Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting

This survey of paintings by the late Dan Christensen (1942–2007) documents his never-ending quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space. Though long associated with the Color Field movement, Christensen’s relentless experimentation with tools and techniques makes him resistant to any one label or category but does place him among this country’s most ambitious abstract and gestural painters. A native Nebraskan, Christensen was a 1964 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.

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Above: Dan Christensen, Lisa's Red, 1971; acrylic on canvas, 102 x 88 inches; Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 1995.15