Sentences with phrase «edge of abstraction»

This small painting explores the sweet spot between the hard edge of abstraction and the leaky nature of paint.

From the 1930s, Avery spent numerous summers in the company of these younger artists and, during the summers of 1957 to 1961, when Avery, Rothko and Gottlieb vacationed together in the popular artists» colony of Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was a significant coda to their reciprocal artistic dialogue, with Avery pushing his images towards the very edges of abstraction.

Sharing a gallery with Haynes, Nene Humphrey takes the tactile, physical edge of abstraction as her subject, but she, too, thrives on the visual.

Stamatelos brings his classical subject matter to the outer edges of abstraction through a series of overlapping imagery and color theory.

Providing unexpected representations of common objects ranging from bird nests to fabric to crumpled photographic paper, West often provides a deeper look at the details of his subjects while pushing their image to the edge of abstraction.

1990 TIME, A Portfolio of Etchings, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Ends of Painting / The Edges of Abstraction, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990 Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Past & Present, RosamundFelsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Eastern Aesthetic, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Her designs still look like calligraphy, too, except for one minor detail: there is no getting around the human beings at the edge of abstraction.

My paintings hover on the edge of abstraction and are more remembered sensations than direct observations of nature.

By pushing the painterly fields to the edge of abstraction, Olivier makes a departure from storytelling of his smaller projections.

Installed on the wall, their tattered edges and patchwork quality appear to hover on the edges of abstraction and figuration.

Teetering on the edge of abstraction and representation, Krieger's lush paintings depict trees that swerve under dense clouds, and rocks, steadfast under hot, yellow skies.

The natural scenery of his paintings presented in Menlo Park conflate the precision of the Old Masters with the spare flatness of Japanese woodblocks and teeter on the edge of abstraction.

Several of her early works show figuration that teeters on the edge of abstraction («March on Washington 1964»), while some large paintings demonstrate the brick - like pattern morph into a mosaic («Cherry Blossom Symphony,» 1973), and then there are her many watercolors that give us insight into her process.

Both engage figuration on the edge of abstraction, encouraging its margins to slip surreptitiously into ambiguous thematic and symbolic unknowns.

The extraordinary versatile painter Rochelle Feinstein hovers at the edge of abstraction, drawing from photographic, text, or other found sources to create lavishly beautiful compositions that tend to surprise.

The standard explanation is that even though he marched to the edge of abstraction, it seems never to have occurred to him to turn his back on the visible world.

Work by Connie Goldman July 5 — September 27, 2009 Edge of Abstraction is a permanent collection exhibition that explores the 20th century's fascination with abstraction.

Edge of Abstraction is a permanent collection exhibition that explores the 20th century's fascination with abstraction.