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mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Beautifully shot in black and white, and favouring minutely designed long takes — as a conscious homage to some of the directors Ross Perry admires, such as Philippe Garrel — The Color Wheel playfully hovers between abstraction, realism with a faux - improvised feel, and New York Jewish humour — a staple in Altman's comedic routine.

She credits, in part, Studio Museum director Thelma Golden, who has organized such shows as «Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964 — 1980» in 2006.

Yet over the last decade, she has forged a conceptual link in her work between the histories of abstraction and of modern jazz in America — «black guys in the 1950s taking jazz into the concert hall and making it this bluesy hybrid with Bach,» as she puts it.

Inspired by urban surroundings of the big city, a landscape of his home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy, the artist transfused these motifs into the recognizable large black - and - white paintings which helped establishment of Gestural Abstraction as an important segment within Abstract Expressionism.

Adventures of the Black Square presents abstraction as not being estranged from social reality, that its concern with form, shape and colour throughout its history are intrinsically linked to politics and expressions of modern living.

Collection, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdaie, FL; travelled to Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 1981 Drawing Invitational, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY 1981 New Work, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Artists Books, Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain 1980 Little Books, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY 1980 New York 1980, Banco - Massimo Minini, Brescia, ltaly 1980 Pool Project Documentation, Artists Space, New York, NY 1980 New York Painters, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1980 Works of Art, Patricia Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL 1980 Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1980 Collection of Dr. Milton Brutten and Dr. Helen Herrick, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ 1980 Group Exhibition, Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York, NY 1980 Pool Projects, Wake Forest University, Winston - Salem, NC 1980 Faculty Exhibition, Hillwood Commons Gallery, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY 1979 Prospectus, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1979 New Wave Painting, The Clocktower, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY 1979 Artist's Postcards, Ananas Gallery, Abrau, Switzerland 1979 Poets and Painters, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; traveled to Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Kansas City, MO; La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA 1979 14 Painters, Lehman Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, NY 1979 Drawings, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1979 Summer Show, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1979 Drawings, Pyramid Gallery, Providence, MA 1978 Detective Show, Gorman Park, Jackson Heights, NY 1978 Works on Paper, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy 1978 Group Exhibition, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy 1978 Group Exhibition, Art - 9, Basel, Switzerland 1978 Black and White on Paper, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY 1978 Paperworks, Galerie Wirz, Milan, Italy 1978 Selections from the Collection, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1978 Artists Books: USA, New Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1977 Fine / Fleishman / Stamm, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY 1977 Painting 75,76,77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; traveled to American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1977 Book Objects, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1977 A Painting Show, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY 1977 New York Group Show, Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY 1977 Group Exhibition, Art Fiera, Bologna, ltaly 1977 Group Exhibition, Documenta - 6, Kassel, Germany 1977 Collection in Progress, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1977 Ideas — Images, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Postcards and Other Mail, Jock Truman, New York, NY 1977 Wrapping Paper Invitational, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1976 Group Exhibition, Art Fiera, Bologna, Italy 1976 Summer Group, Max Protetch Gallery, Washington D.C. 1976 SoHo and Downtown Manhattan, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1976 Selections SoHo - Berlin, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 1976 Works on Paper, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1976 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1975 Contemporary Reflections 1971 — 1974, AFA; travelling exhibition Spare, Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY 1975 Group Indiscriminate, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY 1975 A Collection in Progress (Herrick - Brutten Collection), The Clocktower, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY 1975 Group Exhibition, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany 1975 Five from SoHo, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1975 Spare, Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY 1975 Abstraction Alive and Well, SUNY, Potsdam, NY 1975 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1974 Tight and Loose, State University, Albany, NY; travelled to State University, Potsdam, NY 1974 Black as Color, Reed College, Portland, OR 1974 Drawings, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1974 Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY 1974 10th Anniversary Exhibition 1964 — 1974, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1974 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1973 Painting in America, Decorative Arts Center, New York, NY 1973 Black Paintings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY 1973 DiDonna / Stamm, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY 1973 Nine New York Artists, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1973 Recent Acquisitions, Phoenix Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1972 Contemporary Reflections 1971 — 1972, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1971 What's Happening in SoHo, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1971 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1971 Alumni Show, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1970 Young Artists: New York 1970, Greenwich, CT

Developed by the Tate Modern in London and debuting in the US at Crystal Bridges, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power examines the influences, including the civil rights movement, Minimalism, and abstraction, on artists such as Romare Bearden, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Charles White, and William T. Williams.

