Brookes's paintings co-join science and spirituality in
framed shaped canvases.
Not exact matches
I had seen several ways of using buttons to create a
frames canvas for Christmas, so I played around and made this heart
shaped creation.
Jones tacks roughly - cut
canvases over thick, irregularly
shaped wood
frames.
Roughly - cut
canvases are tacked on irregularly
shaped hand - made wood
frames where both the layered plywood edges, usually four inches thick, and staples are deliberately exposed as compositional elements.
One of his strategies is to alter the
shape of his
canvases by carving the edges of his
frames into undulating curves, around which he wraps linen painting surfaces.
In order to brake the barrier of the
frame and allow the
shapes to enter spectator space he allowed certain images to extend beyond the
framing edge in the form of
shaped canvases.
In Un Bárbaro en las Sierras (A Barbarian in the Hills)(2015) Cambre experimented on an unstretched
canvas with a series of squares and rectangles in several colors
framed by bright yellow lines; he translated the arrangement into blue on another square
canvas, then copied the same
shapes, but in different positions and in green, for an outdoor mural in Buenos Aires, before finally rearranging them again for a brown
canvas in yet another configuration.
A more recent series consisted of abstract compositions made of many unpainted
canvases, stretched over irregularly
shaped frames; these monochromatic works employ negative space and geometry to create abstract compositions.
With a career spanning sixty - five years and inclusion in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Zilia Sánchez is known for
shaped canvases made of material stretched over handmade wooden
frames.
Castellani's signature technique is to manipulate the
shape of the
canvas, either by hammering nails into it or by stretching it into various concave and convex
shapes by mounting them on three - dimensional
frames of his own invention.
Textile patterns and gold leaf are incorporated into the compositions, and oval and diamond -
shaped canvases occasionally
frame her figures.
For instance, in his 1983 - 1984 exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, titled
Frame Paintings, the artist used
canvases without centers — creating, as the name of the collection implies — paintings that were
shaped like
frames.
«Paris in Manhattan», 2016
shaped canvas 152 x 62 x 3,5 cm & «Dans la rue, 1», 2016 watercolor on arches paper 22,7 x 31 cm
framed 30 x 38 x 3 cm installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2016
Humphrey's artistic style went through several phases and developments, which can be roughly outlined in the following way: monochromes from 1957 — 60;
frame paintings 1961 — 65;
shaped canvases 1967 — 70; constructed paintings 1971 — 1990.
Such as as his series, Ellipses and
Frames, where he focused on creating works that featured round shapes on canvases that were shaped like f
Frames, where he focused on creating works that featured round
shapes on
canvases that were
shaped like
framesframes.
Paint is built up on the
canvas in textured layers for an unique impasto effect while lines of exposed
canvas frame each
shape for added detail.
For example, in Breaking the
Frame, (P x B) version 01 (1954), a new language is evidenced from the lines dividing the inner and outer rectangular
shapes in the painting that visibly sets them apart on the
canvas.
Ryan Mrozowski sculptural paintings are comprised of individually
shaped and stretched
frames and
canvases.
Acrylic on
shaped canvas with trompe l'oeil
frame.
A variety of
shaped canvases form a «parade on wheels» down the gallery hallway, along with a dozen
framed works on paper.
This idea of a theatrical, eccentrically
shaped space is echoed in a varied series ofTeatrini (1965 - 66) with their characteristic black
frames that create a void around the
canvas.
Helen Frankenthaler, Orange
Shapes in
Frame, 1964; acrylic on
canvas; 94-1/2 x 75-1/4 in.; gift of Placido Arango; 2000.16
Characterized, most saliently, by the wide holes cut into their centers, the spare, donut -
shaped canvases explicitly recall the artist's «Ring Paintings,» 2011, and «
Frame Paintings,» 1983 — 85, and find him continuing the exploration of the fundamental elements of composition — of line,
shape, and color — that he undertook in those series.
Even in its geometric variety, the series shares a cohesive formal language derived from Stella's choice of a single metallic pigment and his methodical application of painted bands that echo the
frame of the
canvas until they reach a central void that also repeats the
shape of the
frame.
In the early 1960s Stella painted a series of progressively more complex variations on the theme of the
frame - determined design and used both metallic - coloured paints and irregularly
shaped canvases to that purpose.
Large oil - on -
canvas pieces, these show latticed rows of light - and dark - grey blobs whose
shapes quasi-repeat as they race across the
frame, their angle modulating from painting to painting.