Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose perpetually evolving works served arsenic landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction creation movements, has died

NEW YORK -- Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose perpetually evolving works are hailed arsenic landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction creation movements, died Saturday astatine his location successful Manhattan. He was 87.

Gallery proprietor Jeffrey Deitch, who spoke with Stella's family, confirmed his decease to The Associated Press. Stella’s wife, Harriet McGurk, told the New York Times that helium died of lymphoma.

Born May 12, 1936, successful Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied astatine Princeton University earlier moving to New York City successful the precocious 1950s.

At that clip galore salient American artists had embraced abstract expressionism, but Stella began exploring minimalism. By property 23 helium had created a bid of flat, achromatic paintings with gridlike bands and stripes utilizing location overgarment and exposed canvas that drew wide captious acclaim.

Over the adjacent decade, Stella's works retained his rigorous operation but began incorporating curved lines and agleam colors, specified arsenic successful his influential Protractor series, named aft the geometry instrumentality helium utilized to make the curved shapes of the large-scale paintings.

In the precocious 1970s, Stella began adding three-dimensionality to his ocular art, utilizing metals and different mixed media to blur the bound betwixt coating and sculpture.

Stella continued to beryllium productive good into his 80s, and his caller enactment is presently connected show astatine the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery successful New York City. The colorful sculptures are monolithic and yet astir look to float, made up of shining polychromatic bands that twist and coil done space.

“The existent enactment is astonishing,” Deitch told AP connected Saturday. “He felt that the enactment that helium showed was the culmination of a decades-long effort to make a caller pictorial abstraction and to fuse coating and sculpture.”