He tried to make a public art
form out of painting.
Not exact matches
While he does show nice
form on his free throws, I'm not sure he'll do well enough from long range to compensate for being
out of position outside the
paint.
The spray -
painted artwork depicts a child holding a spray can
out of which explodes wonder and wildlife in the
form of shocking colors, dinosaurs, and prehistoric birds.
This has always been a great lesson - students do not know that photography is a baby in terms
of art
forms at 200 years old and they are really interested in looking at the images to work
out why these
paintings are so different before and after the invention
of photography.
What Is the What (2006) explored, in novel
form, the ordeals
of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese «lost boy,» and now Eggers chronicles, as nonfiction, the tribulations
of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian American
painting contractor who decides to ride
out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Outside
of that are smaller titles like INKS, which turns pinball into a
form of painting, and KAMI (2013), a puzzle game made
out of origami squares.
She further develops the complexity
of her compositions by adding oil
painted motifs that mimic her original marks, saturating portions
of the fabric with pools
of solid color, and interrupting the surface
of the canvas by cutting
out sections to create mysteriously dark breaks in its
form.»
With this concept in mind, Zenzine was born
out of the desire to show these physical collages and
paintings in an equally tactile but still unassuming
form: a printed zine.
The
forms in her
painting elbowed
out a slight amount
of three - dimensional room around themselves, both spacially and conceptually.
In all
of the works, the articulation
of each
form — whether a
paint - streaked surface or carefully cut
out paper — describes a particular phenomena
of time and motion, while giving concreteness and permanence to fleeting traces
of human action.
greg is especially inspired by the idea
of having multiple windows open on a computer at once: through his process, he cuts
out pieces and uses the computer to draw new
forms, then assembles them into
paintings that act like sculpture.
Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive
forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and
out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in
painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.
Appel's new series
of paintings begin as primary arrangements: cut -
out paper
forms referencing the portholes
of Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicale are combined with Appel's own photographs
of fragments
of his previous works, landscapes, and images
of Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti.
It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Mueller emerged with a distinctive style in which thinned -
out acrylic
paint is used to create soft, glowing, loosely geometric stained grounds (reminiscent
of Rothko's «multiform»
paintings) that Mueller then defaces with pigment - thick gestural
forms that have a Baroque grotesquerie about them.
This marriage
of the abstract and the socio - political is most evident in her third large
painting, «Melting Down,» in which the
forms of the
painting itself seem to be pulled down, constricted to a point
of release that expresses itself in appearing as the
painting's entrails poured
out onto the floor.
The objectness
of the shaped
paintings from this period makes them always more than the working
out of abstracted, biomorphic or geometric
forms on a flat surface, since the
form of the support itself is a biomorphic or geometric abstraction.
See, in Denim Dress, how the tranquil American iconography
of girl - sprawled -
out - in - field jumps the frame when you realise the girl is a boy; and in Junction 2015, how the mythic
forms and long shadows
of the American west are worked into surreal compositions that speak as poignantly
of human longing as has any sculpture or
painting.
And he creates a landscape
painting out of roofer's tar, mopping the viscous black material onto yellow Naugahyde to
form a vibrant sunset.
If a viewer has a working knowledge
of maritime flags or, as in my case, an index
of their meanings, then Mizù's geometric
forms become more than visually pleasing shapes, as the
painting actually spells
out the title
of the work.
That artists continue to pursue the process
of working with spaces outside the bounds
of the classic
painting — «opting
out of the
painting,» as Laszlo Glozer observed about twentieth - century art — shows the explosive force
of this groundbreaking art
form.
In figurative
paintings brimming with crisp, flat
forms and bold outlines (evoking sign
painting as well as the works
of John Wesley), Keogh portrays headless female bodies that have been bisected at the waist, an empty suit
of armor, and flowery vines that weave in and
out of swords.
This drawn -
out process is contrasted with the almost instantaneous character
of other pieces — a sudden splash
of paint across an unprepared canvas —
forming a body
of work that, as a whole, is as lively as it is considered.
Some artists and dealers were tired
of abstraction; they wanted to
paint people and nature, tell stories, or try
out crazy new
forms that had merged in art and theater.
Emerging
out of the booming 1970s Los Angeles art scene, Arnoldi's
paintings are experimentations in color,
form and structure.
I love her work, she must get that all the time: «Oh, there's a penis...» I love it when someone points
out a panda head in the
form of a mountain in one
of my
paintings; it can ruin it for me at times, but when I do see it myself, I usually keep quiet about it!
Neel's
paintings grew
out of the Social Realist concerns
of American Art
of the 1920s and 1930s, during which time she
formed her highly personal brand
of figuration.
