Like the late Conceptual artist Sol Lewitt, who employed purely logical systems to create mysteriously poetic,
abstract wall drawings, Gaines begins with an orderly process.
I lost count of the number of Sol LeWitt
abstract wall drawings and Minimalist cube sculptures, both exploiting a predetermined structural idea to generate the art.
Austrian artist Otto Zitko (born 1959) makes expansive, gestural,
abstract wall drawings that are described by Arnolfini director Tom Trevor as «a mind - blowing, intensely touching environment... with an all - encompassing subjective reality.»
Her sculptural works are often site - specific, making use of architectural space and working in tandem with
abstract wall drawings to form the installations as a whole.
Not exact matches
In the imagery, Craven combines found images of antiquity with
abstract hand -
drawn patterns of ambiguous origin, and often subsequently painting
walls to emphasize aesthetic choices that personalize his project.
Pat Steir is an acclaimed figure in contemporary art history, known for her
wall drawings and signature style of
abstract painting.
In some ways a literal record of the performative and durational qualities of this enterprise, Beck's
wall drawing will hold evidence of the artists hand as well as
abstract segments of his entire body, imprinted full - scale and photo - negative like against the ephemeral yet sturdy packing tape ground.
She has exhibited her large - scale
abstract paintings and
wall drawings throughout the United States and Europe, including Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago; The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts; and Saatchi Gallery in London.
Rhode
draws abstract, geometric figures and simple objects, such as a bike, a piano or a pipe, onto the
walls of buildings and onto streets.
I had a show in 2005 where I pinned comedic
drawings to the
wall throughout where the paintings were hung — it was called «The Other One,» and I specifically thought that the comedic
drawings were the «other one» to the
abstract paintings.
Pat Steir is an acclaimed figure in contemporary art history, known for her site - specific
wall drawings and signature style of
abstract painting.
A large
abstract pastel
drawing of furious energy called «Twin Tornadoes» by the late Gilda Snowden, a beloved African - American artist from Detroit, hangs on the
wall in Salort - Pons» office.
Rising in loose arcs across the expanse of the Foster
wall, the
drawing is an
abstracted symbol of the word «plunder,» from which the work takes its name.
Working on a
wall - filling scale associated more with painting than printmaking, Gueorguieva
draws from several 20th - century styles, including cubism and
abstract expressionism.
As a performer repeatedly tries to force herself into the corner of two
walls covered with
abstract drawings, the performance becomes an extension of the
drawing process and pushes the limits of the
drawings.
PARIS — Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape
drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored
abstracts of recent years and ends with a
wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Matisse.
Drawing on varied influences, from Byzantine icons and Japanese Kenzan earthenware to Arthur Dove's
abstracted landscapes to Morandi's still lives, Harnischfeger's
wall pieces are considered but also physically immediate.
Two highlights of the exhibition will be a monumental sculpture comprised of seven panes of glass suspended in an aluminum framework — each pane containing words, which form an
abstract radial constellation — and a large - scale site - specific
wall drawing that Khan will be creating at the gallery.
The brainchild of Swiss performance and visual artist Mai - Thu Perret, the installation puts forth a collage of objects
drawn from her visual vocabulary that includes several female mannequins, two large - scale ceramic eyes, a ceramic dog, and an
abstract Rorschach - style painting that hangs on the back
wall.
Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite -
abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in
drawing real things in the world.
The second half of the show has small paintings (and photos thereof) in the dandyish mode in vogue at the moment — Tim Eastman's swaths of linen adorned with sketchy flowers, Alissa McKendrick's pale mint and peach abstractions (hung next to a
wall drawing of a small cat made with faint paint) and Cliff Borress's photographs of
abstract paintings in plushly appointed rooms.
The silvery monochrome also meshes nicely with the selection of six big,
abstract, heavily worked graphite
drawings push - pinned to
walls elsewhere in the gallery; large photo - collages of multicolored boats are upstairs.
October 25 - 16 Trunk Show: Virginia Raku Clay 11 a.m. — 4 p.m. Inspired by many contemporary artists such as Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, and Klimt as well as African, Asian, and Islamic art forms, Tanya Tyree incises her raku - fired clay sculptures, vessels, decorative objects,
wall art, and jewelry with
abstract drawings that reveal their own mystery, sweet spirit, and mood.
