Approaching photography with the same eye as high art, Erik Madigan Heck's works capture
the essence of painting through the lens of his camera.
The outcome is a cross-section that incorporates everything painting can mean today — while focusing on the innermost
essence of painting through the paradoxical renunciation of color.
Not exact matches
Like all Astons before it, the new Vantage will be offered with a wide range
of customization options
through the brand's Q Division, including multiple choice
of paint (our favorite being the Lime
Essence) and interior trim (i.e. metal, wood, carbon fiber, etc).
A crack
of synesthetic thunder sounded inside me as I felt the cold, hard marble
through my shoes, grasped the lightness
of the canvas by comparison, and came to terms with an artist bypassing Serra's fearsome weight and brawny power; finding
essences between
painting and sculpture, perception and experience, I crossed a delicate line between something I'd never seen before and something I already feared I'd never see again.
Through gestural movement, gravity and
paint, the «
essence»
of these moments is captured and offered as a form
of communication to others.
Scully thrives on struggle, nonetheless, admiring such writers as Joseph Conrad, who creates characters in a heroic search for the
essence of life, and Samuel Beckett, whose dark existentialist view
of life forced Scully to seek meaning and communication
through his
painting.
In these works, Gates makes his decisions based on the procedure
of roofing, not
painting, a process the artist describes as: «borrowing good roofing strategies,
through formal engagement with it, to arrive at
painting or at least to get to the
essence of roofing».
The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements
through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and
essence of painting.
Visually tied by the artist's signature bold forms and dark outlines, the various
paintings also show Bates» continuing interest in capturing the
essence of a place, person, or subject, while working
through questions
of composition and representation.
Through these asperities, Zurier isolates an inkling - call it an «
essence» or not -
of abstract
painting as a discipline capable
of minimizing differences between memories
of life and
of art.
In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies
of female beauty
through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to mask and reveal the individual
essence of her subjects.
The Jimmy O'Neal (M.F.A.
painting, B.F.A. illustration) exhibition «What
Essence Was It, That Time Was
Of» is on view in the Alexander Hall Gallery
through Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
Each
painting is a life - sized impression, taken directly from the male figure, creating a unique mark or symbol, which catalogues and indexes the body, yielding a trace (evidence), figurative language, narrating a way
of being; producing a vocabulary conveyed
through acts that strip popular ideas
of blackness and convey its
essence.
Wright's
paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or color field, have bold colors and compositions, gestural strokes and the
essence of drawing —
through his generous use
of the formal elements
of line and the color black.
Unafraid to face the present head - on, Rae distills the
essence of our era
of mega-cities, phenomenal technological advancement, split - second global communication and mind - blowing virtual reality
through the medium
of acrylic, oil, and sometimes gouache
paints — plus the odd bit
of glitter — employing every imaginable technique, on canvas with a sure and highly original hand.
Both artists are interested in capturing the
essence of place
through paint and explored this theme with their work in this exhibition.
SC: In
essence, the passage
of time is visually presented within your
paintings through the irregular growth
of the algae, which appears gradually by the intermittent layering
of oil
paint.