Bitumen by Terry Winters https://www.nga.gov/artworks/140410-bitumen
One of the leading artists of the post–Johns/Rauschenberg generation, Terry Winters wields his brush with a knowledge and conviction that make periodic talk of the death of painting seem empty. Bitumen , 1986, is a work from the first decade of his career—when Winters was exploring such basic natural processes as crystal formation, fungal growth, and (as in this canvas) cellular division, and when he was equally immersed in the natural history of painting itself.
Washington, D.C., 1987. 1991 Terry Winters, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
