In the mid-1960s, Edward Avedisian was one of a number of artists who moved beyond the tactility of abstract expressionism to focus instead on the primal optical experience of the painting, according to the Barry Campbell gallery, Soho, New York, which recently presented an exhibit of his works from that period.

Avedisian's own style mixed freshness of Pop Art with "the cool, more analytical qualities of Color Field Painting." This resulted in "exuberant patterns of movement through color contrasts and buoyant relationships of figure and ground," according to the gallery.