Oehlen's works are influential to
a generation of painters working today, and this exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme that will draw out some of the strands running through Oehlen's work and their significance for painters from a younger generation.
Oehlen's works are influential to
a generation of painters working today, and this exhibition is accompanied by a public programme that will draw out some of the strands running through Oehlen's work and their significance for painters from a younger generation.
Writing about ayounger
generation of painters working through the legacy of the Intimists, writer and curator Chris Sharp ofLulu in Mexico City raises doubts, «about the feasibility of intimacy, perceiving it less as a fact of life than an ethical mode, won through the increasingly rare act of paying attention.»
The Verus Painters are the new
generation of painters working with a wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century.
Sean Kelly announces From Pre-History to Post-Everything, a group exhibition that presents ancient objects alongside contemporary paintings, providing the opportunity for a visual dialogue between the forms found in ancient cultures and the forms being investigated by today's youngest
generation of painters working with abstraction.
Oehlen is an artist who consistently questions and plays with the conventions of painting and his works are influential to
a generation of painters working today.
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Coinciding with the exhibition Re-Generation, which maps the lasting effect
of Josef Albers teaching on three successive
generations of painters, is a small but exuberant show
of paintings and
works on paper by another teacher
of color theory,
painter Siri Berg.
«
Generations of black abstract
painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history
of African American
painters working in abstraction.
Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision
of the older
generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind
of high - seriousness and obdurate self - belief often found with other
painters working «after the fall.»
On the other hand, though the group
of painters represented here form a tight - knit «
generation» (one constraint
of the show is that all the artists were born between 1939 and 1949), and though the selected
works originate from the same period and place, the
works are aesthetically independent enough to resist any easy categorization according to style or aims... Rubinstein's curation in Reinventing Abstraction proposes something — an idea, a possible history — that may connect with others but which is, nevertheless, its own.
Among a new
generation of abstract
painters who emerged combining color field painting with expressionism, the older
generation also began infusing new elements
of complex space and surface into their
works.
Typically what is referred to as the Second
Generation included
painters and sculptors
of the late fifties, during the heyday
of Abstract Expressionism, whose
work seemed to be directly influenced and inspired by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, or Clyfford Still, or influenced indirectly by Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.
She is no more representative
of her
generation than De Keyser is
of his, but like him she has been a favorite
of fellow
painters, most notably, in her case, Mary Heilmann, whose gloss
of Greenbaum's early
work is worth quoting here, for the sake
of its descriptive energy (which matches the nondescriptive energy
of the paintings) and the way it highlights how Greenbaum's
work has changed: «Joanne seemed to be remembering the atmosphere
of a festive female experience
of the 60s.
Although not always acknowledged, his influence is visible in the
works of a current
generation of painters that includes, Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Sergej Jensen and Oscar Murillo to name but a few.
It will continue with
work by current mid-career
painters as well as recent graduates who will play a central role in the next
generation of American painting.
Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion
of Abstract Expressionism), who wrote
of the virtues
of action painting in his article «American Action
Painters» published in the December 1952 issue
of ARTnews, [3] Greenberg observed another tendency toward all - over color or Color Field in the
works of several
of the so - called «first
generation» Abstract Expressionists.
From the «precursors» who developed Congo's first
works on paper when it was still a Belgian colony to the 1970s «popular
painters» who
worked as sign
painters and created comics, and a new
generation of artists that emerged in the 2000s, this unique show offers an historic overview
of Congo's artistic landscape.
His
work paved the way for a new
generation of figurative
painters, and his absence in the art world will surely be felt.»
Janet's
work is a touchstone
of modern still life paintings, influential for new
generations of painters.
One
of the most iconic figures that emerged from the post-World War II American art, Frank Stella is a
painter and a printmaker whose influential
work is considered to be crucial to the
generations of artists that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism.
Writing about his
work in a 2008 review in The Evening Standard, critic Ben Lewis said, «Nigel Cooke has firmly established himself as the leading British
painter of his (post-Doig)
generation.»
Too late for the scholarly and critical treatment that has been extended to even minor
painters of first -
generation Abstract Expression - ism, Louis has had to wait until now for us to realise how baffled we are by him and how urgent it has become to know the
work better.
The organizer, the American
painter and art dealer William Copley, conceived
of it as an intermedia and intergenerational publication, presenting
works by an impressive array
of artists, both well - known and emerging, including the Dada and Surrealist luminaries Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Meret Oppenheim; Pop artists Richard Hamilton and Roy Lichtenstein; composers Terry Riley and La Monte Young; and an up - and - coming
generation of conceptual and post-studio artists represented by Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman, among others.
I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other
generations of contemporary figurative
painters, who are continuing to do vital
work and are changing with the times.
Antonio Saura was a Spanish artist and writer, one
of the major post-war
painters in the fifties whose
work has marked several
generations of artists.
With what has been describes as a furious and fearless
working process,
painter Karen Schwartz illustrates from an unlikely inspiration combo
of both
generations of German Expressionists and Post-Modern Neo-Expressionists, with a sense
of color and light that recalls the likes
of Matisse.
These are impressively adept paintings with a confident sense
of scale, but they do not have a distinctive character compared to contemporary
works by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, or Joan Mitchell, to reference only the most noted women abstract
painters of Schapiro's
generation.
