Crafting each piece with a variety of tools and paints, including knives, spatulas, paper towels and large brushes, Belag
explores the pictorial space with both meditative purpose and fortuitous movement.
Continuing her interest in the confrontation between nature and culture, the paintings on view
explore the pictorial space, where the physicality of painting and the play with architectural elements, in all senses, become the subject of the picture.The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, September 11 through Sunday, October 16, 2011.
Not exact matches
While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each
pictorial unit to every other
pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the
space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to
explore and personalize what's become natural to
pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.
Many of the artists represented in the collection have
explored drawn formats extensively, questioning its status and conceiving new forms of the dessin: e.g. Trisha Donnelly, who fuses drawing and video; Urs Fischer, who creates drawings in three - dimensional
space; or artists like Raymond Pettibon, Larry Johnson and Mike Kelley, who work with the
pictorial idiom of comics.
His watercolors, gouache, and oil paintings not only
explore and expand the conventions of still - life painting, but also illuminate the relationship between
pictorial space and depicted objects.
«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous
pictorial & interior
spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in
space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of
exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.
Wilmerding
explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the
pictorial space of the canvas.
Another highlight is the triangular Estructura (Structure), 1958, an example of Darié's «estructuras pictóricas» («
pictorial structures»), wherein he
explored notions of the frame and its relation to
space and time.
Timothy Harding's work
explores the fluid relationship between the
pictorial space and the three dimensional realm, between drawing, painting and sculpture.
Similar ornamental motifs are deployed in a several entirely abstract meditations, Crescent Totem, and in two works (Observatory and Muscorum) that revisit the Artificial Paradise series of 2008, a title that references the dark, refined sensuality of Charles Baudelaire and the new frontiers of poetical and
pictorial space explored in his writings.
Timothy Harding's work
explores the fluid relationship between the
pictorial space and the three dimensional realm,
These paintings
explored abstract
pictorial spaces and the associated feelings that they engendered.
After moving to New York City in about that time, he joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists who were
exploring the limits and possibilities of art by experimenting with new techniques and ways of organizing
pictorial space.
Inspired by the contour of a favorite chair from her childhood, in combination with a sand painting she recently found in a garage sale, the sculptures
explore positioning in
space, and real vs. illusory depth, as well as
pictorial language in general.
The American painter Morris Louis (Bernstein; 1912 - 1962)
explored new realms of
pictorial space with his series the Veils, the Unfurleds, and the Stripes.
The exhibition will feature an environment of paintings and sculptures in dialogue with each other,
exploring dimensional and
pictorial space.
Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topographies will
explore the radical experimentation of both artists as they began to utilize unorthodox materials and reject traditional concepts of
pictorial space in search of a direct, physical language.
The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened
space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction,
exploring pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank
space,.
His painting practice plays with, meditates on, and
explores the conventions and contradictions of
pictorial space through gesture, personal allegory and the materiality of paint.