Not exact matches
About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York painting scene like a bat out
of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A. painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored
canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in
odd -
shaped plates, and painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.
«Whether large or small, Gorchov's
canvases are kind
of saddle
shaped and the color is by turns
odd or beautiful.
The
odd -
shaped forms that resulted from this mode
of art - making seemed to throb with restless energy, as if the objects hidden beneath Imai's swelling
canvases were just itching to burst through his smooth, luminous surfaces.
The «most
odd perspective» created by the design
of the concentric orthogonals survived the addition
of color coding as Stella pushed into the copper and aluminum series, cutting out the «superfluous» (his term) negative spaces and building elaborate
shaped canvases in the 1960s with dazzlers such as Empress
of India (1965).