TER.FER.EN.CE, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE NOW - ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH Alter / Abolish / Address, as part of 5 × 5:2014, a project of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Washington, D.C. Four Decades of Drawings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY Tarīqah, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL BLACK / WHITE, curated by Brian Alfred and Shay Kun, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

In addition to this, Jarvis has independently curated and consulted on many fine art exhibitions including: The Amistad Center for Art and Culture's Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera five - city traveling exhibition (2007 - 2010); Black Abstraction at Harmony Hall Regional Art Gallery in Fort Washington, MD for the group Black Artists of DC (2011); GA Gardner: Interconnections at the Athenaeum in Virginia (2012); (in) Visible and (dis) Embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014) all in Washington, DC; and most recently, Of Present Bodies at the Arlington Arts Center, VA (2014).

Blackness in Abstraction considers the use of black as a method, mode and material in works by twenty - nine artists who have explored the expressive and symbolic possibilities of black as a color.

Barbara Chase - Riboud makes it hard to say whether one is dealing with Pop Art or abstraction, in a stele sculpted as if draped in black fabric.

One review, published in the journal of the Art Workers» Union, claimed that the non-objective abstraction of artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova had created a fated art, one that «terminated in an artistic dead - end, Malevich's Black Square».1

They are both invested in art's revolutionary possibilities for social change as evinced in Rainer's anti-war protest dances in the 1970s and the feminist dimensions of her radical choreographic style and films, as well as in Pendleton's Black Lives Matter flag for the Belgian Pavilion in the 2015 Venice Biennial and his latest series of paintings entitled Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy), which debuted this past summer as part of Edwards» Blackness in Abstraction exhibition at Pace Gallery and are now on display in Pendleton's first show with Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich named Midnight in America.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in aAbstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstractionabstraction.

But so is the first painting you see in the show, Pollock's She - Wolf (1943), a strong Picasso - influenced painting although Picasso would most likely have defined the animal with a strong black outline which in the Pollock is obscured by a turbulent painterliness which prefigures Pollock's last works, which are also seen as off - brand (tragically so, instead of, as in She - Wolf, developmentally), although it suggests a move towards materiality, mass, and perhaps even an atavistic need to return to some form of representation, in a way which Guston was able to pursue, when he became dissatisfied with abstraction.

Beginning in the period prior to his signature «Black» paintings, massive canvases covered in black house paint in thinly separated stripes, the exhibition will showcase the breadth of Stella's creative output as he transitioned from abstraction to minimalism and sculpBlack» paintings, massive canvases covered in black house paint in thinly separated stripes, the exhibition will showcase the breadth of Stella's creative output as he transitioned from abstraction to minimalism and sculpblack house paint in thinly separated stripes, the exhibition will showcase the breadth of Stella's creative output as he transitioned from abstraction to minimalism and sculpture.

Hales Project Room put the spotlight on rarely seen, richly stained abstractions created in the 1970s by American painter Virginia Jaramillo, whose practice has recently been rediscovered through important group shows such as Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

As an independent curator, some of DuBois» curatorial projects include: Black Abstraction at Harmony Hall Regional Art Gallery in Fort Washington, MD for the group Black Artists of DC (2011); A / Way Home at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2012 - 13); Of a Place and Time: Photographic Memories and Imaginings at the Hillyer Art Space (2013); (in) Visible and (dis) Embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014As an independent curator, some of DuBois» curatorial projects include: Black Abstraction at Harmony Hall Regional Art Gallery in Fort Washington, MD for the group Black Artists of DC (2011); A / Way Home at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2012 - 13); Of a Place and Time: Photographic Memories and Imaginings at the Hillyer Art Space (2013); (in) Visible and (dis) Embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014).

But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his seminal 1915 paintings of black shapes — a circle, a square — on a white ground, and his legendary white - square - on - white - canvas 1919 monochrome.

Richard Pousette - Dart, a member of the New York School and mainstay of American abstraction, employed a black and white color - scheme to render the mythic coupling of Hero and Leander as bold, heroic figures.

A renewed interest these days in older artists and black abstraction comes as a welcome relief.

Diverse as ever, McLean's select exhibition contains two mixed media works; presented on the ground floor of the gallery, the Untitled paintings are comprised of dense, black organic shapes that veer to the abstraction on neutral backgrounds, adorned with daubs of coloured paper that on some sides have been hastily cut and others impatiently ripped, a nod to the rebellious humour of McLean who's body of oeuvre comprises witty sculptures made of rubbish and even his own body.

