Thomas Nozkowski: Everything in the World

Filled with diminutive patterns of shapes and colors, Nozkowski's small-scale paintings reflect the artist's own brilliant and changing world

Thomas Nozkowski (1944-2019) developed a singular approach to painting that rejected established aesthetic conventions. Most notably, he spurned the oversized canvases favored by the Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists and instead painted on 16-by-20-inch boards purchased from a local art store. Everything in the World centers on a formative period...