Untitled, the artist's large oil on
canvas piece in this show, is an interconnected mix of elegant, organic lines in muted tones with pops of color.
Not exact matches
What's more, many
pieces showed signs of fractal patterns — repeating motifs that reoccur at different scales, whether you zoom
in or zoom out of a
canvas (British Journal of Psychology, vol 102, p 49).
Sunday 10.11.15 - > 5 - 8 pm — Seven Bar & Kitchen
in the Funk Zone Santa Barbara — 20 +
pieces, never before
shown works
in acrylic & spray paint on
canvas, plexi and recycled materials (& there are 4 limited edition prints available as well).
The kind of ambiance it has, seems to contemporize the past and
show respect to it by means of beautiful vintage
pieces all made part of the décor and displayed with a vibrant usage of a
canvas of bright and bold colors
in the décor.
Among the
pieces shown at his first solo exhibition
in 1950 was the
canvas entitled Chief that indubitably referred his childhood, maybe the locomotive with the same name, her power, sound and steaming engine he remembered, or, as some also believed, that the artists fascination with dark color was the result of his growing up
in the mining community.
Hansa artists» works represented
in the Grey
show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on
canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a
piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.
Divided
in 6 separate rooms, the installation includes some 60 individual stoneware and porcelain
pieces, as well as couple of rare editions on paper by Kusaka, and around 40
pieces by Wood, ranging from small collage
showing his studio process, limited edition multiples, a series of floral
pieces on paper, all the way to monumental oil and acrylic
pieces on
canvas.
In addition to the new works in the show, Richter has punctuated and augmented the exhibition with a selection of paintings on canvas, glass and photographs made over the last 15 years — including his «Abstraktes Bild» and «Farben» paintings — which inform and re-contextualize his more recent piece
In addition to the new works
in the show, Richter has punctuated and augmented the exhibition with a selection of paintings on canvas, glass and photographs made over the last 15 years — including his «Abstraktes Bild» and «Farben» paintings — which inform and re-contextualize his more recent piece
in the
show, Richter has punctuated and augmented the exhibition with a selection of paintings on
canvas, glass and photographs made over the last 15 years — including his «Abstraktes Bild» and «Farben» paintings — which inform and re-contextualize his more recent
pieces.
Included
in the massive
show, which goes to London's Tate Modern after MoMA, are abstractions like the ghostly, white - streaked Untitled (2007), as well as the classic 1980s
piece Watchtower with Geese (1988), with its totalitarian subject matter and its use of interlocking color and patterns on fabric — one of Polke's many experiments with materials other than plain old oil on
canvas.
Despite being the smallest
piece in the
show, this rectangular amalgamation of oil paint, acrylic paint, household paint, varnish and mixed media collage on
canvas (then mounted on board) had that rare feeling of monumentality.
However, the pairing of Novros's «Untitled» oil on
canvas, (15 parts)(1969), which was
shown in his last memorable exhibit at Paula Cooper last September of 2009, and Judd's «Untitled» (1989), a Douglas Fir plywood
piece, was splendidly tuned, partly because it's an interesting exchange of two artists, one, a logical empiricist who aspires to be an idealist, the other, an idealist, who thinks himself a logical empiricist.
The most exciting
pieces in the
show for me were the most recent works, The Eye Man (2014) and Corner Café (2014 - 2015), large
canvases making their public debuts.
So the
show will include the «Ookie
Canvases», the «Visual Orgasms» series of GIFs, which I've added to with four new
pieces, a sexy photo of wires drenched
in lube which also serves as the centerfold for a catalog with essays by Nora O» Murchú and Seth Watter, and two wire sculptures.
Two years earlier, at Roche Court sculpture park, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, the couple had
shown together for the first time
in their marriage: he with a dozen huge, rusted steel
pieces from the series called Flats, made
in 1974
in Canada with the aid of a crane; she indoors with a sequence of vibrantly coloured
canvases painted with architectural forms not far distant from his.
As the final images
show, it's incredible how diverse
in style and approach the
pieces are: while some artists have taken a pattern - based, abstract route; others have simply taken their usual style of portraiture and shrunk it down to fit these unusual wee
canvases.
Francis spent some time
in Paris executing entirely monochromatic works, but his mature
pieces are generally large oil paintings with splashed or splattered areas of bright contrasting color, with areas of white
canvas left to
show through.
The interlocked hermetic imagery of Commander Salamander (2017) includes a collaged reproduction of the titular character (an important alchemical figure) combined with a
piece of fabric printed with wavy mushrooms (more psychedelic than edible), an inverted color reproduction of two robed medieval Christian elders
in a boat, and a separately painted and affixed upside - down vibrant red cardinal (perhaps punning on the Pope's henchmen)-- all of them scattered across a
canvas painted with some of the loopiest brushstrokes
in the
show.
Adian's wall - mounted abstract paintings, made by stretching
canvas over shaped
pieces of foam, will find themselves
in a group
show titled «Rascal House» with Blair Thurman, John Armleder, and Stephane Kropf at Half Gallery
in January 2015, followed by an installation at Lever House
in New York.
A Bigger Picture at the de Young Museum features the monumental
pieces from the
show in Europe, which include a painting 32 feet wide and 12 feet high, as well a painting made up of 32
canvases.
The first,
in which I discussed the merits of the
canvases, and how and why they were created, I chose to rewrite after I discovered that many
pieces of information available about the
show online (some of which factored into my original evaluation of the work), were fabricated by Ripps himself.
The exhibition ties these
pieces quite well to the few large - scale, later
canvases on view,
showing the artist's continued interest
in the compositional considerations of vastly different subject matter, increasingly represented through realistic brushstrokes and the language of mass - market advertising.
Working through the difficulties
in that one
canvas, you told me, ultimately helped you resolve the other
pieces in your
show.
Finally, an Ed Moses
show at Albertz Benda will include a
piece inspired by lines
in textiles: for «Untitled (Hegeman Series),» Moses imagined threads on a Navajo blanket as lines on a
canvas.