In the 1970s and 80s he often included geometric forms in his paintings, and sometimes even painted
hardedge geometric works.
Reverberating with Pop art, Drexler's work exceeds the conventions of that category to include technology and politics, crossing
hardedge painting with direct depictions of sex, violence, race, femininity, and masculine power in postwar America.
She has made gestural as well as
hardedge abstractions, word paintings (her Angry Women series of 1973), and representational self - portraits, sometimes using such unconventional supports as rug samples, sandpaper, and canvases folded like accordion books.
Through soft edges, awkward shapes, and curious underpaintings, her paintings resist the authority
of hardedge geometric abstraction.
The onslaught of these
dreamlike hardedge pop works derived from Robert William's successful magazine catering to street artists the world over is enough to make me feel sorry for Artforum, which feels so old and tired, like a hobbled circus elephant, here at ArtPad.
In this current series, I continue to explore the freedom of abstract gestural painting from my early work and which reemerged in my later work, yet in this body of work I combine these images with images from my
mid-career hardedge geometric paintings.
These examples pre-date the
term hardedge abstraction by Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, in 1959 but show an obvious significance to the cannon of art history to come as well as cementing her use of found materials painted black in her works to come.
Originally inspired by the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Neto moved
from hardedge iron sculptures to his signature pendulous nylon sacks filled with aromatic spices, lead, sand, and Styrofoam balls.
Working in surprising materials as such as Plexiglas, plastic, and vinyl, the artist creates
simple hardedge works as well as softer, inflatable sculptures that erode the strict boundaries, the edges between forms.
This exhibition, Selections, offers a chance to
appreciate hardedge geometric abstract painting.
My primary materials, old and used textiles, bring familiarity and softness to
otherwise hardedge abstractions.
Brooklyn, NY — February 19, 2014 —
Through hardedge paintings in acrylic on canvas Jerry Walden investigates the nature of the aesthetic experience by combining Formalist compositional elements of color, line, pattern and direction with personal emotions and memories.
«The work IS hard - edged because the world is
hardedged now,» Mandelman said in Robert Hobbs» book «Beatrice Mandelman ---- Taos Modernist.»
I would describe the paintings as logic -
based hardedge geometric abstractions.
Yegam Art Space presents a solo exhibition
of hardedge geometric abstract painting artist, Soonae Tark, «Selections» from August 10th to September 9th.
At the time New York was fired up by Carnaby Street glamour, pop art,
hardedge, and color block designs.
«Wardlaw has been active in and responsive to the major developments in painting since the appearance of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s to
the hardedge, Color Field and Minimalist painting of the «60s and «70s to the neo-representational art of the 21stcentury; today his art is intensely personal and highly expressive in a very exciting way.»
In «Gosh, I fantasise,» Mueller continues her exploration of the muse through sculptural objects, with an installation that oscillates between the dreamlike and
a hardedge reality
And perhaps this falls not far from the positioning of this exhibition by curator Michael Davidge, in contrast to
the hardedge and hard - bodied hyperrealism of contemporary visual culture.
The paintings reflect on
the hardedge geometric paintings that preceded them.
The way she seals off that bluish - white (almost skim milk - colored) horizontal wipe by
a hardedged midnight blue stroke, though still allows the top portion to evaporate together, emphasizes Belag's skill in paint application.