Sentences with phrase «conversations on abstract painting»

Returning SFMOMA curator Gary Garrels» current «conversations on abstract painting» exhibition in Los Angeles is one of the most satisfying, artist - friendly shows ever.

ORANGES AND SARDINES: CONVERSATIONS ON ABSTRACT PAINTING OPENS AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM On view at the Hammer November 9 - February 8, 2009 Los Angeles, CA - Oranges and Sardines examines art through the eyes and minds of artists and is a testament to the persistence of the visual art object, particularly abstract painting.

Not exact matches

The works on view at the exhibition evokes conversations between abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.

Conceiving of the exhibition as a series of conversations on and around abstract painting, curator Gary Garrels invited Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool to each exhibit one or two of their paintings alongside their own selection of works that have informed their practice.

In our case we chose to create — or suggest — a dialogue between historical works on paper, abstracts from 1968 to 1988 by Eugene James Martin (1938 - 2005), and bring them into a conversation with small - scale paintings by three abstract painters, Clayton Colvin, Odili Donald Odita, and Leslie Smith III, all of which have a profound drawing quality in their work.

Golden Age features critical texts on abstract painting by Lane Relyea, David Geers, and Gregory Sholette in an attempt to summarize existing conversations about the eternal returns of abstract painting and how to further the impact, agency and relevance of contemporary art practices.

The conversation has shifted, in the interim, to focus on resurgent modes of abstract painting, and with it comes greater understanding of Morris's paintings, which confidently toe the art - historical and the everyday, the «old school / new school,» of abstraction.

These labels and associations, although convenient for the sake of conversation, are as abstract and relative as painting and composing on a canvas itself, which means they should be played around with.

His work was included in the 2012 Hammer Biennial, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and is currently on view as part of Variations; Conversations in and around abstract painting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).