We lived with a
wall of large paint samples for weeks until we found one that we could agree on!
These works, while lacking the charge and
momentum of the larger paintings, are a welcome change of pace for visitors, and a rare indication of how the artist's paintings develop.
The catalog is well done, but without seeing the work in person and experiencing the
scale of the large paintings, one can't get the full impact of their greatness.
This is the first time since 2009 that Greenbaum has had a solo show
of large paintings in New York, and it should establish once and for all that she is one of the most innovative and adventuresome painters of her generation.
Next up was a visit to Jonas Wood's
exhibition of large paintings of ceramic pots and plants at the new home of David Kordansky Gallery in mid-city.
A year after her 1961 performance in Claes Oldenberg's Store, where she stood on a shelf amidst oversized cakes, lamb - chops, flags, and shoes — an excessive painterly environment if ever there was one — Schneemann was in her studio experimenting with her body in front
of a large painting made of four fur cutting boards with moving umbrellas and Christmas lights.
One experiences them twice, as you loop back to them after going around the corner first into a large space with a great group
of large paintings from the 90s, including the notorious Holy Virgin Mary of Mayor Giuliani fame.
A previously unseen series
of large paintings by renowned LA artist Ed Ruscha will go on display at Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, from 5 October 2016.
A reviewer for the Los Angeles Times described his first exhibition
of large paintings with the gallery: «He favors a flamelike turbulence which may erupt in isolated swirls or burst in sheets of color over the surface of the canvas.»
Although he had a
show of large paintings at O. K. Harris a few years back, one may also not appreciate just how much his incremental processes works on a large scale.
Many of the large paintings in this exhibition are drawn from Steir's Waterfall series, which she began producing in the 80s and continues to work on to this day.
The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a
group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.
Phil Space: Shelley Horton - Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth - century French writer Colette, and she does this by way
of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette).
The metallic
surfaces of the large paintings, in part mimetically related to the play of light on the ocean at midday, join such innovations as the use of spray paint to create atmospheric layers of transparent color over color and the use of mylar and networks of tape to form geometric figures.
The smaller panels on show are drawn from
details of the larger paintings, transforming these details in to pure abstractions, whilst other four panels depict — on a background of smeared cartoon imagery — painted man - machine hybrids.
Front Gallery: Another Corner This exhibition by the Toronto artist will consist
of a large painted plywood construction incorporating one corner of the Front Gallery.
Located near popular San Francisco destinations like Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, and Golden Gate Park, the Queen Anne Hotel on Sutter Street is from the
days of large Painted Lady Victorian mansions.
During the last four years of his life Martin was engaged in a
trilogy of large paintings of biblical subjects: The Last Judgment, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Plains of Heaven, of which two were bequeathed to Tate Britain in 1974, the other having been acquired for the Tate some years earlier.
This exhibition comprises a
selection of large paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, focusing on nature as a longstanding inspiration and including the full range of styles and techniques that she explored over five decades of work.
It was during this time that Rothko was at work on his Seagram Murals, a series
of large paintings commissioned for The Four Seasons restaurant, which was then being constructed within Mies Van De Rohe's and Philip Johnson's newly completed Seagram's Building on Park Avenue in New York City.
Like an old master working away at study after study, he eventually produces the
trio of large paintings that are exactly the size of the Titian Metamorphoses in the gallery.
In 2014, he installed a major exhibition
of large paintings entitled The Form of Color at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Jeffrey Uslip.
And if we are tempted to
think of these large paintings as landscapes, especially the horizontal ones whose planes are angled to the expansive picture plane, they are landscapes that are made of paint and color, planes and light.
In her widower's 1834 reorganisation, the hang was adjusted to include his more self - serving
choice of large paintings, while it became rather more of an anteroom to the resplendent new Model Room; this was a reconfiguration of Mrs Soane's Bedchamber — until then untouched, a memorial to Eliza, who had died 20 years before in unhappy circumstances.
Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition with Joanne Greenbaum, the artist's first solo
presentation of large paintings in New York since 2009.
The linens often encompass collage, intimating that they might consist of
sections of larger paintings that have been cut up and pieced together.
A permanent
installation of her large paintings can be viewed at the Prudential Building of Chicago, and her paintings on paper, «Color Scores» are currently on view at the University Club of Chicago.
Awkwardly squashed between his bedding and the upper edge of the print, the artist has carefully flattened himself, allowing us to see the bottom few
inches of a large painting on the rear wall, hung just above the floor.
Because he is a
fan of large paintings, the gallery is exhibiting canvases that are 7 by 12 feet or 8 by 8 feet — dimensions that weren't easily accommodated in Sag Harbor.
This series
of large paintings represents a break from previous work which was based on symmetrical figures created by direct transfer from painted sheets.
But instead of providing narrative clues, they confront the scenic
character of the large paintings and the décor of the yellow canvases with their own theatric lure.
The papers with their studied perfection often lack the
vitality of the large paintings, and their diminutive scale places these works outside the viewer's experience; without the shimmering motion of multiple veils of color, these small works remain earthbound.
Tempering what could easily become an affectation of historical appropriation (I could not confirm this at the gallery, but the dull, greenish
tone of the larger paintings appears to be the result of an overall glaze), Saulnier manages to maintain a sense of painterly invention.