All about Life, all about art
Charlotte Street winners reflect on personal experiences and grand ideas
By ALICE THORSON
Kansas City Star, December 14, 2008



Almodovar's continuing exploration of Minimalism reaches new heights in "Untitled (Radiant),"
in which he reinvents the stripe painting, icon of Minimalism and the 1960s Color Field movement.
His dazzling update forgoes painted stripes in favor of a dozen, 8-foot-long polychromatic plastic
strips, hung side by side from a curved armature. The coating on the plastic produces a mirrored
surface, which gives the piece an active, ever-changing appearance - not to mention alluring
reflected color.

A similar bid for viewer interaction comes into play in "Black Modules," a staggered array of 11
wedge-shaped black blocks that spans an entire gallery wall. Moving around this work, one discovers
that the sides of the blocks are colored, but that's not enough to relieve the rather stolid,
corporate-design feel of the whole.

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