Sentences with phrase «abstracted urban grid»

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

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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.

Sourcing from architecture, mapping, and topographic views of urban land, Fraser found a linear, grid - like visual vocabulary which he defines as, not abstract, but «reductive».

Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered paintings and drawings combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.

Driss Ouadahi's abstract compositions feature grid patterns with a density that evokes the tightly woven networks of high - rise urban housing projects, subways and fences.