The stunning
crosshatching works of the 1970s are in abundance, as are the pared - down and conceptual Catenary series which, along with other recent works such as Regrets, 2013, can at times feel off - limits to the viewer.
Another gallery looks at time and transience, where you've got
the crosshatched works dealing with the passage of time.
Not exact matches
She has
worked as an assistant in the fields of mycology, forestry, and neurology research, volunteered for two years in the AmeriCorps, and most recently was an Artist Residency Coordinator for the
Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology.
The paintings were executed between 1981 and «83, and form the grand finale of Johns's enduring
work with
crosshatching.
His gallery
works are often brightly colored large - scale paintings or drawings, influenced by Hergé's ligne claire technique, emphasizing strong, clean lines over
crosshatching and shading.
He drew sinuous, polished figures that might bring to mind the
work of Egon Schiele if they weren't so smooth, and if he didn't model them with
crosshatching so glittering and tight that it almost resembles fabric.
Recently Gonzales has executed
work using
crosshatching to mine the detail of distinctly American scenes.
Amanda Kik, Co-founder + Co-director,
Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology Michael Orlove, Director of Artist Communities + Presenting & Multidisciplinary
Works, National Endowment for the Arts Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director, Alliance of Artists Communities
Beginning in 1972 Johns's
work became highly abstract, a transition marked by a series of
crosshatch paintings.
The pages of the graphite drawings are heavily
worked with dense
crosshatched pencil lines resulting in a near - reflective, active surface.
Sims also homes in on the recurring
crosshatch marks, noting how they «mimic interwoven elements seen in basketry or fiber
work.»
In the 1970s, an abstract aesthetic emerges with a
crosshatch motif in
works like Corpse and Mirror (1976).
Used for centuries to create tonal effects in engravings and other prints, the
crosshatch first appeared in Johns's
work in an untitled 1972 painting.
Works are primarily rendered in egg tempera through
crosshatching.
In one body of
work, Kahn reproduced the iconic photographs of gas holders, water towers and other industrial structures taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher during the 1960s, repeatedly layering each photo to create a composite image that resembles a
crosshatched drawing or blurry film still.
Donald Mitchell's early
work consisted primarily of obsessively
crosshatched fields of lines that covered the page and hid any trace of an underlying image.
In the present
work, Gorky explores the potential of
crosshatching and shading to create a lively composition in which recognizable imagery is transformed into suggestive biomorphic forms.
In the1970s, Johns initiated his
Crosshatch series (Corpse and Mirror, 1978; Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981), abstract compositions of colored brushwork that recall his earlier
work, but now individual strokes are distinct and gathered in parallel groupings arranged at angles.
In the 1970s he experimented with
crosshatching designs in his painting - after the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)- while in the 1980s he became more autobiographical (Racing Thoughts 1983, Whitney Museum) and also included numerous optical illusions in his
works.
A further development involved the inclusion of designs like polka dots, checkers and
crosshatches, and soon «Top - to - bottoms» -
works spanning the entire height of a subway car - began to appear, as well as scenery and cartoon characters.
In other
works around the gallery, he piles lines atop each other in
crosshatch patterns.