This small painting explores the sweet spot between the hard edge of abstraction and the leaky nature of paint. (esse.ca)
From the 1930s, Avery spent numerous summers in the company of these younger artists and, during the summers of 1957 to 1961, when Avery, Rothko and Gottlieb vacationed together in the popular artists» colony of Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was a significant coda to their reciprocal artistic dialogue, with Avery pushing his images towards the very edges of abstraction. (victoria-miro.com)
Sharing a gallery with Haynes, Nene Humphrey takes the tactile, physical edge of abstraction as her subject, but she, too, thrives on the visual. (haberarts.com)