About

Born in 1926 in South Carolina, Robert Courtright was a self-taught artist. Close to the artistic approaches of Arte Povera, he developed a unique body of work over more than five decades, appearing remarkably contemporary today. His work spans over five decades, created in his studios in New York and Opio.

The apparent simplicity of Courtright's works reveals an incomparable world, simultaneously sophisticated, clever, and reduced to the essential: grids composed of neatly arranged rectangles of glued paper. These frameworks, these constructions, serve as the expression for a color …