Sentences with phrase «about abstraction -lsb-»

This is an artistic exchange about abstraction, sound, and racial identity.

We published it in reaction to ideas about abstraction being over, in London at the time the attitude to abstraction was derisory.

Pharmaka is pleased to present «TRANS: formal» the Los Angeles manifestation in a series of traveling shows by nine artists from Germany, Japan and the United States who are all engaged in a dialogue about Abstraction in painting.

The first volume of Mr. Kelly's catalogue documents the evolution of one of America's most celebrated living artists as his ideas about abstraction were first forming.

There is something about abstraction.

I was just asked to be involved in a group show about abstraction from Chicago which will be at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln this October and has a killer lineup of artists that I'm honored to be listed among.

It is my fear that until François Morellet carries the same force of conviction for American audiences as Frank Stella, until Hélio Oiticica looms as large as Donald Judd, and until McLaughlin stills the heart has much as Newman, we may still have more to learn about abstraction than we already know.

There is a common misconception about abstraction that surfaced in a recent statement by a prominent practitioner of figure compositions:

The Abstract Expressionists were notoriously loath to abandon subject - matter and metaphor; and looking at Pollock's late painting and his return to figuration, recently reviewed here by John Bunker on Abcrit, you get the strong impression that, very different from Gear though he was, he too fretted about abstraction's detachment from human content.

This exhibition is about abstraction and the end of painting, often proposed but never concluded.»

We are more apologetic about abstraction today, we tend not to believe in it any more than in figuration, so both may appear equally in need of re-assimilation.

I would paint a pile of poppies and I wanted it to just be about abstraction, and about the cadmium red - orange color.

The freedom and challenge to explore and take risks is what I love and find so exhilarating about abstraction.

They seem to be very excited about abstraction — in China abstract painting was banned 25 years ago, because abstraction is highly charged with a spiritual agenda.

His tireless efforts to educate the public about abstraction made him a leading advocate for aesthetic experimentation.

This was partly because abstract art dominated, and there was very little about abstraction that was fundamentally new.

She has organized exhibitions with Francis Alÿs, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Temporary Services, and Felipe Dulzaides, and is working on a book manuscript about abstraction and identity in Latin American Art during the 1920s.

Nor would you have learnt much about abstraction from the paintings of Paul Nash.

While not conforming to any of the stylistic or formal norms of the day, he managed to have strong relationships with both Minimalism and the hyper - real works of an artist like Chuck Close, who sought to bring representation back into painting through a way of looking that was as much about abstraction.

2017 About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California (catalogue) Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, Golden Colors, New Berlin, NY (catalogue)

Julian Dashper's work is speaking to us on a highly conceptual level about abstraction within the perimeters of reductive art - making, yet not to forget the wit and humor underlying his oeuvre.

But I'm also trying to make something that is relevant now, a different way of thinking about abstraction.

About Abstraction: Bay Area Women Painters Opening Reception: Sunday, September 24th, 3 — 5 pm Exhibition Dates: September 24 — December 17, 2017 Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA

Saul — who seldom says anything nice about abstraction — sides firmly with the pictorial and uses paint to do all sorts of marvelous things, while DiBenedetto emphasizes process and does all kinds of unexpected things to the paint.

Washington's work is about abstraction, not about abstracting objects, but rather about how he experiences the world and about his dialogue with the work in progress.

The show's argument is more about abstraction and society.

As for this particular solo show, NIL reflects the faith that Jago places in his viewer — «this tension is what is beautiful about abstraction; the image that one person interprets as a depiction of humankind's conquest of nature may appear to another as a depiction of nature's triumph.

Unlike Smith, Holland Cotter had nothing much to say in his Best of 2017 round - up about abstraction (he did not mention a single abstract artist by name).

• For more about abstraction, see: Abstract Expressionist Painting.

The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977 — 1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language.

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VERNACULAR: A painterly conversation about abstraction Art and Film: Elizabeth Murray and the splendor of the ordinary

The upcoming exhibition will be all about abstraction, as Galerie Le Feuvre decided to explore how far non-figurative styles can take you in a 21st century gallery setting.

An after - school workshop all about abstraction.

RELATED: «Painterly Conversation About Abstraction in «Vernacular» by Janet Goleas.

«I think when people talk about abstraction, what they mean is materials that only refer to themselves.

Martin is sometimes described as an abstract painter, and he has written insightfully and humorously about abstraction here in the Brooklyn Rail, in particular «Everything is Finished Nothing is Dead: An Article About Abstract Painting.»

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

I had made landscape paintings for ten years, but I started thinking about abstraction.

«I've been thinking about abstraction alongside many of the artists in the exhibition for many years,» adds Puleo, «specifically, we've been in conversation about an idea of what «queer abstraction» is and can be.

«Myths about Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism and the Art of Sam Feinstein and Hans Hofmann» a slide talk by curator Patricia Stark Feinstein.

• For more about abstraction in oils, see: Homepage.

Title: Barometer Material: Ceramic Year: 2017 Dimensions: 15 x 15 x 4 inches These recent sculptures are about abstraction, a longing for wilderness, and my failed attempts at conju...

Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»

Outsourcing production, Reyle, who also shows at Gagosian, fashions himself a conceptual artist concerned with notions about abstraction and consumer culture.

To be standing at this particular intersection of art and technology, science and instant photography, bringing new ideas, new nomenclature, new picture signs to our global photographic culture, it had to be me, through this machine, to talk about abstraction and minimalism, size and scale, color and non-color, form with feelings.

In the last five years especially there has been so many shows about abstraction, culminating in the Forever Now show at MoMa.

The new, exciting possibilities, unlimited imagination and creativity of the invited creators are the decisive components of the ABSTRAKT FORUM exhibition, which is the first in Poland to explore and expose the audience about abstraction by street artists.

THE ORGANIZERS of the elegant Blinky Palermo retrospective at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen wasted no time in announcing their bold, materially focused agenda: At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors were greeted by a sequence of short videos featuring Palermo, whose own statements about abstraction introduced, in effect, the daring curatorial program within the galleries.

Recent group exhibitions include «Magic Mountain,» Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA; «Spectra,» San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA; «Lost line,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; «ABCyz,» Launch Exhibition, Silvershed, New York, NY; «The Trans - Aestheticization of Daily Life,» University of California, Riverside Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA; «Too much love,» Angles Gallery, Curated by Amy Adler, Los Angeles, CA; «Around About Abstraction,» Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; «Wall Painting,» University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; «Snap Shot,» UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL); «Fresh,» Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, NY; «KOREAMERICAKOREA,» Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; «Rundgang,» Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.