~ Milo Kundera The human fascination with the face has been thoroughly documented in art history, with the oldest, highly
abstracted portrait
drawn on the
wall...
Craven combines found images of antiquity with
abstract hand -
drawn patterns of ambiguous origin, and often paints
walls to emphasize oblique aesthetic choices that personalize his project.
Gallerie Nascht St. Stephan brought several new Katherina Grosse
abstract paintings, Gavin Brown's showcased a striking combination of Rob Pruitt paintings and Nate Lowman sculptures, and Nicolai Wallner's Jeppe Hein metalic
wall works and hilarious David Shrigley
drawings all stood out.
His work is subtle, beautiful, and often ephemeral because he
draws and paints
abstract designs directly onto gallery
walls.
His work, too, is often ephemeral because he
draws and paints
abstract designs directly onto the gallery
walls.
Given the preponderance of
abstracted landscapes in his ink and collage
drawings, it is helpful to know that the form of his 2013
wall drawing resembled a linear topography.
In his animated video projections, paintings and
drawings,
wall reliefs and sound installations,
abstract formal compositions unfold where biology and architecture, machinery and geometry coexist.
His early
abstract drawings, influenced by the work of Paul Klee, evolved into spare, delicate, and often grid - based sculptural
wall reliefs.
Co-curated by Fitzgerald and Emily Skillings, both poets, the show presents paintings,
drawings, and collages hung in imitation of the environment at Ashbery's own home, complete with katchkes, coffee tables, lamps, velveteen chairs,
wall decorations suggesting
abstracted ledges, and fireplaces — even a two - dimensional piano
drawn onto the
wall, stacked with real sheet music.
In some works, imagined architectural interiors were laid out as virtual stage sets; in others, close up studies turned floors,
walls and furnishings into
abstract patterns, and expressive
drawings attempted to describe the interior spaces of the mind, those places onto which we project our hopes and fears.
Richard Wright, 49, has been shortlisted for a series of
abstract geometric
wall paintings that
draw on Islamic tiles for inspiration.
He makes vast
abstract, free -
drawing interventions and, at Arnolfini, he's going to be scribbling across all of our interior
walls over three floors for three weeks.
The winners were announced on Thursday: Brazilian
abstract photographer Geraldo de Barros, Harlem - based interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers, multimedia artist Alicia Henry, imaginary landscape painter Shara Hughes, the Chicago artist known for huge black and white
wall drawings, Tony Lewis, and
abstract sculptors Matthew Ronay, and Brie Ruais.
A dramatic charcoal
drawing emerges from the horizon line and travels across the
walls of the gallery to suggest an
abstracted landscape scene shrouded in smoke.
Her early work was loosely associated with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, however, she is best known for her
abstract dripped, splashed and poured «Waterfall» paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site - specific
wall drawings.
The suite of
abstract minimalist
drawings, sculptures and
wall paintings mirror the architectural nuance of the gallery, accentuating the broader geometry in which the works reside.
The exhibit begins with a
wall that's been covered with 25,000 hand -
drawn ampersands; the results are hypnotic and reminiscent of a cross between an Agnes Martin and a Cy Twombly, something that lends an
abstract context to the whole thing.
Her works on paper and site - specific
wall drawings investigate the nature and language of line in an
abstract way.
He papered the
walls with his smoky
abstract drawings, then hung a few of the swirling, spookily beautiful paintings that he makes with oil, spray paint, ink, and resin.
The American conceptual artist (1928 — 2007) created some 1200
wall drawings between 1968 and 2007, developing mainly serial and modular systems through a vocabulary of
abstract geometric forms.
Her work is
abstract but
draws elements from many places: her love of the colors and geological forms of the southwest, repetition, pattern, and an attraction to human - made structures for containment such as fences and stone
walls.
Her work is
abstract but
draws elements from many places: her love of the colors and geological forms of the southwest, repetition, pattern, and an attraction to human - made structures for containment such as fences and stone
walls.
Functional elements such as the plug sockets have, wherever possible, been concealed in order to
draw the eye to more aestetically pleasing features, such as the
abstract artworks on the
wall.