However, it may take black artists as outsiders to remind one now that abstraction never entirely belonged to insiders.

At just under eight feet, the swirling abstractions have lost any hint of their origins as photograms, beyond their ghostly contrast between black and white.

The artists represented in the exhibition come from all over the U.S., with rooms devoted to groups such as AfriCOBRA, based in Chicago in the late 1960s, or East Coast Abstraction, which challenged the idea that art had to directly represent Black communities, prompting debate about Black aesthetics.

Whitney's works featured in a major solo exhibition «Dance the Orange», at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA (2015), and he has been included in many prominent group shows such as Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017), «Nero su Bianco» at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (2015); «Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract», Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, USA (2014); «Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s», Cheim & Read, New York (2013) and «Utopia Station» at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

«I was interested in how abstraction can be black but is not black,» the artist once said of his early interest in figures such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

As if hit by lightning, Caziel's commitment to Abstraction was momentarily halted by his need for a more immediate figurative style to express his passion for Catherine, witnessed in a series of large black ink and wash drawings.

The show reflects on a number of interesting notions: the ways in which postwar black artists have constructed their identity through their reliance on abstraction; the formal affinities between artists of different generations; and the role of non-figurative art as both personal expression and political impetus.

As sound and image falter, new compositions arise, changing the photograph of and sounds from a domestic interior into a galaxy of musical feedback and glowing images of black - and - white abstraction.

It also came just as the organizer of Radical Presence, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, was preparing to open the first installment of Black in the Abstract, a two - part exploration of abstract painting by black artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the LBlack in the Abstract, a two - part exploration of abstract painting by black artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the Lblack artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the Lines.

The exhibition will go back to 1958, opening with paintings such as «East Broadway» and «Astoria,» sweet abstractions with fuzzy - edged stripes of yellow and black.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love SBlack in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Sblack artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

It draws on significant loans, such as a small, dense, black tiling from Princeton University and a large, colorful, messy abstraction from the Guggenheim.

Whitten was hugely influenced by de Kooning (whom he has admitted to following around like a puppy) but his work, which explores the possibilities of paint, also examines abstraction as a valid form of engaging with the black experience.

The «black square» that opens the show is actually Kazimir Malevich's Black Quadrilateral (undated), borrowed from the Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, and painted around the same time as Malevich's Black Square (1915), making this a centennial survey of geometric abstracblack square» that opens the show is actually Kazimir Malevich's Black Quadrilateral (undated), borrowed from the Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, and painted around the same time as Malevich's Black Square (1915), making this a centennial survey of geometric abstracBlack Quadrilateral (undated), borrowed from the Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, and painted around the same time as Malevich's Black Square (1915), making this a centennial survey of geometric abstracBlack Square (1915), making this a centennial survey of geometric abstraction.

Hovering between abstraction and figuration, this monolithic shiny black torso of a woman in a bathing costume, two - metres high, also asserts itself as an anti-monument and alternative to the European tradition of a white Venus rising from the waves.

The place accorded black abstraction and women looks past a generation often derided as white and macho, and I have not yet even mentioned Harriet Kaufman, Harriet Korman, Ree Morton, or Lee Lozano.

Other works merely use geometric abstraction as a means to a conceptual end (Willem de Rooij's wax - print - on - cotton floor work, Blue to Black, 2012, for instance), and it's hard to determine their exact relevance to the story of this type of abstraction.

While most Kline paintings are black - and - white abstractions, he did also work with other colors as evidenced by Lot 7, «Provincetown II,» a 93 - by -79-inch oil on canvas that was executed in 1959 and has an ambitious estimate of $ 2,500,000 to $ 3,500,000.

As Exit Art puts it, for a rare one - man show, he is out to transform «abstractions in black and white.»

A larger black - and - white Kline abstraction, albeit one not in as good condition as Lot 5, is Lot 13, «Ninth Street.»

Black works with everyday items, such as defunct Chase bank deposit slip counters, toeing the line between representation and abstraction.

Franz Kline (1910 — 62), identified with black - and - white abstractions that combine formal boldness with calligraphy refinement, began his career as an illustrator.

There black abstraction has a different meaning, as a monochrome, with some sixty works.

These examples pre-date the term hardedge abstraction by Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, in 1959 but show an obvious significance to the cannon of art history to come as well as cementing her use of found materials painted black in her works to come.