Thus
the gestural elements of the work are less about the intuitive use of paint and more a device concerned with the combining of source material and reference.
Not exact matches
My
work conveys a sensory
element through the process
of layering, adding and erasing,
gestural mark making, scratches, smudges and streaks which allow traces
of history to be revealed until the desired composition emerges.
His paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces
of nature and abstraction, have strong
gestural and textural qualities, intricate layering (with the strongest
elements of each layer coming through into the final
work), and an evocative sense
of color and light that aim to distill something essential from the natural world.
My current show at Honfleur gallery May4 - june 8th consists
of a sculptural installation with sound
elements, a kinetic interactive sculpture, an immersive scent and light object, and several interstitial castings, along with light -
works derived from these castings, mimic and sometimes manipulate viewers» body language by evoking
gestural interactions between bodies.
By the»70s, his ink and gouache compositions, like July 2, 1972, had successfully blended the cutout forms
of Matisse's that inspired his early
work, with his own
gestural lightness, his own way
of infusing lyrical design with white space in a dance
of positive and negative
elements.
This exhibition will reveal Moran's painterly development, from her early and more
gestural paintings to her later
works which, though more structured and detailed, often include added
elements of collage and layering.
But Schnabel's
work always oscillates between reduced,
gestural abstraction and some figurative
elements, and I think you see that through all
of his
works.
In relation to her
work, Stathacos has expained: «My
work combines three - dimensional figurative painting with
elements of gestural drawing, abstract painting, and round -LSB-...]
In the catalogue produced for Lotte Lyon's exhibition in 2010 at the Landesgalerie Linz, Midori Matsui describes the
work as having a strategy
of gestural, metonymical analogy, which connects the artist to an American Minimalist tradition by way
of the performative
elements of Robert Morris, the perceptual
elements of Donald Judd and the associative
elements of Robert Smithson.
These paintings represent a cohesive body
of work by Haessle in which he explores the formal
elements of color and line to create non-objective,
gestural abstractions.
Paintings from the 1950s include such
works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode
of the art
of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a
gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative
elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets
of color.
Whether stemming from musical scores or temperature gradients, her carefully
wrought work combines
elements of gestural chance with highly ordered empiricism.