In 2001, for example, Thelma Golden brought a group show of emerging African American artists, «Freestyle,» from the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2003 Lynne Cooke curated a show on
the diagrammatic paintings of Alfred Jensen.
The graphic,
diagrammatic paintings of New York — based painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris (born 1967) play with notions of social space and identity through rigorous abstraction.
No exhibition of this scope has happened in Brooklyn since the early 1980s, and «Come Together «dwarfs even them, according to artist and art historian Loren Munk.1
His diagrammatic paintings, which are included in the show, seek to map the New York art community and art history.
Not exact matches
Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of
paintings that tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and
diagrammatic lens.
This is no doubt why — probably causing great inconvenience to the publishers — Steinberg insisted on an «extra page» in his book Other Criteria (2007), a foldout that erupts like a tongue, rupturing the division between inside and outside and showing the eventual series of
paintings that emerged from these drawings as a
diagrammatic grid crisscrossed by multiple points of view.
The «Ten Possible Links» are a series of subtly vibrant and densely layered
paintings that investigate the abstract imagery of Ritchie's sculpture and cinematic landscapes through multiple
diagrammatic and painterly gestures.
The sense of graphic, almost
diagrammatic execution in these works is certainly traceable in the Face
Paintings, in which the dense topography of intersecting lines creates a destabilized sense of depth, playing with the viewer's perception of three - dimensionality.
Rodman often integrates gestural
painting,
diagrammatic drawing, and intense color with sculptural and architectural constructions.
Peter Halley's recent
paintings on paper,
diagrammatic structures of rectangular cell units and linear conduits in day - glow and acrylic
paint depict a social landscape of isolation and connectivity.
Yet even here the depth extends only to two and a half dimensions, like a
diagrammatic expansion of each
painting's layers or a column of shifting screens.
Jensen employs colour as an organizing system within the
diagrammatic structure of his
paintings, creating optical rhythms that allude to a deeper symbolic meaning.
As art critic Natilie Hareen wrote in Art Forum about Monzon's work, «Seemingly all the formal
painting devices from the last fifty years have been brought to bear in Monzon's canvases: the gestural brushstroke; the grid as found compositional device; the chance - determined stain; and the
diagrammatic line.»
The exhibition traces the development of Sillman's work over the past 25 years — from her early use of cartoon figures and a vivacious palette, through to her exploration of the
diagrammatic line, the history of Abstract Expressionism, and a growing concern with the bodily and the erotic dimensions of
paint.
Having established that it was still possible to create an Abstract Expressionist
painting in the 21st century, Sillman began to complicate her own project through the introduction of the
diagrammatic line into her
paintings.
Chicago - born Matt Connors explores the intersection between mimesis and abstraction in the large - scale
painting A New Illusion (2017), whose visual vocabulary evokes modernist processes, but ultimately rejects categorisation, while the
diagrammatic works by Indian artist Goutam Ghosh are inspired by the unspecified common ground occupied by religion, science, and magic.
From Rock founded place we might move to consider a small - scale abstract
painting such as Dreams of no thing, no time (2014), the enigmatically
diagrammatic steel construction Somewhere between Andromeda and Vulpecula: Sky Atlas (2014) or Fourfold sorrows (Jesus you look so sad)(2015), an impressive woven carpet connecting wall to floor.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Opening: Loren Munk, «You Are Here» at Freight + Volume «The
paintings in «You Are Here» are vibrant maps depicting a moment in history, and they tackle the subject of art itself through an historical and
diagrammatic lens.
His tenure at Yale coincided with a radical stylistic shift in his
painting towards
diagrammatic configurations spurred by a renewed interest in geometry and mathematics.
His works resemble the Hard - edge
paintings of Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, and Kenneth Noland, but while the work of those artists may be described as «Abstract», Peter Halley prefers the designation «
Diagrammatic» for his precise, austere arrangements.
Fully demonstrating this shift between two and three dimensional modes, the exhibition combines free - standing and wall - based sculptural assemblage with
diagrammatic drawings and a series of screen - print on leather
paintings.
A pivotal figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism, Jack Tworkov radically shifted his
painting style in the late 1960s, as he moved away from overtly gestural brushstrokes to controlled
diagrammatic abstraction, as seen on SS - 68 # 2 (1968).
The
paintings included in the exhibition are
diagrammatic, and at first appear to be exploded views of reasonable systems, with their meticulously rendered components equally carefully labeled.
Peter's Halley works resemble the Hard - edge
paintings of Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, and Kenneth Noland, but while the work of those artists may be described as «abstract», Peter Halley prefers the designation «
diagrammatic» for his precise, austere arrangements.
Fences, gates, and grills operate simultaneously as objects circumscribing the countryside and geometric patterns charting the canvas surface, and a number of
paintings contain
diagrammatic lines evoking a viewfinder, grid, or in the case of Central, a vanishing point.
Barry Le Va
Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Sculptured Activities (Purple) 1986 dispersion
paint and ink on paper 60 x 60 inches 152.4 x 152.4 cm (BL3240)
The
paintings carry sharp
diagrammatic shapes and moments that isolate and juxtapose certain hues in order to accentuate the sensation that they are dyed or printed.
In 1957, the year he sold a
painting to Henry Luce III, Jensen began employing a checkerboard - like,
diagrammatic composition, a structure that would become the foundation of his work for many years.
As pivotal figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism, Jack Tworkov radically shifted his
painting style in the late 1960s, as he moved away from overtly gestural brushstrokes to controlled
diagrammatic abstraction, as seen on SS - 68 # 2 (1968).
But of course the first experience of the
painting is that it's quite
diagrammatic.