Bringing together hard -
edged abstraction with materials like lace and fabric, Schapiro herself continued making work at the forefront of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
After a period of quasi-impressionism in her formative years, by 1960 and approaching her late - twenties, Riley settled into a dynamic style of hard -
edged abstraction with, often, wild optical properties.
Biography: After a period of quasi-impressionism in her formative years, by 1960 and approaching her late - twenties, Riley settled into a dynamic style of hard -
edged abstraction with, often, wild optical properties.
A painting such as «Untitled (CR1403)» (2014) easily takes its place in a lineage of hard -
edged abstraction with roots in Russian constructivism and including painters such as Frederick Hammersley (1919 - 2009) and Ellsworth Kelly.
His diverse painting practice weaves together impulses of minimalism and hard -
edge abstraction with those of the California Light and Space movement, to forge an entirely singular creative vision.
Cain does not limit herself to any style or technique, combining hard -
edge abstractions with loose, gestural strokes, and embellishing her pieces with found objects or craft materials.
Contributed by Julia Gray / Painter Peter Schenck combines hard -
edge abstraction with gestural brushwork and vivid color to create densely patterned scenes that capture a cast of characters caught in awkward moments.
Not exact matches
Yet for the last two years, Tony de los Reyes has been developing a quirky group of
abstractions with exactly that distinctive — and distinctly political —
edge.
Calling up diverse references, from still life vanitas to hard -
edge abstraction, color theory diagrams, and optical illusions, Eaton's work deeply engages
with vision on physiological, technological, and philosophical terms.
«Painterly Pasted Pictures» an exhibition of 20th century painters of collage curated by E. A. Carmean Jr. @ Freedman Art, New York, NY 2013 «Color &
Edge»
with Lauren Olitski Poster and Ann Walsh @ Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 «Extreme Possibilities: New Modernist Paradigms» The Painting Center, NYC, NY curated by Karen Wilkin 2009 «Direct Sculpture: A Dialogue in Polymers», Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 2006 «Greenberg in Syracuse; Then and Now», Company Gallery, ThINC, Syracuse NY 2005 «Studies in
Abstraction: Lauren Olitski, Susan Roth, and Ann Walsh», curated by Wendy S. Evans, Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005 «Rural Artists / Urban Sensibilities», C. W. White Gallery, Portland ME 2003 «The Clement Greenberg Collection», Joe & Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2003 «Clement Greenberg, A Critic's Collection», Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 2001 «The Mirvish Teaching Collection», Agnes Ethrington Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ont.
Richter has pulled off
abstraction, but
with a squeegee, and photorealism, but blurred to the very
edge of legibility, and one hardly knows which to call more emotionally laden or detached.
Color field painters efface the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual
abstraction along
with the actual shape of the canvas, which Frank Stella in particular achieved in unusual ways
with combinations of curved and straight
edges.
Abstraction survived because it did draw back from the
edge — or,
with Rafael Bueno, from flatness.
Associated
with Op Art, Hard -
edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical
Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, Poons has challenged critical expectations throughout his career, transitioning through several distinct phases of work.
Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions
with an emphasis on his later hard
edge and color - based
abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.
This selection of paintings from the 1970s shows a range of Minimalist - inspired experimentations
with abstraction: hazy, striped plexiglas paintings by Thomas Chimes (1921 - 2009), a Day - Glo round -
edged canvas by Ralph Humphrey (1932 - 1990), atmospheric grid - based oil paintings by Warren Rohrer (1927 - 1995), subtly - lined acrylic monochromes by Sean Scully (b. 1945), and a pencil drawing by Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007), are seen in relation to more recent paintings by Lee Ufan (b. 1936) and Pat Steir (b. 1940), who continue to explore the legacies of line and gesture in abstract painting today.
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Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along
with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Hard -
edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, Photorealism and New Realism extended the boundaries of Contemporary Art in the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
One might start
with a newcomer, Airplane, in a frame house on the western
edge, where Andrea Burgay's light - toned
abstraction and Shinya Watanabe's photographs of sunlight competed
with ill - tempered robots from Tim Belknap and Peter Caine.
The term came to refer to the work of artists who playfully flirted
with Op art, Minimalism, and geometric
abstraction with an emphasis on transcendentalist levity, boundary - dissolving luminescence, and — in place of New York Minimalism's hard -
edged industrial materials — an embrace of cutting -
edge space - age fabrication methods.
Sadie Benning and Julia Rommel connect
with the hard -
edge color - field
abstraction of the 1960's, pushing outward against the
edges of the canvas through their innovative use of materials.
The work on view begins, chronologically,
with hard -
edged abstraction, which yields to the more gestural «shimmer» paintings that succeeded it before moving on to the dense, messy (in a charming way) expressiveness of the present (Williams works in New York and Connecticut).
Schapiro's hard -
edge abstractions from this period are mature, confident works
with great graphic impact, and it must be emphasized that the later works for which she's best known, where paint is replaced by or interacts
with collaged textiles, are still highly geometric in their underlying structure; it is the inclusion of textile,
with its gendered connotations, that marks them as a break from her formalist past.
Her painting,
with its hard
edges, shifting planes and saturated hues, is geometric
abstraction in a modernist vein.
