Acrylic on canvas
While living in London in the late 1960s, Sanín traveled to Paris in 1968 and saw works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, and Frank Stella. Like them, she had been thinking about color, line, and shape as key elements of her abstractions. After moving to New York in 1971, Sanín created increasingly intricate paintings, such as Acrylic No. 3. Here, some of the vertical bands are deliberately oset from one another, yet the repetition of forms and colors makes the composition feel balanced. The resulting pattern, along with her combination of warm and cool hues, is a precise study in contrasts.
415: Hard Edges, Expanded Fields, 2026
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Hard Edges, Expanded Fields
Gallery 415Sharp lines. Flat shapes. Vibrant colors. In the 1960s, artists paired these qualities in unexpected combinations to find new directions for abstraction.
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