Tightly structured and composed
of hatch marks drawn into dozens of petal - like shapes, nurse Los Angeles artist Jason Yates» abstract paintings seem to be of two minds, cultivating patience, on the one hand, through meditative repetition, while expressing impatience, on the other, with the limitations of their medium.
Tightly structured and composed of
hatch marks drawn into dozens of petal - like shapes, Los Angeles...
He had no detectable pulse or respiration, and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit, 27
hatch marks shy of normal.
For the underskirt, I simply did not have enough of the vintage
green hatch mark fabric.
Others are dense and grounded with
choppy hatched marks that suggest language, highways, or architecture.
«Structures,» a series of ink - on - paper works composed of many fastidiously
executed hatch marks, exemplifies a different, more personal control.
The oldest work in Rotation 1 is from 1975: Jack the Bellboy / A Season in Hell, in which a faceless white head floats amid
painted hatch marks, raised horizontal dashes and blocky gouges.
And, in the adjacent gallery, Jasper Johns, now 87, is represented by over 30 years of his peripatetic late style, from «Between the Clock and the Bed» (1981), with its intimations of a figure and spreading light amid
abstract hatch marks (its identically titled inspiration, by Edvard Munch, is on view at the Met Breuer) to «Regrets» (2013), a large, dark, dense work that circles back toward abstraction.
The paintings and drawings all bear witness to Arboleda's masterful execution of detail through the slow buildup of
small hatch marks.
In Punch Monster (all works cited, 2012), a flurry of
hatch marks in sanguine hues of crimson evokes the dynamism of a
Jenny Cox's marker drawings featured in her Fleisher / Ollman exhibition Like Logs consist of conglomerations of brightly - colored lozenges each containing words and
various hatch marks — refugee text balloons from comics as if they were somehow stolen from their original sources, completely transformed by the artist, and stacked one on top of the other like logs.
His jarring color choices, spontaneous mark making and
scratched hatch marks are the result of his ongoing fascination with the manipulation and implementation of paint.
In a painting from 1947, taut curves and
hatch marks on lighter brown push up against a painting's edge.