Editing Frank Stella (section)

===1980s and afterward===
[[File:La scienza della laziness (The Science of Laziness) by Frank Stella, 1984.jpg|thumb|right|Frank Stella {{lang|it|La scienza della fiacca}}, 1984, [[oil paint]], [[enamel paint]], and [[Alkyd|alkyd paint]] on [[canvas]], etched [[magnesium]], aluminum and [[fiberglass]], [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington DC]]
[[File:Memantra pic.JPG|thumb|right|Stella's ''Memantra'', 2005, exhibited at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Stella produced a large oeuvre that grappled with [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' in a broad way.<ref name="Darwent2024"/> In this period of his career, as the relief of his paintings became increasingly higher with more undercutting, the process eventually resulted in fully three-dimensional sculptural forms that he derived from decorative architectural elements, and incorporating French curves, pillars, waves, and cones. To generate these works, he made collages or scale models that were subsequently enlarged to the original's specifications by his assistants, along with the use of digital technology and industrial metal cutters.<ref name="Guggenheim2024"/>

In 1993, he designed and executed for [[Toronto]]'s [[Princess of Wales Theatre]] a 10,000-square-foot [[mural]] installation which covers the ceiling of the dome, the [[proscenium arch]] and the exterior rear wall of the building.<ref name="Guggenheim2024"/><ref name="Charlebois2021">{{cite web |last1=Charlebois |first1=Gaëtan |title=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia – Princess of Wales Theatre |url=https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Princess%20of%20Wales%20Theatre |website=www.canadiantheatre.com |access-date=May 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808185105/http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Princess%20of%20Wales%20Theatre |archive-date=August 8, 2007 |date=August 20, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> The mural for the dome was based on computer-generated imagery.<ref name="Mather1994">{{cite book |last1=Mather |first1=Frank Jewett |last2=Sherman |first2=Frederic Fairchild |title=Art in America |date=1994 |publisher=F.F. Sherman |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1RUAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> In 1997, he oversaw the installation of the 5,000-square-foot ''Euphonia'' at the Moores Opera House at the [[Rebecca and John J. Moores School of Music]] at the [[University of Houston]], in Houston, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.music.uh.edu/art/#moh|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301163119/http://www.music.uh.edu/art/|title=About the Stella Project in the Moores Opera House|archivedate=March 1, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.music.uh.edu/ |title=Home |publisher=Music.uh.edu |date=April 25, 2012 |access-date=May 25, 2012 |archive-date=November 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127120733/http://www.music.uh.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A monumental sculpture of his, titled ''Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X'', was installed outside the [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Lewis2001">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Jo Ann |title=Stella Sculpture to Land at National Gallery |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/05/18/stella-sculpture-to-land-at-national-gallery/f80af0d7-158f-4163-a041-c0860c33e8e8/ |access-date=May 6, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827102253/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/05/18/stella-sculpture-to-land-at-national-gallery/f80af0d7-158f-4163-a041-c0860c33e8e8/ |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NGA2019">{{cite web |last1=NGA Staff |title=Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.107766.html |website=National Gallery of Art |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031055734/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.107766.html |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |date=1998–2001 |access-date=May 6, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>

From 1978 to 2005, Stella owned the [[Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart]] building in Manhattan's [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] and used it as his studio which resulted in the facade being restored.<ref>128 East 13th Street [http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/stella_stable/stella_stable_main.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010155120/http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/stella_stable/stella_stable_main.htm|date=October 10, 2014}} Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.</ref> After a six-year campaign by the [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]], the historic building was designated a [[New York City Landmark]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart Designation Report|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2205.pdf|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=October 1, 2014|archive-date=February 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201033324/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2205.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> After 2005, Stella split his time between his West Village apartment and his [[Newburgh, New York]], studio.<ref>[https://blogs.wsj.com/magazine/2010/03/15/sightlines-frank-stella/ Sightlines: Frank Stella] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807193253/https://blogs.wsj.com/magazine/2010/03/15/sightlines-frank-stella/ |date=August 7, 2017 }} ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', March 15, 2010.</ref>

