The artists are each represented by a particular body of work made in series, demonstrating different
approaches to the painting process and using different formats and supports.
Hamilton Morris, journalist and science editor of Vice Magazine, provides insight into Kelsey Brookes» scientific
approach to his painting process, while Pennsylvania State University Information Science and Technology professor Richard M. Doyle hyper analyzes two of the artist's seven - inch paintings.
The show not only explores Bowling's continued commitment to abstraction via the power of colour, formal rigour and paint's rich and suggestive plasticity; but also reveals, for an artist now in his 80s, the exciting impact of a more open, collagic and collaborative
approach to his painting process.
Not exact matches
As disparate as the artistic
approaches appear
to be in Rothko
to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment
to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up
paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color
to hard - edged geometries.
Since completing his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, Angel Otero has devoted himself
to revitalizing
painting with a highly concept - and
process - driven
approach to the well - traveled medium.
Otero's «deformation»
approach to painting his works, first across glass and then once dry, flaying the dried
paint and reconstructing the composition anew across large canvasses, is representative of how the artist perceives the
process of reconfiguring both personal and historical narratives.
Through a multi-disciplinary
approach to painting, photography and sculpture, Barr and Rice explore the relationship between analogue and digital
processes.
Investigating
approaches to painting, the use of medium, the way we
paint, challenging easel
painting by holding the structure freely in one hand and applying
paint through the other — this allows a more fluid
approach to painting, an almost organic
process in which artist, support, media and brush work in unison without normally rigid intervention of easel or wall.
Utilising a range of media that references, mimics and pushes both themes specific
to painting, and the
processes of
painting itself, RIFF / T seeks
to highlight particular trends, facets and
approaches that are important
to the medium, now.
Entitled Tworkov
Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's
approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate
process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke
to express a subject, much like in figural representation.
Otero's
process - based
approach to painting and sculpture is rooted in a dedication
to experimentation and discovery within both his chosen materials and the artist's own psyche.
Pioneering an
approach to painting through exploring the relationship between photography and
painting, Richter was responsible for the
process that was fundamental for the entire discourse of the post-WWII
painting.
«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's
approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting
to his engagement with the
process of
painting itself,» wrote Chalif.
Her artistic practice and pedagogical bent — she is an esteemed professor of
painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a position from which she weilds considerable influence in the city's art scene — has shaped her presentation on the fourth floor of the Whitney, which she has organized as a sort of visual curriculum on various artistic
processes and
approaches to materials.
As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor of the building's entrance
to capture the footprints of those entering and exiting.10 The creation of receptive surfaces on which
to record, collect, or index the direct imprint of elements from the real world is especially central
to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State of Criticism» isolated this particular
approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution of Rauschenberg's works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane»
to account for this radical shift, through which «the
painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational
processes.»
In 2006, Colen started
to adopt another
approach and he abandoned the typical
processes altogether in order
to start using chewing gum instead of
paint.
Exhibitions such as Paint Things (January 27 — April 21, 2013) at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Phantom Limb:
Approaches to Painting Today (May 5 — October 21, 2012) at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago have brought together artists working through resuscitated painting traditions to rebrand process, materiality, and form in ways that are not easily
Painting Today (May 5 — October 21, 2012) at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago have brought together artists working through resuscitated
painting traditions to rebrand process, materiality, and form in ways that are not easily
painting traditions
to rebrand
process, materiality, and form in ways that are not easily labeled.
Lewis»
approach to the medium is a reflection on the
process of
painting itself.
Through this
process, the two - dimensionality of his
paintings approach three - dimensional space; a space
to which the viewer is challenged
to adapt.
Mason
approaches each of her
paintings on its own terms, comparing her
process to a game of chess: «One more move, like chess — a musical conversation — violin, cello.
His art is characterized by the dynamic artistic
process and creative
approach to mundane objects of our environment that once transformed through his
paintings and installations capture a range of social atmospheres.
A rising star in the contemporary art world, Otero is known for his
process - based
approach to painting, specifically his...
Painter and associate professor and director of graduate studies of
painting and printmaking at Yale University, Anoka Faruqee will speak of Josef Albers's «
process before product» and «practice before theory»
approach to teaching.
The resulting exhibition is an incisive snapshot of contemporary practice, spanning diverse media,
processes, themes, influences and
approaches — from moving image and performance
to more traditional
approaches to making work such as printmaking,
painting and sculpture.
On view for the first time will be the large - scale Black
Painting; Horse, Bird, Cat (2016), from which the exhibition takes its title, as well as a group of works on paper that together underscore the artist's distinctive working
process and intuitive
approach to image - making.
This
approach was famously codified by critic Harold Rosenberg in his seminal article «The American Action Painters,» which was published in ARTnews in December 1952 and became a hot topic of conversation in New York art circles the following year.19 Rosenberg identified a revolution in recent
approaches to painting that conceptualized works of art as the result of a
process that was begun in complete uncertainty and unfolded over time.
