Even
the mark of abstract painters since 1970 runs less risk.
Not exact matches
The South Coast Repertory Theater's production
of Red, John Logan's Tony Award winning play about
abstract expressionist
painter Mark Rothko, which opened in Costa Mesa...
Tseng has spent a great deal
of time studying works by
abstract painters, exploring in depth both their compositions and their «
mark - making.»
For generations, artists such as
Mark Rothko, Yves Klein and Kazimir Malevich have attempted to locate and convey a certain ethereal quality within a space
of visual absence, one that
abstract painter Peter Halley defined as a «serenity or radiance».
These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator
of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary
abstract painters — including
Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques
of painters from previous eras.
In this tour
of the 2014 Biennial, families will explore the many ways
painters are creating
abstract works today and will try their hand at creating bold, expressive
marks of their own.
While his work bears similarities to that
of American
abstract expressionist
painters such as
Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac»
of Rothko's formalism and the erasure
of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility
of the art - making process and the conception
of a painting as the product
of an individual and a time.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad
of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor
of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master
of painterly materials and
abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like
painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer
of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian
painter of the grotesque
Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master
of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947),
painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father
of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator
Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist
painter
Curator Gary Garrels worked with six
abstract painters —
Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one
of their own recent paintings as well as works by other artists who have influenced their thinking.
One
of the standard - bearers
of the polarizing, hard - to - categorize group
of contemporary
painters that includes such artists as
Mark Grotjahn, Nicole Eisenmann, Richard Aldrich, Josh Smith and Michael Williams, Joe Bradley (born 1975) is widely known for his bright
abstract paintings and glyph - like drawings.
And yet, this American
painter managed to forge his own path and become one
of the most famous
abstract artists, who stood toe - to - toe with titans such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning,
Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman.
Mark Bradford, a leading
abstract painter, was selected to represent the U.S. at the 57th Venice Biennale, in a new commission presented by the Baltimore Museum
of Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in cooperation with the U.S. Department
of State's Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Her work for the Summer Exhibition, where a blue outline snakes across loose brush
marks in greens that recall the shifting light
of a forest canopy, «looks in process and doesn't have a title, and you could think it's in conversation with some
abstract painters.
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still Los Angeles - based
abstract painter Mark Bradford is co-founder
of Art + Practice and currently has an exhibition on view at Hauser and Wirth Gallery in New York.
When British artists saw the first London exhibitions
of American
abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and
Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom
of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size
of the paintings.
Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core
of a group known as the colour field
painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one
of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces
of the
abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings
of Noland and the others
marked out a different and more advanced stage
of art's march to absolute abstraction.
He soon became deeply involved in the avant - garde community around him, founding, along with
painter Mark Rothko, a group
of abstract painters called «The Ten.»
In October, the Portland Art Museum announced plans for its largest expansion since 2005: a $ 50 million project called the Rothko Pavilion in honor
of late
abstract expressionist
painter Mark Rothko, who grew up in Portland and is one
of the most significant American artists
of the past 75 years.
«Yet the absence
of recognizable imagery in his work aligns Mr. Bhavsar more with American traditions
of abstract art, and in particular color field painting; one is reminded variously
of the work
of the American
painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jules Olitski.»
In this exhibition six contemporary
abstract painters —
Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — were asked to select one or two
of their recent paintings to be shown alongside works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development
of their practice.
During the late 1940s she became a member
of The Irascible Eighteen, a group
of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum
of Art's policy towards American painting
of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members
of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette - Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and
Mark Rothko.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized:
Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to
abstract painting as the dominant style
of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock,
Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe:
abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors
of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development
of a rational, universal language
of art - the opposite
of the highly emotional Informel or
Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath
of Pollock's death: the early days
of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth
of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation
of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and
abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts,
Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind
of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
The cryptic
markings on his work are inspired by his memory
of village traditions in Udomi - Uwessan, where an untitled 2015 canvas by Senegalese
painter Soly Cissé offers an
abstract disquisition on urbanity.
In the latest example
of the Nasher Sculpture Center's foray into contemporary art,
Mark Grotjahn Sculpture is the first museum exhibition to focus on a body
of work in this discipline from an artist primarily known as an
abstract painter.
An
abstract painter who up until recently had not used the figurative in his paintings, John Millei is now ready to explore painting built out
of abstract marks that in the end come together to resemble a human head.
It also brings the 50th anniversary
of Movement in Squares (1961), the break - through black and white painting that
marked her out as one
of the world's leading
abstract painters.
Mark Tobey was an American
painter considered a pioneer
of abstract expressionism.
Albert Irvin, the
painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist
of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and
Mark Rothko at a famous Tate exhibition in 1956 he reinvented himself as an exponent
of a dazzlingly vigorous
abstract expressionism, becoming one
of Britain's most respected
abstract artists.
The forthcoming exhibition
marks 30 years since Ayres was elected as an Associate Royal Academician, and over 50 years since she took part in the Art Council's «Situation», a touring exhibition showcasing the YBAs
of the day, including Bridget Riley and Anthony Caro, and which Ayres credits as firmly establishing her reputation as one
of Britain's first and most eminent
abstract painters.
This work is not
abstracted from reality in the way that some
abstract painters start with particular objects or landscapes; rather, Egan refuses to begin with a plan, relying instead on, in his words, «an unconscious recognition
of my surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade
of recognizable but irrational space» in a process that begins with
marks as a record
of «natural movements.»
