Pieces in progress abound at her sun - splashed Brooklyn studio, amid
canvas shapes painted a deep teal hanging on a line to dry and heaps of paper cutouts numbered like tailor's patterns.
Not exact matches
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could
paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making
shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.
Gottlieb, for instance, tells Goodnough that
painting is «not only a matter of colors and
shapes on
canvas, but images made visible and integrated» (p. 58) while Baziotes gives a contradictory statement, remarking that «reference to existing objects is not particularly helpful in contemporary
painting.»
Peter Stämpfli, Royal, 1971, oil on
shaped canvas,
paint on the ground.
In between are too few of the swaggering compositions — of target - like concentric stripes, designs based on compasses and protractors, and
shaped canvases that echo the
shapes painted on them — that made Stella a god of the sixties art world, exalting tastes for reductive form, daunting scale, and florid artificial color.»
They were eccentric
shaped canvases made out of doors and still wall based, but breaking out of the rectangle... Everything about Braque was the antithesis of good
painting, which was loose - limbed, open and daring.
CHARLES HINMAN (* 1932) is one of the luminaries of
Shaped Canvas painting.
In the larger of the rooms was a series of ink
paintings on cracked ceramic
canvases shaped as life - sized banana leafs.
American artist Mary Heilmann's (b. 1940) career spans five decades, from her early geometric
paintings made in the 1970s to her recent
shaped canvases in day - glo colours.
Untitled (Golden Yellow) Acrylic on
canvas, 72 x 60 inches Ian Hughes October 9 — November 8, 2014 Over the arc of his career, Ian Hughes has honed a distinctive visual language in which
paint reveals its lushest and most viscous qualities while simultaneously giving
shape to bio-reminiscent forms that have a compelling life of their own.
Shaped canvas works became popular in the 1960s as artists sought to emphasize the potential for
paintings to be considered objects.
The flower
shapes, emblematic of the Matisse cut outs, sink into the
canvas to create a stunning abstraction yet they're lifted by the texture of the brushstroke or the impasto of the
paint.
Yet she and other women in postwar abstraction were also exploding
painting, with divided and
shaped canvas that could make Frank Stella seem all the more prescient — or downright tame by comparison.
The young Brooklyn - based artist presents a new group of
paintings made from sheets of plywood that she cuts into organic
shapes and covers in
canvas, from an ongoing series she's dubbed «cut outs.»
The extension of a black band of textured tape (crushed glass added grit) across the edge where the
painting ends and the wall begins shows a disdain for boundaries comparable to Frank Stella's treatment of the
shaped canvas.
Wickedly funny allegories merge with abstract
painting as free - form amoebic
shapes frequently fill the entirety of his
canvases.
Each
canvas began with a grounding field of fluorescent pink, down which Howard methodically dragged strips of deep Alizarin Crimson oil
paint, using a T - square to
shape the precise edges.
At present her
canvas - over-carved-wooden
shapes, still
paintings, are clearly sculptural.
Intricately detailed works, with dynamic and organic
shapes spiraling across the
canvas, each
painting is mixed media, combining the artist's use of plastics (an ironic and intentional nod to the subject matter) with
paint and digital effects.
His
shaped canvases of the 1960s like Harran II, 1967, revolutionized abstract
painting.
In Untitled (Pepsi
Shape), 2017, the
canvas is carved up into contrasting areas, which are roughly
painted with acrylic.
Here she has glued standard penmanship paper onto stretched
canvas to create an abstract
shape, and then drawn and
painted over this collaged ground.
Composed from amateur footage taken by Abraham Zapruder and subsequently published in Life magazine, Laing's
shaped -
canvas painting highlights the international fascination with America's cultural revolution and the ways in which it could shift the political landscape.
She first received public recognition in New York when her richly - colored
canvases holding single
shapes were prominently featured in the New Image
Painting exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1968 with works by artists such as Susan Rothenberg and Joe Zucker.
Comprised of
canvas and wood
painted with latex, the shuttlecock's conical
shape is deflated, grounding this traditionally aerodynamic vessel to the floor.
To grant pure abstraction its utmost wish is to say that it is a
painting in the same way a table is a table — there is nothing to it apart from that formation of
shapes and colours on
canvas or board.
In these
paintings, gestural lines sinuate around, sometimes emerging into vague
shapes, other times into obscure forms, creating a rich schema of marks, symbols and colors - self - contained and relating to each other within the boundaries of the
canvas.
Murray introduced her first serious series of thickly
painted,
shaped canvases in the late «70s.
Aluminium on flesh colour
painted canvas (mushroom
shaped grinder), table and electrical candles
If these
paintings, like all of Kelly's
shaped canvases, seem simple at first sight, that's because Kelly has already done the hardest work.
Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the sphere of postwar art, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962), The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic
Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
Strategies of Non-Intention: John Cage & artists he collected / Gering / 14 E 63 (new location) / thru 8/31 Lyonel Feininger / Moeller / 35 E 64 / thru 6/27 (extended) Billy Al Bengston / Franklin Parrasch / 53 E 64 (new location) / thru 6/28 Mark Grotjahn / Blum & Poe / 19 E 66 (new in NYC) / thru 6/21 Lynda Barry / Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 7/11 Kan Yasuda / Eykyn - Maclean / 23 E 67 / thru 6/27 Horacio Zabala; Eduardo Kac / Faria / 35 E 67 / thru 6/21 Anna Maria Maiolino / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 6/21 Copied / Roth / 160A E 70 / thru 6/20 Nalini Malani / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 8/3 Distilled: The Small
Painting Show / Jacobson / 17 E 71 / thru 7/31 Pierre Soulages / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Pierre Soulages / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 8/8 Frank Stella / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 6/27 Carved, Cast, Chrushed, Constructed / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 8/22 (extended) Peter Sis curated by Charlotta Kotik / Czech Center / 321 E 73 / thru 9/1 Harmony Korine / Gagosian / 821 Park @ 75 (new, additional location) / thru 7/11 (extended) Jeff Koons / Whitney Museum / Madison @ 75 / thru 10/19 Opening 6/27 Kathleen Kucka / Geranmayeh / 956 Madision @ 76 — floor 3 / thru 6/28 Jasper Johns; Roy Lichtenstein / Castellli / 18 E 77 / thru 6/27 The
Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Ed Rusha thru 7/11; Marcel Duchamp thru 8/8 Opening 6/26 / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 James Lee Byars / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 8/30 Peter Davies / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 8/10 Eddie Martinez / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 7/15 Nancy Graves / Mitchell - Innes & Nash / 1018 Madison @ 78 / thru 6/27 Jean Dubuffet; Miquel Barcelo / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 9/19 Opening 6/30 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Luke Diiorio / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 7/2 Lucas Samaras thru 9/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29 If You Build It / No Longer Empty / 115 & St. Nicholas Ave. / thru 8/10 Opening 6/25 (7 - 9 PM) BROOKLYN Parallel Shift / NARS Foundation / 201 46th Street — floor 4, Sunset Park / thru 6/20 Itness: MaDora Frey; Nicola Ginzel; Heide Hatry; Fawn Krieger; Seren Morey / Trestle / 168 7th, Gowanus / thru 7/2 Myles Bennett, Jay Gaskill, Cat Glennon, Enrico Gomez, Eliot Markell, Esther Ruiz and Jeanne Tremel / Ground Floor / 343 5th / thru 6 /?
His approach to a
painted canvas amounts simply to dyed fabric — cut,
shaped, and sewn.
A pioneer in
painting and former professor at Bard College, Murray is known for distinctively
shaped canvases that break with art - historical tradition and blur the lines between
painting and sculpture.
I saw it in abstraction, such as James Hyde's
painted canvas shaped into an enormous pillow, with air pump attached.
Still, poured
paint from Carolanna Parlato,
shaped by tilting the
canvas, and hard edges by Halsey Hathaway, made with an atomizer, had me wondering that they pulled it off.
Each «Controlled Substance»
painting such as «Morphine Sulphate» — often painted on irregularly shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key Painting
painting such as «Morphine Sulphate» — often
painted on irregularly
shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key
PaintingPainting».
The basic support for
paintings was rethought by artists like Ralph Humphrey (
shaped canvases) and James Havard (substituted a molded plastic support for
canvas).
In the early - to - mid»60s he constructed nearly human - sized, egg -
shaped canvases, monochromes, which he
painted in a heavy impasto the colors of Easter eggs, poking and jabbing lots of holes on their surfaces in all - over fashion, à la Pollock, as in Concetto Spaziale, La Fine de Dio (Spatial Concept, the End of God).
This series of
paintings that illustrate this interview are from a 2005 exhibition at Locks Gallery featuring pairs of oil
paintings on polygonal -
shaped canvases and diptychs of her iconic baked enamel steel plate
paintings.
She expresses her compassion in playful compositions of acrylic
paint, mixed media and resin on
canvas, balancing organic
shapes, while often masterfully incorporating delicate ink drawings.
A master of unexpectedly pleasing
canvas shapes and
paint application, her work brings to mind the fluid
paint handling of Christopher Wool, the complex compositional arrangements of Jean - Michel Basquiat, and the aggressive surface treatments of Sterling Ruby.
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on
canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's
paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
paintings — reminiscent of
shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract -LSB-...]
Her
canvases - some unusually large - are filled with grids and intersecting circles, simplified flower forms, gonad - like
shapes, flattened cubes,
painted numbers, stray, sometimes invented words, spirals, weird vectors, loop - the - loop lines, pyramids and sunbursts.
The earliest examples — the Aluminium
Paintings (1960) and Copper
Paintings (1960 - 1961), were followed by works that extended the concept of the
shaped canvas, including the Irregular Polygon
canvases (1965 - 67) and the later Protractor series (1967 - 71).
Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional
painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars,
paintings hung backwards, oddly
shaped canvases,
painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.
Each «Controlled Substance»
painting («Opium»)-- often painted on irregularly shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key Painting
painting («Opium»)-- often
painted on irregularly
shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key
PaintingPainting».
Puns abound in his
paintings: in his «Cover Letter» series (2010), a piece of felt in the
shape of a lowercase «a» hangs over a stretched
canvas.
Murakami Saburō lets a
painting take
shape by throwing a ball across it, much as John Baldessari photographed a line of balls in the air, and tears six holes in brown paper, much like the slashed
canvases of Lucio Fontana or Alberto Burri.
Like the text, one can interpret the Removal
Paintings as object or absence,
shaped canvas or defiantly plain and conceptual.