Sentences with phrase «fellow abstractionists»

In fact, Diller served as director of the WPA Federal Art Project's New York mural division from 1935 to 1940, overseeing more than 200 public works, providing employment for fellow abstractionists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky and Ilya Bolotowsky.

His personal style was certainly less grandly expressionistic than that of many of his fellow abstractionists, yet he still viewed the brushstroke as essentially autographic — a trace of the soul of the artist.

At Hauser & Wirth, Whitten joins a roster of more than 60, including African African artists Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, and Mark Bradford, a fellow abstractionist.

Not exact matches

Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann.

Fellow African - American abstractionists like the painter's friend Stanley Whitney — who has a show of his wavy grids currently up at the Studio Museum in Harlem — and Jack Whitten — who showed his lush abstract paintings at Alexander Gray Associates in 2013 to raves — are also being rediscovered one by one as personal and painterly alternatives to Identity Art are sought.

March 12: Milton Resnick, 87, New York abstractionist revered by fellow painters for decades of unstinting commitment to paint itself as content.