Sentences with phrase «as abstract painting»

He is known for figurative and minimalist sculpture, as well as abstract painting.
His style can be defined as abstract painting in which there is no subject, only shapes and colors.
Abstraction is not limited to a single idea, just as abstract painting is not a single kind of painting.
I think it is a disservice to everyone involved in art to not question the mode one chooses to create within, especially if it has as much power through visibility as abstract painting.
The focus of the gallery lies on contemporary figurative as well as abstract painting.
The forms of her sculptures remind you of draped flags, wrinkled skin, or body bags that can be also seen as abstract paintings.
Stephen Maine's review considers MacPhee's new work in relation to various art - historical references such as abstract painting and the use of clothing in modern art.
And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read as an abstract painting.
The Sphere is a wooden sculpture, which casts its colored shadow as an abstract painting on the surrounding environment.
This exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
The Musical is community theatre as community theatre» and Ellsworth Kelly (whose exhibition is on downstairs at Tate Liverpool), lived by the mantra abstract painting as abstract painting.
In two images titled «Österjon» (I and II), the artist again references minimalism, as abstract paintings referencing the work of Kenneth Noland are seen floating in bodies of water, functioning as landscapes.
Edward Avedisian's Normal Love # 1, 1963 is an involving image of a zygote breaking off from two gamete cells, a biology illustration used as an abstract painting with warm and somewhat passive colors.
He also treats the background as abstract painting, whether to flatten things further or as a metaphor for the enigma of the jungle.
In yet another mini-show, Edward Steichen even before his time as chief photographer for Condé Nast, Ansel Adams, and Henry Callahan assert a pictorial impulse as driving as any abstract painting.
6:30 pm: Michaela Grill with Giuseppe Ielasi: shadows and silhouettes, a rediscovery of electronic cinema as abstract painting.
We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.
My concepts in the digital works are different but the process is very much the same as the abstract painting
Chuck Close's monumental views of himself and others may do double duty as abstract paintings, but most owe more to the mug shot than to an attempt to illuminate character.
All of a sudden, quilts had the same weight and presence as abstract paintings, and craft was in again.
The recent exhibition Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready - Made Gesture at The Kitchen showed the radical diversity of what passes as abstract painting today, and has induced me to reconsider some of my older prejudices.
This «grid» obsession had been painstakingly explored by many early conceptual artists, including Sol LeWitt, and was revisited by the young Chilean artist Iván Navarro in many of his neon tunnels, every bit as inaccessible as abstract paintings.
FS As far as abstract painting is concerned, I was pushing it as hard as I could, trying to find room for myself and trying to do things.
McNulty applies thick acrylic and texture mediums with unconventional tools and motions, which results in engaging compositions with unique forms that beg to be deciphered as an abstract painting.
It will include examples from two bodies of work: Paintings for an Abstract Commune, a suite of new, modestly - scaled enamel works on medium - density fiberboard that function simultaneously as both abstract paintings and flags; and Monochrome (Shaped Canvas), which use shape to impart dynamism into the discipline of monochrome painting.
Installation view April 22 — May 23, 2009 As the first of three shows in its temporary location at 4 East Second Street, Museum 52 New York presents four artists whose work, at its most simply stated, could be seen as abstract painting.
Bourriaud implicitly pits object - based art practices such as abstract painting — which he associates with the notion of (failed) utopias — against what he calls «microtopia,» a provisional, DIY, relational approach to art.
They include Merrill Wagner with Zürcher (her photos as well as abstract paintings) and Mira Schor with Lyles & King (and not just her more obvious imagery of a woman's body).
On view in PC — G's Reilly Gallery, this group exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as abstract paintings.
I know that Jim thinks of his paintings as abstract paintings.
Critics have described it as an abstract painting; I don't agree.
I like reading them as abstract paintings that slip now and then into bits of imagery, then slither away again.
I visualize it as an abstract painting done with a palette knife, applied roughly for the bark (and mostly likely with some texture paste added to the paint), and in broad, sweeping strokes for the stone, following the top curve.
I don't think of them as abstract paintings in the landscape, I think of bringing color to the landscape and making marks that would be gestures in relation to the space around me.
Its placement on the gallery wall conditions viewers to regard the humble material that they usually walk on as an abstract painting.
Although Dudley pursued other directions in his painting after relocating to New York, the Ostrow writes that from the LA works» one gets the sense of an important course within Minimalism as well as abstract painting that has gone unacknowledged and unexplored.»
Patrick Jones: It's another argument, but I don't see how, as an abstract painting, you can conceive light in a painting unless you use your memory of what light looks like in experience.
David Rubin, the San Antonio Museum of Art's contemporary curator, sees San Antonio artists «pursuing many of the same interests as elsewhere, such as abstract painting, social and political art, and digital and new media explorations,» he says.
Transitioning into some very nice sculptural pieces as well as abstract paintings and walls.
As the first of three shows in its temporary location at 4 East Second Street, Museum 52 New York presents four artists whose work, at its most simply stated, could be seen as abstract painting.
As well as abstract painting, it influenced many different types of design and architecture.
Brooker's still life could also be seen as an abstract painting, whereas Baker's abstract painting with a literal shelf, might also be seen as a representation of objects on a table or even a landscape, a village green perhaps or a bowling green, rather than, abstractly, the colour green.
Hard for me to see it as an abstract painting; and hard to see the «Elegy» paintings as anything more than symbolic.
Stephen Maine's review considers MacPhee's new work in relation to various art - historical references such as abstract painting and the use...
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