Public art installation by Ruth Pastine, Limitless installation ("Blue Orange Series" pictured, oil on canvas on beveled stretchers, 102" x 144" x 2.5" each diptych installed, site-specific commission, adjoining north and south lobbies at Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 2009). The image illustrates a key body of work by Ruth Pastine beginning in 2009, when she expanded her repertoire to include multi-panel public art installations. This image depicts Pastine's first commissioned work—a permanent painting installation from her "Limitless" series at Ernst & Young Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. It consisted of two sets of four large vertical paintings (from her "Blue Orange Series" and "Red Green Series", respectively) arranged as four diptychs, which visually linked the building's two large adjoining lobbies. The painting surfaces appear to dematerialize in context with one another, evoking a visceral, inherent tension—a quality accentuated by custom-designed, deeply beveled stretchers that cause the paintings to appear to float or glow. This body of work and individual work were publicly installed in prominent sites, acquired by organizations and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Ruth Pastine. Copyright held by the artist.

Ruth Pastine

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by painter Ruth Pastine: her abstract, multi-panel public art installations, which have expanded on the color and light investigations of her paintings. These works have often employed subtle, concentric or banded gradations of primary and complementary hues to create a range of nuanced color experiences—convergence, reconciliation, temporality and immateriality, suggestions of passion or control—that are furthered by changing light conditions in their public sites. She has created these commissioned for the Ernst & Young Plaza and CIM Group Headquarters in Los Angeles, and for the United Airlines Polaris lounge at the Los Angeles International Airport, among other sites. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work, which brought Pastine further recognition through public installation and exhibition, coverage by major critics and publications and acquisitions. Pastine's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Ruth Pastine, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.