At first blush, the selection of Chuck Close’s pulp paper works now on view at Pace Prints provides little reason to recall that the artist came of age in the shadow of Abstract Expressionism.

The literal meaning of the Afrikaans word apartheid is “separateness.” This was the guiding principle of the white supremacist regime that dominated South Africa from 1948 to the 1990s, according to which strict structural segregation between “White,” “Bantu” (Black), and “Coloured” South Africans was imposed through forced relocation and control of movement. It was under this system that photographer David Goldblatt, currently the subject of an extensive retrospective at the Yale University Art Gallery, grew up and came to maturity as an artist.

The Bruce’s wide-ranging chronological look at Blanche Lazzell’s career, which stretched into the 1950s, begins with four works from the late 1910s that show her experimenting with Fauvist color and divisionist paint handling.

Looking at Sunset Enso from GMAC’s entrance in Hap Tivey's Perception is the Medium, it’s easy to see why the work of Light and Space artists like Tivey have so often been described as a kind of West Coast Minimalism.