Marcia Hafif: An Extended Gray Scale

An Extended Gray Scale, 1973, is a monumental work by Marcia Hafif that has never before been exhibited publicly in its entirety. An Extended Gray Scale, 1973, begins with a white canvas and ends with a black one, marking all of the barely perceptible shifts in gray tone in-between over the span of 106 paintings. This monumental work took Marcia Hafif 10 months to complete. For Art Basel Unlimited 2015, the gallery Fergus McCaffrey presented the complete work in one continuous row for the first time – in