As you may already know, Helen Frankenthaler was a pioneer
of another technique called Color Fielding — a
form of non-objective
painting, that allowed for thinned -
out oil or acrylic pigment to be applied, often times poured and spread, directly onto the unprimed canvas.
Had it brought
out the heart
of painting all along, in light and
form?
John is like a magician, transforming gestural sweeps and scribbles
of paint and conjuring
out of them the human
form.
Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland
formed the core
of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one
of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces
of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based
paintings of Noland and the others marked
out a different and more advanced stage
of art's march to absolute abstraction.
One
of the most critically acclaimed artists
of the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett developed a signature grid - based approach to creating monumental modular
paintings — often built
out of graph - paper - gridded steel - and - enamel plates that she would then compose on in enamel — that achieved The Clock - like success in the
form of Rhapsody, a nearly 1,000 - plate piece that debuted at Paula Cooper in 1976.
There is no need to pre-define their characteristics because these reveal themselves innately.The layering
of painterly thought is an art
form that attracts artists who start with an idea and accept that it will not be carried
out as planned because unforeseen changes — some radical, some subtle — will smuggle themselves into the making.Overall, Kahn's
paintings became much more complex.
Her concern is for the component materials from which art, particularly
painting, is made, and her explorations have teased
out the hidden ideological and political repercussions
of those materials and the
forms they take.
This is an exit
out of the picture, but the language
of the
painting forms a ligament to the edifice, connecting the pictorial, conceptual, and physical spaces through the established language
of color and
form in the
painting.
De Staël is the best example
of what I mean; Robert Medley was simplifying
form and moving in and
out of abstraction — he loved Guston's still - life
paintings; Nicholson and Scott were also concerned with that particular balancing act.
Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum
of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017 Women
Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show,
form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside —
Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum
of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life
of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade
of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.
He continued, «Although Aliriza's extremely tactile
paint application can remind one
of the British painter Frank Auerbach, her brushwork is more fluid in the manner
of de Kooning and her
forms have a way
of slipping in and
out of abstraction.»
The diverse drawing,
painting and printmaking
of Nicole Eisenman, on display at Leo Koenig, Inc., offered a welcome variety, as the artist clearly seeks
out whatever
form fits her intent.
When he returned to New York in the 1950s, much
of the work Kelly made, at first, as he found his way more fully into his own language, was in the
form not
of paintings but
of drawings — works on paper in ink, pencil and gouache, which he created as a way
of working
out where he wanted to go on a larger scale.
In Li Trincere's trapezoidal and cruciate
paintings, the simple
forms are enhanced by the rich and glossy surfaces achieved by the application
of multiple coats
of acrylic or sparkly enamel
paint; meanwhile Matthew Deleget's humorously nihilistic single - color
paintings are nearly destroyed by hammering
out the centers, leaving an irregular maw
of colored shards and the wall surface behind the remains.
Charles Hinman drove the concept further by pushing the canvas
out from the wall; his works were a
form of hybrid between
painting and sculpture.
Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline
of art — oil
painting — is back with a vengeance — in the
form of an oil
painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres
of oil — a unique piece
of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew
out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.
Also part
of the show is the tremendous Parrhesia («Freedom
of Speech», 2010), a collection
of seven roughly
painted papier - mâché head - like
forms mounted with spikes on plinths, a haunting reminder
of our democratic duty to speak
out the truth, as we see it.
Mr. de Looper, who worked
out of a studio in his home at the St. Regis Apartments on California Street NW,
painted large, often colorful works that were, in essence, experiments in color,
form and texture.
Nevertheless, Stella has obliterated that
form with this repetitive motion
of these stripes, and this is quite a daring
painting when we compare it to other works that he's exploring at this time, precisely because
of its monochromatic color palette, this overwhelming impression that we get
of him working with a single color, and trying to make a
painting out of that single color.
She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues
of race and representation throughout the history
of traditional figurative
painting: «My work is a
form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute
out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role
of race in the history
of figurative
painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman -
of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»
I later branched
out to
painting and sculpture, and I combine all three together into a richness
of color, texture and
form, a unique and ever - expanding visual tapestry
of mind and consciousness.
Abstracted womb - like
forms open
out beneath a relatively realistic moorland landscape — echoing both mining tunnels and the birth
of Lanyon's first child — the brooding reds and blues given an incised, sculptural quality by the scraping away
of wet
paint with a razor, a technique learned from Nicholson.
Sarmento is well - known for his thickly impastoed, textured
paintings where the
paint field
forms a ground from which he teases
out his imagery in graphite, reversing the traditional basis
of painting.
The doorway - sized canvases, which look
out into the boundless western colored landscapes, create the illusion that we are experiencing the
painting form of the John Ford movie, The Searchers, where the truth sits attainable...