Agnes LeWitt

As its title attests, this work by Martin Kline pays homage to the influence of artists Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt. Borrowing and remixing Martin’s regimented grids and LeWitt’s geometric boxes, Kline further riffs on their strategies of repetition in his use of encaustic, a method of suspending colored pigment in wax that is applied with a palette knife, brush, or heat wand. A technique popular in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, encaustic hinges on accumulation, on the continual addition of layers to build form, depth, and texture, giving the resulting work a topographical quality.