Not exact matches
About the Artist Zhu Jingyi (China, b. 1975) reimagines classic shanshui landscapes in a three - dimensional
format through the application of resin onto canvas and wire to create textured
structures that enliven otherwise flat, ink
painted works.
The collection also includes central works from her photographic series of urban spaces, her poster
paintings and rubbish bins, as well as elements from larger installations, which shows how Kagge concentrates on collecting across time,
formats, media and thematic
structures.
Birks's large
format paintings, which have been compared to topographic maps, are abstract explorations of organic
structures.
Within the square
format of «Maintenant» (1981), which is French for «now,» or the eternal and changing present, a steeple - like
structure rises up from the
painting's bottom edge, slowly distinguishing itself from the gray wall of
paint.
The overall effect they give is of a layered beehive - like
structure; all three
paintings have a rigid
format but, according to the particular character of the deformation effected by compression or stretching, different kinds of movement are suggested.
The repetition of
format, color and materials are set of parameters through which Cullinane explores what constitutes a
painting and coupled with extended improvisation establishes a
structure in which each composition is resolved.
More significantly, Mitchell's
paintings are unusual in their composition: unlike the all - over compositional
format of Pollock, Hartigan, or Krasner, her
paintings are often centralized, suggesting a traditional figure - ground
structure.
The wild array of
structures and
formats take liberties with the medium of
painting in ways that challenge its history and expand its future.
Secondly, and probably more importantly, he was responding to a real, pre-existing space, with its own formal
structure and its own history, and not deciding on an arbitrary
format and size for his
painting surface.
Rhythmic and lyrical, with a combination of pre-ordained
structure and improvisation inspired in part by his love of jazz, the square -
format paintings arrange rectangles of vivid, single colors in a deliberately irregular grid, with the close - fitting, many - hued «bricks» or «tiles» stacked vertically and arrayed in horizontal bands.