Long a favorite subject
matter for painters, urban landscapes can vary greatly depending upon the subject's geographical location, the lighting featured in a work, and how much movement is depicted.
Not exact matches
That's the conundrum that consumes a Rashomon - like narrative whereby the postmaster's son Armand (a notably full - lipped Douglas Booth) sets out to settle the
matter of the
painter's premature death at age 37 once and
for all.
This is a pure
matter of geometry, which you can verify by using a device of the
painters for measuring the picture size of an object: Take a pencil in your fist, hold it at arm's length, and mark off on it with your thumb so much space as is necessary to cover the object.
I've been struck by the fact that contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and
for that
matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch
painters) than they know about contemporary painting.
«When I saw Lawren Harris (who lived from 1885 to 1970) I actually mistook him
for a Rockwell Kent, an American
painter of the same era and same subject
matter.
Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative
painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the
painters «find everything to be a
matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue
for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
In her delightful essay, «Why Abstract Painting Still
Matters,» Laurie Fendrich asserts that «abstract
painters ought to celebrate loudly, rather than apologize
for, the convention - bound nature of their artwork.»
Paul returned to this stretch of coastline to make studies
for paintings that highlight the
painter's challenge not only to capture specific states of
matter — water and air — but to attempt to capture the moment.
The optimistic, romantic, psychological and personal nature of their works leads to the realization that these are not Formalist or
for that
matter Colorfield
painters.
Figurative
painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant
for American style and subject
matter has persisted
for twenty years.
Art Basel Miami Beach, with GAVLAK Los Angeles / Palm Beach, Miami, FL (catalogue) Ten Year Anniversary Show, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA Re (a) d, curated by Ryan Steadman, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY The Valentine's Day Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Puente, KINMAN, London, UK 2014 The Go Between: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak booth, Miami Beach, FL 100
Painters of Tomorrow: New York Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA The Armory Show, Gavlak Booth, Pier 94, New York NY Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue) 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak Booth, Miami Beach, FL (catalogue) This is the Story of America, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy Rema Hort Mann Foundation LA Arts Initiative Auction, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Acid Summer, Curated by Matthew Craven, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Whitney Museum Art Party Benefit Auction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY MiArt2013, Gavlak Booth, Milan, Italy The Armory Show, Focus: USA, Gavlak Booth # 908, New York, NY (catalogue) Art Rotterdam, Office Baroque Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands My Echo, My Shadow, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL 39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) 239 Days, School of Visual Arts MFA Alumni Show, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY 2012 News From Chicago and New York City, Curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, Germany Time, After Time, Curated by ARTNESIA, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) SUNY New Paltz Alumni Show, Dosky Projects, Long Island City, NY What's the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY It's a Small, Small World, Curated by Marilyn Minter and Organized by Hennessy Youngman, Family Business, New York, NY The Virgins Show, Curated by Marilyn Minter, Family Business, New York, NY Just the Tip, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Organized in Collaboration with Mike Egan, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 2011 MFA Fine Arts Fall Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Sentimental Education, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Things Fall Apart, Curated by Asya Geisberg, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Means, Curated by Richard Brooks, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY MFA Fine Arts Spring Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Celebrating 15 Years: Young Artists at Heckscher, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY College Art Association New York MFA Exhibition, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York, NY Vuu Collective W / S 2011 Show, K&K Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 MFA Fine Arts Winter Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Emerge to be Seen, Westside Gallery, New York, NY Marks That
Matter, Juried by Gillian Jagger, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY The New, Art (That
Matters), Oyster Bay, NY New York Art & Culture Exhibition Series, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 2009 No Girls Allowed: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Best of Show: 2009 Best of SUNY Exhibition, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 2008 Crit 3: Work from Students and Alumni of SUNY New Paltz, Curated by Kathy Goodell, Spencertown Art Gallery, Spencertown, NY Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Three, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY SPECIAL PROJECTS 2013 Shinola x Andrew Brischler, Installation & Capsule Collection, Tribeca Flagship Store, New York, NY Converse Footwear
for Publicolor, organized by Grey Area COLLECTIONS Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation
for the Arts
Oil
Painters of America and McBride Gallery will not be responsible
for loss or damage of any artwork, no
matter what the cause.
Each
painter attempts to delineate a specific perspective on how
matter is organized, how space is allotted, how color and light, depth and viscosity work to establish standards
for understanding how the universe affects us.
The absence of traditional subject
matter was a primary issue
for painters in mid-twentieth-century America whose imagery lacked representational references; it was also a problem
for those struggling to understand modern art.
