Sentences with phrase «by young abstract painters»

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In the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artists.

Cochrane took a special interest in the abstract painting being developed by Jean - Paul Riopelle and Nicholas de Stael in France, in the work of Jean Dubuffet and the Cobra painters including Asger Jorn, as well as some of the young Americans then active in Paris, such as Sam Francis and Ellsworth Kelly.

As Matthew Israel writes in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem like they could have been made by a current young abstract painter.

As Matthew Israel writes in the full - color catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem like they could have been made by a current young abstract painter.

The abstract painter's «thumping epic 25 - foot - wide painting installed at the Rubell Family Collection was * the * standout artwork of the week by any young -LRB-- ish) artist anywhere, in all of Miami Beach,» wrote the art adviser Todd Levin on his Facebook page — a sentiment that was echoed throughout the week.

There is, in van Velde's work, a quality of indecision and incompleteness, of being improvised rather than planned, of being left in a transitional stage, in other words, of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state of affairs in abstract painting as well as to the young painters loosely grouped under the name of New Casualists.

This solo show gained him a reputation as one of the top young 20th - century painters, and a key exponent of Tachisme - the French gesturalist style of Art Informel - a European variant of abstract expressionism pioneered by the New York School.

These issues, however, had been redefined by a younger generation of abstract artists and theorists, the Minimalists and Color Field painters, into a question of painting's essential identity: was it a thing or a surface or both?

Those weary of shows of austere, faux - naïve, inanely insider - y abstract painting will do well to visit this tight grouping of work by five promising, young painters whose work is joyfully brash, lively and sophisticated.

Alex Bacon is a scholar, curator, and critic who has defended some of those abstract painters celebrated by collectors and maligned by critics — a loose group of young «sensations» called everything from «flip artists,» «crapstractionists,» «opportunists,» to «zombie formalists.»