Sentences with phrase «black abstraction»

She refuses, too, to tackle mainstream art on its own terms, with the creativity and diversity of black abstraction.

A unique and highly respected collection, it illustrates the history of art by artists of African descent from the 1940s to the present, with a special emphasis on black abstraction.

The question keeps recurring: is there a uniquely black abstraction, and is it then any less black or any less abstract?

They raise questions like, Is there such a thing as black abstraction?

He turns up when someone remembers to ask about black abstraction.

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

Black Abstraction By Georgia O'Keeffe.

While some black artists draw lines, if only in chalk like Gary Simmons or only in black abstraction, David Hammons dares anyone to join the party.

Naturally it would not for black abstraction.

Johnson was soon marking individual faces into the black soap and wax he uses to make murky black abstractions.

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.

Is there a distinctly black abstraction?

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

My initial connection to Reinhardt's black Abstraction No. 11 was purely visual and intuitive.

In the 1970's, the decade of his death, Lewis's work seems to take on new vigor, especially in paintings like the spare, Minimalist «No. 2» of 1973, an all - black abstraction randomly scored with thin, vertical lines of white, and «Blue and Boogie» of 1974, a knockout of a painting in which a dynamic whir of bright blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black field.

Newkirk is working in 2012, but the walls hold black abstraction from the early 1970s.

Brooklyn - based artist Vincent Como, who has also centered his practice around the investigation of black abstraction for the past twenty years, describes his affinity for this material and subject matter:

In my recent interview with Brian O'Doherty, we talked about the success of the Reinhardt show at the David Zwirner gallery, which would never have happened before — I mean showing all aspects of his work, the severe black abstractions, the political cartoons, the slide lectures, all at once.

A decade later, Ad Reinhardt produced black on black abstractions that appear completely empty to the impatient eye.

Was there ever a uniquely black abstraction, from her to William T. Williams, or a woman's art?

A version of this story originally appeared in the June 2014 issue of ARTnews on page 62 under the title «Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction.»

The resin of surfboards has become Alex Weinstein's black resin — and from there Jeremy Everett's black sign paint, Vija Celmins's black abstraction, and Jeff Lewis's swelling dark star.

Recent years have had major exhibitions of Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, and black abstraction, with much the same insistence.

One of the greats — these purple - black abstractions, and bitumen abstractions, were superb — but photography is not allowed.

One expects Latin American art not to divorce itself from the world, no more than black abstraction in the United States, Francisco Oller as a Puerto Rican in Paris in the nineteenth century, or Regina José Galindo in Guatemala.

(How much that context matters to black abstraction is best left to another story.)

In the June 2014 ARTnews article «Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction,» Hilarie M. Sheets aptly notes, «The contributions of African American artists to the inventions of abstract [art] have historically been overlooked...».

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)- Black Abstraction (1927, Metropolitan Museum)- Jack - in - the - Pulpit No.V (1930, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)

In the June 2014 ARTnews article «Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction,» Hilarie M. Sheets aptly notes, «The contributions of African American artists to the inventions of abstract [art] have historically been overlooked...» Magnetic Fields focuses on non-representational art making by women artists of color, reframing the art historical narrative to convey a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has ever previously been examined.

Additional points of reference include the writings of Octavia Butler, Black abstraction, the New York School, and Soviet Constructivism.

• Black Abstraction (1927) Metropolitan Museum.

Additional points of reference include the writings of Octavia Butler, Black abstraction, the New York School, and Russian Constructivism.

Black Abstraction (1927) by Georgia O'Keeffe Meaning and Interpretation of American Abstract Painting MAIN A-Z INDEX

Physical traces appear less directly in wine stain on canvas from Kianja Strobert, a black abstraction by Gary Simmons, and Simone Leigh's shower - curtain undershorts.

Ashkenazi (1978), a striking red, white and black abstraction, employs a Hebrew name as a clue to her endeavor.

In his examination of the recent embrace of black abstraction, Steph Rodney focuses the diverse strategies artists employ to work with abstraction while still asserting their identification with blackness.1