In the NY Sun David Cohen writes that the real enigma of Murphy's treatment of the perceived world is that she is «neither hyperrealistic nor impressionistic, nor is she so remote from her own
facture as to achieve — or seem to want to achieve — total verisimilitude.
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Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations
as absorbed into a work's
facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»
More facile interpretations of the latter half of this characterization have positioned Reinhardt
as a proto - Minimalist, citing his pioneering use of many of the movement's shibboleths: modularity, seriality, monochromy, impersonal
facture, etc..
And so despite the substantial number of non temporary three dimensional sculptural objects he's produced - particularly over the last half - dozen years - I've always tended to regard him more
as a maker of scenarios than of things, and his project
as one devoted to performance and its documentation rather than to conventional
facture.
It is not known if Untitled [glossy black painting] was produced
as part of the first or second campaign.8 But the work's
facture resembles that seen in paintings associated with the first group, such
as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Untitled [glossy black four - panel painting](fig. 4), and it explores the ambiguities of «monochrome» in ways that seem more closely tied to the abstract expressionist project than to the later paintings» concern with the degradation of materials, an interest often linked to Rauschenberg's 1953 visit to Alberto Burri's (1915 — 1995) studio in Rome.9
The monumentality of the dour monochrome composition was undermined by wobbly junctures and uneven
facture,
as though Butzer were demonstrating the absurdly arbitrary relation between his application — sometimes heavily impastoed, sometimes thinly glazed — and the static frame of a repeated motif.
Thomas's layered
facture process begins with a photographic portrait that is translated into a collage, and ultimately reenvisioned
as a painting.
The leveling of the definitions of what constituted a composed «picture» to the less determined plane of process was, after all, Pollock's most important legacy to an American preoccupation with
facture, which Donald Judd famously termed
as an art that was «coextensive» with the phenomenal world.
It was only later that I became sufficiently attuned to painting
as a medium to recognise fully the richness and complexity of
facture alone of the encaustic works.
Projects in progress include solo presentations of work by Erwin Redl, Tobias Putrih and MOS, Katy Moran, Joel Morrison, Nathalie Djurberg, and Paul Sietsema,
as well
as a
Facture and Fidelity: Painting, 1945 - 2013, co-organized with Katy Siegel, which will open at the Wexner Center in 2013.
I don't see them
as anti
facture so much
as more linear — which is just
as much a «painterly» quality
as thick or heavy applications of color.
Assonances and dissonances such
as this, occurring at every scale and within every subset of the whole, create an experience so laden with meaning that one is spared dwelling on questions about the work's
facture or the artist's biography or theoretical agenda.
Despite their robust physicality, the absence of traditional gesture, and the sheer uniqueness of their
facture, these works can be discussed in terms of process inasmuch
as the studio is today more than ever a mediated site that informs the reception of painting.
Among his chief concerns is the «scene of production»
as a way of presenting art and highlighting
facture (the process of «making» rather than for example, mimesis or representation of anything but the work itself).
Taaffe's second show with this gallery finds him reasserting his powers of scale, complex Miró and Paleolithic pictographic structure meets Islamic design and alien worlds of floating shape, but
as much
as I adore some of these new works (especially Choir and Glyphic Field), I myself am missing the one last layer of the paperlike auras and palpable
facture of his work from so long ago.
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations
as absorbed into a work's
facture.
Here's what they will tell us: for abstract painting look elsewhere (narrative rules in this biennial); fashion — meets — art doesn't rate; LA, a city whose artistic vitality the curators see
as ascendant, does; slipshod
facture's out; the real world's not, just unwelcome in unmediated, text — based versions; performance figures in the planning; and film and video will «be selected from the point of view of two curators of contemporary art.»
The particulars of Rothko's
facture are
as much a part of the «basic approach»
as the color and configuration.
As the latter continue to expand both in terms of
facture (higher - quality CGI, filming via drones) and how they're nested in the expansive installations he produces with Lizzie Fitch, Trecartin is branching out in other directions: this year, he cocurated the New Museum's Triennial, Surround Audience, which unsurprisingly was filled with artists negotiating the ravages of the digital age.
The choice is dictated to some extent by the fact that Newman worked at times with extreme formats — canvas widths fluctuating between 18 feet and 1 1/2 inches — which defy appropriate reproduction, particularly in this medium,
as does the subtlety of the
facture of his paintings.
You mentioned Sean Scully
as somebody whose work interested you... your works are highly finished yet the
facture is evidenced in a reductive way.
In her mark - making, the lush
facture of her work can be related to vanguard practitioners of 80s abstraction such
as Bill Jensen, David Reed and Mary Heilmann.
The two dimensional paintings, usually on plywood, look like they were
factured on the horizontal, either on the floor or on a table, and the images, in so far
as they are images at all, look less composed than arrived at through operational processes.
Recessions and reliefs appear to shift, calibrated lines dissolve into irregular forms — the viewer alternately perceives physical
facture and optical phenomena
as they approach and retreat from the surface.
During hydraulic
facturing, known
as fracking, large volumes of fluid are pumped underground to pressurize and break rock, thereby releasing trapped natural gas.