Henry Halem
I discovered through [Piet] Mondrian the importance of black fields…the black ground and what that did to color. It made an endless space, whereas…white took over the color, but black didn’t, and it didn’t absorb the color; it punched the color. —Henry Halem
Henry Halem (American, b. 1938)
Red Square
United States, Kent, Ohio, designed in 1989 and made in 1993
Black plate glass, Vitrolite architectural glass, and blown glass, cut, sandblasted,
bonded
H. 62.3 cm, W. 93.4 cm, D. 6.4 cm
2007.4.160, gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family
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