"Orange" (1965) oil on hardboard, 13 and a half x 10 inches  1965

A small, naturalistic still life painting executed in 1965 entitled [br]‘"Orange"’ presaged my interest in the conjunction of painting and language. It depicted an orange (the round citrus fruit, isolated against a plain tabletop) that I placed in quotation marks because it seemed that nature (of which the orange was a token) unmediated by culture and existing represen...