Komada's practice reveals the metaphoric space
between painting as object and painting as action and explores the boundary between art and craft.
Her sculpted canvases blur the line
between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.
Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray's paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line
between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.
Not exact matches
Catholic teaching distinguishes
between dulia — paying honor, respect and veneration to saints and also indirectly to God through contemplation of
objects such
as paintings and statues — and latria — adoration directed to God alone.
The Light
Between Oceans
paints Tom and Isabel's romance in elliptical glances — a seductive strategy, but also one that leaves them feeling less like fully fleshed human beings than
objects as symbolic
as that lighthouse, the broken piano in their seaside home, or a metal rattle that becomes integral to the plot.
Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the
objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings»
between poetry, music and
painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water
as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.
These works, like «Providence Spirits (Gold)» (2017), are the most lovely
objects in the show and are meant to stand out
as carry horses for the metaphor of wealth and the gap
between the lives these heavily aestheticized and finely crafted
paintings represent and the lives (alluded to in other rooms) that are deemed worth significantly less.
Best known for her colossal sculptural projects, for over five decades Phyllida Barlow has employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such
as plywood, cardboard, plaster, cement, fabric and
paint to create striking sculptures and bold and expansive installations that confront the relationship
between objects and the space that surrounds them.
A selection of 21st - century
objects, such
as Richard Lee's Sinking and Burning (2005), a cabinet with reverse glass
painting, also reveals unexpected links
between historic and contemporary American art.
The category of
painting is examined more generally in the wood panels on top of the pedestals: straddling the line
between abstraction and representation, they offer
painting as both an
object within sculpture
as well
as a discrete project central to the artistʼs studio practice.
While other artists like Richard Tuttle and William T. Wiley were also experimenting with the unstreched canvas during the same period, Gilliam's sculptural approach was revolutionary in that it repositioned the viewer's relationship with the
painting to include the
object as well
as the space around it, blurring the boundary
between painting, sculpture, and architecture for the first time.
The work operates in the space
between the subject and the
object,
between photography and
painting, in a tradition now well - established by forerunners such
as the frequently - referenced Gerhard Richter.
The play
between paint and
object reveals Mr. Rockenschaub
as the rare perfectionist who doesn't take perfection too seriously, and he's even better when he lets his hair down,
as he does in five small, inscrutable
paintings — hieroglyphs, really — of dashed black lines on lacquered MDF.
Margie Livingston's work participates directly in this narrative, creating hybrid
objects that shift back and forth
between sculpture and
painting as well
as abstraction and representation.
She works primarily with sculpture, exploring - with materials
as different
as glass, ceramics and concrete - the frontiers
between painting and sculpture,
object and architecture, form and context.
Other artists have sought to renew the formalist mantra of
painting as object, either by
painting on three - dimensional household
objects or by working with the similarities
between painting and plain old fabric design,
as in clothing or folk quilting.
Inspired by the idea of an imagined society in which psychotherapy is a freely available drop - in service, Johnson's installation of large - scale
paintings, hanging plants, Persian rugs and four wooden day beds questions established definitions of the art
object and its limitations,
as well
as the relationship
between individual and shared cultural experience.
Over and over again in the catalog, we read about Ligon's love for
painting — de Kooning's Pirate (Untitled II)(1981) is a favorite, apparently — and how he, um, «opened up the semantic rules of identity and linguistic constructions
between object - text and image - sign relations through the use of photography and text based on the appropriation of language, sign, text, and speech
as material for his
painting practice.»
They collapsed the distinction
between painting and sculpture by reminding viewers that
paintings start
as three - dimensional
objects.
What / Why: «We treat desire
as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance
between us and the
object of desire that fills the space in
between with the blue of longing. - Rebecca Solnit GRIN is pleased to announce Pools of Fir, a solo exhibition of new
painting and photography by Brooklyn based artist Caitlin MacBride.»
Best known for her colossal sculptural projects, for over four decades Barlow has employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such
as plywood, plaster, fabric and
paint to create striking sculptures and expansive installations that confront the relationship
between objects and the space that surrounds them.
As with her early design work, her vividly - coloured
paintings explore complex arrangements of forms, ideas of depiction versus reality, and the expressive relations
between objects and colours.
The exhibit tried to break the barrier
between the subject of
painting and the art
object itself,
as with Dada.
For him, silence was a landscape of unintentional sounds experienced
between intentional sounds;
as such, it was absolutely substantive, inseparable from and interdependent with sound.22 By extension, we might expand our view of the White
Paintings, considering them not
as inert screens waiting to be activated by life's subtle projections but rather
as provocative agents of activity and profoundly physical
objects that link our actions and perceptions, making us aware of the same perceptual interdependency that was central to silence for Cage.
Hoang's current show
AS THE CROW FLIES at Halsey McKay Gallery (through April 30th) includes eight
paintings that continue her exploration of chromatic greys that flicker
between object and illusion.
