The scene is a highly edited and compressed account of pictorial abstraction's evolution, familiar from university art history modules on the subject. (abcrit.org)
This exhibition proposes a new reading, emphasizing that the achievements of her training in the field of abstract painting did not disappear when her work turned to textiles, and that the artist addressed pictorial abstraction in a unique way, manifesting itself very quickly through an openness to spatial concerns. (alisonjacquesgallery.com)
Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition. (firstthings.com)