The Present Perspective of Mary Corse

My eyes can’t stop. They’re riding high along the light gray stripe that bisects one of Mary Corse’s paintings featured in her new solo exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, “Presence in Light.” After they reach the tippy-top point of this large, square, canted wall work, they flutter across a field of faint white strokes that initially appear as a best-in-class stippled, fine furniture finish but—with a tiny head tilt—transform into stealthy, translucent, staccato brush hits made by a seasoned artist.