Playing the role of alchemist, each artist in
Between Spaces will recast familiar materials and
objects such
as wood,
paint, mirrors, moving blankets, Plexi - glass, Venetian blinds, and metal grating to make the ordinary strange.
Through
paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions
as a bridge
between the hypothetical and the physical,
objects operate
as artifacts of personal -
as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing
between nihilism and mysticism.
Combining oil
paint, canvas, and paper with non-traditional materials such
as latex rubber, linoleum, straw, leaves, and hair, along with weathered
objects salvaged from abandoned farms, she constructs works that occupy a space
between painting and sculpture while hinting at transgressions and violence within the domestic setting.
As an image /
object, it hovers
between painting, photography, and relief sculpture, and
between realism and abstraction.
Sonsini also recognizes similarities
between his
painting practice and the craft - based tasks his subjects are often hired to complete,
as both manually create an
object from nothing.
As such, looking across the
paintings the
object appears to shift
between guises, moving from evoking the calmly undulating natural form in a landscape to the brazen and speedy flash of the carnivalesque.
«After the collages, I began to
paint the eyes approaching the
paintings on board
as decorative
objects symbolically representing the eye motif while creating an optical situation where the interior image and periphery of the
painting (margins outside of the eye and thus
painting) serve
as a flipping perspective
between view finder mask to visible interior image.
Situated in the proximity of apertures to the surrounding neighborhood, the untitled
paintings, all 2016, the majority incorporating both oil
paint and pasted digital prints, assumed a comparable role
as portals, redoubling the representational logic of their scenes even
as the disjuncts
between the
objects depicted complicated them.
Installed among a number of large, monochromatic pictures, now known
as the White
Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948
Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)--
objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found
objects — was a selection of his Black
paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948
paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark
paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known
as Untitled [black
painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This
painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently
between 1948 and 1952.
In her
painting practice Earnest uses unconventional materials such
as aluminum tape, carpet fuzz, insulation, drywall tape, cement, contact paper, latex gloves, and joint compound, and she seeks to explore how abstract spaces such
as «home» can be defined through the complex relationship
between objects and memory.
Many had the desire to break down the distinction
between painting and sculpture, to create
paintings that were physical
objects as well
as abstractions.
Bertrand Lavier is known for his practice of thickly coating everyday
objects such
as a fridge or a piano with acrylic
paint, thus blurring the line
between sculpture and
painting.
And just
as the decimated forms of Cubism introduce an integration
between image and surface, the Stellas here progressively articulate a new agreement
between painting as image and
as object.
While some artists, such
as Mel Bochner, rejected
painting and the sculptural
object outright, calling for a «dematerialization» of the art
object altogether, Sonnier and Merz collapsed the distinctions
between painting and sculpture, employing commercial or industrial materials to tie their work more closely to the life of the street.
This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such
as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and
objects; drawings;
paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies
between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.
But all operate like Donald Judd's «Specific
Objects,» defined in 1964
as art that exists somewhere
between painting and sculpture.
She cited three MOCA exhibitions
as particularly influential: Paul Schimmels 1998 «Out of Actions:
Between Performance and the
Object, 1949 - 1979,» on the postwar merger of performance art with traditional
painting and sculpture; «A Minimal Future?
Brenna Youngblood (b. 1979, Riverside, CA) incorporates her own photographs, representational fragments, and found
objects, such
as wallpaper and book pages, into her textured, atmospheric
paintings that read
between pure abstraction and a slice of life.
As the same rotating cast of inanimate characters appears again and again in the
paintings, we realize that what we are seeing is a memory play, a chronicle of the interaction over time
between objects and owner.
Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such
as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand -
Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions:
Between Performance and the
Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).
Focused on
painting and sculpture, it explores «visible reality through the analytical lens of the 3D computer - modelling world», delving into the relationship
between the art
object that takes visible reality
as its point of reference, and the boundaries of verisimilitude
between observable reality, art and science.
Everything in this art wells out from bodies —
as Kerry Downes noted in his 1980 study of Rubens, «space in his
paintings exists
between and because of
objects and not independently of them»...»
The best - case scenario is when I'm
painting, it feels
as if I'm feeling that
object through the brushstroke, or I'm reimagining what it means to be that
object, in
paint, so a lot of what I'm after is this correspondence
between the
object and the
paint mediated through me.»
He is now
as famous for claiming to act within the «gap
between art and life»
as he is for his Combine works, in which he bridged the gulf
between painting and
object.
For her first solo exhibition in Italy, La Kermesse Héroïque, the Brussels - based Lucy McKenzie has made a group of new works, including mural
paintings on canvas,
painted objects, sculptures and figures - combined with elements of decor (such
as lighting and furniture) to explore the relationship
between style, ideology and value.