; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina
Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (cat.)
For
Painting Between The Lines, fourteen contemporary painters created newly commissioned paintings based on descriptions of paintings in historical and contemporary novels by authors such as Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, and Milan Kundera.
Examining the state of contemporary painting,
Painting Between the Lines attest to the vitality of the medium.
Lead sponsorship of
Painting Between the Lines is generously provided by the Fiorucci Art Trust.
Commissioning works of art based on these segmented portions of famous texts,
Painting Between the Lines fills in the visual information that is left out of the organization of black - and - white letters on each literary page.
For
Painting Between the Lines, however, the approach is slightly different; rather than providing a broad sweeping idea that speaks (sometimes in ways that seem tangential or essentializing) to the works present, literature is dissected, here, into micro-moments.
Painting Between the Lines extends Wattis curator Jens Hoffmann's exploration of literature, which began with his trilogy of exhibitions on the classic American novels The Wizard of Oz, Moby Dick, and Huckleberry Finn.
Intersecting at familiar angles that recall the pages of a book left open, the walls of the upstairs gallery of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts act as meticulous displays for the intermedia exhibition
Painting Between the Lines.
Die Kunst des Zitierens», Karlsruhe, Germany Palais des Beaux - Arts BOZAR, «The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland», Brussels, Belgium CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, «
Painting Between the Lines», San Francisco CA MARTa Herford, «Kraftwerk Depot: Wie Kunst altert», Herford, Germany SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, «Tomorrow is the Question», Ghent, Belgium Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, «The Second Strike», Israel MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, «MMK 1991 — 2011.
Painting Between the Lines enacts a visual game of telephone: the original quote as the anchor, the painting as the second step, and the written descriptions of the paintings of the quotes serving as a final (and perhaps unintentional) element in the loop.
San Francisco, Calif., September 8, 2011 — The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts will present the exhibition
Painting Between the Lines from October 4 through December 17, 2011, in the Logan Galleries of California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco.
With
Painting Between the Lines, the Wattis Institute continues its investigation into the relationship between literature and art.
Through an examination of how contemporary artists look at storytelling, literature, and writing as expressions of individual thought,
Painting Between the Lines provides a look into the state of painting today and attests to the vitality of the medium, presenting some of its most innovative practitioners.
Not exact matches
The franchise cost of building out includes everything from
paint and furniture, to signs,
line feeds for plumbing and electrical, lighting fixtures, and everything else in
between.
painted drinking glasses Muffin Tin Mom water bottle covers Our Yellow House needle felted happy face trivet Lilla A scrappy fabric bookmarks Pink And Green Mama felt sunglasses case Sew Together With Children artwork checkbook cover MSL Kids whimsical pillows
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Lines painted and collaged wood tray Petunia popsicle stick house One Crafty Mumma matchbox magnets Inspiration Surrounds... Creativity Abounds simple notepad holder Let's Explore fleece boa scarf Living On 4th Street Altoid Tin earbud case Charlotte's Fancy diy treasure soap 4 Crazy Kings children's art tote bag Just Deanna
Then fold the paper in half on the original fold
line and gently smooth over the outside and spread the
paint between the folds.
THE WATERCOLOR EFFECT In this illusion by Italian vision scientist Baingio Pinna, a thin, orange contour adjacent to a darker purple contour casts an orange tint over long distances — as though a watery
paint was filling in the gaps
between the orange
lines [see «Illusory Color and the Brain,» by John S. Werner, Baingio Pinna and Lothar Spillmann; SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, March 2007].
Tag -
lined as «An Uncomplicated Indulgence,» the
line has grown into a collection of colorful bands of stackables that live somewhere
between strips of candy confections and a child's
paint box palette, albeit, in more sophisticated colors.
I
painted a second coat of the same two colors, but this time I
painted a much more free flowing «
line»
between the two shades.
Another favourite is the sniper rifle, here charging up before firing a spurt of
paint across the map, hitting your target and coating everything in a straight
line between the pair of you with
paint.
Jason Schwartzman, playing a bitterly sarcastic modern art gallery owner, and the formidable Terence Stamp, an art critic who savagely pans a special
painting commissioned for the 1964 World's Fair, get perhaps a total of ten
lines between the two of them, lighting up the screen with even the smallest sense of conflict that exists beyond the Keane household.
And yet as the chalk
lines are
painted across many a playing field in preparation for sports days across the country, the dividing
lines between sport and drama are still too great.
The Sixty Special
line expanded to four models this year: Touring Sedan (the base model), Imperial sedan (priced at $ 2,230, it featured a retractable glass partition
between the front and rear seats), and two open - front Town Car models (one style with a
painted roof, the other with a leather - covered roof).
Switching on its Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), I feel the steering wheel move under my hands as the car actively keeps
between the
painted lines.
But a visit from a dangerous stranger, who looks uncannily like a subject in one of Derek's older
paintings, leads the young artist to a place where the
line between life and art seems not to exist at all.
