Throughout his life, the artist inspired several other painters in the abstract expressionism era, and they came up with their own innovative techniques. (artinliverpool.com)
In their own poetic way, these works propose to return to the past and pick up where several other painters have left off. (nytimes.com)
Stephen Ellis» recent abstractions recall the work of several other painters of his generation, most strikingly that of David Reed, whose vaguely futuristic color fields are also composed of alkyd and oil, and, like Ellis», stage lavish quotations of AbEx gestural moves in the form of serpentine swaths of color. (artforum.com)