This is the New York artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery and it will feature a suite of new large - format
color grid paintings.
Not exact matches
Step 2: After your
grid is
painted the perfect
color, it's time to hang it up.
Schjeldahl writes:» [Thomas»] best acrylics and watercolors of loosely
gridded, wristy daubs are among the most satisfying feats (and my personal favorites) of the Washington
Color School, a group that included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and others associated with the prescriptive aesthetics of the critic Clement Greenberg:
painting shorn of imagery, the illusion of depth, and rhetorical gesture.
Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with
Color Field
painting, moved into
grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
Gridding both a source photograph and a canvas, Close
paints brightly -
colored concentric rings that up close look like simple
color fields, but from afar turn out to be very detailed portraits.
Additionally, Tyler's
paintings are reminiscent of the work from past artists such as the simplified geometric
grids of Piet Mondrian's later work,
color field
paintings of Mark Rothko and the early abstract expressionistic work by Philip Guston.
Like my real early stuff, the first
color paintings really came out of trying to
paint grids, but I couldn't work out a
grid.
BM I remember working on a
grid painting, one half was a
grid and one half was one
color and then just
painting the
grid out.
The New York - based artist Isca Greenfield - Sanders transforms old slides by scanning and
gridding them, and then applying multiple layers of watercolor,
colored pencil, or oil
paint.
These are two new small
paintings from «Silk Road,» an ongoing series of small
grid - based
color fields.
Important
paintings on view from this period include Blue Cradle (1956) and Thursday (1960), which feature strong
colors and gestures, as well as Crossfield I (1968), which hints at the final phase of Tworkov's career in its
grid - like structure and layered lines.
Characterized by austere lines and
grids superimposed upon muted grounds of
color, Martin's
paintings elegantly negotiate the confines of structure and space, draftsmanship, and the metaphysical.
It may mean something that almost all the abstract
painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel - on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white
grids radiant with half - hidden
color.
The more freely a
painting deals in texture and
color, the more likely the daubs are to fill the work with a diagonal
grid.
Supported by fellowships, he spent time in France, where he spent a great deal of time drawing near a reconstruction of Brancusi's studio and Italy where he began
painting a series of
grids in random
colors.
Back then Ryman could daub a canvas, leave it or a pencil
grid half exposed, switch to plastic or paper, mix in
color, and incise his name and date into the
paint.
In both cases, the skin
colors have been scraped down to something not unlike skin, and they contrast wonderfully with fabric covering the large chaise: a series of tiny
grids scratched into wet green
paint.
«Northern Village» is one of the many
paintings Klee created that demonstrates his use of the
grid as an abstract way to organize
color relationships.
McGrath's combination of neon and naturalist
colors as well as the underlying irrationality of applied
paint behind his
grids suggests a wildness in opposition to imperialist thought in American sentiment and sustainability.
For one final twist, Pesce in 1978 was
painting abstractions, with brighter
colors and tighter
grids.
This piece should remind viewers of the
gridded paintings of pixel - like
color that Ellsworth Kelly created in the 1960s (followed by Gerhard Richter in the 1970s), only channeled through Wool's own signature palette of whites, blacks, and grays.
In 1966, artist Gerhard Richter began
painting simple, uniform
grids of
colored rectangles or squares...
Within the
grids and lines on the canvas are not small squares of flat, immobile
color, but drips and dimples of very active
paint — as if each square could also be a composition unto itself.
Like a puzzle, Carlos Estrada - Vega's colorful compositions are subdivided into a
grid - like series of squares or rectangles, each uniquely
colored and textured with hand - mixed oil
paint.
A one - person exhibition of large scale Triangle
paintings and oil stick on paper followed in 1993, at the Andre Zarre Gallery [11] where the artist employed a tight
grid overridden by gesture and a plastic
color palette.
The artist frequently works from
gridded photographic stills, using the principles of pixilation to create large - scale monochrome and
color paintings that range from photorealist to mildly psychedelic.
Some
paintings depart from two dimensions through illusion, adding angled planes to the edge of his
gridded rectangles, while sculpture takes the stacked
colors into the center of a room.