Concerning his penchant
for difficult or vulgar subject
matter, San Francisco - born
painter Peter Saul has stated, «Putting crime, war, sex, distortion and low class stuff into the picture is a way to take the decoration out of the picture — literally remove it from the dining room because no one is going to drink orange juice in the same room with it.»
(
For that
matter, so might the British
painters Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach.)
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American
painter renowned
for subject
matter that challenges traditional depictions of the female body.
In Roy Kiyooka's early works are found forms evoking cacti or crowns of thorns, influenced perhaps by the British
painter Graham Sutherland but also by the Mexican taste
for such subject
matter, suggesting Kiyooka's intention to express at that time a kind of stoic suffering.
Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored
for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild,
for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry,
for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma,
for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly,
for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer,
painter and sculptor noted
for his powerful work and complex subject
matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The exhibition underscores the printmakers» search
for a new visual language and subject
matter - in self - conscious competition with oil and ink - and - brush
painters on the one hand and mass - produced print culture on the other.
He sought to obscure the subject
matter not just
for the goal of pure abstract expression but also to create a visual poetry more concrete than that of his
painter friends.
This subject
matter was thought of as beneath
for some
painters, but the printmaker used the watercolor medium to produce this fine study of light and texture of the rabbit, as well as fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors.
And yet there is something about a modern
painter starting out
for an island paradise that makes the
matter somewhat more than one of relocation; something, also, about Doig's personality as a
painter that makes his move to such a romantic redoubt more significant still.
Known
for her unique approach to canvas and her thoughtprovoking subject
matter, Marlene Dumas is widely considered one of today's most important
painters.
Alberto Burri (1915 - 95)
Matter painter, famous
for pretty works using sacking and / or collage.
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,
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,
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,
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
His series explore a wide range of subject
matter and visual motifs, and
for his exhibition at Dairy Art Centre, works being displayed will examine themes of «The
Painter and the Painting,» and «Spirituality and the Sublime.»
Frequently taking on closed in shots of hand painted signage, politically - fueled graffiti, and weathered urban surfaces as his subject
matter, Siskind is most known
for his mythic compositions that at times bear a striking resemblance to the work of important twentieth century Abstract Expressionist
painters.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1985, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (born in 1958) has established himself as one of the most influential
painters working today, known
for his distinctive painting style as well as
for his choice of historically and emotionally charged subject
matter.
If the New Museum had the nerve to put the French
painter Bernard Frize into the mix, or,
for that
matter, the younger Julian Kreimer (whose work is in a group show at Von Lintel this month), then I might go all - in
for this quasi-speculative thesis.
The addition of men is a welcome move, a penis not being the most typical subject
matter for a contemporary woman
painter, but the paintings, as lovely as they are to look at and as sure as they are to attract rapt crowds studying details, still feel strangely sealed and caricaturelike.
Arthur Kwon Lee is a Korean American
painter best known
for his large scale paintings on repressed archetypal subject
matter.
Taunay was best known
for his landscapes having studied from the age of 13 with artists like the Italian
painter Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (1727 - 1803), whose landscape and history paintings inspired Taunay's own subject
matter.
Joe Zucker: «Empire Descending a Staircase» (through April 27) This is something of a comeback show
for one of the most restless and ambitious
painters to emerge from the 1970s, who habitually combines eccentric painting processes with weird subject
matter and weirder materials.
But it wasn't until the 16th Century when nature became an acceptable subject
matter for European
painters.
Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-auction estimate — one of the highest recent prices paid
for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject
matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world record at auction
for the
painter.
And understanding what has happened is an urgent
matter, not only
for the
painters whose work still dominates many of the contemporary galleries but also
for the gallerygoers and museumgoers who still look to their work.
American Folk artist and Naïve
painter, Steve paints in a primitive style as «an expression of optimism», allowing
for the use of bright vivid colors, simplicity of forms, details and diverse subject
matter.
Her work has been recognized with grants from the Astraea Foundation (2004), NY Community Trust (2006), New York Foundation
for the Arts (2005, 2009), Printed
Matter Inc. (2009), the Art
Matters Foundation (2010), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation
for Painters and Sculptors (2010).
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American
painter renowned
for subject
matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.
In line with an understanding of Lanyon as a realist
painter is an understanding of changing subject
matter as the chief cause of the changing look —
for want of a better word — of Lanyon's painting.
Not only was she not an Abstract Expressionist; she was the anti — Abstract Expressionist, someone who had no use
for the cult of personality and personal gesture... And at a time when just about every
painter who
mattered was a heroic abstract artist, or trying to be, she was not.