Small abstract paintings by more than seventy well known artists hang cheek - by - jowl in this AAA extravaganza honoring Leo Rabkin.
The work was commissioned as part of «Celluloid Drag: Some Space Between Film and Architecture» curated by Terri C. Smith, which also featured a suite of 50
small abstract paintings by Todd McDaniel and a film by Gordon Matta - Clark.
Not exact matches
There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints
by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work
by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a
small piece
by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints
by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a
small, colorful
abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered
by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted
paint, a range of his
smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.
Blue Mountain Gallery presents new
abstract paintings by Janet Sawyer in a group of works on canvas and
smaller works on paper.
I was made aware of this helpful piece of writing
by renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza, whose work is included in a
small group exhibit of
abstract paintings and photographs currently on view at Main Street Arts Gallery.
Hopefully this burst of intimately scaled creativity
by Joanne Greenbaum — as 1612, her first iteration of
small - size
abstract paintings at D'Amelio Terras (on exhibit through November 12th)-- is just the beginning.
Contributed
by Leora Lutz «Lampblack» (and the show title of the same name) is a new perfume created
by Bruno Fazzolari in conjunction with a series of
small,
abstract paintings on appropriated...
It may mean something that almost all the
abstract painting in the show is
by women, from Ulrike Müller's
small geometric enamel - on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.
Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each
painting that make it look so realistic and
abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every
painting (piece) and every
small detail in the
painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the
abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works
by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.
Consigned
by the New York gallery Luhring Augustine, the material for sale includes vintage photographs from the 1960s of teenagers shooting up and hooking up and the so - called «Heroin» series from 2014 —
abstract oil
paintings into which
small plastic bags used for drug storage are embedded.
Becky Yazdan's
small paintings have become incrementally more
abstract over the four years or so since I first saw her work, but they remain anchored
by precise composition, balanced line, and subtle choice of color.
THIERRY GOLDBERG Looking at Stas Volovik's
small,
abstract paintings, you might guess that they were made in the 1930s
by a previously unknown follower of Kandinsky's late work.
These drawings and
paintings form only a
small part of Mammen's oeuvre, however, with her later work expanding to include sculpture — clearly influenced
by the likes of Henry Moore, with an interest in the permeation of mass and space — and various styles of
abstract painting, incorporating both a Picasso-esque period and a later phase of collage and childlike strokes, calling to mind the likes of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
On the other hand, we were greeted
by the strange miniaturist refinements of Kai Althoff, who made a very powerful impact with a group of
small paintings and drawings, some of them
abstract.
Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera, (June 6 — August 30, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of
abstract paintings for which he selected
small books from flea markets, manipulating and altering the found objects; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live
by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang
by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes - overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.
At the Hole's booth, the gallery had installed several
abstract paintings that the street artist known as Katsu had created
by attaching a
paint applicator to a
small computer - guided drone, with the artist able to control its flight and spray
paint on the canvas via a trigger.
Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of
abstract paintings for which he manipulated
small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live
by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang
by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired
by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.
San Francisco's Jessica Silverman was showing bright geometric
abstract paintings by Berlin - based artist Shannon Finley for $ 5,500 for
small works and $ 24,000 for large ones.
This Artwork is represented
by FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, New Haven, CT I make both large - scale patterned wall murals and
smaller abstract paintings of forms and rhythms.
She has countless
smaller works from D'Metrius John Rice, a large
abstract painting by Seth Adelsberger, and dozens of works from other artists I hadn't known.
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.
«Between the Lines» is a
small size
abstract framed oil on canvas
painting created in 2018
by American artist Geri Eubanks.
The
painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a
small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced
by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation
abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.
The main gallery spaces showcase Portman's architectural feats and are flanked
by smaller rooms filled with
abstract paintings and sculptures from his personal collection of his own work.
Light and shadow become palpable forces in Schreiber's ethereal photographs of artwork ranging from Barry Flanagan's
small metal sculpture «Hare With Telescope» to kinetic
abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter to Rirkrit Tiravanija's «Young man, if my wife makes it...,» a metal bowl of Asian food done in plastic, complete with wooden chopsticks.
Critic Dore Ashton, who visited the University of New Mexico in 1950, notes: «One of my enduring memories was seeing, for the first time, a
painting by Richard Diebenkorn — a golden vision of the Southwest,
abstract, with
small currents of shadow drawing
by the winds in the sands, and filled with the special light that still emanates from his
paintings.»
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming
small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6,
by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,»
by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and
abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III»
by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,»
by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape
by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
We are not accustomed to focusing on something so
small in a large
abstract painting, unless as in a
painting by Pollock it is the chance spattering of a more expansive gesture.
