Menconi + Schoelkopf is pleased to present “Look. Look Again: Beauford Delaney’s Intimate Discoveries.” This selection of works was originally presented in Art Basel’s OVR:20c and continues digitally through December 6.

Despite his significant accomplishments, the artist Beauford Delaney remains an enigma. It is therefore a pleasure to draw greater attention to Delaney’s thoughtful creative process and his considerable impact on the transition from modernist figuration toward abstraction.

The present exhibition is comprised of a group of six intimately scaled preparatory works-spontaneous and free-alongside a richly impastoed and keenly developed composition in oil on paper, the latter of which shows Delaney’s complete maturation. The selection evokes the artist’s careful construction of surface, form, rhythm, and color in a lyrical union. The group of works also reveals emerging confidence as Delaney became a more accomplished abstract painter at mid-century.

The online viewing room is available here.