Gisela Colón: Glo - Pods September 13 through December 31, 2015 Flad B Gallery, Youngstown, Ohio Gisela Colón has fused Op Art, Pop Art, and
global art world trends in a dazzling synthesis of elegant, contemporary beauty.
Not exact matches
It would have been interesting to have evaluated the work of the Georgia - based artists in terms of
global trends in abstraction — but that would have been a task for someone far more versed in the contemporary
global art world than I am, since we in Atlanta rarely see more than a few examples of the types of abstraction that dominate
global discourse.
From his observations of the
global art scene, he draws four notable
trends that emerge from the «net effects» of complex communication within the
art world: an East - West cultural retrenchment, Asian growth, the resurgence of the super-wealthy and the lingering incubation of new technologies.
Just by looking at some
global trends, we can notice that in the
art world this is increasingly the case, from the two examples we mentioned in the introduction, with Carmen Herrera selling her first painting at the age of 89, then 81 - year - old Barbara Kasten with her first survey at the ICA in Philadelphia, to Phyllida Barlow, 72, who will represent the UK at the Venice Biennale.
Two particular
trends she has noted this year are
global Pop
art (coinciding with Tate Modern's exhibition The
World Goes Pop) and African American artists.
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