Untitled

David Novros was born in Los Angeles, but lived in New York since 1964, when he had his first solo exhibition at the legendary Park Place Gallery, and artist collective of which he was a founding member. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Novros exhibited at the David Novros garnered recognition in the 1970s for his large-scale, minimalist, color block paintings. While attendant to the concept of minimal painting, Novros was engrossed in a deportation from color field and hard edged works of his contemporaries.

Novros was deeply interested in fresco, but could not paint on the wall, so he began painting multi-paneled portable murals arranged in unusual formations that go beyond the traditional rectangle or square, often containing empty spaces or windows that allow the wall on which the work hangs to become part of the work itself. Untitled encapsulates Novros’ mission to combine traditional painting methods with a geometric simplicity and is a prime example of how adept Novros is at balancing blocks of color with negative space as well as colors of the geometric forms within the composition.