Paintings by Frederick Hammersley

This exhibition featured 25 paintings by American artist Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009). Hammersley’s abstract, “hard-edge” paintings were characterized by a precision of form and color. This term, coined in 1959 by California critic Jules Langsner, describes abstract paintings whose bright colors are organized through rigid, geometric lines. The works in the exhibition were characterized by primary shapes—namely, squares, rectangles and circles.