Sentences with phrase «history of abstraction»

More broadly, her research considers histories of abstraction in 20th - and 21st - century art, the construction of race, and the violence of the archive.
James Hyde will take part in the group show A brief History of Abstraction at Rønnebæksholm from May 5 until September 2.
It says as much with the exhibition title, which recalls the standard history of abstraction as formalism, as well as the need to make room for women.
Grounded in more ways than one, O'Connell's «Souls» enrich the art history of abstraction by drawing on both high and popular culture, questioning the true and fake, and merging the physical and psychological.
In her review of the exhibition, Roberta Smith wrote «His art deserves a place in the global history of abstraction».
Deininger is one of a new generation of abstract painters, aware of the rich history of abstraction, yet creating complex canvases originating from her sophisticated, knowledgeable and intuitive response to process, imagery, and materials.
Rail: We've also talked about Alma Thomas, and how little people know about the long history of abstraction among African - Americans.
But to tell it, we will have to turn away from the postmodernist obsession with the proclamation of the End of Painting.2 We also need to move away from the period's own «return» of painting in an abstract mode, the 1980s developments variously baptized «neo-geo» or «simulationism,» in which histories of abstraction were programmatically subjected to the strategies of appropriation or the readymade.3
Its chapters are loosely chronological, starting with the rupture of the end of World War II and coming right up to date - they are also telling parallel histories of abstraction and figuration throughout this period.
Her areas of research and teaching interest span the modern Americas, with an emphasis on the art of twentieth - century Cuba and Puerto Rico, the transnational history of abstraction, and the postwar avant - garde.
Though it seems like a didactic display, it also pictures a political history of abstraction.
After seeing a 2008 show at New York's Jewish Museum about the circle of artists orbiting the mid-century critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, Chanzit had the notion to hone in on painters who had been excised from mainstream histories of abstraction.
This exhibition is a reflection on the diverse history of abstraction and the ongoing expansion of painting as a categorical medium.
Taking everyday objects and transforming them with simple rearrangements, da Cunha opens up reflection on their cultural and social connotations while engaging with the local and international histories of abstraction and minimalism.
Both bodies of work address the bifurcated history of abstraction, in which some geometric forms (like those found in painting and sculpture) become canonical, while others (in weavings, in children's educational projects) are considered incidental to art history.
Shirley Goldfarb to be included in Denmark exhibition A Short History of Abstraction, Spring 2018.
Trudy Benson could be running through a brief history of abstraction, as fast as humanly possible.
According to the museum, «Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction
Exploring techniques such as working additively, reductively, and often quite physically in pulp to build line, color and form, these artists build on the rich history of abstraction, allowing the processes unique to handmade paper to push boundaries in their work.
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places the visual vocabularies of these artists in context with one another and within the larger history of abstraction.
Yet over the last decade, she has forged a conceptual link in her work between the histories of abstraction and of modern jazz in America — «black guys in the 1950s taking jazz into the concert hall and making it this bluesy hybrid with Bach,» as she puts it.
In looking at the history of abstraction, through a scholarly approach, McElheny traces some of the essential moments of the past century.
The inaugural exhibition at the Chelsea gallery will present the pairing of Oxidation Paintings by Andy Warhol and Fire Paintings by Yves Klein, two major bodies of work by canonical 20th Century artists and fundamental to the history of abstraction, never before exhibited together.
After a longer look, I may have my doubts, but he forces me to adjust my history of abstraction nonetheless.
The last time MoMA mounted an overview of the history of abstraction (not counting the de Kooning retrospective) was in 2010 — 2011 when Ann Temkin brought us the expansive survey of Abstract Expressionism in New York — the mid century art movement that is largely synonymous with America in general and New York in particular.
Further exhibition highlights include an entire wall filled with photographs documenting the radio towers of Moscow and Berlin by Aleksandr Rodchenko and László Moholy - Nagy amongst others, blow - up archive photographs of iconic exhibitions running through the history of abstraction and a selection of magazines which convey revolutionary ideas in art and society through typography and graphic design.
Two simultaneous exhibitions end posting the history of Abstraction Expressionism open today at Guild Hall Museum.
With over 100 works, this major exhibition will bring together film, photographs, paintings and sculptures to trace the history of abstraction.
He is deeply engaged with the history of abstraction, and many of his own paintings incorporate homages to artistic influences.
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If we lose sight of Stella, and his contribution to the history of abstraction, we may be doomed to a future consisting of a combination of Hans Hofmann and Pierre Soulages, a Druidical impasto fest, accompanied by necromantic invocations of Pissarro and Tintoretto, which goes on forever.
Currently showing at Peres Projects, the Berlin - and Vancouver - based painter produces weavings that draw on the histories of abstraction, Bauhaus textiles, and folk art.
Ironically, this exhibition stands for the history of an abstraction without a history.
His work draws on a history of abstraction, often incorporating complex optical effects into detailed drawings and paintings.
Lined against each other in rows, the endpapers form an elegant, white and grey grid that references the history of abstraction as well as African - American culture.
The influence of those artists is still present in Hancock's work, which he once described as «the merging of comic book narrative with the history of abstraction
The work of Lacasse never ceased to excite connoisseurs of avant - garde Abstract art but to this date his extraordinary contribution to the history of abstraction has not been fully recognises.
«The history of abstraction - especially the storied past of abstraction painted in the 20th century by emotionally fragile white men - is a weight that I will never be able to escape,» he wrote in his statement in the juried art publication New American Paintings.
They are the questions that artists ask as we wrestle with the history of abstraction and as we -LSB-...]
With the renewed curatorial and academic interest in the African American contribution to the history of abstraction, «Mildred Thompson: Resonance, Selected Works from the 1990s,» presented in the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, is a remarkable opportunity to expand this dialogue by celebrating the work of an under - recognized historical figure.
Grappling with the history of abstraction, Frankfort's canvases...
The publication is a study of Abts» paintings and drawings in the context of contemporary art and the history of abstraction.
The inaugural exhibition at the Chelsea gallery will present the pairing of Fire Paintings by Yves Klein and Oxidation Paintings by Andy Warhol, two major bodies of work by canonical 20th Century artists and fundamental to the history of abstraction, never before exhibited together.
The last time MoMA mounted an overview of the history of abstraction...
In objects that navigate and test the assumed boundaries of painting, sculpture, and photography, the three artists actively register the evolving potential of these media, suggesting an open and performative relationship to the history of abstraction and all of its loaded meanings.
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