Cleve Gray was a painter admired for his large-scale, vividly colorful and lyrically gestural abstract compositions. He achieved his greatest critical recognition in the late 1960s and '70s after working for many years in a comparatively conservative late-Cubist style. Inspired in the '60s by artists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, Gray began to produce large paintings using a variety of application methods—pouring, staining, sponging and other nontraditional techniques—to create compositions combining expanses of pure color and spontaneous calligraphic gestures. Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and many other museums.
Cleve Gray
Past exhibition
