Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Richard Tuttle creates minimalist geometric paintings that explore the possibilities of lines. His small-size work has sometimes been puzzling to his New York peers, many whom create large-scale works. However, in 2004, Tuttle also turned his creativity to large pieces with his installation, "Splash", his first public art project, which is a mural 90 by 150 feet with about 140,000 pieces of colroed glass and white ceramic tile.

In a "New York Times" interview, December 3, 2004, Tuttle commented on any seeming contradiction in this new work: "There have always been questions of invisibility with my work, its small size, but there's also an invisibility connected to supersize. There's a threshold with how b...