It has often appeared in debates about photography's status as index or trace, in
exhibitions about abstraction and the use of impoverished materials, and even in discussions of landscape imagery.
Not exact matches
Joan Waltemath talks with Raphael Rubinstein
about the
exhibition Reinventing
Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, a show he curated at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through August 30, 2013.
Andy Parkinson blogs
about the
exhibition Contemporary British
Abstraction at SE9 Container Gallery, Eltham, on view through April 11, 2015.
Haynes is co-curator of an important Alma Thomas
exhibition currently on view at the Studio Museum and is co-editing a comprehensive catalog
about the artist known for her powerful use of color working in
abstraction, which is expected to be published in November.
The framing of a Hans Hofmann and Milton Avery
exhibition is
about one thing, the dazzling affect color has in
abstraction.
The
exhibition features the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions
about figuration and
abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.
So, what is this
exhibition about, it is
about everything and nothing —
abstraction, bullfighting, colour, death, energy, fruit, ghosts....
With a focus on works from the period between their first meeting in 1955 until their separation in 1979, the
exhibition shows how Mitchell and Riopelle, who lived together in Paris, then in Vétheuil in the Seine valley, developed unique but related bodies of work while they were engaging in a vigorous exchange
about abstraction and painting.
Thursday April 16th Hasselknippe will talk
about her work on display from the
exhibition NN - A NN - A NN - A - New Norwegian
Abstraction.
Stated succinctly in a talk given by critic Brooks Adams at the opening of this masterfully executed
exhibition on Madison Avenue, «This show is a proposal
about Post-War
abstraction.»
Abstraction Blog posted
about a new
exhibition at Tate St Ives: The Indiscipline of Painting, subtitled International
Abstraction from the 1960s to Now.
But if we look at Guston's
abstractions done at
about the same time as Carone's paintings in this
exhibition, we see mark making and vestiges of mimetic images jostling for ascendancy.
2010 Art of The Eighties, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin Re-Seeing the Contemporary: Selected from the Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since 1960, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (catalogue); travelled to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Art of the Eighties, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin Color and Form, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Once Removed, The Apartment, Athens Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY VaXiNation, Xippas Gallery, Athens Global Art Show, The Columns, Seoul Track and Traces, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy Abstract Vision 2010, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue) Painting Panel
Exhibition, in conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Conference, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Personal Structures: Time — Space — Existence, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn and Taxis BV: BKV, Bregenz, Austria Pictures
about Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig, Daimler Art Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna España / America: The Redefined
Abstraction, Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid (curated by Demetrio Paparoni)
In Los Angeles, Overduin & Co. presents «Seven Reeds,» a group
exhibition that includes an international cast of five of the most talked
about emerging artists on the planet — including Jacob Kassay, Julia Rommel and Fredrik Vaerslev - each of whom are pushing
abstraction to new places.
Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural
abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey
exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much
about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.
The artists represented in the
exhibition come from all over the U.S., with rooms devoted to groups such as AfriCOBRA, based in Chicago in the late 1960s, or East Coast
Abstraction, which challenged the idea that art had to directly represent Black communities, prompting debate
about Black aesthetics.
Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt explains how the
exhibition came
about: «I had been thinking for a long time
about an
exhibition that began with the idea of
abstraction and the postwar period.
Through dynamic
abstractions and semiotic metaphors, this
exhibition offers a new perspective on the events that surround this crisis in order to insight a larger discussion that gets into motion a curiosity
about these events and human experiences.
Join the
exhibition curator for a talk
about Miyoko Ito's singular and compelling form of
abstraction.