The ''Scarlatti K'' series, begun in 2006, consists of eight works by Stella from his Scarlatti Kirkpatrick polychrome sculpture series, for which he used a [[3-D printer]] to create the metal and resin segments.<ref name="Jebb2024">{{cite news |last1=Jebb |first1=Louis |title=Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/05/frank-stella-one-of-the-leading-abstract-artists-of-his-generation-has-died-aged-87 |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events |date=5 May 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240506014327/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/05/frank-stella-one-of-the-leading-abstract-artists-of-his-generation-has-died-aged-87 |archive-date=6 May 2024}}</ref> The series title refers to the music of the Italian composer [[Domenico Scarlatti]], known for his short but exuberant Baroque period harpsichord sonatas (he wrote more than 500 of them), and to [[Ralph Kirkpatrick]], the American musicologist and harpsichordist, who brought Scarlatti's work to the attention of the listening public, and in 1953 produced the authoritative scholarly catalogue of the sonatas. Stella was inspired by the sonatas, and his series works, like the sonatas, are given "K" numbers, but they allude to Scarlatti's music abstractly with visual rhythm and movement, according to Stella, rather than literal correlation.<ref name="PhillipsCollection2011">{{cite web |last1=The Phillips Collection Staff |title=Stella Sounds {{!}} The Phillips Collection |url=https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2011-06-10-stella-sounds |website=www.phillipscollection.org |access-date=May 6, 2024 |date=June 11, 2011 |archive-date=May 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506143945/https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2011-06-10-stella-sounds |url-status=live }}</ref> Stella continued producing new works in the series into 2012. These were shown at the Freedman Art Gallery that year, and commenting about his work in the series, Stella said, "If you follow the edges of the lines, there's a sense of movement, and when they move well and the color follows, they become colorful, and that's what happens in the Scarlatti—it builds up and it moves...".<ref name="FreedmanArtGallery2012">{{cite web |author1=Freedman Staff |title=Frank Stella {{!}} New Work |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d56bbf5bdf59100013d1dcf/t/5d76688427a38b3a5d5c7227/1568041094016/FA_Stella_PR-2012.pdf |website=Freedman Art |access-date=11 May 2024 |date=17 May 2012}}</ref> Ron Labaco, a curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, showed Stella's work in an exhibition featuring computer-enabled pieces, ''Out of Hand: Materialising the Postdigital'' (2013-14).<ref name="Jebb2024"/>

By the turn of the 2010s, Stella started using the computer as a painterly tool to produce stand-alone star-shaped sculptures.<ref name="Jason Farago 2021">Jason Farago (February 4, 2021), [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/arts/design/frank-stella-aldrich-museum.html In Frank Stella's Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130193724/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/arts/design/frank-stella-aldrich-museum.html |date=November 30, 2021 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> The resulting stars are often monochrome, black or beige or naturally metallic, and their points can take the form of solid planes, spindly lines or wire-mesh circuits.<ref name="Jason Farago 2021"/> His ''Jasper's Split Star'' (2017), a sculpture constructed out of six small geometric grids that rest on an aluminum base, was installed at [[7 World Trade Center]] in 2021.<ref>M.H. Miller (November 22, 2021), [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/frank-stella-sculpture-world-trade-center.html After 20 Years, Frank Stella Returns to Ground Zero] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130193726/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/frank-stella-sculpture-world-trade-center.html |date=November 30, 2021 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> It was created to replace the large (each ten feet wide by ten feet tall) [[diptych]] of his paintings, ''Laestrygonia I'' and ''Telepilus Laestrygonia II'', that had been displayed in the lobby of the original World Trade Center, destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City.<ref name="Jebb2024"/>

In late 2022, Stella launched his first [[NFT]] (non-fungible token) for his ''Geometries'' project in  collaboration with the [[Artists Rights Society]] (ARS). It includes the right to the [[CAD file]]s to [[3D print]] the art works in the NFTs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Levin |first=Alex |title=Frank Stella's New NFTs Come With The Right To Print His Art |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexlevin/2022/09/22/on-sale-this-morning-frank-stellas-new-nfts-come-with-the-right-to-print-his-art/ |access-date=March 9, 2023 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=March 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309222849/https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexlevin/2022/09/22/on-sale-this-morning-frank-stellas-new-nfts-come-with-the-right-to-print-his-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Katarina Feder, director of business development at ARS, said, "We sold out all 2,100 tokens, and, importantly, brought in resale royalties for secondary sales, something that Frank has been championing for decades."<ref name="Jebb2024"/>