{"id":14518,"date":"2024-04-02T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=14518"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:34:55","slug":"tony-bechara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/tony-bechara\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bechara"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3768\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14518-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/TonyBechara.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/TonyBechara.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/TonyBechara.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_14537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14537\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14537\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=307%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=1024%2C650&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=768%2C487&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=1536%2C975&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=696%2C442&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=1068%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?resize=1920%2C1218&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?w=1973&amp;ssl=1 1973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tony-Bechara-April-29-2018-%C2%A9-Maku-Lopez-SHOOT11178.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bechara, April 29 2018, \u00a9Maku-Lopez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lissongallery.com\/exhibitions\/tony-bechara\">Tony Bechara\u2019s<\/a> dynamic, color-saturated paintings create a pure field of physical perception. You can see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C5Oa2sGRhtc\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">walk through of his show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Each canvas is meticulously painted with multicolor areas of quarter-inch squares. Using strips of masking tape, Bechara arranges carefully formulated hues into a playful and invigorating optical surface, made up of a multitude of small colored units. The work\u2019s overall rhythm is determined by a process that is systemic but designed to allow combinations of color to emerge by chance. Bechara cites influences across art history, including the colors of Matisse and Vuillard, the pointillism of Seurat and Signac, traditions of weaving and crafting, the precision of hard-edge abstraction, and the famed Byzantine-era mosaics at Ravenna. These influences are evidenced in Bechara\u2019s approach to painting: he uses a tile-like grid as the basis for his explorations into the principles of color usage, particularly the intersection of organization and randomness. The division of the surface of the painting into small modular boxes is similar to pixels; the gaze is constantly in motion. Bechara presents the viewer with their retinal and neurological relationship to color, balancing one\u2019s immediate impression of hue and the overarching logic of pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Tony Bechara was born in Puerto Rico in 1942 and today lives and works in New York City. A graduate of Georgetown University, Bechara attended Georgetown Law School and New York University before later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and the New York School of Visual Art, benefiting in particular from the lessons of Richard Serra and Joseph Raphael. In the 1970s and 80s, Bechara was included in exhibitions organized by the Boulder, Colorado based Criss-Cross pattern printing collective and featured work in the group exhibition \u2018Islamic Allusions\u2019 at the Alternative Museum in New York. His work was included in the 1975 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1980 he was granted a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1981 he was included in \u2018The Shaped Field: Eccentric Formats\u2019 at MoMA PS1 in New York. Bechara has had solo exhibitions at the Alternative Museum in 1988; Artists Space in New York in 1993; and el Museo del Arte Puerto Rico in 2008. Recently, Bechara has participated in exhibitions \u2018With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2019), which travelled to the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA (2021); \u2018Point of Departure: Abstraction 1958-Present\u2019, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA (2021); and \u2018Artists Choose Parrish\u2019, Parrish Art Museum, NY, USA (2023).His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA; el Museo del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, USA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14539\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14539 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?resize=696%2C928&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1424&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH710001-001-1.jpeg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bechara, <i>Abstract Composition<\/i>, 1970-71 Acrylic on canvas, 208.6 x 166.4 x 2.9 cm82 1\/8 x 65 1\/2 x 1 1\/8 in <span class=\"s1\">Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA <\/span>\u00a9Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14540\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14540 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=696%2C929&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=767%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 767w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=768%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=696%2C929&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1425&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH230003_001.jpeg?w=1124&amp;ssl=1 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bechara, <i>Random 28 (Blue version)<\/i>, 2023 Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 \u00a9Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14541\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14541 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=696%2C929&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=767%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 767w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=768%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=696%2C929&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1425&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BECH100001_001.jpeg?w=1124&amp;ssl=1 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bechara, <i>Perseus<\/i>, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm 60 x 60 x 1 1\/2 \u00a9Tony Bechara, Courtesy Lisson Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/TonyBechara.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts 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