The couple, who paint porcelain, bone china and enamel boxes, fear their trade will not survive beyond the next 20 years because the skills are not being passed down to future generations.
It begins with pieces from "Freeze, " which include some Donald-Judd-influenced Minimalist colored boxes and the first spot painting, the dripped paint revealing the hand of the artist himself.
His garage outside Santa Barbara, Calif. is crammed with 70 or so cardboard boxes stuffed with legal documents, which he says paint a tale of bribery and conspiracy involving Lockheed Martin, the Russians and a now-deceased middleman named Richard Millman.