Sentences with phrase «small scale abstraction»

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Another says that space and time are discrete at the smallest scales, emerging from abstractions called «spin networks ``.

move back and forth between abstraction, figuration and the combination of the two a lot in my work as well as changing scale from very small to very large....

Whether on the scale of a big canvas such as «Flower Offerings» (2014) or the small untitled one on view, Tran gives a convincing account of abstraction as free - wheeling performance, a possibility supposedly played out 60 - odd years ago, certainly no later than the deaths of greats such as Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) and Nicholas Carone (1917 - 2010).

His recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012) and at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2013) highlighted his most recent work — a striking series of small works on paper and panels and an impressive collection of large scale paintings on canvas — work he describes as «rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics».

Her large - scale canvases isolate various graffiti - laden structures or spaces, while some of her smaller works pinpoint the subtle imperfections of spray paint and abstraction.

For his second solo outing at the gallery, White will exhibit large - scale oil paintings as well as smaller works on paper, in which he continues his examination of the interstices between representation, abstraction and the tactile sphere of everyday life.

This exhibition features Charles Seliger's intensely detailed, small - scale organic abstractions, which continue a personal and obsessive vision of nature which began during the early 1940s.

Pibal's paintings, unique in their small scale and lovely color, nevertheless allow me to make some visual connections within geometric abstraction: to Miriam Schapiro's famous Ox painting, currently part of the «Wack» show (opening February 17 at PS 1) to Frank Stella's early geometries, and to Warren Isensee's Body and Soul, which I posted recently.

2002 «Austere Geometry (1955 - 1975) & Modern American Masterworks (1930 - 1945),» Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY «Early American Abstraction: Small Scale, Large Dimension,» Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) «New York Abstraction 1930 - 1945,» Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY

This group show features small scale early American abstractions by: Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, Albert E. Gallatin, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Carl Holty, George L.K. Morris, Irene Rice Pereira, Rolph Scarlett, Louis Schanker, Charles Shaw, Louis Stone, Charmion von Wiegand and Vaclav Vytlacil.

Viewed in this light, Abts» achievement is substantial and arguably profound: she makes small - scale geometric abstraction deeply personal and implicitly private, and at the same time lets us in.

Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions — An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America

The artists unique vocabulary and research in abstraction will include three totemic works in Gallery 1 and a group of smaller scaled works in Gallery 2.

In tandem with an independently organized retrospective at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, this hometown survey of Fishman's fifty - year - long career features the painter's esteemed large - scale gestural abstractions alongside a selection of intimate studio investigations — an assortment of miniature paintings, sketchbooks, and small sculptures — that share the same physicality and unapologetic emotional punch as her bigger, iconic works.

The resulting drawings range from small - scale abstractions to monumental figures and scrolls, which demonstrate Ramírez's unique draftsmanship of concentric lines, undulating patterns, and surreal topography.

2002 Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL Early American Abstraction: Small Scale — Large Dimension, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Residence of Ambassador Clifford Sobel, United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, The Netherlands

The paintings, intensely detailed, small - scale organic abstractions (measuring no larger than 18» x 14»), are meticulously rendered with acrylic on masonite panels.

The dense, small - scale paintings included in this exhibition mark a highly prolific period in Mondrian's engagement with figurative landscape painting — an early but deeply significant stage in the artist's methodical progression from naturalistic representation to complete grid - based abstraction.

The pairing also highlights the different ways of representing the sublimity of the surrounding world, whether through a large representational closeup of an immense wave, or by way of the small - scale, quiet abstraction of a deep blue rectangle framed by fields of white.

For more than fifty years, Seliger has passionately pursued his inner - world of organic abstraction developing and refining his meticulous and obsessive interpretation of nature in small scale works.

The photographs are small and large - scale, and of portraits, landscapes, film abstractions, cities, deserts, TV static, car headlights, bedrooms, drains, plates of food, tropical birds, airport customs — all are individual vignettes of deeper stories or commonplace scenes carefully cropped.

The small scale of these works, their minimal gestures, and their ever - changing metal patina up - stage their common reference soliciting theoretical notions of times and geometric abstraction.

A small retrospective of Ms. Jaffe's large - scale signature paintings — of her ebullient, flat geometric shapes, lines, blobs and squiggles on generous white grounds — confirms that she has been successfully mining hard - edged abstraction for more than 40 years.

