At Gregory Lind Gallery through October 20th, Don Voisine's second solo show exhibits a new series of paintings that explore and experiment the both the boundaries of the medium and of painting's surface and perimeters by central expanses of overlapping black rectangles
against white fields, bound above and below by elemental color bands.
Using a limited range of colors and basic geometric shapes to heighten the interplay between figure and ground, she simultaneously imbeds the forms into and places
them against a white field.
Not exact matches
The rug features a proliferation of vining flowers blooming
against a
field of creamy
white.
Documentarians Ben Cotner and Ryan
White took a look at the campaign to overturn California's ban on same - sex marriage in «The Case
Against 8,» while «The Overnighters,» from director Jesse Moss, examines the manpower boom in the oil
fields of the Northwest.
«The fact that a majority of
white Americans believe discrimination
against whites is as much of a problem as discrimination
against minorities means we increasingly have to
field questions that attempt to demonstrate the existence of reverse racism.
The perfect Bali experience begins at Lima Puri Villas in Bali, a symphony of a luxurious hideaway set
against the backdrop of puffy,
white rolling clouds and serene rustling rice paddy
fields only seconds away from the sandy ocean beaches, the best cuisines and bustling nightlife.
Luxury Accommodations Luxury Accommodations The perfect Bali experience begins at Lima Puri Villas in Bali, a symphony of a luxurious hideaway set
against the backdrop of puffy,
white rolling clouds and serene rustling rice paddy
fields only seconds away from the sandy ocean beaches, the best cuisines and bustling nightlife.
This was originally a prototype that Mr. Sato created, and the way it originally looked was you would have a grey playing
field with four simple cube - like characters on each team — so, four black cubes
against four
white cubes.
Washed - out
fields of color are usually pitted
against off -
white backgrounds, causing them to look like specimens under a microscope.
Painted with a palette knife during a single session in the studio, the paintings juxtapose a single, highly finessed
field of color
against a solid,
white band commonly along the bottom or outside edges of the work.
They're pretexts for Katz to try out color combinations, and to place figures first
against neutral (usually off -
white) backgrounds, then
against even
fields of saturated color, and finally to cut away the backgrounds entirely, presenting the figures as freestanding cutouts.
On top,
against a
field of bright
white, sometimes scarred or stained with black and color, he placed a plainly geometric form.
Beneath, tiny
white and yellow shapes
against a blue
field give the illusion of a grid warped by the fall of light or by twisting in three dimensions.
The brightest primaries,
against the broadest
fields of
white, form clean curves like galaxies, but in broad daylight.
On the other two walls of the main gallery, which are painted a customary
white, there is an oil painting of blue balls on a
white field, «Bloobs» (2014) by Mathew Cerletty; a loopy, oddly affecting drawing, «Untitled (shit)» (2011) by David Shrigley, of concentric circles emanating from the word «shit»; Vern Blosum's «Off The Hook» (2015), a larger - than - life - size graphite drawing of a vintage payphone with its receiver dangling, appropriately, off the hook; and Emily Mae Smith's «The Studio (Science Fiction)» (2015), which depicts the split halves of an eggshell hovering above a flying saucer / fried egg, the edge of its
white perimeter forming the words «THE STUDIO»
against the starry blackness of outer space.
Black and
White, Mostly — Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX The Grant and Peggy Reuber Collection of International Works on Paper — McIntosh Gallery, London, ON Local History: Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, Frank Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City, NY Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery — London, London In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Taking A Stand
Against War — Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues — Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Love Story — Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze — Schweizergarten, Vienna Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection — The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Openness And Clarity: Color
Field Works From The 1960S And 1970S — Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition: Part I — Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NY The Shaped Canvas, Revisited — Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY Calculated Abstractions — Hard - Edge Prints — UB Art Galleries — University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Solidaridad Y Resistencia.
Herrera continued her precise chromatic explorations in the «60s and»70s in works such as «Blanco y verde» (1966), a triangular sliver of green
against an austere
white field, and «Saturday» (1978), a jet - black canvas interrupted by a thick gold zigzag.
Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses calligraphic black and
white marks
against the
white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest
fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.
I use only pencil and a very little
white paint
against a
field of action I render at once active and inert by making it entirely
white.
To my mind, Hirst's Spot Paintings are no different in their engagement with art history, as these pulsating canvases of color — ranging from dense
fields of tiny dots to a few spare circles isolated
against an expanse of
white — call to mind Georges Seurat, Hans Hoffmann, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter, and many more.
Slim ribbons of sky blue, terracotta, green, ochre and off -
white thrum
against one another in a
field of entrancing chromatic interplay.
Many of the «sculptures» included often operated with or within more - two dimensional components — I am thinking here of Jon Kessler's Exodus (2016) and Evolution (2017), configurations far more about the transmutation of object into digital image than it is about the materiality of things; Rafa Esparaza's Figure Ground: Beyond the
White Field (2017), a weighty and timely installation on labor, colonialization and identity read through adobe bricks; or Raúl de Nieves» beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end (2016), an installation of five ornate, grotesque, and vibrantly hued sculptures set
against a backdrop of eighteen colorful acetate sheets made to resemble stained glass windows.
The Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recognized the firm's work with its «Outstanding Achievement Award in the
Field of Fair Housing» after Andy Freeman and Chris Brown won a $ 2 million verdict
against a major homebuilder for discriminatory advertising that used exclusively
white models.