The imagery, built up in thick
layers of oil paint through a process of addition and subtraction, elicits the emotional response of Bosch and Picabia.
Not exact matches
Through his investigational approach, Otero combines the traditional act
of painting with his innovative creation
of «
oil skins,» produced by
layering oil paint on glass and then peeling it off in «sheets» before transferring it to canvas.
Through a process
of applying many translucent
layers of oil paint onto canvases lying on the floor random expressionistic color fields are created sometimes with broken geometric structures floating on the surface.
Through intuitive
layering of castoff furniture,
oil and acrylic
paint, and collaged elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts, and plastic bags, Fowler meticulously constructs hybrid tableaux infused with a sense
of raw urgency.
Images are established
through a rigorous process:
layering ink and acrylic as a foundation, with subsequent
layers of oil paint to transform.
Relying on the thinner quality
of acrylic
paint compared to
oil, Nara creates each
painting by adding and removing pigment until he reaches his desired effect: a canvas made up
of suspended hues that allows the figure to emerge
through layers of color, inviting the viewer to stand still and enter a moment
of contemplation.
Older artists build
painting through layers of oil, corresponding to perception's penetration into nature's depths.
Printing patterns (using Western
oil colors) on top
of the landscape traditionally used in Asian
paintings (using water - based colors) transforms the masculine initial
layer, now seen
through a feminine veil.
Through intuitive
layering of castoff furniture,
oil and acrylic
paint, and collaged elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts,... Read More
While they often resemble large - scale collage, Kim Fisher's systematically
painted canvases are created
through a process
of layering oil on linen.
His
paintings explore richly
layered images and contemporary global issues
through highly experimental, labor intensive techniques with filmstrips, prints, transferred images, pared down
layers of pigment, caustic acid and thin
layers of oil paint.
The works use contemporary military camouflage as the base canvas, imitating and disrupting the underlying patterns with thick
layers of oil paint applied
through an «action
painting», similar to that
of Jackson Pollock.
Dickinson's abstract
paintings are
layered over an extended period
of time
through repeated additive and subtractive procedures with
oil on a plaster like surface.
Most
paintings are underscored by a
layer of graphite upon which she applies
oil paint, which make them radiate a strange light
through which the image gets a sort
of frozen light quality, in a nearly monumental way... they balance between the fictional, the illusion and the reality
of the day dream.
Each
painting consists
of swatches
of oil paint perfectly chosen by color
layered upon
layer, and with tiny
painted out imperfections beneath allowed to flicker
through.
Michael Dowling, You Should Have Seen the Other Guy Mario Zoots, Black Sun K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee Street May 4
through 26 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5, 6 to 9 p.m. K Contemporary pairs Michael Dowling and Mario Zoots for a double helping
of May exhibitions, including
oil portraits by Dowling that demonstrate his fine draftsman's eye and a new series
of minimal,
layered, uncomfortable and tonal
paintings by Zoots in the project space.
SC: In essence, the passage
of time is visually presented within your
paintings through the irregular growth
of the algae, which appears gradually by the intermittent
layering of oil paint.