At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland until January 28, A Poet * hical Wager featured
black canvas works suspended from the rafters of the exhibition space.
In Jerusalem, as Mary Pelletier writes in Hyperallergic, the conflicted location took the work in a new direction: «As plans for Jerusalem Lives got under way, Murillo's approach to
his black canvas work was changing.
Not exact matches
For those that are bold, here's a
work of art — a new Louis Vuitton Tote bag in
black and red monogram
canvas.
She had no
canvas, so she made art with whatever she could find ---- window shades, glass bottles, old boards ---- and Evans» full - page paintings with bright collage and
black lines evoke Hunter's hard
work.
Martin is known for her larger - than - life wall pieces,
canvas work, and installations, consisting mostly of playful
black - and - white illustrations filled with whimsical characters and messages.
The show consists of three floors: new
works in
black acrylic on
canvas from 2012 and 2013 on the first two floors and «historical»
works from the 1950s and 1960s, when Soulages first gained fame in the USA, on the third floor.
A huge
black canvas on which moonlit figures on a beach await execution is the centrepiece of a new exhibition of
works by Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner gallery, London, from Friday January 30 to Thursday April 2 (all prices on request).
And the belie the enormous amount of distilled thought, and raw life force behind the artist's
work: Turns out the
black - paintings series was born when Stella
blacked out a multicolored
canvas in a fit of frustration at how the piece was progressing.
Unlike her early paintings, this small group of
works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama of forceful brushstrokes, usually
black against white unprimed
canvas.
The majority of the new
works present
canvases halved by painted panels of saturated, jewel - like color — glowing lapis lazuli blues, radiating golds, reds, ochres, and deep purple -
blacks.
It has become a commonplace that Stella peaked too early, and that the deep - thinking
black paintings and other inexpressive
canvases of the 1960s have more virtue than the hulking late
works, whose swooping forms seem more pedestrian.
Tracing the evolution of Green's
work from monochromatic
canvases of the early 1970s to recent explorations of
black and white, the exhibition includes 18 paintings and 52
works on paper, including
works borrowed from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Resonating emphasizes Green's complex understanding of painting that is based on a combination of Aboriginal and Modern Western approaches.
Wilson's newest
work using flag images,
Black All Stars (2014) and Black Birds (2014), isolate star and bird iconography from the flags of African and other «black identified» countries, rendering these symbols onto a canvas surface exactly where they would be positioned in their respective f
Black All Stars (2014) and
Black Birds (2014), isolate star and bird iconography from the flags of African and other «black identified» countries, rendering these symbols onto a canvas surface exactly where they would be positioned in their respective f
Black Birds (2014), isolate star and bird iconography from the flags of African and other «
black identified» countries, rendering these symbols onto a canvas surface exactly where they would be positioned in their respective f
black identified» countries, rendering these symbols onto a
canvas surface exactly where they would be positioned in their respective flags.
FAITH RINGGOLD, Installation view of «
Black Light Series # 10, Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger,» 1967/69 (oil on
canvas), was on view in «Faith Ringgold's America: Early
Works and Story Quilts» at ACA Galleries in New York.
The colour fields are inextricably linked to her
black and white
canvases, the subjects of the latter — sparingly painted so as to retain the appearance of the
canvas weave — resulting from internet searches that occur to her whilst
working on the abstracts.
The actual plastic supports are relatively thick, and in keeping with the earlier
work, on each of their sides the artist has painted a row of thick
black dots, suggestive of nails holding down
canvas that has been stretched over the frame.
A few museums own some of his
works — massive
canvases of ragged swaths of
black and a primary color that resemble...
Nearby, the big, floppy
black -
canvas pages of a little - known
work by Mary Heilmann, titled «The Book of Night,» reiterate similar interests more poetically.
Here, he has not only slashed through the pristine white surface with twenty - four of his iconic cuts — the greatest number that he would ever commit to one
canvas — but has also added a further dimension to the
work by enshrouding it in a
black lacquer frame, which glistens with reflections of the world around it.
In the front gallery, Innes continues his interrogation of bisected
canvases with the most rigorous, meditative and elegant
works yet in his series of Untitled Lamp
Black Paintings.
Bordered with
black similar to the ones found on Stella's foundational Black Paintings, the present canvas simultaneously recalls the artist's earlier work while presaging future developm
black similar to the ones found on Stella's foundational
Black Paintings, the present canvas simultaneously recalls the artist's earlier work while presaging future developm
Black Paintings, the present
canvas simultaneously recalls the artist's earlier
work while presaging future developments.
The exhibition at Lisson Gallery includes Untitled (White Multiband, Vertical Strokes)(2003), incorporating glass microspheres in acrylic on
canvas; multiple
works from the innovative White Band series; and recent paintings from the
Black Band series; alongside the lightbox Untitled (Electric Light)(1968/2017), composed of argon and Plexiglas.
For more than a year he
worked on what became known as his
Black Paintings: large, aggressive canvases covered with stripes of black enamel paint that formed repetitive, rippling patt
Black Paintings: large, aggressive
canvases covered with stripes of
black enamel paint that formed repetitive, rippling patt
black enamel paint that formed repetitive, rippling patterns.
In Innes's
work, layers of paint are laid down on meticulously gessoed
canvas and ultimately covered in
black.
