I thought that by making
an object out of a canvas I'd be able to achieve what I want to do, which is practice making things physically.
Not exact matches
Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait
of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on
canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel
out of junk and found
objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.
He began deliberately draping the
canvases, creating fluid, semi-sculptural
objects out of two - dimensionalpaintings.
Mechler almost empties
out the
canvas of any
objects in order to focus entirely on what he describes as a psychological confrontation with painting.
«A single facet or
canvas may have its own color, or the shadow across it may serve as color -LRB-...) Sometimes the color solely belongs to the edge
of a work, or so it seems, until one notices that Hinman has painted the back -LRB-...) He is not just shaping an
object, but also taking it
out from the wall.»
Bare
canvas and pencil lines visible between the stripes insist on the
object and its making, and so does the wood
of the stretcher, set thick dimension
out.
«The process
of making these is so slow and organic — like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make
out, the lives
of many generations
of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and
objects, all laid down under pressure — which take time to make and are filled with that time, pieces
of what might have been a larger
canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought into the field
of the painting, where the painting itself becomes another community,» described Sacks his painting method in a 2014 interview with Natasha Kurchanova published on Studio International.
The Brooklyn - based artist has for years been refining a distinct technique that produces mesmerizing works that dance between painting, sculpture, and textile — their surfaces ripple with busy and vividly colored painted patterns that seem to swath mysterious
objects in various fabrics; thick gobs
of paint cling to areas
of the
canvas as if squeezed
out like thick frosting or Easy Cheese.
Despite the fact Martin did her best to seek
out and destroy paintings from the years when she was taking her first steps into abstraction, the exhibition features examples
of her experimental early practice — such as The Garden from 1958, for which she glued rows
of found
objects onto a background
canvas.
The exhibition also includes a selection
of canvas pieces, reminding us
of popular jumpingjack cut -
outs covered with individual body parts and
objects.
His
canvases, visually complex, are teeming with
objects and abstracted shapes formed
out of a bright white and heavy impasto paint.
Reinhardt describes these paintings as: «A square (neutral, shapeless)
canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no - contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed
out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free - hand, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non-linear, no hard - edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings — a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting — an
object that is self - conscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware
of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art).»