PAINTING
“For Wurmfeld, craft mediates between the scientific and the aesthetic. Wurmfeld is not a savant manque but a painter who has achieved enhanced luminosity by the implementation of procedures he has invented... To look at Wurmfeld’s paintings and his Cycloramas is to think of the ways his craftsmanship celebrates rationality while also provoking curious sensations that can’t be readily defined. We enter a world of geometric order and prismatic harmony that involves feelings compatible with magic.” - Robert L. Herbert
This section provides a selection of Paintings and Installation views from 1966 to the present.
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1966 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1966 & 2012 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 2012 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1975 & 1971 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
II-4H (Full Sat)
1971
Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 in.
II-4 (4H/2V)
1974
Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 in.
II-5 (Red-Green /BK-N-W)
1975
Acrylic on canvas, 6 x 10 ft
II-5 (CMYKW)
1975
Acrylic on canvas, 6 x 10 ft.
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1992 & 1990 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013"
Paintings from 1983 & 1982
Collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim (on left).
II-20 (Dk/Dn/N/Ln/Lt)
1972
Acrylic on canvas, 6 x 30 ft
II-45 (Dk/N/Lt)
1995
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 137 in.
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013"
Paintings from 1992 & 1990
Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1991 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation Views "Grey Series"
Nov-Dec, 2015
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Installation Views "Grey Series"
Nov-Dec, 2015
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
II-35 #1+B (-BG on left) (-RO on right)
2003-04
Acrylic on canvas, each 90 x 134 in.
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1992 & 1990 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Installation View "Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013" Paintings from 1992 & 1990 Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
II-45 (Dn/N/Ln)
1990
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 136 in.
II-19 (Bk-W/Full Sat.)
1989
Acrylic on canvas, 7 1/2 x 22 1/2 ft.
II-21 + White
1977-78
Acrylic on canvas, 72 3/4 x 168 1/2 in.
II-21 + Grey
1977-78
Acrylic on canvas, 72 3/4 x 168 1/2 in.
II-21 + Black
1977-78
Acrylic on canvas, 72 3/4 x 168 1/2 in.
II-45 (R-Y)
1984-85
Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 195 in.
II-45 (B-Y)
1984
Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 195 in.
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Variations, MINUS SPACE
2019
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Variations, MINUS SPACE
2019
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Variations, MINUS SPACE
2019
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Variations, MINUS SPACE
2019
II-15 (Y-W)
1995
Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 168 in.
II-15 (R-G/=V)
1992
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 180 in.
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Light & Dark, MINUS SPACE
2013
Exhibition view of Sanford Wurmfeld: Light & Dark, MINUS SPACE
2013
II-9 (N)
1987
Acrylic on canvas, 57 x 57 in.
II-9 (Full Sat.)
1987
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 in.
II-41 #1+B (Dark) For EWW
2007
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 in.
II-41 #1+B (Light) For EWW
2006
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 in.
II-41 #1+B (Neutral) For EWW
2005-06
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 in.
II-14 +B (Y-Lt/=V)
2009
Acrylic on canvas 42 x 42 in.
II-14 +B (V-Dk/=V)
2009
Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 42 in.
II-26 +B )-V/DN=V) For MSW
2002
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 in.
II-26 +B (-RO/N=V) For MSW
2002
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 in.
II-26 +B (-BG/N=V) For MSW
2002
Acrylic on canvas 90 x 46 in.
II-26 +B (-Y/LN=V) For MSW
2002
Acrylic on canvas 90 x 46 in.
II-26 +B (-Y/LN=V) For MSW
2001
Acrylic on canvas 90 x 46 in.
II-15 #1 + B (Full Sat)
2001
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 46 in.