Strokes and
marks function variously as line and shape recalling the decorative arabesques, patterns and color fields
of Matisse, Bonnard, and Vuillard, as much as they anticipate the work
of nature - based
abstract painters as varied as Bernard Chaet, Gregory Amenoff, Bill Jensen, Terry Winters, and John Walker.
Her paintings are a culmination
of her penchant for life viewed through the lens
of a formally trained
painter and her strive towards absolute consistency in her
mark - making, establishing Leonhardt as one
of today's most exciting
abstract voices.
I had recently seen the exhibition Oranges and Sardines at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, a fantastic show curated by Gary Garrels wherein six contemporary «
abstract painters» â $ «
Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool each curated a room
of work that was deeply influential to them.
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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (COLOUR FIELD PAINTING) Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) Latvian - American abstract painter, co-founder of Colour Field p
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (COLOUR FIELD PAINTING)
Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) Latvian - American
abstract painter, co-founder of Colour Field p
abstract painter, co-founder
of Colour Field painting.
We will be presenting a work on paper by
Mark Rothko from 1957, a suite
of prints from the 1960s pop series by Roy Lichtenstein and a classic black and white work from 1955 by the
abstract painter Franz Kline as well as two early works by Andy Warhol from 1964, one an iconic painting from his Electric Chair series, the other a silkscreen on paper from the Race Riot series.
It became a serial motif for her and linked her practice in New Mexico with that that
of younger New York
abstract painters, such as
Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, who created multiple works around a repeated form.
This exhibition
of works by Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004) from ARTIST ROOMS collection
marks the centre's first collaboration with the collection; bringing works by one
of America's foremost
abstract painters to the city
of Winchester.
Group Exhibitions 2016 Regrouping, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Spaced, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Philadelphia
Painters, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 2015 Summer Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Haunted Summer, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY The Nothing That Is: Chapter 1 DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC (Curated by Bill Thelen and Jason Polan) Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Mark DeLong and Sarah Gamble, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Katherine Bradford and Sarah Gamble, Adams / Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR Listening In: Philly Artists Speak, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Grizzly Grizzly) Begin Where You Are, Crane Arts, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Love's Industrial Park, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY Between Matter and Experience, Presidents Gallery, University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Underdonk Selects, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Reprefantasion:
Abstracting Reality / Representing Fantasy, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Down the Moon, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Group Show: Paintings and Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Love's Industrial Park, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Psychedelphia, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Season Review: Selected Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Assembly 2012, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY First Contact, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY Peep, A Curious Look Into Painting, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Free Range: Painting at the University
of Pennsylvania, University
of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Lee Arnold, Sarah Gamble, Andrew Gbur, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia
Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY Places, Everyone, Cross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Art
of the State, Pennsylvania Museum
of Art, Harrisburg, PA Former AIR, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2008 Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Vision Quest, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2007 Sarah Gamble and Terra Fuller, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY minty, VoxPopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 New Trends in Painting, Concordia University, Seward, NE Omaha Hobo Showbo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Among the preeminent
abstract painters of her generation, Heilmann creates works that are both formally adventurous and richly evocative,
marked by loose brushwork and bold patterning.
January 1: Guston Centenary 2013
marks the centenary
of the birth
of Philip Guston (1913 - 80), one
of the most innovative
abstract expressionist
painters.
He is one
of the youngest
painters of the original group
of abstract expressionist
painters, which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and
Mark Rothko.Read more
Marking the 100th birthday
of print maker and
painter Will Barnet - whose students have included Donald Judd, James Rosenquist,
Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly - Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and
Abstract, 1935 — 1965 features the Amon Carter - owned
abstract painting Self - Portrait (1952 — 53) alongside related drawings being shown for the first time.
Michael Grandage's Tony Award winning Red brings
abstract expressionism to the stage, envisioning a period
of contemplation and transition in American
painter Mark Rothko's (Alfred Molina) career.
One
of the best exemplars is the American
abstract expressionist
painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), who was highly influenced by Oriental culture and religion.
Gottlieb was also a founding member
of «The New York Artist -
Painters,» a group of abstract painters established in 1943 including Mark Rothko, John Graham and George C
Painters,» a group
of abstract painters established in 1943 including Mark Rothko, John Graham and George C
painters established in 1943 including
Mark Rothko, John Graham and George Constant.
Gottlieb was also a founding member
of «The New York Artist
Painters,» a group of abstract painters established in 1943 including Mark Rothko, John Graham and George C
Painters,» a group
of abstract painters established in 1943 including Mark Rothko, John Graham and George C
painters established in 1943 including
Mark Rothko, John Graham and George Constant.
In 1959, influenced by the American
abstract painters Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman Hoyland made a pilgrimage to New York which was to change the course
of his painting style forever.
As part
of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present work by American
abstract painter Roy Newell (1914 - 2006),
marking the first solo exhibition
of the artist's work in the...
Like her husband, the Abstract Expressionist
painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in
abstracting the human form through gestural
mark - making with black lines and the direct application
of pure, unmixed paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.
Raised in California, he studied and taught during the 1940s at the California School
of Fine Arts, where his approach to color and composition was influenced by the
abstract painters Clyfford Still and
Mark Rothko.