The Only If , 2014, acrylic and polymers on panel, 40 x 50 inches. From the Press Release: Berry Campbell is pleased to announce the opening on May 28th, 2015 of an exhibition featuring Jill Nathanson, an artist who has worked to reimagine the tradition of Color Field painting. Using a technique of pouring acrylic polymers, Nathanson’s paintings are characterized by coloristic inventiveness, as the pours create new hues by overlapping layers of translucency. Her paintings evoke what she calls “color desire,” as the fluidity of the forms engage us in seeking color resolutions across the pictorial field, while drawing us to the different spaces that the colors occupy and the ways they attract and repel each other. Nathanson became fascinated by color painting at Bennington College, Vermont. She arrived at the school in the mid-1970s, when it was at the center of color field abstraction. From Kenneth Noland and Larry Poons, she learned to avoid composing through dar...