In Brody's Glory Hole paintings (2008 - 2013), plaster grounds are crossed with intricate,
irregular grids painted in black or white, recalling the spiritual abstraction of Agnes Martin.
Not exact matches
Trevor Sutton's beautiful
paintings here are separated in time by twenty years, Rue Jacob, a circular
painting with a central two tone
irregular hexad shape situated within a field of fluctuating brown / grey hues, being
painted in 1992, and Raindance, a vertical rectangular
grid with four columns and sixteen rows in reds, pinks, greys, browns and blacks, having been
painted only last year.
The boards, padlocks, and peeling remainders of
paint all belong to that
irregular but firm
grid.
Here were these
irregular grids, beautiful browns as sensuous as the encaustic
paintings with these inscriptions, which were to me, very much about the body, about one's reach; whereas the others deny you any access to making, except for the band or the spatula mark.
Stella departed from the
grid with his last
paintings to exhibit an unquestioned formalism, the
Irregular Polygons of 1965 and 1966.
«Billboard» (1957), with its large gestures and thick
paint, organizes a roiling Abstract Expressionist composition into an
irregular grid of color patches enclosing figures, faces, fruit and hints of objects alive somewhere in the depths of
paint.
There is a distinctive
grid,
irregular and rounded, that appears when you tilt a canvas with a dripping swath of
paint on it along one axis and then across it... The other form taken is the hidden pour, in which the force of the falling
paint removes evidence of the human hand from the application, leaving the viewer to wonder how the shapes got there.»
At that
painting's center is an
irregular grid that looks something like a picked - over box of chocolates.
In the ensuing 18 years she produced the body of work for which she would be justly celebrated, a stream of vividly colorful
paintings made of loosely applied patches configured in
irregular grids and concentric circles.
Through a controlled
painting process, she turns portraits or still lifes into graphic schemes, applying a «skin» of
irregular pattern — herringbone, fluid
grids, or polka dots — in contrasting or complementary colors.
The show's most beautiful image is a form of continuity unto itself: a wall of Mondrian's New York studio, where
paintings, shelves and tacked - up squares of color form an
irregular grid of grays so subtly modulated they might as well be colored.
During the ensuing 18 years — despite acute arthritis — she produced the body of work for which she would be justly celebrated, a stream of vividly colorful
paintings made of loosely applied patches configured in
irregular grids and concentric circles.
In another, «205,»
irregular rectangles of wood crowd into the edges of a bi-color
painted grid.
Today, any viewer of Stanley Whitney's
paintings is immediately attracted to the magnetism of his
irregular grids in vibrant, saturated hues.
Stanley Whitney created a
painting using his signature compositional approach of loosely
gridding square - like shapes marked off into
irregular proportions by horizontal ribbons.
Rhythmic and lyrical, with a combination of pre-ordained structure and improvisation inspired in part by his love of jazz, the square - format
paintings arrange rectangles of vivid, single colors in a deliberately
irregular grid, with the close - fitting, many - hued «bricks» or «tiles» stacked vertically and arrayed in horizontal bands.