Recent group
exhibitions include «Magic Mountain,» Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA; «Spectra,» San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA; «Lost line,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; «ABCyz,» Launch
Exhibition, Silvershed, New York, NY; «The Trans - Aestheticization of Daily Life,» University of California, Riverside Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA; «Too much love,» Angles Gallery, Curated by Amy Adler, Los Angeles, CA; «Around
About Abstraction,» Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; «Wall Painting,» University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; «Snap Shot,» UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL); «Fresh,» Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, NY; «KOREAMERICAKOREA,» Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; «Rundgang,» Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Hesse, Chicago and Benglis all featured in Susan L. Stoops» 1996
exhibition «More Than Minimal: Feminism and
Abstraction in the»70s», which signalled the returns to be gained from thinking about the use of abstraction to explore gender as both subject and soci
Abstraction in the»70s», which signalled the returns to be gained from thinking
about the use of
abstraction to explore gender as both subject and soci
abstraction to explore gender as both subject and social context.
Guest, Barbara, «Reviews and Previews», Art News (New York), April, volume 53, no. 2, p. 54 Devree, Howard, «
About Art and Artists: Moderate
Abstractions Make a Lively
Exhibition at the City Center Gallery», New York Times, 8 April, p. 25 Newbill, Al, «Fortnight in Review: A Contrasting Trio», Art Digest (New York), 15 April, volume 28, no. 14, p. 20 «Coast - to - Coast: Guggenheim to Show and Buy «Younger» Painters», Art Digest (New York), 1 October, volume 28, no. 1, p. 14 McBride, Henry, «Americans looking east, looking west», Art News (New York), May, volume 53, no. 3, pp.32 - 33 & pp.54 - 56 Devree, Howard, «About Art and Artists: Display of Work by «Younger Americans» Brought Together by J.J. Sweeney», New York Times, 12 May, p. 36 Hunter, Sam, «Guggenheim Sampler: Abstract painting comes of age in a museum exhibition of fifty - four younger Americans», Art Digest (New York), 15 May, volume 28, no. 16, pp. 9 & 31 Devree, Howard, «Americans Today: Selection of Work From East to West Opens at Guggenheim Museum», New York Times, 16 May, section 2, p. 1 - Fremantle, Christopher E, «New York Commentary», Studio (New York), October, volume 148, no. 739, pp. 124 - 126 Arnason, H.H, Reality and Fantasy: 1900 - 1954, catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sweeney, James Johnson, Younger American Painters: A Selection, catalogue, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 61st American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago Goodrich, Lloyd, «Whitney's Battle for U.S. Art», Art News (New York), November, volume 53, no. 7, pp.38 - 40
Exhibition at the City Center Gallery», New York Times, 8 April, p. 25 Newbill, Al, «Fortnight in Review: A Contrasting Trio», Art Digest (New York), 15 April, volume 28, no. 14, p. 20 «Coast - to - Coast: Guggenheim to Show and Buy «Younger» Painters», Art Digest (New York), 1 October, volume 28, no. 1, p. 14 McBride, Henry, «Americans looking east, looking west», Art News (New York), May, volume 53, no. 3, pp.32 - 33 & pp.54 - 56 Devree, Howard, «
About Art and Artists: Display of Work by «Younger Americans» Brought Together by J.J. Sweeney», New York Times, 12 May, p. 36 Hunter, Sam, «Guggenheim Sampler: Abstract painting comes of age in a museum
exhibition of fifty - four younger Americans», Art Digest (New York), 15 May, volume 28, no. 16, pp. 9 & 31 Devree, Howard, «Americans Today: Selection of Work From East to West Opens at Guggenheim Museum», New York Times, 16 May, section 2, p. 1 - Fremantle, Christopher E, «New York Commentary», Studio (New York), October, volume 148, no. 739, pp. 124 - 126 Arnason, H.H, Reality and Fantasy: 1900 - 1954, catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sweeney, James Johnson, Younger American Painters: A Selection, catalogue, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 61st American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago Goodrich, Lloyd, «Whitney's Battle for U.S. Art», Art News (New York), November, volume 53, no. 7, pp.38 - 40
exhibition of fifty - four younger Americans», Art Digest (New York), 15 May, volume 28, no. 16, pp. 9 & 31 Devree, Howard, «Americans Today: Selection of Work From East to West Opens at Guggenheim Museum», New York Times, 16 May, section 2, p. 1 - Fremantle, Christopher E, «New York Commentary», Studio (New York), October, volume 148, no. 739, pp. 124 - 126 Arnason, H.H, Reality and Fantasy: 1900 - 1954, catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sweeney, James Johnson, Younger American Painters: A Selection, catalogue, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 61st American
Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago Goodrich, Lloyd, «Whitney's Battle for U.S. Art», Art News (New York), November, volume 53, no. 7, pp.38 - 40
Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago Goodrich, Lloyd, «Whitney's Battle for U.S. Art», Art News (New York), November, volume 53, no. 7, pp.38 - 40 & 70 - 73
Throughout the
exhibition, McElheny suggests that
abstraction seen through the lens of the body might be a path for returning to a conversation
about the radical hopes and ideals originally associated with this mode of seeing.
