Tony Bechara: Annotations on Color Schemes

Inside Bechara's thought process for his meticulously planned and painted colorful geometric grids

Published with Tony Bechara.

Puerto Rico-born, New York-based artist Tony Bechara (born 1942) served as board president of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years, while also honing his own geometric abstraction process. Dividing his canvas into hundreds of quarter-inch squares, Bechara meticulously fills each space in with complementary colors. The resulting grid paintings thus evoke a variety of cul...