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In the Abstract brings together a mix of multi-generational artists whose works represent a potent and muscular
approach to contemporary abstraction that adopts and adapts various formal strategies of
painting — from hard - edge geometries and dense color blocks
to gauzy color fields and expressionist marks — with that of sculpture, photography, digital
processes, and video.
Sayer
approaches each of his works with a specific layering technique common
to painting, and a
process of subtraction associated with sculpture, thus achieving a middle ground between both forms of media.
They also harbor a broader concern with multiple forms of imperfection... The painters take a meta
approach that refers... back
to the
process of
painting itself.»
Another entry in the seminal
Paints a Picture series: Elaine de Kooning provides a first hand account of Hans Hofmann's
process and
approach to painting.
Benson discusses her
process: «For the most part for these
paintings, I feel like they are a collage of different
painting moves and I
approach it the same way you would if you're making a Photoshop file... In the beginning of the
painting, it happens really fast and I can do the first four
to five moves pretty fast within one
to two days and even up
to the first oil move.
A young child will take the same
approach to learning
to making pictures, beginning by playing with the brushes and
paint, often making a lovely mess in the
process!
NEW ORLEANS — Rips, tears, and fissures punctuate the works in Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico, a group exhibition at Newcomb Art Museum showcasing five artists»
process - driven
approaches to painting.
Leon Kossoff's painterliness invites us
to scan the image for subconscious meaning —
to play on Anton Ehrenzweig's idea of the way we
approach what he calls «gestalt free
painting» — and the meaning we find involves what Freud called «primary
process thinking,» and traces of what D.W. Winnicott, elaborating and deepening Freud's idea, called «primary creativity,» by which he meant the spontaneity innate
to us all yet often stifled or channeled into trivial pursuits by society.
ARTFORUM Summer 2009 Leon Kossoff MITCHELL - INNES & NASH Leon Kossoff's painterliness invites us
to scan the image of subconscious meaning —
to play on Anton Ehrernzweig's idea of the way we
approach what he calls «gestalt - free
painting» — and the meaning we find involves what Freud called «primary
process thinking,» and traces of what D.W. Winnicott, elaborating and deepening Freud's idea, called «primary creativity,» by which he meant the spontaneity innate
to us all yet often stifled or channeled into trivial pursuits by society.
During the interview, Katz tells Clark that
to him «the surface is the whole thing», however, as I've learned, there is nothing superficial about the
processes he goes through and the history of the development of his
approach to his
paintings and subjects that could, in any way, be interpreted as shallow.
I am happy
to present this exceptionally generous, talented and kind artist couple as they interview one another about their ideas and
process that are so vastly different in style and
approach and yet are equally committed
to a very solid
painting practice.
In 2015, Nathanson was one of six artists in Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida curated by Jaime DeSimone, an exhibition focused on new, experimental
approaches to the
process of
painting.
While Jukkala's
approach is less immersive than Guston's, more geometric than gestural, his new work harks back
to the stark horizons and looming heads that accompany Guston's reflections on the everyday
process of
painting.
Employing an unorthodox
approach to paint application, Jenkins is as much identified with the
process of controll...
It is by
processes such as this that Richter has consistently challenged traditional
approaches to painting and that have made him one of the most important painters of the past 50 years.
Surface Tension focuses on a selection of contemporary artists whose
approach to abstraction incorporates a range of materials,
processes, and techniques — such as sanding, stitching, dying, and layering —
to draw attention
to the dynamic potential of a
painting's surface.
Crowner's work walks that ever - fine line between the distinctly
process - oriented abstraction and that of outright depiction, using her assemblage - style
approach towards joining
painted fragments, and using them as an homage
to the many weeds growing outside of her studio space, referencing the creeping reclamation of natural space from the post-industrial architecture.
About her
process, Newman has said, «My
paintings often take specific qualities of particular places as points of departure, but I try
to approach the image without preconceived ideas and
to discover forms through improvisation.»
Fish has described this
process as one which «opens onto questions and critical
approaches to the practice of
painting,
to drawing, and
to the nuances and implications of representation / re-presentation.»
People tend
to approach the study of
paintings or drawings from the perspective of the patron because so many of the artists» names are unknown, but we are exploring the perspective of the artist, as maker — the gesture of an artist's hand, the spontaneity of line, and the
process through which ideas are born.»
Tolbert, influenced by Color Field
painting, brings color and a novel
process approach to combining color with the extreme visuals and surface textures of his environment.
Having begun his studio practice as a painter and draftsman, in 1985 Al Taylor (1948 - 99) devised a uniquely innovative
approach to process and materials that enveloped drawings and three - dimensional objects as he created compositions that were grounded in the formal concerns of
painting.
His rigorous and novel,
process - driven
approach to painting creates the unique, lush and textured surfaces of his newest series Abiquiú
Paintings.
From sculpture
to installation, film and
painting, their studio works feature in the exhibition
to highlight the crucial
process of collaboration in many instances, and demonstrate how partnerships or a dedicated environment that incubates and generates different
approaches can lead
to fresh visual lexicons, methods, materials and trajectories in practice.