Born in Pomona, California (b. 1929)

Marcia Hafif

December 1967 from the series Italian Paintings, 1967

Acrylic on canvas
© Marcia Hafif; Courtesy of the artist David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.

Marcia Hafif. Photo by Anne Cusack for Los Angeles Times.

“The eye stops on the surface, where once it expected to go within…Where we used to read a surface, ignoring the material it was made of, we now look at that surface's very materiality.”

—Marcia Hafif