Not exact matches
A wide variety of approaches to
painting are encouraged for submission, including a range of
painting types, from the most academic to the most
experimental, but all with some relevance to the artists» honest understanding of the
practice of «
painting.»
Each artist combines notions inherent in the
practices of art and architecture, in an
experimental exhibition that includes site - specific installation, sculpture,
painting, photography and video to create five very different and exciting works.
Hoptman notes that their
experimental strategies and systematic distillation of
painting practice eventually resulted in «abstraction's death by a thousand irrelevancies,» leading succeeding generations of painters to repudiate formalism and conclude that the age of content without subject matter was long gone.
Ranging from large - scale
painting to site - specific installation, these commissions spotlight trailblazing artists at different stages of their careers, and reflect the museum's continued commitment to providing an international platform for a wide range of contemporary artists with innovative and
experimental approaches to their
practices.
Vaguely reminiscent of improvised tools or handmade toys, the Elemental Sculptures emerged as the young artist was transitioning from a
practice defined largely by
painting and photography to a more
experimental mode that would culminate in his Combines, an expansive body of works produced primarily in the mid - and late 1950s that bridged the gaps between
painting, sculpture, and collage.
For the past twenty years, artist Laura Owens has pursued an ambitious and
experimental practice that expands
painting's methods and means of presentation.
Sabran's
practice includes
experimental music,
painting, video, performance, and electronic art installations.
By placing these works alongside prints by Peter Doig, with their haunting and mysterious evocation of place, sculptures by Katja Larsson and
painting constructions by Ruth Solomons, whose
practices are both dependent on the
experimental, Digging Deeper not only references links in the intent and the processes between these four artists, it also attempts to offer deeper insights into the seemingly familiar.
Far less gestural than Twombly's writerly
practice, and closer in spirit and form to
experimental poetry and Paul Klee, Novelli's alphabetic
paintings are more likely to evoke maps than graffiti - covered walls.»
The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive
practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of
experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic art.
In his highly
experimental studio
practice, Staniak examines the relationship between
painting and technology.
Students will be introduced to a variety of
experimental techniques and
practices and be encouraged to work to develop their own methods of
painting.
She co-curated Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and
Practice and curated Imageless, the culmination of a research project on the scientific analysis and
experimental laser treatment of a damaged study
painting by Ad Reinhardt.
Despite the fact Martin did her best to seek out and destroy
paintings from the years when she was taking her first steps into abstraction, the exhibition features examples of her
experimental early
practice — such as The Garden from 1958, for which she glued rows of found objects onto a background canvas.
It also addresses his position as a painter working within an international discourse, at a time when contemporary
practice in his chosen media was coming under attack from both conservative forces and from the champions of more
experimental art forms, giving rise to widespread predictions of «the death of
painting».
The exhibition will include a selection of Hurtado's
paintings and works on paper from the 1970s, adding another dimension to the public understanding of her multifaceted and
experimental practice.
His
practice was wide ranging and
experimental, including monochrome, blue
paintings that features his own branded «International Klein Blue» or IKB, a satirical take on the colour fields by Abstract Expressionists.
The works on view present the breadth of contemporary
practice, from physical constructions and monumentally - scaled
painting, to minimal gestures and
experimental film and video.
Linking the
practices of drawing and
experimental painting, the Gallery's presentation of works by the two artists invites viewers to consider formal and metaphorical implications of composition and geometry, control and chance, process and evidence.
The essays documented a range of Vancouver cultural
practices, including the emergence of artist - run centres,
experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture,
painting, art criticism, conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of aboriginal cultures.