Sentences with phrase «hard edge abstraction»

He extends the vocabulary of geometric and hard edge abstraction through an engagement with sculptural forms and architecture to exploit time and duration in order to create an unfolding contemplative experience for the viewer.
An essay by Dana Miller considers Herrera's New York work of the 1950s through the 1970s, when Herrera was arriving at and perfecting her signature style of hard edge abstraction.
We are proud to exhibit her mixed - media works of unique hard edge abstraction.
Traveling to Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland,... read more... «Karl Benjamin's hard edge abstraction»
Ronay's hand - carved basswood sculptures, while often heavily patterned with dimples, curves and cairn - like stacks, eschew hard edge abstraction for a molecular, spore - like affect coupled with a kind of suggestive figuration in the form of disembodied hands and tongues.
Instead, the exhibition aims to present a vibrant cross-section of contemporary abstraction with a focus on reductive abstraction, new geometry, hard edge abstraction and allusive representation that also links together artists who may divide their time between NYC and the East End or live «local» on the East End year - round.
She also worked as a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration, and spent years experimenting variously with collage, biomorphic abstraction, hard edge abstraction, small - scale works inspired by her Jewish heritage and large - scale works informed by her personal life.
Using the history of abstraction and pop as a readymade, Einarsson here distills a poetics of disruption, shifting between drippy hard edge abstraction, graphic renderings from mainstream sources, and the occasional deployment of the ben - day dot.
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Drawing Room — David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY USA Bernard Jacobson Gallery — New York, New York City, NY USA Bernard Jacobson Gallery — London, London United Kingdom On Edge: Hard Edge Abstraction.
«Lorser Feitelson's Hard Edge Abstraction
Brendan S. Carroll reviews the exhibition Against Nature: Hard Edge Abstraction at Graham Gallery, New York, on view through October 12, 2013.
In 1949 he moved to Paris, where he developed his own version of hard edge abstraction painting.
Hard edge abstraction seemed to be the one to take a look at as it's probably the most ubiquitous and the one that tends to get the most formal.
He was a Los Angeles based artist known strictly in the West Coast art circles as one of, or perhaps the pioneer (unbeknownst to most) of what some critics called «Hard Edge Abstraction
This covered a number of movements, from stain painting (just what it says) to systemic painting (most famously Josef Albers, who reduced his work to a series of coloured squares, one inside another), minimal painting (such as that of Agnes Martin, obituary, January 10) and hard edge abstraction.
JW: My background was first in gestural abstraction, then in a rejection of it and moving onto hard edge abstraction in which gesture is completely suppressed.
After studying with Hans Hoffman, Blaine would become the youngest member inducted into the American Abstract Artists group in 1944, celebrated for her hard edge abstractions.
The first work in the show is a vibrant abstraction by Alma Thomas, next to an equally vividly hued work by Charmion Von Wiegand, two hard edge abstractions, yet of a very different nature and sense of scale.

