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Letters, whether they are Roman, Cyrillic, or Arabic, represented, at one time, a physical thing: a boat, or a hawk, a house, or the sun. But over time these markings, in many alphabets, have become abstracted. Now letters that line a page are mere keystrokes for what they once were. Process is Life, a show of Blythe Bohnen’s work at A.I.R. Gallery, features an early body of her paintings composed of paintbrush markings that weave within grids, rising and falling in expressive undulations with deceptive ease, the eye trying to form those shapes into letters. And even though these are not ...

WRITING IN 1973 for Art International, Douglas Crimp reviewed Blythe Bohnen at New York’s A.I.R. (Artists in Residence Inc.) Gallery, the landmark women’s cooperative that opened in 1972, of which the artist was a founding member. That same year, she completed her MFA at Hunter College and was included in the “Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Brushstroke,” the near-taxonomic series that Bohnen had started in 1968—and which included 48 Brushstrokes, 1971, a matrix of gesture, instantiated and recalled, that was reproduced o...