The
exhibition uses this series, Wynter's «IMOOS», to think
about how
abstraction can move us.
Somewhere in the
exhibition's development, the title «Reinventing Presence» was changed to the snappier Tightrope Walk — which comes from an observation by Francis Bacon
about his «tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and
abstraction».
THE ORGANIZERS of the elegant Blinky Palermo retrospective at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen wasted no time in announcing their bold, materially focused agenda: At the entrance to the
exhibition, visitors were greeted by a sequence of short videos featuring Palermo, whose own statements
about abstraction introduced, in effect, the daring curatorial program within the galleries.
The new, exciting possibilities, unlimited imagination and creativity of the invited creators are the decisive components of the ABSTRAKT FORUM
exhibition, which is the first in Poland to explore and expose the audience
about abstraction by street artists.
The
exhibition brings together more than 100 works created by more than 20 artists from France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and the United States from the «20s to the «50s, rebalancing the traditional views
about Surrealist sculpture by placing equal emphasis on organic
abstraction which originated in the whimsical reliefs of Jean Arp, and the of found - object assemblage, which originated in the Assisted Readymades of Marcel Duchamp and became a surrealist passion.
The
exhibition is based on a series of inversions and infiltrations: from transposing how the work of art is viewed in a collector's private home into a public space to physically shifting and personalizing the sometimes passive viewing experience of a museum; from recreating aspects of the domestic interior to choosing artworks that speak
about the psychic interior to new works that intentionally blur the relationship between
abstraction and décor.
«Much has been written and many
exhibitions organized
about the most significant artists in Graham's circle, yet surprisingly, despite Graham's close links with so many of these artists in the evolution of American
abstraction, he remains little known,» notes Brian Allen, director of The Addison.
Not to be outdone, MoMA has recently included her in a group
exhibition about female artists and postwar
abstraction, and her gallery, David Zwirner, has published a handsome facsimile edition of a late - period Notebook, eighty - odd pages of neatly penciled triangles and grids on green - tinted graph paper.
On the occasion of her second solo
exhibition in New York, BOMB turned the tables and sent me to Kaneda's Grand Street loft with instructions to quiz her
about painting,
abstraction, and beauty.
While we may speak
about the common factor between these two
exhibitions as being
abstraction or, more precisely, abstract painting, there are some interesting differences between the two.
It seemed that geometric
abstractions were just dandy, so long as you weren't a woman,» writes Simon Hattenstone in his 2016 The Guardian article
about his visit to Herrera's New York studio during her The Whitney
exhibition.
During our visit we talked
about his Dedalus Foundation
exhibition, «The Humanism of
Abstraction,» which also includes work by David Reed and Carrie Moyer.
David Moxon posts
about Zig Zag: deliberations in construction, sequence and colour, on view at Charlie Dutton Gallery, London through July 2, 2011, an «innovative and diverse
exhibition of new developments in
abstraction... These artists have developed an understanding for the possibility of an «internal logic» in their work,» as well as «ideas of «colour interaction» and «colour juxtaposition».»
