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The paintings add little to a path of abstract artist well trodden by now.

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Students engaged with it really well, partly due to the variety of artists that I presented to them but also due to the potential for an abstract approach to the project.

Artist, Sandy Gray, who regularly visits, paints some lovely landscapes of the surrounding area and some wonderful abstract paintings as well.

Mark Dagley is equally renowned for being a publisher and for playing guitar in the seminal punk bands the Girls and Hi Sheriffs of Blue during the 1970s and»80s, but given the strength of his current exhibition, he should be best known for being a reductive abstractionist — that is, an abstract artist who approaches painting through its most basic means and language.

Hon Chi Fun is one of Hong Kong's most respected visual artists, best known for his abstract paintings and serigraphic prints that reflect his interest in Taoism and phenomenology through the expression of circles.

The show's early galleries think past boundaries of media — Imogen Cunningham's double - exposed portrait of Martha Graham hangs next to a Charles Burchfield sunburst — and of race and gender, most persuasively via the juxtaposition of a blah abstract totem by Robert Laurent with a better 1931 bust by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, an artist of the New Negro Movement.

Abstract Artist Gallery is a juried listing of todays best abstract artists - promoting members through organic search results and social media.

BEST EXHIBITION SCHEDULE AT A MUSEUM IN UPHEAVAL The Met's, which included shows of camera - phone images exchanged by 12 pairs of artists; the nearly abstract etchings of the 17th - century Dutch artist Hercules Segers; Marsden Hartley's Maine paintings; an astounding survey of Japanese bamboo art and basketry (through Feb. 4); and, of course, the recently opened shows of David Hockney's paintings (through Feb. 25) and Michelangelo's drawings.

Vicente (1903 - 2001), a Spanish - born artist who lived most of his life in New York, was best known for his collages, and a big red abstract - floral one greets visitors at the entrance.

Porter once wrote: «The realist thinks he knows ahead of time what reality is, and the abstract artist what art is, but it is in its formality that realist art excels, and the best abstract art communicates an overwhelming sense of reality.»

Reacting to the range of works on view, which included a selection from the artist's Concorde series (1997), still lifes, portraits, and abstract works created using dye or developing fluid on light sensitive paper, Morton noted «what makes Tillmans's best work sing: the ability, through looking a little, and loving a little, to turn events in our visual lives into vivid, everyday poetry, with all the pleasure and knotty exegesis that implies.

As well as the generally accepted international stars, there are some less familiar artists here too, from Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife, with a huge swirling abstract, to the exquisite, minutely rendered, tangled, painted embroideries of Mark Tobey.

Then the show turns to work by the second group, an imposing cadre of trained artists working in Los Angeles like Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, Senga Nengudi and Noah Purifoy, who worked for decades at the margins of the mainstream, exploring aspects of assemblage and found materials as well as political expression in often abstract forms.

It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

Solo and group exhibitions showcase abstract as well as figurative work from a diverse body of artists from the U.S., Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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.

Using a palette of the same four colors, Cranston reworks an abstract painting by one of the key figures in Modernism, Swiss / French artist, architect and designer Charles - Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) in six variations, identical in form and composition but in different color combinations.

Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800 artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among others).

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

In some ways a literal record of the performative and durational qualities of this enterprise, Beck's wall drawing will hold evidence of the artists hand as well as abstract segments of his entire body, imprinted full - scale and photo - negative like against the ephemeral yet sturdy packing tape ground.

In her blog, artist Joanne Mattera reports on her trip to Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as six other satellite fairs (out of twelve), and gives an overview of abstract work of interest.

With 53 of the show's artists - almost as many as Bonami included in his entire biennial - her overstuffed fraction included numerous women working in abstract painting or fabric, notably a knockout Sheila Hicks tower that was, hands down, the best work in the show (Pillar of Inquiry / Supple Column, 2013 - 14).

The gallery represents each of these artists, as well as other influential mid-century abstract painters including Roger Kuntz, June Wayne, and James Jarvaise.