Behind the nominal blossom, an array of
small, interlocking organic shapes resides somewhere between a garden's stone wall,
abstract memories of flagstones frequently employed in
paintings by Jasper Johns and Sam Francis» biomorphic pools of runny
abstract color.»
These spiky constructions — which are like
abstract root systems — were inspired
by nature, as were the artworks Asawa made while a student at Black Mountain:
small oil
paintings on paper, a potato print, a work in ink on paper made with a BMC (Black Mountain College) laundry stamp.
It was also the exhibition that confirmed Richter's status as one of the leading artists in the world, and was described
by Storr in his introduction as «long overdue» in the United States.2 In 2003 Richter embarked on a
small but substantially sized series of
paintings entitled Silicate [CR: 885/1 -4] inspired
by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 12 March 2003 about the shimmering qualities of certain insects» bodies.3 The resulting four large
paintings are perhaps the most overtly biological of the
abstract works in Richter's oeuvre, suggestive of cell formations and genetic sequences seen under the microscope.
Much more persuasive are the quieter,
smaller - scale
paintings by Dupuy - Spencer or Aliza Nisenbaum in which the artist seems to have forged a genuine bond with her very specific subjects instead of treating identity as an
abstract category.
In a 2010 publication about the
painting written
by Robert Storr, the author asks: «what is the meaning of a single,
small, almost
abstract depiction of one of the most consequential occurrences in recent world history?
The day after the Richter record was set at Sotheby's, a
smaller, less - vibrant
abstract painting made
by the artist in 1990 couldn't find a taker at Christie's.
Now through Jan. 12 at the Reading Public Museum, a series of large
abstract paintings and
small bronze sculptures
by Carol Brown Goldberg can be viewed on the second floor adjacent to...
The London exhibition of work
by Paul Klee in 1945 seems to have had a big impact, with Pasmore's first 1948/9
abstract works of
small coloured triangles and squares looking very similar to Klee's
painting from two decades before.
Transposed from
small drawings to large - scale compositions, the subjects of the
paintings range from foliage, to an image inspired
by drawings his child made, to
abstract jottings that record running poker debts.
POLLOCK - KRASNER HOUSE AND STUDY CENTER - «Color and Time:
Paintings by Roy Newell, 1956 - 2000» opens today with an exhibition of 28
small abstract oils.
Medium - size yet imposing collages
by Josh Smith contrast with the subdued elegance of Monique van Genderen
small format
paintings, whose
abstract shapes respond to Jean - Pascal Flavien drawings.
On the more intimate first floor of the gallery, a group of seven
small square
abstract oil
paintings by McDowell hang at museum height around the four walls of the room.
The first of three
small paintings by Josef Albers then tripled estimates to sell for # 665,000 ($ 848,000) to US dealer, Stefan Simchowitz -LSB-...] Simchowitz also two bought two other
small Albers
paintings for similar prices; -LSB-...] An equally
small 1959
abstract by Robert Motherwell, Spanish Elegy, fell to him for # 905,000 ($ 1.2 million), again three times the estimate.
As an example, she pointed out a brilliant
small painting by Theil Morgan, «Terns,» that shows birds and oranges in a complex, layered
abstract space.
Dakar - based artist Soly Cissé will show nine
small monochrome
paintings deftly straddling the figurative and the
abstract, Claire Gavronsky will show an oil
painting addressing notions of memory and loss, and several works
by the incomparable Robert Hodgins illustrate the flex and the power of the medium.
The exhibitors trended towards work that explored craftsmanship with a strong showing of
painting — including a collection of
small abstractions
by Andrew Masullo (currently in the Whitney Biennial) at Daniel Weinberg Gallery and Michelle Muldrow's
paintings of
abstracted store aisles at Jen Bekman Gallery.
Art patron Peggy Guggenheim famously attended an exhibition opening wearing an unlikely pair of earrings: a
small abstract work
by Alexander Calder in one ear and a miniature Surrealist landscape
painting by Yves Tanguy in the other.
The Atlanta - based artist will unveil a vivid collection of
abstract mixed - media
paintings inspired
by his installations and sculptural explorations as well as works on paper ranging from
small, intimate drawings of
paint, ink and graphite to screen prints.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about
painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain
abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented
paintings, Michael Dotson's
paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined
by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's
painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a
small drawing.
A solo show
by Gianni Politi organised
by Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome), a re-presentation of the works the artist produced for his first solo show at the gallery, which included three types of work:
abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household
paint;
small portraits on canvas; and bronze stretchers of varying sizes realized with multi-coloured patinas, marble and
painted wood inserts.
A selection of the artist's
small collaged drawings, sparsely populated
by sketched, cartoonish images of jewels, magazine cutouts and a USDA food pyramid amid an array of gestural marks, hint at the roots of the large
paintings»
abstract forms.