With its Pro
line of tablets, Samsung adds yet another flagship brand, and bridges the gap
between work and play Introducing the Samsung «Pro»
line, a sampling of the best tablet models Samsung has to offer complete with beefed - up specs, a shiny new coat of
paint and the next iteration of TouchWiz.
White
painted wall panels, upscale cottage furnishings, smooth hardwood floors and
lines brilliantly blurred
between indoors and out are welcoming highlights.
While it would be nice to
paint the rivalry
between the Oculus Rift and Sony's PlayStation VR (previously codenamed Project Morpheus) as a David and Goliath - style battle, the
lines are actually a bit more... Continue reading →
My intention involves blurring the
lines between genres, so that still lifes can read as landscapes, portraits, history
painting, etc..
I also
paint the
line of shadow
between the edge of the shutter and the wall and indicate shadow under the hinges.
Tuck writes that: «the
paintings in this show alternate
between the quiet and the chaotic: landscapes that are represented like in comics and topographical maps — on a soft colored ground
lines are drawn with
paint, the figures are much smaller than life size and feel like quotes from movies... [Richter] draws seamlessly from our common cultures of art, entertainment, violence, music, etc., and plants these things in his
paintings.»
Current art world phenom Wyatt Kahn, whose fragmented canvases blur the
line between painting and sculpture, transcends traditional roles once again as curator for Rachel Uffner Gallery's group show, «Proper Nouns.»
Her current solo exhibition at Mid-Wilshire's David Kordansky Gallery, More Life features her largest
paintings to date, ones that blur the
lines between landscape, minimalism, abstraction and help to elevate human consciousness.
Singling out the season's most tweet - worthy, opening night acolytes tracking our Black Art Matters moment orbited Lars Fisk's satirical softballs at Marlborough Chelsea,
lined up outside Hauser Wirth for Rashid Johnson's black soap, shea butter and horticultural installations that comment obliquely on cleansed grime and forced growth, and crowded into Jack Shainman's galleries for Meleko Mokgosi's large - scale, text - supported
paintings which illustrate the interrelationship
between southern African liberation movements and communism, offset by «lerato», the Setswana word for love.
This he referred to as his «found drawing»; it created a fluidity
between his
painting, sculpture and printmaking: «I loved the idea that simply inking the surface of the plywood board would produce a web of white
lines, if one only pressed a piece of paper against it.
This exhibition gathers Freilicher's
paintings and drawings, as well as two videos by Rudy Burckhardt, and features four vitrines containing photographs, book covers, letters, and manuscripts — some poems with
lines crossed out and handwritten additions in the margins — that point to the interrelated friendships
between painter and poets, and to the development of work at hand.
Philip Taaffe's new
paintings press your face up against a fence, and, like the first
line of The Sound and the Fury, leave you looking «
between curling flower spaces.»
Sharon Brant has produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous abstract
paintings and drawings for more than four decades that commonly blur the
lines between media.
Many artists have taken a «provisional» stance, while others are producing highly finished work that so blurs the
line between two and three - dimensional practice that categories of media such as
painting and sculpture become all but useless.
The category of
painting is examined more generally in the wood panels on top of the pedestals: straddling the
line between abstraction and representation, they offer
painting as both an object within sculpture as well as a discrete project central to the artistʼs studio practice.
Ekaterina Panikanova (Russia)
paints across large spreads of old books and other documents mounted on wood, resulting in artwork that blurs the
lines between painting, installation and collage.
A crack of synesthetic thunder sounded inside me as I felt the cold, hard marble through my shoes, grasped the lightness of the canvas by comparison, and came to terms with an artist bypassing Serra's fearsome weight and brawny power; finding essences
between painting and sculpture, perception and experience, I crossed a delicate
line between something I'd never seen before and something I already feared I'd never see again.
With the ballpoint pen, Gatti blurs the
lines between painting and drawing, while renegotiating relationships
between space,
line, form and void.
When Torpedo Factory associate artist Stephanie Lane agreed to
paint a mural in a D.C. - area home in 1990, she didn't know she was cultivating a relationship that would bear fruit for more than 20 years, even as she blurred the
lines — as our artists often do —
between a traditional workplace and a
paint - flecked studio.
The
paintings, with richly hued backgrounds, depict androgynous figures and abstracted and historically vague settings to blur the
line between abstraction and figuration.
In Gorky's most effective and accomplished
paintings between the years 1941 and 1948, he consistently used intense stained fields of color, often letting the
paint run and drip, under and around his familiar lexicon of organic and biomorphic shapes and delicate
lines.
A pioneer in
painting and former professor at Bard College, Murray is known for distinctively shaped canvases that break with art - historical tradition and blur the
lines between painting and sculpture.
It's tempting to applaud his argument for further blurring the already fuzzy
lines between art and craft, and to commend the museum for branching out into
painting.
Painted from historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile
line with delicate layers of ash
between individual memory and official historical record.
Blurring the
lines between drawing,
painting, animation and installation, his work incorporates a wide array of materials.