Not exact matches
His
large color - field
canvases, made entirely with spray paint,
contain hallucinogenic and elusive visions, hinting at images, which never quite come into focus.
Along with these prominent examples, Still's diminutive visual «notes» also
contain the germ of ideas that would grow into his subsequent
large and daring oils on
canvas.
The Chunk series consists of three, six - foot - square acrylic paintings plus two smaller paintings where
large portions of the
canvas contain black or brown blocky figurative structures accompanied by explosions of straight lines of bright colors with soft round forms capping the ends.
These
large - scale, dark - toned pieces usually
contain ominous, organic voids at their centers and are made from patching together accumulations of shaped
canvases, leather, porcelain curios, wire mesh, conveyer belts and muslin recall nests.
The two - part exhibition
contains a series of paintings on variously shaped
canvases in one room and
large - scale aluminum and steel sculptures in the other.
These
large - scale paintings
contain the essence of North County with «little doors» of marks and color on the
canvas.
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater at Massimo De Carlo is structured as a mini retrospective of Hermann Nitsch's work: the artist is presenting a vast series of his signature
large canvases spanning from the 1980's to more recent work created specifically for the show along with documentation of the history of Nitsch's performances, immersive installations and vitrines
containing objects that are linked to his actions.
A few steps later, you realise that the figure is also facing a long black stage, which is covered with a collection of other creepy objects: an immensely long stuffed man, drooping miserably across a
large, badly painted
canvas of two more nasty figures; a paper human head shape
containing thoughts of a shit - smeared builder, and below, his bared bottom; a gathering of toy babies; a cartoonish painting of a little boy hitting a drum.
Typically, this featured huge
canvases containing large areas of colour which were designed to «envelope» the viewer and engender an emotional reaction.
Luminist paintings - usually elongated rectangles - also tend to
contain large areas of sky, water and land, and are often organized geometrically so that, for instance, specific objects may be carefully aligned with the edges of the
canvas.
Color and gesture are central concerns of this artist, whose works are at once challenging and whimsical, and her current exhibition departs from Grosse's typical method of
large - scale sculptural installation, turning her abstract style instead towards work in which movement and color is tidily
contained to the
canvas instead of imposed onto walls and other three dimensional forms.
The gallery
contains several
large works in addition to a small studio archive behind two temporary walls — giving visitors permission to connect the inner workings of her process with the resulting, public
canvas.
Bailey's new body of work at Betty Cunningham
contains eight still - lives, two
large figurative
canvases, many small single figure studies as well as works on paper.