Modernism, San Francisco brings together nearly four decades of work by James Hayward [19432026] in James HAYWARD: Works 19752013, the first exhibition devoted to the artists work since his passing earlier this year. Spanning the development of Haywards practice from the 1970s through the early 2010s, the retrospective offers an occasion to reconsider his sustained engagement with the monochrome and the material possibilities of paint. From the formal Automatic Paintings of the late 1970s to the densely worked monochromes of his mature practice, the exhibition examines Haywards sustained investigation of color, surface, gesture and the material possibilities of paint. For more than fifty years, Hayward pursued the monochrome not as a restrictive format but as a field of inexhaustible variation. His earli