The premier exhibition is a rotating group survey of
New Precisionist painting... see more
Not exact matches
Butler's title for the show is
Precisionist Casual, which invokes the early American modernist movement, Precisionism, which was practiced by Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth, as well as the
New Casualists, a term she coined in an essay published in The Brooklyn Rail (June 2011):
In a selection of paintings with an architectural focus, we aim to show that these
Precisionist characteristics used by artists of the 1930s - 1940s were modified only slightly by
new narratives contributed by national and international social events.»
And, last but not least, Pocket Utopia included a snapshot of Two Coats editor (that's me) Sharon Butler's
new paintings, and an invitation to «
Precisionist Casual,» her (my!)
His central role in the development of
Precisionist aesthetics was reinforced in 1922 by a one - man - show in
New York.
She was the only female participant in the
Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist - inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the
new American landscape.
[5] Like the other
Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the
new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present.
Pocket Utopia is pleased to present «
Precisionist Casual,» a solo exhibition of
new paintings by Sharon Butler.
«Sharon Butler:
Precisionist Casual,
New Paintings,» Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry Street, Lower East Side,
New York, NY.
Stella is considered an important figure in American art history and is associated with the Futurist and
Precisionist movements, gaining contact with prominent members of the
New York art scene such as Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Stein, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp.
All of the artists on display express «modern» with a fascinatingly detached eye; this was the
new American aesthetic and the
Precisionist movement of the period considered itself to be strictly American, and reluctant to acknowledge the European influences of Cubism and Futurism.