We filmed with the artist for over a year to create this nine - minute film, documenting the paintings as they went
from unstretched canvases to completed works installed inside the museum.
Not exact matches
This mini-survey of Kim MacConnel's
unstretched fabric paintings
from the 1970s, and a terrific one
from 2004, is the first of four shows at Salomon this spring collectively titled «American Responses: Pleasure, Reverence, Heart, Home.»
Golub experimented with scale, and the works assembled for this exhibition range in size
from the smaller works on paper to monumental,
unstretched canvases that extended
from floor to ceiling at the Serpentine Gallery.
From a distance, the rarely seen abstractions on unstretched canvas and aluminum from the artist's early career in New York during the 1970s recall aerial maps or stratified rock formati
From a distance, the rarely seen abstractions on
unstretched canvas and aluminum
from the artist's early career in New York during the 1970s recall aerial maps or stratified rock formati
from the artist's early career in New York during the 1970s recall aerial maps or stratified rock formations.
Gretchen Hasse, Character study
from the webcomic Freaks» Progress, housepaint and acrylic on
unstretched canvas, 2014
Artists realized that Jackson Pollock's process — the placing of
unstretched raw canvas on the floor where it could be attacked
from all four sides using artist materials and industrial materials; linear skeins of paint dripped and thrown; drawing, staining, brushing; imagery and non-imagery — essentially took art - making beyond any prior boundary.
Four paintings here feature his trademark stripes, in blue or silver or red or black, spanning the
unstretched canvas and bulging out
from the wall; you can see the creases where he folded the canvas and the punctures where staples held it to his studio wall.
The father of Provisional: Griffa's paintings
from the Sixties and Seventies are all shown
unstretched, often with their fold marks
Artists realized that Jackson Pollock's process — placing
unstretched raw canvas on the floor where it could be attacked
from all four sides using artistic and industrial materials; dripping and throwing linear skeins of paint; drawing, staining, and brushing; using imagery and nonimagery — essentially blasted artmaking beyond any prior boundary.
Unstretched canvas
from the early 1970s has the same play of lightness against weight, much as for Sam Gilliam and Richard Tuttle.
From 1967 to 1973, Thornton Willis worked on a series of paintings now called his «Slat Series» involving a «wet on wet» process working on the floor on large wet
unstretched canvas and using rollers with long extension handles to develop striped bands across the entire picture plane.
They realized Pollock's process — working on the floor,
unstretched raw canvas,
from all four sides, using artist materials, industrial materials, imagery, non-imagery, throwing linear skeins of paint, dripping, drawing, staining, brushing - blasted artmaking beyond prior boundaries.
Then again, Freedman Fitzpatrick had no trouble selling works on
unstretched canvas that resulted
from performances by Mathew Lutz - Kinoy.
Roberta Smith on Pierre Bonnard at the Met: «Working simultaneously on several
unstretched canvases tacked directly to the wall, he painted largely
from memory with the help of quick sketches and watercolors, burnishing his motifs until they approached incandescence.
My guess: the punctures were made when the canvas was
unstretched while being flipped
from back to front.)
It's been far too long since New York has seen these paintings
from the seventies, on
unstretched, irregularly sliced canvas.
These are followed by paintings
from the late 1980s and early 1990s made in Chicago, where Marshall lives and works and developed a signature practice of painting in acrylic on the collaged surfaces of large
unstretched canvases.
Complex underlying structures caused the canvases to bulge or reach out along the wall or into the room; a sequence of 12, gradually changing forms was based on the pages of a calendar
from which successive pages had been torn; and finally, in work
from 1972, the architectonic quality of the paintings was discarded in his Kite Paintings, in which
unstretched, painted canvases were suspended
from rods and interrupted by cords and threads hanging off and passing through them.
My most recent encounter with his works was during his two simultaneous exhibits: Works: 1968 — 1977 (Petzel, March 2 — April 29) consisting of the artist's early
unstretched, pieced - together canvases and paper works made of unconventional materials in serial forms; and Lost Objects (curated by Piper Marshall at Mary Boone Gallery, March 4 — April 29), which features his installation of a smaller reconfiguration of 240 of the 750 cast concrete bone replicas
from the fossil collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (1991) along with a cooperative video work May I Help You?
Pollock's unconventional methods — dripping, flinging and throwing paint onto an
unstretched canvas on the floor — symbolized the degree to which artists could feel free to deviate
from traditional approaches.
Griffa paints on
unstretched, unprimed canvas employing symbolism and signage that always move
from left to right.
While her pouring process invites comparisons to Jackson Pollock, rather than laying her canvases on the floor, Steir paints
from a ladder and works directly on
unstretched canvas tacked to the studio wall.
This exhibition, The Human Stain (quoting the title
from the Philip Roth novel), is comprised of a series of works on paper and
unstretched canvas by Karen Schwartz.