Sentences with phrase «brushy canvases»

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, or in the brushy immediacy of look away (2010, oil on canvas, 32 x 21.5 in.).

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas - often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers - to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

Roughly half are painted on natural linen in which Hedges» approach is a little different than on canvas, revealing the linen support and numerous areas where the pigment is applied in thin brushy strokes to expose the weave and texture.

There's also a solid helping of funkier, more - organic - looking abstraction here — a veiny network of yellow and black lines by Daniel Reynolds, a brushy green canvas by Gregory Montreuil, a spooky painting in pesto green and light purple by Gail Fitzgerald that looks like some ghostly undersea creature (and suggests a miniature, low - key Sigmar Polke) and, probably my favorite work here, a square with a few barely there marks, whiffs of different colors by Roberta Allen.

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas — often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers — to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

In addition to small, deft, loosely painted pictures of birds on tree branches and wires and a landscape with Goldilocks and the Three Bears in the distance, Mr. Dawson's ninth New York solo features three big paintings made with a generous, brushy touch on toothy canvas and depicting scenes from the story of Jonah and the Whale....

An invigorating, two - man show brings together tropically colorful sculptures made from crumpled auto - body parts by John Chamberlain and large, abstract canvases covered in poured and busily brushy paint by Larry Poons.

Similarly positioned, Mermaid with Legs # 2 features a figure surrounded by brushy, flowerlike patterns that radiate across the surface of the canvas.

A few elements I've evinced from Smith's past exhibitions and around the city (including his painted - directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hand).

Most of the dozen works are brushy, oil - on - canvas abstractions, reminiscent in style of de Kooning or Gerhard Richter, which have been overlaid with obscuring materials: black plastic garbage bags, torn industrial tarps and worn - out blankets and towels.

Her abstract canvases are an exuberant collision of painting styles: encrusted surfaces, brushy swathes and watery pools, along with kitsch cartoon elements, which somehow coalesce despite their differences.