This exhibition took an unusual look at the work of Louise Fishman — a painter known for her art's athleticism and abstraction — by focusing on small scale and sculpture.

Varying from monumental landscapes to small - scale abstractions, Klein's atmospheric paintings reference images taken from a variety of locations that accumulated in the artist's digital and analog archive over the past decade.

She also worked as a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration, and spent years experimenting variously with collage, biomorphic abstraction, hard edge abstraction, small - scale works inspired by her Jewish heritage and large - scale works informed by her personal life.

Challenging by nature, small scale works offer the artists the ability to work quickly and decisively, while giving a focus on craft and detail that is rarely seen in extra large abstraction.

One of the fantastic results of this evolution is abstraction's return to the small scale painting.

These paintings, created in multiple small - scale series, allow for repeated methodical experimentation with specific color fields and patterns, shifting away from the monumental scale of midcentury abstraction.

Riley describes Little Rock's mainstream art scene as dominated by contemporary Southern artists, regional artists, landscapes, geometric abstraction, smaller scale abstract expressionism, and neo-impressionism.

In the main gallery space, Raskin retrofits an architectural gesture / framing device for various smaller scale collages that both describe the Nike / Hercules sites that she visited on her research trip and use abstraction to loosen the semantic attachment to the nature of the sites, bringing to the foreground ideas of form, composition, color and geometric abstraction.

As with her oil paintings, Frecon's works on paper continue her investigation of a highly allusive, geometric and yet still organic abstraction; mostly small in scale, they are remarkable for their quiet presence and power.

Although individual images of her paintings aren't available, Michaela Eichwald presented two dark abstractions (one can be seen on the back wall above) and an anxious, small - scale portrait (hung above eye level) that seemed unsure, edgy, and heartfelt.

Known for her love of paint and process, Holt's abstractions in several sizes (8 x 8 inches, sold individually these small works are also considered studies for larger scale abstractions that can be commissioned in any size, 30 x 30 inches, etc..)

While the filter of time and familiarity, the abstraction of black - and - white photography, and the softer focus and smaller scale of earlier photographic processes have made these images less shocking, they remain commanding in terms of formal qualities and content.

Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»

Phillips uses planar form and geometric abstraction as a visual language, creating both small - scale sculpture and embossed print.

The extreme contours of the original small figurine, transposed into a twisted balloon and enlarged to a colossal scale, become a complex of reflective magenta curves approaching total abstraction.

In recent years, she has transitioned from paper to canvas, producing smaller - scale works that hover between representation and abstraction.

[15] These improvements clearly impressed Judd, who stated «The paintings are stronger than before and thorough... The greater scale, not size, since the painting is smaller than several others, adds considerable force and abstraction... The new scale makes the forms and the rectangle of the work more nearly identical, makes the painting more autonomous and exclusive.»

The small scale of her paintings on aluminum can assert a feminist stance against male appropriation of abstraction.

Working within the vein of assemblage, Wadden's large - scale works are conceived by piecing together his handwoven weavings, thereby transforming, smaller process - based pieces into larger, hard - edged, geometric abstractions.

2008 African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Beyond the Canon: Small - Scale American Abstraction, 1945 - 1965, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

But in my view, Malevich's small - scale, quirky abstractions have more in common with the new casualism than the austere, highly refined minimalism of Judd, Stella, Kelly, and the like.

Affecting formal inconsistency while taking hard - edge abstraction to task, Cordy Ryman's small - scale non-serial abstract paintings made of acrylic, enamel, spray paint, staples, foam, Velcro, Floam, glue and Styrofoam are layered, non-referential, brittle and bent with provocative juxtapositions that use a selection of mundane, everyday materials that first appear as a series of naïve constructions.

2008 Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Peggy Guggenheim and the New American Painting, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Vercelli, Italy Beyond the Canon: Small - Scale American Abstraction, 1945 - 1965, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY Repartir à Zéro, 1945 - 1949 (Starting from Scratch), Musée des Beaux - Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France

While she joins Thomas Nozkowski and Tomma Abts, at least on an elementary level, in terms of small - scale abstraction, Greenbaum's compositions explode beyond the former artists» more formal architectures.

As in his Legends paintings, small - scale works that employ legible symbols and graphic relationships as linguistic antecedent, Bosmans translates the mythic signification of these cultural relics into plastic materiality through facsimile and abstraction.