The treatment of color pulses with an almost thermal intensity at the core of
Black Coal Bay, a large - scale mixed media on paper work, and it deftly dances around the powerful black architecture of Stacked Black, an acrylic and gouache on ca
Black Coal Bay, a large - scale mixed media on paper
work, and it deftly dances around the powerful
black architecture of Stacked Black, an acrylic and gouache on ca
black architecture of Stacked
Black, an acrylic and gouache on ca
Black, an acrylic and gouache on
canvas.
We see Mr. Castellani hit on his signature approach in the 1959 «Superficie nera,» a small, charming all -
black work in which the bulges in the
canvas result from chestnuts, not nails, and the effect is of a starry sky.
As spacious and sleek as the
work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a
black or white rectangle with a contrasting
black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the
canvas below.
Further, in this series of
works on paper, of which Wine, Rust, Blue on
Black is a prime example, the punctuation of blue recalls earlier multiform
canvases, such as Untitled (Multiform), 1948.
In 1988, after having created a series of hand - painted spot paintings on board such as «Spot Painting», and the first
work on
canvas «Untitled (with
Black Dot)» (1988), Hirst painted two near - identical arrangements of coloured spots onto the wall of the «Freeze» warehouse.
These paintings followed some loose hand - painted spots on board such as this one, dating from 1986, and the first spot
work on
canvas «Untitled (with
Black Dot)» (1988)-- the only «Pharmaceutical» painting ever to have incorporated a black
Black Dot)» (1988)-- the only «Pharmaceutical» painting ever to have incorporated a
blackblack dot.
Works such as her 2011 Shadow Weave series, which depict Op Art - inspired patterns, seemingly generated by a computer, using only inter-woven
black and white strips of
canvas, playing at the boundaries between the digital and the material as well as high aesthetic formalism and functionalism.
But when it does
work, it gets a response that no other kind of theater gets, because people know that this was just created in the moment, like witnessing Franz Kline splash
black paint across a white
canvas.
The 1951 three - panel White Painting is believed to have been painted over almost immediately as Untitled [matte
black triptych](ca. 1951, fig. 2).6 In fact, there is no exhibition history or any other evidence to indicate that White Painting [three panel] was extant between 1951 and 1968; 7 in those years, most of the original White Paintings had slipped out of existence, their
canvases used as the supports for other pieces.8 Though artists throughout history have created new
works on used
canvases, Rauschenberg did so with an unusual frequency and ease, particularly in the early 1950s.9 Looking back at that period some ten years later, he commented, «Today I wouldn't do that....
The lines in between the
black paint stripes fuzz slightly on the unprimed
canvas; the industrial paint on notched
canvas works have edges covered by what looks like duct tape.
In another series of vertically oriented
canvases, Diamond abandons any pretense toward representation, and
works instead within a rigorous syntax of horizontal bands in
black and white.
On view will be new
works by Tokyo - based Tomoo Gokita, who is acclaimed for his
black and white gouache
canvases that incorporate exceptional draftsmanship with surreal imagery.
The artist was adamant that his
work was not political and that he painted «personal joy and enlightenment,» but his early
works manifested a new, liberating way of seeing the
black body on
canvas.
Oil painting, Hand - painted Extra Large Contemporary Painting, Abstract
Canvas Art, Original art
works,
black and white, Living Room Wall Art
She
works in oil on
canvas, layering pigment in a messy manner, using fingers as well as brushes, her palette intense with
blacks and reds.
In his
work, Troy Brauntuch draws from visual materials taken from newspapers, television and cinema; using a white pencil and
black pigments, he adapts them on
canvas, giving life to cryptic, unreal and fantastical
works.
After the initial grayness covers the
canvas, the artist goes to
work with
black and blue paint and a palette knife, scraping away secrets.
Carmen Herrera,
Black and Yellow, 2009 Acrylic on
canvas, diptych, 72 x 72 inches April 30 — June 26, 2010 Frederico Sève Gallery / latincollector proudly announces Carmen Herrera: Recent
Works.
Murray states, «Fifteen years ago I moved from figurative to abstract
work on small
canvases, limiting myself to
black oil paint.
A trio of
black orbs reminiscent of the
work of Adolph Gottlieb hovers at the top of the
canvas.
The lateral thin and thick bands of
black ink of the present
work and their placement in relation to the edges are mirrored in the
canvases, with subsequent
works on paper advancing this proposition by manipulating the number and width of the markings.
Lines / Edges: Frank Stella on Paper features a range of Stella's experiments on paper including early translations of his
Black series and shaped
canvases, magnificent color woodcuts and screen prints from the 1980s, and the Moby Dick Deckle Edges, an impressive nine
work grouping of large - scale prints from the early 1990s based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
All the
works in the exhibition are stripe paintings, ranging from the modestly scaled
black and white of Horizontal Vibrations made in 1961, to the glowing colours of six huge new
canvases completed this year.
In this
work, strong
black lines and scrubbed patches of color course across the
canvas, but their movement is constrained by a monumental triangular composition.
Working primarily in a muted palette, Noah's
canvases depict
black figures in intimate and isolated scenes.
Each
work in Witmer's austere Winterbrook (2015 17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and
canvas:
black wash opens up the flawed pores of the
canvas grain; dense, dry paint marks the presence of the wooden stretcher as in a rubbing; carefully applied, grey and white thinly glazed layers make another panel's surface appear taut and tremulous like drumskin.