This month we celebrate the life and work of Mel Bochner, the trailblazing Conceptual Artist whose pictorial and theoretical legacy will challenge and inspire artists now and for generations to come. Tribute to Mel Bochner 1940 - 2025 Image of Bochner in his studio, photo courtesy Kyle Knodell Mel Bochner is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly discussed as outmoded, Bochner became part of a new generation of artists - including Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson - who broke away from Abstract Expressionism and traditional compositional devices, radically reimagining visual art. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Through a series of provocations into art-making, Bochner transformed our current definition of art itself. Most famously, he pushed the boundaries of material convention with his question, ...