Riva Yares Gallery

Morris Lewis
Morris Lewis
Hans Hofmann
Helen Frankenthaler
Gene Davis

The Riva Yares Gallery in Santa Fe holds an amazing collection of modernist painters. Museum-like with it's large viewing space, the gallery collection focuses on the experimentality of the times when color painting was fresh. Seeing Lewis and Frankenthaler paintings in the same room boosted my sensitivity and awareness of the fluidity of the poured paintings. The color poured on the canvas creates a sense of freedom, the paint flows into space. The looseness of the paint application feels natural and appropriate for the expression of color. The Riva Yares Gallery has left a strong impression, these artists are so influential and important to me that I have to return to the gallery soon and continue to study their work.