Works by the three artists in the exhibition utilize materials traditionally associated with crafting rather than the traditionally recognized
artistic fields of painting, sculpture etc..
This visually stunning group show brings together an exciting array of works by international artists practicing within the
expanding field of painting.
His work can be located within the
extended field of painting, ranging from paintings and objects to site specific, multi-media installations often including performances.
[1] To that end, this exhibition explores the expanded
field of painting through a wide range of works in a variety of media (i.e., installation, video, sculpture, and painting) that provide fertile territory for examining the legacy and meaning of painting and painterly practices in contemporary art today.
Bradley's layers of color and
abstract fields of paint feel consistent throughout the show but still experimental with each new painting.
After settling in New York, Kuwayama eschewed both traditional Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism, which dominated contemporary art, and instead experimented with highly reductive painting, producing canvases with brightly
colored fields of paint in horizontal and vertical compositions, such as Untitled: red and blue (1961).
According to Jori Finkel in the NY Times, «When Los Angeles» Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and Chief Curator Gary Garrels started building a collection, they chose to concentrate on drawings, photographs and works on paper, leaving the more
expensive fields of painting and sculpture to play a supporting role... The goal is to be financially... read more... «Ann Philbin at the Hammer Museum collects paper»
Ephemeral,
overlapping fields of paint quietly share in the mystery of their making — Steir's process of painting begins with a controlled act (a chosen color, a decisive gesture), the result is a collaboration with gravity.
These anonymous objects, repeated and set adrift in gestural
monochromatic fields of paint, are placeholders for the whole history of the world, appearing and disappearing on the surface of the paintings.
Due to the rapid revolution of the plates, together with a systematical range of circles the prints contain an irregularly
spreading field of paint, as though the artist's sharp sensitivity is being diffused from within the picture plane to the outside world.
Paintings in which thick,
drab fields of paint are scratched and scraped, interrupted by elongated curling shapes of bars.
In his new body of work, Carl enters the expanded
field of painting utilizing a chemical process called anodizing, as yet a way to relinquish the traditional role of artist as creator.
His latest exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st street consists of very large scale canvases, most of them joined diptychs, that hold large,
textural fields of paint that, seen from a distance, form grass, flowers and fields.
Kuwayama soon developed his own distinctive reductive style, typified by
vivid fields of paint juxtaposed in horizontal and vertical compositions, as well as monochromatic canvases bisected by thin strips of chrome.
In a group of paintings on the CAC's first floor, grids of dots and carefully placed splotches sit among
glowing fields of paint mixed with aluminum powder, giving the works the perceived weight and shine of metal.
Coombs:»... in all of Malevich's suprematist paintings... awkwardness and misalignment seems to activate the
whole field of the painting.
Fontana will be represented by a focused survey of his nearly five - decade career, spanning his earliest Spatial Concepts, in which small canvases evoke immense galaxies through
swirling fields of paint subtly embedded with small stones and broken glass, to his famous Attessi, or cuts, in which the artist has used a sharp knife to literally slice through the canvas surface into another space.
In the exhibition «Ground», James Hyde uses the
flat field of painting as a topological arena that ties together the physical substance of painting and the ground on which it is laid, extracting spatial dimensions and new meanings from this relationship.
In the exhibition catalogue, Fabrice Hergott, director of MAM Paris, describes Lüpertz's incomparable body of work as «crisscrossing
countless fields of painting and sculpture, from mythology to abstraction, from Alice in Wonderland to Poussin and Goya.»
The themes of White's work include athletes and athletics, machismo culture, domesticity, branding and pop culture, which she expresses with photographic images,
layered fields of paint, cutout shapes, letters, text and spray - painted graffiti.
Showing block - like shapes compressed onto a
dense field of paint which grab the attention, they compel you to scrutinise the painting further.
With an aversion to abstract expressionism, Kuwayama produced distilled, richly coloured, discreetly
reflective fields of paint without trace of manual intervention, the focus of the current exhibition at the Mayor Gallery in London.
Zamani's work over the past 20 years can be located within the
extended field of painting, ranging from paintings and objects to site specific, multi-media installations — often including performances.
About This Series Expanding on an expansive subject is a group exhibition that explores the
expanded field of painting through nine artists» investigations into painting's range and potential as a cross-disciplinary medium.
In other pieces, Kim draws the architecture of the space into the
abstract field of the painting, installing two - part works across the corner of a room as with Stanza (dal nulla all «infinito)(2006) and Tension (2008).
So those inkblot works and the large color - field painting, all of which, on some level, are supposed to be absent imagery and with the absence of imagery they're supposed to allow for kinda transcendental experience either in the
color field of a painting that's like the Barnett Newman painting or to be lost in the kind of play of shapes and colors and textures and things in a totally abstract - looking picture.
According to Jori Finkel in the NY Times, «When Los Angeles» Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and Chief Curator Gary Garrels started building a collection, they chose to concentrate on drawings, photographs and works on paper, leaving the more
expensive fields of painting and sculpture to play a supporting role... The goal is to be financially savvy «without sacrificing quality,» said Ms. Philbin, who was previously head of the Drawing Center in New York.
The work occupies
the field of painting / installation with studio process and sit as its subject.
He once recommended that the ideal viewing distance from one of his paintings was eighteen inches, so that the viewer would be subsumed by
the field of the painting itself.
Advancing
the fields of painting, photography, performance, and more, Rauschenberg's work is inextricable from the history of art as a whole.
In the late 1990s, many young artists who felt that
the fields of painting and sculpture were too crowded found a way around this through video and performance work.
Less mentioned, yet equally grand is the production of Markus Lüpertz, who has been active in
the fields of painting, sculpture, poetry, editing, education and piano playing for over fifty years.
There have been some major acquisitions in recent years (notably of sculpture, such as Thomas Banks's portrait bust of Anthony Addington), the Center still being able to acquire at the top end of the market (other than in
the field of paintings).
Initially, the airplanes were not only painted but existed also as three - dimensional models that were mounted on the canvas and thereby, just as their two - dimensional pendants, involved them in
the field of the painted «plane».
This photographic subject matter reflects on another kind of speed or immediacy in image making, and one that deeply impacted
the field of painting.
Martin has regularly paid his respects to cherished artist colleagues from
the fields of painting and music since the mid 1990s: Pop greats as well as those who work at or beyond the boundaries of the zeitgeist.