Painters and       Model,1962, oil, 26"x 36"

Brooklyn       Botanic Gardens, 1963, oil, 20"x 24"

Square Abstract       1964, oil, 40"x 40"

Small Square Abstract, 1964, oil, 18"x 18"

And this led me to the idea of doing a big abstract face occupying the whole canvas rectangle, like Face #7.   After a year the idea was exhausted, but the Face Paintings led to doing representational portraits but abstractly colored, oversize and in full front face view.   "Father" (below) is an example, also some self portraits.

Face 7, 1966, oil, 40"x 40"

Face 11, 1966, oil, 40"x 40"

Face 13, 1966, oil, 40"x 40"

Face 15, 1967, oil, 40"x 40"

Father, 1967, oil, 29"x 25"

Mother, 1966, oil, 30"x 24"

Paul, 1972, oil, 24"x 28"

Phil, 1973, oil, 28"x 24"

But after a year doing such figure work, I became interested in abstraction again.   This time my interest was in a more systematic vein where a work is initiated with a set of rules as in a game.    Some work I had seen of Larry Poons at that time with arrangements of small ellipses interested me.   I did a series of ellipse or ellipsoid covered works which I dubbed the Yoo Sub series.    These works combined simulated randomness with fairly strict rules regarding placement of the ellipses and their elongation and direction.   Some of the Yoo Subs were on stained canvas like Yoo Sub 4 below, others on gessoed canvas like Yoo Subs 3 and 10.

Yoo Sub 3, 1971, acrylic, 66"x 114"

Yoo Sub 4, 1971, acrylic, 67"x 70"

Yoo Sub 10, 1972, acrylic, 70"x 70"

Paint Thing 5, 1973, 56"x 73"

Paint Thing #12_2, 1974, 40"x 40"

Paint Thing #15, 1974, 75"x 28"