Besides all the high - end artworks, the special thing
about this
exhibition, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative
Abstraction is the curator, who is responsible for the subject and selection of works.
Lina Alattar's solo
exhibition, Embracing
Abstraction, is part of Hillyer's Art Space Typecast, an all media
exhibition that will showcase artists whose work expresses, explores and questions ideas
about identity.
«I've been thinking
about abstraction alongside many of the artists in the
exhibition for many years,» adds Puleo, «specifically, we've been in conversation
about an idea of what «queer
abstraction» is and can be.
Don't miss, among others, Jessica Dickinson's crudely elegant
abstractions at Altman Siegel... on the same floor at 49 Geary St., Fraenkel Gallery's presentation of «Six New Animations,» ingeniously constructed by Christian Marclay from photographs of the sidewalk on strolls
about town... more video, the best work in an
exhibition by Argentine Mexican performance art master Miguel Angel Rios at Gallery Wendi Norris... «Teresita Fernández: Small American Fires,» burning intensely at Anthony Meier Fine Arts... and the small but museum - class retrospective of the optically challenging, intellectually exciting paintings of Bridget Riley at John Berggruen Gallery.
1994 Possible Things, Bardamu Gallery, New York, USA (Vik Muniz, Curator) Choice, Chance and Irony, Todd Gallery, London; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, England (Greg Hilty and Adrian Searle, Curators) Le Temps D'Un Dessin, Galerie De L'École Des Beaux - Arts, Lorient, France, (Phillippe Briet, Curator) Written / Spoken / Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA Bravin Post Lee, New York, USA Painting, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, USA
About Color, Charles Cowles, New York, USA 8 Rooms for Paiting, Galeri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway (Gertrud Sandquist, Curator) Summer
Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, U.C.L.A. at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller, New York, USA On Paper, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, USA
Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA American Paining Now, Galleries Caterina Fossati, Eva Menzio, Giovanni Rimoldi, Turin, Italy Tutti Questi Mondi, Galleria Carini, Prato, Italy
READ Culture Talk interview with Adrienne Edwards
about «Blackness in
Abstraction»
exhibition
There's now an opportunity for a contemporary art space with a focus on minimalist art to offer Evelyn Reyes a solo
exhibition, not only because she is defined by her minimalism more than her outsiderism, but because she exemplifies ideals of reductive
abstraction while bringing forth essential insight
about its true nature, origins, and purpose as a result of her distinct perspective.
About David Richard Gallery Since its inception the gallery has produced museum quality
exhibitions that feature Post War
abstraction in the US.
They added, «This
exhibition is intended to be a platform to further their visibility, as well as to generate more inclusive conversations
about the history of American
abstraction that consider the accomplishments and contributions of women artists of color going forward.»
The
exhibitions and their ambitious joint catalog present a sometimes perplexing, always fascinating artist who makes us ponder the boundaries between
abstraction and reference, and think hard
about the very nature of painting itself.
The upcoming
exhibition will be all
about abstraction, as Galerie Le Feuvre decided to explore how far non-figurative styles can take you in a 21st century gallery setting.
During our visit we talked
about his Dedalus Foundation
exhibition, «The Humanism of
Abstraction,» which also includes work by... read more... «Studio visit: John Zinsser»
There is a widely accepted view of Jasper Johns's first
exhibition that goes like this: with his «flags,» «targets,» «numerals» and «alphabets,» he integrated representation and
abstraction, as well as made art
about art (the flag, like a painting, is flat and two - dimensional), showing his peers a way to bypass Abstract Expressionism.
In anticipation of the
exhibition's opening in September, artist Terry Winters spoke with Elderfield
about de Kooning and the important lessons of
abstraction still to be gleaned from the painter's transformative work.