Not exact matches

March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard - edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting and by a mix of established art writers and artist bloggers.
Opening: Mark Reynolds at Pierogi Geometer Mark Reynolds» first exhibition of drawings reflects the artist's lifelong commitment to «drawing and visually constructing geometries,» according to a release, in the styles of geometric abstraction, hard - edge painting, minimalism, and others.
It is as if the hard - edged geometric abstraction of Ellsworth Kelly has loosened its grip.»
Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.
Her paintings draw on various traditions of abstraction from gestural and geometric, hard - edge styles.
Calling up diverse references, from still life vanitas to hard - edge abstraction, color theory diagrams, and optical illusions, Eaton's work deeply engages with vision on physiological, technological, and philosophical terms.
«Clyfford Still is among the first to develop an expressionist abstraction and not one that's geometric or hard - edged based on cubes or rectangles,» Sobel said.
As its title so aptly demonstrates, the show uses the concept of the line — or more specifically, the hard - edged line — as a starting point in exploring how contemporary artists approach abstraction.
Herrera paints or draws daily even now, and her work has remained an exhilarating example of hard - edged abstraction.
His diverse painting practice weaves together impulses of minimalism and hard - edge abstraction with those of the California Light and Space movement, to forge an entirely singular creative vision.
Writing in a brochure that accompanied a 2004 Drexler survey show in Philadelphia, Robert Storr noted how at times her «formats borrowed from contemporaneous hard - edge abstraction, in particular grid - based divisions of the picture plane that slyly allude to Barnett Newman... as well as Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held.»
A painting such as «Untitled (CR1403)» (2014) easily takes its place in a lineage of hard - edged abstraction with roots in Russian constructivism and including painters such as Frederick Hammersley (1919 - 2009) and Ellsworth Kelly.
On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.
Painting was in her blood, but she diverged from her mother's penchant for hard - edge abstraction, and instead gravitated in the 1950s toward a more informal, intuitive process centered on color relationships and fluid gestures, which she has been developing and refining ever since.
In St. Augustine, I painted an asymmetrical, emotionally intense, abstraction that combined several styles and expressions in one picture; hard edge borders, hard edge lines, stacks of painterly brushed smears, on a deep red field.
Color Field painting is related to Post-painterly abstraction, Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism, Hard - edge painting and Lyrical Aabstraction, Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism, Hard - edge painting and Lyrical AbstractionAbstraction.
Beyond the pioneering Hard - Edge painters, other California - based artists, including Charles Arnoldi, Sam Francis, and Ed Ruscha, continued to experiment and transform abstraction on the West Coast.
A hard edge geometric abstraction by an unknown American artist created around 1960.
Associated with Op Art, Hard - edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, Poons has challenged critical expectations throughout his career, transitioning through several distinct phases of work.
Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.
[33] Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Hard - edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, Photorealism and New Realism extended the boundaries of Contemporary Art in the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
Well, you create a picture that is about as tough and difficult, and against the taste, as you possibly can, like a mustard - colored, hard - edged abstraction.
The term came to refer to the work of artists who playfully flirted with Op art, Minimalism, and geometric abstraction with an emphasis on transcendentalist levity, boundary - dissolving luminescence, and — in place of New York Minimalism's hard - edged industrial materials — an embrace of cutting - edge space - age fabrication methods.
Many artists began moving away from geometric, hard - edge, and minimal styles, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions worked in a loose gestural style.
Held's Alphabet paintings from the early 1960s — large, flatly painted hard - edge abstractions based on letter forms — preceded Schapiro's Ox series by a few years, and his black - and - white series are from 1967 — 69.
In 2014 they set up two exhibition spaces, Art House in Santa Fe and Orange Door in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War Painting and Sculpture (notably color field and hard - edge abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus of this article.
The primary part of the exhibition, upstairs, displays a variety of work from different periods, including a number of significant hard - edge abstractions and works that include collage of patterned textiles.
Sadie Benning and Julia Rommel connect with the hard - edge color - field abstraction of the 1960's, pushing outward against the edges of the canvas through their innovative use of materials.
Artists Lorser Feitelson (Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting, The Late Paintings, and The Kinetic Series: Works from 1916 - 1923), Karl Benjamin (Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950 — 1965, Drawings from 1950 — 1965, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, and Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction) and Helen Lundeberg (Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape, Infinite Distance — Architectural Compositions by Helen Lundeberg) have each been featured in extensive retrospective exhibitions.
The work on view begins, chronologically, with hard - edged abstraction, which yields to the more gestural «shimmer» paintings that succeeded it before moving on to the dense, messy (in a charming way) expressiveness of the present (Williams works in New York and Connecticut).
Schapiro's hard - edge abstractions from this period are mature, confident works with great graphic impact, and it must be emphasized that the later works for which she's best known, where paint is replaced by or interacts with collaged textiles, are still highly geometric in their underlying structure; it is the inclusion of textile, with its gendered connotations, that marks them as a break from her formalist past.
They suggest the austerity of geometric abstraction, but without its hard edges or demands for flatness.
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