The title of the exhibition, Strange Variants, refers to how experiencing these paintings as a total group reveals their unique characteristics and catalyzes a deeper visual
experience of the paintings in relation to one another.
I had nothing in between my ears to draw upon, no reservoir of ideas that comes from years
of experience of painting» Following the example of Downes, Hatton started going outdoors to paint — «construction machinery, backhoes and bulldozers.»
Described as «definitely an exhibition to go see», Yau summarizes the work from Chen's «Light Space Intimacy» series as:» [she] likens the viewer's
experience of her painted constructions to «exploring a newly acquired digital device,» but they have much more staying power than that.»
Supported by the Foundation for FutureLondon in partnership with Bow Arts Trust, this imaginative and vibrant exhibition of Weismann's work explores the similarities between the introspective privacy of reading books and the
personal experience of painting practice.
The term «still life» signals the
fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action.
The colors behind the meticulously cut form bounce wildly from the white paint on the wall, hovering in an intermediate space between work and viewer that is so unlike the usual
optical experience of a painting or sculpture.
Her use of wood panel as material support and her frequent grounding of the picture plane in photo - based silk screening, underscore the perceptual, perspectival and
durational experience of painting as an assessment of the larger social, historical, personal and architectural contexts in which her work appears.
This Tuymans - like conceptual imbrication recalls an early statement about the
perceptual experience of his paintings: «Consider the experience of moving from a dark space into one that is brightly lit, or vice versa.
Here, he makes explicit his interest in the sheerly
retinal experience of painting, as one's visual absorption of the image is essentially altered by a small amount of painted color.
La Rocco: So you're waiting on a
certain experience of the painting based on the types of edges to know when the painting is starting to work, but there's a certain margin of error.
In anticipation of Peter Kettle's solo exhibition at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, 14 - 28 January 2017, we took a moment to ask the acclaimed young landscape painter a few questions on his artistic practice and his
recent experience of painting the Oxfordshire landscape:
CA: This notion of the viewer's
experience of your paintings as leading to an «understanding of the precarious state that the idea of balance suggests» really appeals to me.
Here, Tift recalls
the experience of painting Benn - and the friendship that sprang up between artist and sitter.
According to the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C., «His large canvases, typical of his mature style, establish a one - on - one correspondence with the viewer, giving human scale to
the experience of the painting and intensifying the effects of color.
Worked in series, paintings have time to develop through continuity and change; they have their own pace and it is through this that
the experience of the painting is given form.
Drawing on
his experience of the painting medium, he creates formally varied works, which seek to investigate the boundaries of art and space.
Recent work incorporates furniture, textiles, jewelry, and found objects as a way to break up
the experience of painting as a two - dimensional form.
Painting's traditional canvas or wood support both presupposes and facilitates portability, commodity value, and
the experience of painting as private and contemplative — characteristics that do not obtain as readily to immovable, unsalable, public wall works.
To be more specific, I made paintings because on the one hand,
the experience of a painting is local and «present tense», but it is also historical.
You have to see it over time, and you have to see different kinds of works by the same artist, and kind of live with it, live with
the experience of that painting and come back to it until you sort of connect to it
From the beginning of his career, Oehlen set himself the task of exploring the language, structures, and
experiences of painting.
AMCDIs there anything unique about your installation that you feel responds to, or heightens, the viewer's
experience of the paintings?
All landscape painting, all painting, is studio painting if pondered, whether done on site or in inside a sensory deprivation tank for that matter — painting is the expression of
the experience of painting.
She equates
the experience of painting to survival, where the work itself becomes alive.
Hodgkin said that
the experience of painting it was when he realised that his subject would always be memory.
Simply put, the conundrum is that
the experience of the painting has outgrown the small discourse of the studio.
The experience of painting is much more diffuse and complicated, actually disembodied in a strange way.
«Kang's work both complicates how we understand
the experience of painting and acts as a metaphor for how individuals have agency within the political sphere.
As the New York Times reports, he was praised for his «powerful graphic style», and drew on
his experiences of painting images for billboard posters.
I really enjoyed the new Bain - Marie sculptures that sit upstairs — they're witty and the more literal presentation of these items has added a new dimension to
the experience of your paintings.
I had been taken by the simplicity with which Bornowky described her work, but
my experience of the paintings did not match the lucidity I had admired in Bornowsky's text.
The conviction that painting is the expression of
the experience of painting is more potent and urgent then ever.»
He also remarks: «With any activity you need some support and all
the experience of painting is in the past, even if it's as close as last week.