Locating a coherent equipoise
between pictorial space and sculptural space — between invention and actuality — invariably results in awkward (not to say «bastardized») elisions of form.
They extend Siena's drawing into a place
between pictorial space and the outside world.
The sculptures in this body of work are liminal residing
between pictorial space and the 3rd dimension.
Timothy Harding's work explores the fluid relationship
between the pictorial space and the three dimensional realm,
Timothy Harding's work explores the fluid relationship
between the pictorial space and the three dimensional realm, between drawing, painting and sculpture.
The root of the word «habitat» means to possess, or to be situated, echoing the viewer's process of negotiating the relationship
between the pictorial space and the physicality of the artwork's surface.
«Unenclosed by the usual rectangle,» writes Carter Ratcliff in his essay on Kelly's curved canvases, «Kelly's monochromes do not establish an impermeable barrier
between pictorial space and the space of the gallery.
His watercolors, gouache, and oil paintings not only explore and expand the conventions of still - life painting, but also illuminate the relationship
between pictorial space and depicted objects.
What do the contradictions
between these pictorial spaces tell us about each culture in particular?
Not exact matches
The encounter
between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies as «a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of
pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural
space.»
medium to emphasize the slippage
between painting, film, photography,
pictorial space, and performative
space.
Where the abstract expressionists sought harmony and purification of the
pictorial space, his neo-avant-garde instead aimed to diminish the authorial role of the artist and bridge the gap
between art and life.
The 13 works on view highlight the formal similarities
between the artists» work and illustrate a parallel shift in their conception of
pictorial space — from a figural abstraction to a new sense of openness and expansiveness.
Without a visual anchor, viewers can only drift within the
spaces in which grid and cross intermingle, uncomfortably caught
between two - and three - dimensional
spaces where boundaries
between pictorial depth and surface flatness begin to get fuzzy.
Her works riff on past styles; the tensions
between pictorial and actual
space; the eternal conflict of abstraction and image; the act of looking, including peripheral vision.
Filtered through his photographs, Mesoamerican architecture showed Albers the accordion - like nature of
pictorial space: it could be rendered as volumetric, flat and something in
between at the same time.
Extending from the late 1970s to today, this selection of work reaches beyond the limitations of medium to emphasize the slippage
between painting, film, photography,
pictorial space, and performative
space.
All three artists, in quite different ways, wrestle with spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength of their paintings ---- there's tension
between opening up deep
pictorial space and reasserting the flat picture plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
For this «545 Days» exhibition, Robert Proch has continued with his research into the fragmentation of
space, taking a
pictorial approach that is all his own, halfway
between abstraction and figuration, to the point of shattering all our cognitive reference points and igniting our imagination.
This relationship
between the
pictorial and the physical
space is often linked to Color Field painting, a style of abstract painting -LSB-...]
In
between fluid abstraction and sculptural figuration, these works become three - dimensional
pictorial spaces with a potential for image making.
His belief that the tensions
between form and color were themselves evocative of
pictorial space is revealed in these works, from 1942 and 1945, and reflected in that of his many students.
In its allusive imagery as well as the dynamic relationships among its constituents, Mr. Connors's exhibition equates social and
pictorial space, and wittily chips away at the distinction
between art and life.»
Good painting (whether figurative or abstract) allows the eye to wander smoothly backwards and forwards
between a material surface and the immaterial,
pictorial space.
His work researches the screen as a
pictorial space, reverse engineering reality into condensed bits, in a
space somewhere
between animated cartoons and paintings.
The result is an exciting interface
between the real
space and the
pictorial space.
The earliest «dithyrambic» pictures were
pictorial inventions of sculptural forms in planar
space that lie somewhere
between abstract and representational imagery: forms evocative of architecture or figuration, though not always overtly so.
Continuing her interest in the confrontation
between nature and culture, the paintings on view explore the
pictorial space, where the physicality of painting and the play with architectural elements, in all senses, become the subject of the picture.The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, September 11 through Sunday, October 16, 2011.
Whether standing, leaning, or wall hung, the planks engage their surrounding context, connecting the
space between the
pictorial plane and physical dimension.
Playing with
pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates
between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.
The drawings, which seem to breathe into the
pictorial space and capture the tension
between chance and intentionality like the philosophical action of the Zen «ensō.»
The Fauves chose an entirely original artistic path: redefining the relationship
between art and nature in their paintings, they allowed the
pictorial space to unfold through the powerful interaction of different colours.
To enter the
pictorial and psychic
space of one of Patterson's images is to tumble into a fantastical realm in which distinctions
between form and symbol, surface and depth, and the sublime and the absurd are lovingly blurred.
The work focuses on the emotional as well as physical aspects of the figures of Adam and Eve, the
pictorial space they inhabit, and reflects on underlying conflicts
between individuality and conformity.
Her installation based work addresses the shift
between image - planes and
space and aims to turn mathematical
space concepts into
pictorial images.
This conversation
between impasto and perspective disrupts our understanding of the composition and objects within it; the
pictorial space both flattens and expands depending on the location of the viewers gaze.
To enter the
pictorial and psychic
space of one of Patterson's paintings is to tumble into a fantastically overdetermined realm in which distinctions
between form and symbol, surface and depth, and sublime and profound are lovingly blurred.
One conceivable contrast in the quality of
pictorial space, which interests me at the moment is the difference
between stable, specific
space and unstable, ambiguous
space.