrate a range of possibilities, suggested by the artist Jerry Okimoto, to reconfigure the composition of Mobile Painting #17. While at first glance Mobile Painting #17 appears to be a completely flat, tricolored surface, the blue square in fact sits in a channel in front of the red and yellow squares and can be moved left or right. An exploration of geometric form and three-dimensionality, this works is also part Okimoto's overall mission as an artist to challenge the distinction between painting, sculpture, and other traditional modes of artmaking.

Label from Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, June 30–December 30, 2018