Sentences with phrase «long history of abstraction»

Rail: We've also talked about Alma Thomas, and how little people know about the long history of abstraction among African - Americans.

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Cardoso's paintings evoke Frank Stella's polygon and protractor paintings, and the white and green monochromatic canvases and light flurried abstractions gesture toward the long history of modern painting.

After a longer look, I may have my doubts, but he forces me to adjust my history of abstraction nonetheless.

In 1960 Stella presented his first series of aluminium paintings at Leo Castelli, causing the first upset in a long history of experiments that saw him tackling minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, and public art.

For a new exhibition opening at Houston's Art League, on view through Jan. 20 and funded by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, Donnett is tying his own work to a long history of vibrant protest movements created by African Americans while slyly referencing geometric abstraction.

The first is that the Modern art historical construction of abstraction (via Clement Greenberg et al) ignored a centuries - long history of abstract and formalist practices from around the world.

Her photography is also influenced and inspired by the work of a long history of photographers, painters and sculptors working in abstraction.

1992 Picturing Paradise: The Rain Forest at Risk, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, USA Summer Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton Art Institute, USA Painting, Self Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction, The William Halsey Gallery, Simons Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Exhibition on view here and simultaneously at two other venues, The Meddin Building and the Gibbes Museum of Art, during the Spoleto Festival) Summer Group Exhibition, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, USA Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, USA Selective Vision, TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, USA Psycho, Kunsthalle, New York, USA (Inaugural exhibition curated by Christian Leigh) Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2/16 — 5/5/92) Twentieth Century Prints of the East End, Renee Fotouhi, East Hampton, NY

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

The paintings situate black resilience and longing within the history of abstraction, when postwar artists such as Barnett Newman sought another way to confront the damage without reinforcing it through representation, lest we «become victim to it» and «believe that is ultimately the truth», as Gates explains.

Best known for his large - scale paintings featuring black figures, defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been «invisible men,» Marshall's interrogation of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th - century American abstraction.

The resulting work is a palimpsest of accumulated personal histories that suggests Ligon's long engagement with Baldwin's essay, as well as a new strategy in his ongoing exploration of the interplay between language and abstraction.

Past that point in history, (of which Fried seemed to indicate was the present of 1963), the overall phenomenon that included the 50 years between Kandinsky and Pollock gave way to a far more pluralistic artistic landscape where the issue of abstraction in painting was no longer a «live issue».