Griffin writes: «Most of these paintings are only cursorily representational: they typically consist of one horizontal four - by - eight foot panel, painted dark blue, beneath
another horizontal panel painted a lighter blue.
Not exact matches
Compare, for example, the
horizontal, dripping stroke of brown
paint overlapping the bottom edge of blank cloth at the top of the first
panel and its reiteration in white at an analogous spot in
panel two.
The picture is divided into nine sections — three distinct vertical
panels marked by three
horizontal bands of pictorial activity — and the image is almost quartered by the intersection of the red and white lines of
paint mentioned above.
The black vertical bands and
horizontal stripes in Conversation (named for the Matisse
painting) set up a rhythm and unity strong enough to comfortably admit the small red - orange
panel within it.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Brooklyn painter Emily Berger is a masterful scumbler, dragging brushes of dry
paint across
panels to create scratchy
horizontal bands of color.
Sharon Butler: In your
paintings from the past five years, you've explored repetitive
horizontal brush stroke imagery in which the action of making the stroke, dragging the brush across the
panel, becomes the image itself.
In one work, Dash anchored along this line the
horizontal joint where two indigo -
painted panels abut; the installation strategy emphasized the division between the room's upper and lower segments.
By drawing around each other's bodies on the
horizontal surface, before
painting on the
panels vertically, the work suggests a plurality of abstract embodiment and vibrating temporality.
Most of the
paintings in this exhibition are triptychs on
panel in either the vertical or
horizontal orientation.
Each
painting is built on top of a coat of industrial enamel
paint that Shepherd brushes onto the
panel, in a manner that emphasizes parallel,
horizontal striations that emerge in the field.
In addition to teaching at the Bauhaus and leading the Yale University School of Design, Albers is best known for his Homages to the Square — oil on
panel paintings for which he developed precise arrangements of nested squares of solid colors, centered along the vertical axis but weighed downward along the
horizontal axis.
While I am very familiar with
painting on the conventional rectangle or square I also greatly enjoy the challenges of
painting on different formats whether they are large scale, on long vertical and
horizontal panels, or on circular, fan - shaped and multi-panel compositions.
The show includes a wood
panel covered with black cedar shingles by Aaron Aujla (b. 1986); a vertical monochrome whose surface is marked by circular holes, which turn out to be the insides of plastic caps for cans of spray
paint, by Dylan Bailey (1985); and a ghostly square monochrome whose surface is made from
horizontal rows of strapping tape, translucent but reinforced with white string, by Chris Duncan (b. 1974).
When I make the
paintings, I pour the color onto the
panel, which is
horizontal on the floor, and then I lift it and tilt it so the color flows.
I like the idea of
painted beadboard or wide
horizontal wood
paneling.
If you don't want to use such a dramatic colour on a whole wall, stick up some masking tape and use it as a guide to
paint a large
horizontal panel across one wall.
Beach cottage mudroom features upper walls
painted blue gray and lower walls clad in
horizontal tongue and groove
paneling adorned with row of hooks and heart shaped driftwood suspended over built - in bench with two drawers below accented with oil - rubbed bronze pulls topped with ticking stripe cushions beside a built - in cubbies filled with rolled towels atop subway tiled floors.
I
painted all of the vertical
panels first, and by the time I went to
paint the
horizontal portions, the vertical ones were dry already, so I didn't mess up the
paint on those, which is usually a problem I have with
painting things like doors.