Among them, Lehmann Maupin will show new photographs by Catherine Opie; Cheim & Reid will unveil new large - scale sculptures by Lynda Benglis; at PPOW, Dotty Attie's subversive
gridded narratives painted from photographs are on view; and David Zwirner continues the gallery's 25th anniversary celebration with gallery artists including Annie Albers, Ruth Asawa, Marlene Dumas, Sherrie Levine, Alice Neel, Bridget Riley, and more.
Not exact matches
She builds up layers of acrylic
paint and
narrative content, such as map
grids and abstracted images of war, which she then overlays with mark making using pencil, pen, ink, and more
paint.
About lines and strokes, about
painting paint strokes, telling a story, using the
grid, moving from figure and landscape space, making the work
narrative, isolating strokes, thinking about the anatomy of a
painting... being able to see the process the
painting went through, the ground, pencil lines, paste, gel,
paint.
By treating the words as shapes, den Breejen generates conceptual
narratives and explores a personal take on movements such as minimalism, «action
painting,»
grid and color - field
painting, and hard - edged geometry.
I recognize three themes in your
painting: «strokes and
grids,» which comes out of your love of post-Impressionist
paintings and minimalism, «fields,» which embodies your own unified geography of overall surfaces that yield both to Abstract Expressionism's and Neo-Expressionism's painterly languages and lastly,
narrative or personal history is an ongoing thread that runs throughout your work.
Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning
grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical
narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered
paintings and drawings combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.
Originally starting out as a painter concentrating on
narrative themes, Martin eventually developed her signature influential style of hand -
painted grids on canvas, with muted backgrounds.