Not exact matches
Lee Ufan makes his own minimal gesture on an opposite
surface, his multi-layered brushstroke serving as a
mark of time and place, while a new suite of paintings by Stanley Whitney completes this more
lyrical, meditative and philosophical section of the show.
Her ideas about
surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of artists as varied as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery,
Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann, as well as Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern abstraction.
Inspired by painters like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse,
Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and Helen Frankenthaler — all of whom explored the variance of tonality on limited compositional formats — Vecsey creates work that is filled with ideas about arrangement,
lyrical color, perspective, repetition and
surface.
Light brush
marks complement aggressive brush
marks, defining each other with their relative differences; dense, layered, impasto
surfaces lend presence to their flat counterparts; geometric or biomorphic forms are exalted by
lyrical abstract
markings.
Restrained and focused, Pestoni's new works move away from suggestions of figuration and small,
lyrical,
surface marks toward an amplified palette, larger scale and bolder, aggressive forms.
Lee Ufan makes his own minimal gesture on an opposite
surface, his multi-layered brush - stroke serving as a
mark of time and place, while a new suite of paintings by Stanley Whitney completes this more
lyrical, meditative and philosophical section of the show.