The modified vessels morph into
almost figurative forms despite their initial familiarity.
Not exact matches
Their sculptures, fusing
almost readymade images and
almost unforeseen
forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced
figurative conceptualism.»
Hueller's work, while
almost abstract, plays with three - dimensionality,
figurative elements and shapes and
forms derived from such diverse influences as surrealism and die Brücke.
OCY: Your paintings tend to achieve
figurative forms, but
almost turn away from the edge.
In works such as
Almost a Bride (2015), the
figurative element is grouped with a variety of abstract marks of pure gesture; one gets the sense of an artist who eschews the vocabulary of pre-existing
forms, instead putting a premium on visceral connection.
In the same way that Willem deKooning's abstractions contained
figurative elements (sometimes with bizarre results), until
almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's abstractions in which vignettes of landscape elements could still be discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined
forms.