Sentences with phrase «configurations of abstract forms»

Not exact matches

The contorted shapes vaguely recall Anthony Caro's bolted and welded forms, John Chamberlain's crushed sculptures, Mark di Suvero's abstract expressionist configurations, and Louise Nevelson's accumulated assemblages, just as they can be seen to incorporate the collagist aesthetic of the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s, who combined disparate art historical styles and techniques.

Apfelbaum's earlier floor - bound installations incorporate hundreds of pieces of velvet, hand - dyed in bold hues and often arranged in sprawling configurations that appear to be organically inspired or like abstract paintings that melted off the wall, forming vibrant puddles.

The artist's serial depiction of these objects, shown variously arranged in irregular configurations and tightly compacted so as to layer, abut, and obfuscate the shapes of adjacent forms, elaborate Morandi's credo that «Nothing is more abstract than reality.»

Indeed, Bowling's recent works produced over the last few years continue to explore the nature and possibilities of abstract painting, the diverse range of principles and processes explored across his career now converging and coalescing in dynamic new configurations of colour and form.

Steve Roden: «ragpicker» (closes on Saturday) The latest exhibition of this multitalented multimedia artist based in Los Angeles is dominated by handsome abstract paintings whose brusque prismatic forms and bright color resemble stained glass and are derived from a system of linear configurations with which the German philosopher Walter Benjamin crossed out errors in his notebooks.

Already, we see the young artist negotiating between the abstract and figurative, reducing organic forms into geometric configurations and using the branches of trees as a way to frame or delineate space.

these abstract sculptures distort the images» natural lines into new planar configurations, creating playful studies of perspective, form, dimensionality, color, and texture.

Steve Roden: «ragpicker» (through Oct. 26) The latest exhibition of this multitalented multimedia artist based in Los Angeles is dominated by handsome abstract paintings whose brusque prismatic forms and bright color resemble stained glass and are derived from a system of linear configurations with which the German philosopher Walter Benjamin crossed out errors in his notebooks.