These works present
abstracted aerial views of specific American prisons.
The variety of his work is immediately evident in one room, which juxtaposes the conventional - seeming grey - blue Seascape with the «near -
abstract aerial view of a city» titled Townscape Madrid and 256 Colours, one of his canvases based on paintshop colour charts.
Not exact matches
This handcrafted cuff is inspired by
aerial views of farmland, giving the seemingly
abstract lines more of a meaning to the wearer.
Abstracting her natural surroundings — from the plantings in her own yard to the vast displays at the nearby U.S. National Arboretum — Thomas painted flower beds and gardens, horticultural landscapes as if they were being
viewed from an
aerial perspective.
(«Her paintings, though
abstract, nevertheless make reference to
aerial landscapes, as
viewed from an airplane.»)
In the 1960s Inokuma began to paint works based on imagined
aerial views of cities, reducing three dimensional topography to two dimensional patterns which at once suggest the energy and visual complexity of the urban fabric yet remain completely
abstract.
Her paintings look like surrealist
aerial views of
abstract table scenes, populated with slick round balls and pieces of geometrically printed fabric.
Based on the
aerial landscape and perhaps the
view from the window of his studio, these large - scale
abstract compositions are named after a community in Santa Monica, where he had his studio.
The
aerial view of Landscape, painted from memory, lends to a feeling of flying over ever changing
abstracted fields.
His first collaged paintings grew out of this process; these
abstract grid - like images recall a night sky or
aerial view of an urban landscape.
Her
aerial views of the Horseshoe Falls are at such a distance that one's eye goes back and forth in perceiving the images first as surveillance photographs and then as
abstract designs.
Yvonne Jacquette's
aerial views, from a plane window, of the land below become
abstract tapestries of patterns of fields and city lights at night.
Diebenkorn's Ocean Park # 124 (1980) is a terrific example from his
abstract series of more than 140 paintings that married architectural elements with what could be an
aerial view of the landscape near his Santa Monica, Calif., studio.
Camoosa's works are
abstract and formal, influenced by shifts in perception - the momentary in - between space conjured by
viewing what may appear to be an
aerial landscape, map, or fragment of a building.
At times sculptural and endless, Camoosa's works are
abstract and formal, influenced by shifts in perception - the momentary in - between space conjured by
viewing what may appear to be an
aerial landscape, map, or fragment of a building... the alternation between recognition and abstraction — of being someplace and nowhere at the same time.
Heron is only one of many who realised that flattish
abstract shapes on a canvas look a bit like maps or
aerial views (there is a thematic show on somewhere about this, isn't there, with Lanyon and Davie and other glider enthusiasts?).
Taken from above, these documentations of immobilised viscous matter propose an
abstracted aerial - style
view of Chadwick's delectably sculptural, yet transient installations.
A large part of this exhibition focuses on large tarp - like works composed of un-stretched canvas which simulate
aerial views of rural landscapes,
abstracted and made of repetitive and diligent mark making.
The works»
abstract compositions relate to painting, yet their three - dimensional forms are read, map - like, from above and resemble
aerial views of the earth, with their irregular shapes suggestive of a cluster of islands.
His
abstract paintings of this period, such as Albuquerque No. 4 (1951), were stylistically rooted in the New York school; they were characterized by linear planes, which gave the impression of
aerial landscape
views, and by a fluid line that defined a type of biomorphic abstraction.
From student work like the jokey
abstract expressionism of «Disintegrating Pig» (1950) he becomes adept at painting interlocking, jigsaw puzzle - like compositions that look partly like exhilarating
aerial views but also feel internalised, elemental, like shifting tectonic plates of colour and form.
I don't refer to it as
aerial space, perhaps to avoid certain «bird's eye
view» connotations which would be inaccurate for
abstract painting, except maybe in the case of the Bowlings that Richard refers to.