Frank Stella (b. 1936, Malden, MA) was one of the first artists to make use of computer-aided design programs in the 1990s, utilizing them to digitally render objects and develop the forms of his sculpture and reliefs. Stella’s recent work "Blue Hat I" marks the artists return to painting; the piece emerges from Stella’s sculptural practice as the artist has sought to translate some of his midstage sculptural renderings onto canvas. As the title suggests, the object depicted is based off a collapsible foam hat, the design of which has inspired a number of Stella’s sculptural artworks throughout his career. Here, Stella isolates the motif and invites us to examine its complex nuances. Born in Malden, Massachusetts and based in New York City, Frank Stella (b. 1936) has produced an extraordinary body of work over the past six decades. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, Stella has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and abroad. Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962) The Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964-65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971). Stella’s recent work uses digital modeling to explore how subtle changes in scale, texture, color and material can affect our perception and experience of an object.