S, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Helen Frankenthaler Mesler elevates everyday phrases into

Mesler elevates everyday phrases into contemplative artworks

I think about football all the time

when he first collaborated with Jean Milant at Cirrus Editions

while Dalí's signature melting clocks adorn the structures

Her palette is a dynamic harmony of contrasting tones

S, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Helen Frankenthaler Mesler elevates everyday phrases intoDavid Hockney's letter S comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A great S, drawn only as a dotted outline, winds down the sheet through a dense sea of red and yellow scallop marks that read as waves, the letter surfacing from the pattern like a current cutting through water. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in