The museum also has a permanent exhibition of the work Læsø by Asger Jorn, nine works by the German artist Anselm Reyle, recognised as one of contemporary art's most important innovators of abstract art, as well as a magnificent masterpiece by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

The luridly colored spray paint conjures the machismo and brio of the best street artists, while the abstract gestures recall Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Richard Pousette - Dart.

O'Keeffe, known best for her close - up views of flowers and desert landscapes, was a highly innovative abstract painter and among the first artists anywhere to make purely non-representational paintings.

That abstract art is back in full force was confirmed by the inclusion of Michelle Grabner — as artist — as well as four artists whose work she had selected — as curator — for the current Whitney Biennial.

Some of those prominent «uptown» galleries included: the Charles Egan Gallery, [30] the Sidney Janis Gallery, [31] the Betty Parsons Gallery, [32] the Kootz Gallery, [33] the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, the Stable Gallery, the Leo Castelli Gallery as well as others; and several downtown galleries known at the time as the Tenth Street galleries exhibited many emerging younger artists working in the abstract expressionist vein.

Julia Whitney Barnes Julia Whitney Barnes, a New York based artist known for her vivid, luminous paintings which cull naturalistic imagery from an abstracted ground as well as her nature infused ceramic works, presents a series of painted porcelain vignettes.

An original member of Park Place, the historic New York artist collective, Novros is well known for his large, abstract paintings on irregularly shaped, multipaneled canvases.

Bradford (b. 1961)-- a Los Angeles — based artist and MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient — works in a variety of media but is best known for his often enormously scaled collages on canvas, which are akin to abstract paintings.

Also navigating translucency as a motif, a curtain titled Don't be an actress (yellow) constructed of semi-transparent fabric printed with abstract forms hangs over the entrance doorway to the gallery, telling of both the artist's father's background in stage design as well as her interest in the amount of information carried into a large - scale digital print from an analogue source.

An investigation of two 1971 exhibitions — Contemporary Black Artists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibiArtists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibiartists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibition...

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

Excerpt — «Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950,» features work by nearly a dozen artists created with the humble ballpoint pen... Here you have ballpoint masters like Il Lee, whose abstract «BL - 120» (2011) uses the pen's minute hatching capabilities, as well as the shininess of its ink, to full effect... — Martha Schwendener full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/a-review-of-extreme-drawing-at-the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum.html

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

The exhibition will consist of a series of works of a standard size, in which the artist invokes abstract and representational visual languages, as well as his own status and behaviour as a painter.

This transition towards abstract forms and shapes is best illustrated in Kandinsky's Study for Composition # 8, 1909, a turning point in the artist's vision, where recognizable forms — people, church towers, cupolas and hills co-exist with abstract shapes and pure fields of color.

Works by the earlier generation of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and abstract constructivism, influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field painters.

As well as seeing the show you can also book a tour of the abstract paintings in the University of Warwick collection, attend a talk by Daniel Sturgis artist and curator of the show and join a symposium for an in - depth discussion of the origins and endurance of abstraction.

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I have a strong love of abstract art and formal ideas as well but am wary of a tendency toward too - reductive pursuits that ultimately steer artists away from powerful and volatile subject matter, ending up with a safe sort of boring visual Muzak.»

One of the most radical abstract artists of the last 50 years is scarcely a household name, or even well known outside a small group of collectors, connoisseurs, and art historians.

The colorful exhibition will include 12 new abstract paintings that she made during a recent stay in Los Angeles, as well as several of the artist's figurative body prints on paper.

Oil on Canvas Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well - documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to t...

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Notable works of abstract art by Latinos have been omitted from familiar discussions that include such well - known artists as Stuart Davis and Robert Motherwell.

Like the other members of the group, Bush pursued abstraction as best he could, «abstracting» from nature in a manner derived from the illustrations becoming available in international magazines as well as from his practice as a commercial artist.

With his roots in printmaking and Surrealism, British artist Stanley William Hayter's (1901 — 1988) theoretical writings on automatism and the expressive abstraction of his own work were a formative influence on Pollock and other abstract expressionists via his printmaking studio, Atelier 17, where Hayter taught Pollock and other well known artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Alberto Giacometti.