The innovations Novros brought to painting––such as a repeated use of modular forms and a unique focus on the significance of permanent installation—were hugely influential, and the position he staked out in those years has been formative to his sixty-year practice. Of the utmost importance to Novros’s work is the active engagement of painting with architecture, an ideal which he observed in painted places such as the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, during travels in Europe in 1963-64, and which left a huge impression on the young painter early in his career. Since then, Novros has produced painting that is in direct relationship with the surrounding architecture, such as site-specific murals. The first of these was a fresco commissioned by Donald Judd in 1971 for the second floor of his home and studio in SoHo, now the Judd Foundation.
Paula Cooper Gallery
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