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This exhibition of 17 works from 1962 to 1967 shows Paul Reed's exploration of color and transparency to achieve movement in evolving series. The earliest works in the exhibition use biomorphic shapes to provide circular movement (1962 to 1964). The forms are then simplified to large geometric forms to explore transparency and color (1964 to 1965). In 1966 grids and bands act as neutral forms to hold color and emphasize the interaction of overlapped colors. These grids then twist and stretch into shaped canvases in 1967.

Paul Reed (1919-2015) is one of the six original members of the …