And they had a different point
of view than the other galleries that existed at the time, and they were particularly interested in the Pictures
Generation [a loose affiliation
of conceptual photographers and
painters who emerged in the mid-70s and appropriated media and advertising in their
work], which by that time had become almost underground.
A Selection
of American Art: Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue) The Kitchen Art Benefit, Curt Marcus & Leo Castelli Galleries, New York Re-Framing Cartoons, Loughelton Gallery, New York Grids, Vrej Baghoonian Gallery, New York Modern Detour / Umweg Moderne: R.M. Fischer, Peter Halley, Laurie Simmons, Wiener Secession, Vienna (catalogue) The Last Decade: American Artists
of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Weitersehen 1980 — 1990, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue) Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Classical Modernism: Six
Generations, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Peter Halley, Annette Lemieux, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Carola Moesh, Berlin 1989 Nonrepresentation: The Show
of the Essay, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York (catalogue); travelled to Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles (curated by Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe, catalogue) Horn
of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue) Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Abstraction in Question, John and Mable Ringling Museum
of Art, Sarasota, FL (catalogue); travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Paula Cooper Gallery, New York A Climate
of Site, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Science — Technology — Abstraction: Art at the End
of the Decade, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (catalogue) Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue) Re-Presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (catalogue) Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American
Painters, Fort Worth Museum
of Art, Fort Worth, TX; travelled to San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC; Artists» Union Hall
of the Tretyakov, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow, USSR; State Picture Gallery
of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR (catalogue) The Silent Baroque, Villa Arenberg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) New Editions, Pace Prints, New York Psychological Abstraction, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue) Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Fréjus, France (catalogue) Wittgenstein: The Play
of the Unsayable, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; travelled to Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels (catalogue) Abstraction — Geometry — Painting, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue) New
Work by Gallery Artists: John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ashley Bickerton, Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Fischli + Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Halley, Barry Le Va, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, Terry Winters, Robert Yarber, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists from New York, Kunstverein, Munich (catalogue) Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Recent Acquisitions, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York
In contrast to many
painters of his
generation, this allusion to pop culture is secondary at most, which adds to the
work's manifold possibilities.
The series began on a high note with artist Chuck Close, one
of the preeminent
painters of his
generation, who discussed his
work and career with Gallery curator Jeffrey Weiss.
In Art in America this month Raphael Rubinstein, after reading issues
of AiA from thirty years ago, considers the fate
of Neo-Expressionism, a movement popular in the 1980s championed by
painters such as Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Markus Lüpertz, and Julian Schnabel that was ultimately overshadowed by the more cerebral
work created by artists like Jenny Holzer, Sherry Levine, and Richard Prince — what we now call «The Pictures
Generation.»
She also played an important role for younger
generations of painters, many
of them being invited to stay and
work with her in Vétheuil.
The Royal Academy show (opening next week) should establish him beyond doubt as one
of the most gifted British artists
of his
generation and one
of the best non-figurative
painters still
working anywhere.
Coinciding with Frieze Masters, the exhibition
of these important series will provide a renewed perspective in which to consider the significance
of the artists» earlier
works and their influence on subsequent
generations of painters and photographers.
When a traveling retrospective
of his
work appeared at the Whitney Museum
of America Art, the influential critic and curator Thomas Hess wrote in Art News that «Bloom at 40 is one
of the outstanding
painters of his
generation.»
Claimed as a Fauvist, a Surrealist, Expressionist, and a Magical Realist, the Spanish
painter and sculptor Joan Miró has had an enormous influence on the
work of several
generations of succeeding artists.
Only a
generation earlier, the
painter Beauford Delaney gained access to the new Whitney Museum
of American Art by
working as a guard and performing odd jobs.
In the NYSun, Maureen Mullarkey reports: «A surprisingly satisfying exhibition that showcases the
work of 11 postwar pilgrims to sites abandoned by the Lost
Generation well before the fall
of... read more... «Postwar occupation: American
painters in Paris»
The Painting Center is pleased to present Re-Generation, a traveling exhibition featuring the
work of three
generations of painter - teachers.
Equally important, however, is his respect for the integrity
of the picture plane in these
works, a respect that stems from his admiration for and emulation
of the
generation of Abstract Expressionist
painters that came before him, including Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still.
Works by the earlier
generation of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and abstract constructivism, influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement
of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field
painters.
At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose
work and life can not be separated from one another — a
painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one
of the most significant
of his
generation.
Although this particular painting is named after a girl that Stella knew, its composition demonstrates his desire to move away from any representational illusion as well as the emotional content found in
works by the preceding
generation of Abstract Expressionist
painters.
We might say that the ambiance
of the
work is muted; this counterpoints the broad self - absorption
of the three best - known
painters of his
generation: Eric Fischl, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel.
Polke's influence on the
generation of painters that first rose to prominence in the 1980s was profound, with his stylistic experimentations and use
of found imagery echoed in the
work of artists as disparate as Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, the late Martin Kippenberger and the Americans Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Richard Prince.
In the 1990s they were joined by the younger Jonathan Forrest, whose
work ranks with the best
painters of his
generation.
Due to her talent and long artistic reign, Frankenthaler influenced
generations of modern
painters with her vital and ever - changing
work [1].