And Joan Snyder and Mary Heilmann found other ways to combine geometry with painterly mark making. (contemporaryartdaily.com)
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.» (painters-table.com)
The exquisite Black and White No. 3 carries a boldly expressive gestural motif of a number four which, together with the crossing orthogonal vectors that bear it, is emblematic of modernism's spiritual, nearly mythic symbols and signs that artists such as Jackson Pollock, Adolf Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Newman fused with gestural painterly markings. (christies.com)