In 1966, German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932) embarked on a series of
paintings: uniform
grids of
colored rectangles or squares in a chart configuration against a white background, inspired by industrially produced
paint chips.
Notable works reproduced include «Forest Piece» (1965), a blurred snapshot
painting, «Six
Colors» (1966), a
gridded color - panel abstraction and «Blanket» (1988), an overpainted version of «Hanged» from Richter's legendary cycle on the Red Army Faction.
His two large
paintings, Yesterday, of
colored moundlike shapes atop one another and receding in scale, and Carrying, ultramarine squares divided by a white
grid accentuated with red squares (sound familiar?)
In his new works, Close continued his involvement with the
grid as an organizing device, creating full -
color paintings out of only cyan, magenta, and yellow pigments, and layering
colors in singular brushstrokes.
Distinguished by colorful,
grid - like
paintings executed in alluring oil impasto, Jensen's art taunts its viewer with patterns of
colors and numbers.
In her
paintings of the 70s, Steir often combined realistically
painted flowers with a
grid or
color field, on one hand paying homage to admired Minimal artists Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and on the other, questioning the dichotomy between abstraction and figuration.
Another body of smaller
paintings, each twenty by twenty inches, present
grids of nine squares that pulsate in fantastical
color, suggesting cross-like patterns that underlie the compositions.
For MATRIX 270, Neri contributes a new series of ceramic sculptures that upend traditional representations of the female nude, while McCarthy includes a new group of
paintings that explore her characteristic motifs such as
grid weavings, double rainbows, and
colored bars.
His «Pharmaceutical
Paintings», comprising immaculate
grids of
colored dots, spoke to the same theme: each titled after individual chemical compounds, their molecular structures sought to distill the dialogue between order and chaos that underpins our existence.
Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with
paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi
grid,» with patchy squares of
color intersected at random by strong diagonals.
He used mathematical systems to construct two - dimensional
grid paintings and demonstrate
color theories, but the work itself is metaphorical, referencing pre-Colombian and Asian cultures, textiles, and divination.
The artist transports the viewer to this holistic in - between - stage by reformulating the constituents of
painting as similar quintessential dualities: flat surface versus deep space, precision versus ambiguity, material versus ethereal, the
grid - like composition of brightly
colored dots versus animated, formative fields of homochromatic hues.
The balance and symmetry in Keltie Ferris's
paintings invite their viewers to discover underlying
grid formations, hidden beneath the layers of
color and different styles of application, created by broad brushstrokes and smudged
colors.
Vibrant abstract
paintings by Liu Wei evoke both a crowded skyline and computer circuit boards, with dense overlays of precisely constructed
grids of loud, saturated
color.
During this period Piet Mondrian's
painting Composition No. 10, 1939 — 1942, characterized by primary
colors, white ground and black
grid lines clearly defined his radical but classical approach to the rectangle and abstract art in general.
She exploits a newly acquired freedom in the way she
paints, and explores different styles from dots to freehand,
grids to hatches,
colored lines, palette knife, etc..
«Billboard» (1957), with its large gestures and thick
paint, organizes a roiling Abstract Expressionist composition into an irregular
grid of
color patches enclosing figures, faces, fruit and hints of objects alive somewhere in the depths of
paint.
Finally, 100 Faces is a
grid of
colored small - scale
paintings laid out on the floor.
Mary Heilmann
painted spit bite acid, tipping and tilting the plate, to create a large block of
color dripping over a
grid of drypoint lines that recede into deep space.
Monumental in scale, the BLOCKHEADZ
paintings feature square and rectangular cartoon faces in loose
grid patterns that recall hard - edged abstraction and
color field
paintings.
Exploring the possibilities of the
grid since the late 1960's, Willis became a member of the Third Generation of Abstract Expressionists, with his «Wall»
paintings where he worked in a unique wet - on - wet method creating linear
colored bands across the surface plane.
LeWitt is best known for his large - scale «Wall Drawings,» rigorous arrays of designs, shapes,
grids, and
colors rendered in pencil and
paint in coherence with strict instructions and diagrams to be followed in executing the work.
Typically, each square within the
grid is filled with roughly executed regions of
color (usually consisting of
painted rings on a contrasting background) which give the cell a perceived «average» hue which makes sense from a distance.