Not exact matches
The great grandfather
of geometric abstract
painting was Piet Mondrian but his
ideas of great simplicity — few colors, fewer lines — have been
expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, even great grandchildren.
The first US solo exhibition
of Guadalajara - based artist Luis Alfonso Villalobos features
painting, video, and installation that opens an inquiry into the functions
of architecture and art, while also
expanding into
ideas of history and place.
For The Relics, her first exhibition in the United States at James Cohan Gallery in June 2013, Zhiying
expanded upon these
ideas debuting large - scale
paintings of decorative and religious relief carvings and intimate portraits
of antique vessels that illuminate the spirit
of the imagery that has endured for hundreds
of years.
While his works do not always conform to the traditional definitions
of painting, their attention to surface, space, color and image provide new and
expanded ways
of thinking about the process and «
idea»
of painting.
This
idea of cosmic consciousness ---- later transformed slightly into concepts like «
expanded consciousness,» at which point, in the late 1960s, it fed into
ideas about the psychedelic and transformative powers
of LSD and other drugs ---- is something that is comprehensible in Fleming's
paintings even if you don't know a thing about theories
of the fourth dimension.
Carving into a
painted MDF surface with a router, Aaron Williams recreates graffiti imagery in photographic sources,
expanding the
idea of mark marking and materials.
Her recent work probes the
idea of geological and cinematic time in the
expanded fields
of painting and architecture.
Towards the Light presents eleven
paintings all created between 2012 - 16 and provides audiences an opportunity to experience the rich vocabulary
of techniques and
ideas that Bowling continues to
expand upon.
Blake often began by making the digital C - prints, which he conceived to be somewhat like
paintings; if the imagery and
idea of one
of these works lent itself as such, he might extrapolate from and
expand on it to begin creating a digital animation, which could range from 3 to 20 minute repeating loops.
Livingston asserts that by abandoning the canvas she is able to push the
idea of painting as a «flexible» medium that can be
expanded upon while still engaging with the traditions that have come before.
The artist often channels this approach with site - specific installation work — vivid large - scale
paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials —
expanding on
ideas of self - reflection and imagined luxury.
Referencing the history
of painting — especially action
painting and abstract expressionism — and drawing on feminism and performance art, Black proposes an
expanded idea of sculpture as primarily an intuitive and sensory encounter with pure materiality.
A new series
of paintings by Tony Bevan RA develops this powerful
idea of infinite information — repeated grids
of bookshelves in acrylic and charcoal appear to
expand into the distance beyond each canvas.
Felipe Pantone who in previous work references multiple aspects
of 3d modeling, Glitch, and motion graphics has now
expanded these concepts to create intense new works based on the
idea of 2
paintings creating a 3d effect through the stereograms.
In these picture series, Czerlitzki is pursuing the
idea of an organic pictorial corpus
expanding in all directions, its component parts — the individual «
paintings» — having an existence
of their own but being premonstrations
of a whole which leaves traditional categories
of oeuvre and (individual) work behind it.
In his quest to transcend the
idea of easel
painting, the pictorial space is enlarged across
expanded canvas fields, on which calligraphic signs reach maximum intensity through minimum resources, reflecting the artist's attempt to reach a square one
of painting through simplicity and emptiness.
The exhibition will be on view in our Chelsea gallery from November 30, 2017 through January 13, 2018 and will feature approximately seven ziggurat
paintings alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that
expand upon the significance
of the ziggurat form in the oeuvre
of General
Idea.
Some
of the larger
paintings of Jackson Pollock, in particular, look almost as if they want to venture beyond their own edges: they are like images whirled out
of the painter's gestures like a centrifuge, inspired perhaps by the
idea of an ever -
expanding universe.