Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color was on view at the Americas Society in New York from September 10 to December 13, 2008. The first museum-based solo exhibition of the Venezuelan artist in the United States, it was organized by Guest Curator Estrellita B. Brodsky and Assistant Curator Isabela Villanueva. The show follows Cruz-Diez¿s development of a unique, color-based approach to kinetic art from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, beginning with his Fisicromías, which he first developed in 1959. Twenty of these early works are featured, tracing the artist¿s movement from De Stijl-like geometric abstraction to kinetic works that produce a sense of movement. Initially using strips of cardboard and later incorporating Plexiglas, polyvinyl chloride, acetate strips, aluminum and other materials, Cruz-Diez crafted uneven surfaces that allowed for more than one color to occupy the same vertical stretch of the picture plane so that the viewer sees different combinations of colors based on his or her position in front of the work. The artist¿s experimentation with these techniques resulted in the much larger, close to mural-scale Physicromie no. 500 (1970), which was originally shown at the Venezuelan Pavillion at the XXV Venice Biennale. Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color also features Cromosaturación (1968-2008), an environment first exhibited at the group exhibition Bonalumi, Cruz-Diez, Honegger, at the Museum am Ostwall, in Dortmund, Germany in 1968. Cromosaturación is an example of Cruz-Diez¿s work in the later 1960s, in which he constructed color-saturated environments for viewers to navigate. It features three rooms, lit respectively red, green, and blue, that are interconnected and visible from one another. The optical effects of these colors are altered by progression from one chamber to the next, privileging the viewer¿s physical trajectory through the work. An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro and essays by Nuit Banai, Mariela Brazón, Estrellita Brodsky, Gabriela Rangel, and Isabela Villanueva, accompanies the exhibition.