She is known nation - wide for her unique and challenging
brand of abstract painting.
Not exact matches
Consider the most visible trend in recent years
of Zombie Formalism, a kind
of reductive, easily produced
abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name
of the artist himself becomes the
brand.
These almost
abstract, monochrome
paintings treat the plain yet distinctive ads that New York's most famous jewelry
brand has run daily for many years in the upper right hand corner
of the same page
of The New York Times, while echoing associations with another classic, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, whose object
of desire Holly Golightly lures admirers only to elude them later.
Though influenced by Willem de Kooning, whom he knew, as well as Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline, Whitten defined his own dynamic
brand of hallucinatory
abstract painting.
His Surrender Flag with Dollar Skull, or Surrender Flag with Zombie Abstraction, 2015, appears as a sort
of battle standard in the face
of a whitewashed art market that has embraced a
brand of politically neutered, highly salable
abstract painting, many
of whose trappings Vélez reworks into his own practice — airbrushed lines, torn canvases, messy brushstrokes.
«However, when you realize that these
abstract paintings are each modeled after a specific
brand of «real world» medication, you see the layers
of social commentary present in the work.»
Although the shape
of the
brands in his
paintings may take on many different
abstract and representational forms — including circles, diamonds, and palm trees — the crosshair is a recurrent motif throughout his most recent work.
These works form an amalgamation
of recognizable imagery
of popular
brands, a tangible, ubiquitously American object and
abstract painting.
Not many art appreciators were there to block my view
of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy
abstract paintings twinkling with the artist's signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action
painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely
of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson,
brands from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup
of several more doing splits straddled the floor like a team
of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each other, and / or tempted one to sit on them like furniture.
Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks
of the 1980s with a cooler
brand of computer - based images in the 1990s, followed by a subsequent series
of painted - over advertising and his more recent,
abstract expressionist works, all while striving to maintain a balance
of painterly passion and critical distance.
Goodbye Derrick (2012) is an exceptional
abstract painting made with red oak flooring, the surface
of which has been repeatedly
branded with ambiguous symbols.
· LiLY NOCHES — The
paintings of Columbian artist Douglas Mendoza served as a stunning backdrop for the launch
of the highly - anticipated fashion
brand — LiLY NOCHES COLLECTION; whose premier Spring / Summer 2018 line showcases trims based on his modern
abstract paintings.
Remi will be exhibiting a new body
of paintings in San Francisco bringing his unique
brand of abstract work.
In the 1950s, still in the wake
of the oppressive experiences
of wartime and in distinction from the gestural
painting of Europe's
brand of abstract expressionism, art informel, ZERO consciously elaborated a monochrome pictorial language suffused with light.