Casey Reas (American, b. 1972) Diptych: HSB-119-006-090-1366-618, 2015
diptych, woodblock print on paper
57 × 76 cm
no. 5/6
signed and dated
Collection of Bre Pettis
CA.2025.012
Description
This two-part work belongs to Casey Reas's HSB series of 2015, in which titles encode the hue, saturation, and brightness values of a generative color system — proposing HSB as an alternative color space to RGB. Documented as a woodblock-print diptych in an edition of six, HSB-119-006-090-1366-618 / HSB-135-006-090-1232-687 flattens dimensional space so that multiple planes of the same solid occupy the visual field simultaneously. Among the earliest pieces Reas made at Anderson Ranch, the HSB prints grounded his software-driven systems in the history of printmaking and set the trajectory for the later Still Life works.