Not exact matches
CLEVELAND - Since the 1980s, Albert Oehlen has routinely
deployed the tree as a programmatic conceit, a rudimentary scheme that has allowed for mischievous invention
within the language of
painting.
Or they make
paintings that look like edgy hard - core abstraction,
deploying fields of black or monochrome
paint; Polke, Richter, or Oehlen — like effects; splashes; all - over composition; switching styles willy - nilly
within works.
The ghost
within the image is accentuated in the three unique works by Nicole Wittenberg that recall a printmaking sensibility by
deploying contrasting painterly approaches to a same appropriated photograph by Paul Outerbridge, which image itself recalls Northern Renaissance
paintings of the mother of mankind with all its implications of temptation and generation.