In the paintings I've been making in the last five years, the «Scenic
Abstractions,» the attitude of a shape is indicated by its
edges; how well it gets on
with its neighbors and its surrounding environment is knowable by the texture of its borders — if it is rough or refined, feathered, blended, or hard -
edged.
A majority of the works in the show are hard -
edge geometric
abstractions, many of their forms and their relation to pictorial space arrived at
with the help of early computer programming and projection techniques.
After studying
with Hans Hoffman, Blaine would become the youngest member inducted into the American Abstract Artists group in 1944, celebrated for her hard
edge abstractions.
The effortless confluence of art and high - end real estate come together to present a unique group of artworks exhibiting high femme
abstraction with a sophisticated blend of techniques, materials, and color but
with the definitive raw
edge of downtown New York.
In a market moment obsessed
with the often - spurious aesthetic innovations of its youngest artists, Honor Fraser's booth provided a welcome measure of historical perspective, showing paintings by fresh - faced stars (bent canvases by Kaz Oshiro, KAWS's latest
abstractions, a big Sarah Cain) alongside some pretty cutting -
edge compositions that turned out to be by — shocker — a bunch of supposedly tame midcentury names.
His work is associated
with Geometric
abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard - edge painting, Color field painting, Shaped canvas painting, and 3D Compute
abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical
Abstraction, Hard - edge painting, Color field painting, Shaped canvas painting, and 3D Compute
Abstraction, Hard -
edge painting, Color field painting, Shaped canvas painting, and 3D Computer Graphics.
Electric Soup features Krushenick's dynamic paintings that juxtapose bold forms
with hard -
edged abstraction, revealing a body of work that exists independent of and simultaneously connected to Op art, Pop, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field painting.
On the
edge of figuration and
abstraction, Yanai,
with his interplay of colours and forms, accomplishes to elicit placeless and timelessness, allowing the viewer to easily identify himself / herself
with the artist's imagery.
Although the work of Larry Poons is is associated
with Op Art, Hard -
edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical
Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, during the course of years he has developed authentic art practice.
A variety of abstract styles ranging from geometric
abstraction, lyrical
abstraction, hard -
edge painting and color field painting are linked
with the work of Ronald Davis.
When I began to show my work
with David Whitney in 1969, I was painting stained
abstractions, bordered by bands of color painted on the
edges.
But in more recent works Gursky descends from high
abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the
edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted
with rubbish from passing cars.
She painted hard -
edged abstraction in the 1960s,
with some of very first examples of computer - assisted design in painting.
With an insistence on the haptic qualities of the hand - made object, the work included in this exhibition ranges from the imperfections of the loose gesture to the precision of hard -
edge abstraction.
Indeed, the gorgeous «
Edge of Town» (1969) blends the absurdity of Guston's newfound characters
with classical monumentality and the wet - into - wet cross-hatching of his elegant
abstractions, creating a sui generis amalgam of image, mood, and materials.
Inspired by the hard -
edged abstraction of Frank Stella and the shaped supports of Ellsworth Kelly, Parazette builds his paintings meticulously by adding layer upon layer of acrylic until each plane of color is flawless, its
edges accentuated
with precise pin stripes.
With his impeccably poised hard -
edge abstractions, on display at Fredericks & Freiser, Cary Smith does not snipe at the existing borders of Modern painting or endeavor to elevate its political nuance.
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.
In the 1970s, when Caribbean immigrants to New York popularized infectious salsa rhythms thanks to such musicians as Johnny Pacheco, Freddy Rodríguez created dynamic
abstractions edged sharply
with what might be called salsa's «island beat.»
Many of Hofmann's most uninhibited, «loose»
abstractions,
with their soft -
edged patches of intense color and whiplash drawing, appear informed by Kandinsky's dynamic paintings from 1910 — 14 — not surprisingly, since Hofmann owned several intimate Kandinsky works on paper of this type, which his wife brought to America when she joined her husband in 1939.
She started off working in a painterly Abstract Expressionist mode in the»50s, then spent seven years in L.A. before returning to New York, where she quickly hit her stride
with a style of
abstraction that emphasized hard
edges and the emptiness of the canvas.
These silkscreens share a sensibility
with the sculptures of Bayne Peterson, who combines biomorphic
abstraction with layers of hard -
edged geometric patterning.
The exhibition will go back to 1958, opening
with paintings such as «East Broadway» and «Astoria,» sweet
abstractions with fuzzy -
edged stripes of yellow and black.
The pieces are not instantly recognisable as Kelly's — no blocks of bright colour, no linear pivots, none of the hyperchromatic test cards which have marched across gallery walls since Kelly first developed his distinctive brand of
abstraction, sometimes called hard -
edged, sometimes called geometric, sometimes grouped
with minimalism and Pop Art (all terms, incidentally, which Kelly himself rejects).
«CHEMICAL SUBLIME» opened
with a brutally colored, hard -
edge abstraction, Untitled (Sleepiness, Antipsychotic, Pain), 2017.
Since the early 1960s, Richter has explored a variety of styles, including various flavours of
abstraction, from hard
edge stripes to the faux expressionism of squashing paint under glass or dragging it across the canvas
with a squeegee.
Artist, curator and writer, Matthew Deleget has described Hill as being «on the leading
edge of a group of contemporary artists who are working
with new
abstraction, issues of painting, and pushing those in really compelling and interesting new directions, particularly through the filter and through the lens of photography and digital media.»