“With this new openness, we are given more breathing room in which to move around the paint and the surface, with areas of white now modulating the color zones, pulling them back as we would part a curtain and affording us a glimpse of another kind of space…the space of infinity.”
WILLIAM C. AGEE IN DEBRA BURCHETT-LERE, ED., SAM FRANCIS: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF CANVAS AND PANEL PAINTINGS 1946-1994, BERKELEY 2011, P. 74