If you were going to pick an important moment in an artist's career, it could be terrific at 45 East 78th Street in these beautiful rooms, but you couldn't fill a museum with, say, 24 Pollock
drip paintings on paper.
Not exact matches
Drip watercolor
paints onto cotton rounds (little ones will love watching the
paint spread), then assemble into caterpillars
on construction
paper.
[Many thanks to Gary Snyder Fine Art for providing me with the image above and press materials for Janet Sobel at Gary Snyder Project Space:
Drip Paintings and Selected Works
on Paper, running now through February 27, 2010.]
Sound
on Sound will feature three major
paintings and four large scale (6 - foot tall) works
on paper, the latter pitting
dripped or rolled
paint against silk - screened backgrounds.
Her playful acrylic abstractions
on paper focus more
on the geometric patterning of interlocking diagonals, which she breaks up with loosely applied
paint,
dripping through the composition.
The
drips and washes that so vividly recall the liquid state of the
paint as it leaves the brush are most aptly visible in the perfect summer
painting, Pool, which uses four panels of Dura - lar
paper (like vellum)
on which she has drawn more than
painted the delicate tracery of plants, layered over a firm
painting of a pool edged in a blue crosshatch pattern, the most representational moment in the show.
As a symbolic activity of Korean unification, the Klein blue is splashed, dipped,
dripped on top of colorfully
painted images of «Happy Land» themed Styrofoam punch - out
paper toys found in Choco · Pie boxes, which are smuggled into North Korea from the South.
Painted on wax
paper or corrugated cardboard, they tend to contain a simple image --(a core of brush strokes and
paint drips)--
on a plain, coloured ground.
Fusing clear intention and virtuosic improvisation, Bowling called
on his expansive repertoire of techniques to manipulate the surface of his
paintings, whether
on paper or canvas: pouring; staining; scratching; creating layered streams, pools and diffusions of gorgeous colour; interrupting currents with
drips and splashes; scattering chemicals to create mottles and veins.
Saccoccio's work first caught my eye in a 2013 group exhibition called Let's Get Physical, curated by the painter Rick Briggs at Ventana 244 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she showed a grid of four
paintings in gouache and ink
on yupo
paper, dominated by
drips and spatters and networks of bleeding color.
Now, in a sequence of galleries, the DMA's senior curator of contemporary art, Gavin Delahunty, presents a compelling case for the significance of the black
paintings, with portable
drip paintings, the first burst of black works, later ones that were exhibited in solo shows at the galleries of Betty Parsons and Sidney Janis in New York, screen prints, and drawings made
on Japanese mulberry
paper.