I think the really exciting
thing about abstract paintings, those that are really good, is they vary in what they tell you and how you respond to them.
Levy Gorvy Gallery co-founder Brett Gorvy discusses art in Asia, and
talks about an abstract painting by Willem de Kooning, «Untitled XII,» that was snapped up on opening day at Art Basel Hong Kong.
-LSB-...] «Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of
shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».
Jennie Jieun Lee is known for her evocative, visceral ceramics composed of organic freely thrown forms, encased in layers of oozing glaze; often times bringing forth
conversations about abstract painting in relationship to the history of ceramics.
Golden Age features three groundbreaking essays
about abstract painting by Lane Relyea, David Geers, and Gregory Sholette, plus newly published postscripts by the authors.
The Danish book «Mal for Sjov» (Paint for Fun) includes Marilyn Kirsch as one of three artists presented as an inspiration to children
learning about abstract painting.
In the little temporal space in - between celebrating the success of Truth to Power and the stress of the upcoming new projects, I speak to the
artist about abstract painting and trauma.
Since earning her MFA from Stanford University in the 1980s, Jil has actively taught, published and lectured on her
ideas about abstract painting.
Ann Knickerbocker
blogs about abstract paintings seen recently in San Francisco including works by Indira Martina Morre, Teo Gonzalez, Judith Foosaner, Patrick Wilson, Marilyn Levin, Lora Fosberg, and Reed Anderson.
Jeff Elrod -(pictured above) After a disastrous train wreck of a lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think
differently about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st century.
Rather than pure abstraction, this series of large - scale canvases are antonyms of the abstract — each is a study or story telling
device about abstract painting.
I had a terrific time with Joan Waltemath, Raphael Rubinstein (who has a new
article about abstract painting underway), Jennifer McCoy, Archie Rand and so many other interesting artists.
All that
stuff about abstract painting... like the Malevich paintings are outer space paintings, like this weird idea that the place to be is in outer space with nothing else around, and that's what's really great and abstract.
Also, for example, in thinking about the distinction between abstract painting and representational painting, in my case, there have been many
works about abstract painting, which look like abstract paintings, but which are more clearly, to my mind, representations of abstract painting; or else they share equally the identity of abstraction and representation.
At a time when abstraction is regarded in certain quarters as a dated style, the exhibition promises to raise fundamental questions not only about Frankenthaler's career but
about abstract painting as a whole: Does abstraction have any meaning today?
Abstract part 2, a spirited show of small, colorful work at Marcia Wood Gallery through January 18, continues the conversation
about abstract painting begun with its predecessor, abstract part 1.
Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of
shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».
Levy Gorvy Gallery co-founder Brett Gorvy discusses art in Asia, and talks
about an abstract painting...
If we were talking
about abstract painting she could discuss the major abstract painters of Yugoslavia in the Fifties.
Youthful memory: the first time some jerk, upon overhearing talk
about abstract painting, held up a blank sheet of paper and jokingly claimed, «Look, it's a landscape in a snowstorm.»
And good though this work is, the thing that still nags
me about abstract painting — not just Hilde's, by any means — is its lack of capacity for deep space, and the variety and tension of «near and far», of three - dimensions resolved in two, which seems so critical to the more ambitious expressions of figurative painting.
But still, what is
it about abstract painting reduced to a (almost) single color, small in size, with exposed canvas and a relatively thin surface?