ART–ATM–SPR

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Vivian Springford

Systems of Clarity

Color as breath

ART–ATM–SPR

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Color as breath

Vivian Springford

ART–ATM–SPR

Color as breath

Index Code:

ART–ATM–SPR

Orgin:

Milwaukee, USA / New York, USA

Field Notes:

Color becomes a field for awareness • gesture dissolves into space

Defining Moment:

1960s—her Chromatic paintings established a meditative abstraction rooted in breathlike expansion

Vivian Springford

(

2019 – present

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viv-ee-an spring-ford

Springford created paintings where poured inks open like atmosphere — color suspended between intention and chance.

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Her work feels both cosmic and intimate, emotion diffused through luminous stain.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Vivian Springford’s work, this approach appears where repetition and pooling organize abstraction.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Vivian Springford’s work, this approach appears where repetition and pooling organize abstraction.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Abstract Expressionism

Gesture and scale organize space through bodily and material intensity.

Large chromatic fields generate scale, immersion, and perceptual depth.

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Repetition as infinity

In Dialogue

Georgia O’Keeffe

Landscape as clarity

Rhythm as color