A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the
development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.
Brooklyn - based artist Matthew Ronay's solo exhibition, Ramus, balances between a
world of modern abstraction and surrealism, spiked with a potent splash of sensual psychedelia.
THE career of 52 - year - old Los Angeles artist Lavi Daniel has been marked by constant change, so when his work appeared in not just one but two solo shows last month, it came as no surprise that he was once again refocusing and refining his
vision of modern abstraction.
Over the course of the next six decades, Zao became a major presence in Europe, America, and Asia, and now stands out as an exemplar of the global
scope of modern abstraction.
The Kunsthalle exhibition also extends to the outdoors, demonstrating of all places in the
sanctuary of modern abstraction — the aesthetic of the sublime — how valid the Pop Art legacy, the fusion of high and low culture and the trivialization of the picture can be.
This exhibition will also extend beyond the gallery into the outside and will show how the legacy of Pop Art, the fusion of high and low, and the trivialisation of the image can be brought to bear within, of all places, that
bastion of modern abstraction — the aesthetics of the sublime.
Organic shapes are blasted apart by bright, unnatural tones of hot pink and acid green, while forms that reveal Wirsum's education in the
vocabulary of modern abstraction are disengaged from the history of oil painting through the smooth, manufactured qualities of the painted surface.
«These works are powerful investigations of space, light, composition, and the fundamental
principles of modern abstraction, bringing together concepts forged by artists like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso,» said Philip Brookman, chief curator and head of research at the Corcoran and the coordinating curator of the exhibition.
Reverse Transcriptase is Fraser Taylor's largest drawing project to date and explores
ideas of modern abstraction through a variety of methods and materials.
«In the last two years, the British painter, Zino Pece, has become one of the handful of painters who I think of as at the cutting
edge of modern abstraction.
Scully is a great
exponent of modern abstraction and his distinctive ability to fuse it with a metaphorical spirituality singles him out from the multitude of painters working today.
Sprayed, brushed, flung, dribbled, puddled, taped, stained, poured, gestural, geometric, organic and more, with some of it on independent surfaces she attached to the wall, the painting is a virtual
lexicon of modern abstraction.
Her shaped canvases seem to jump off the wall with their unexpected
amalgamation of Modern abstraction, postmodern humor, and the uninhibited brio of old - school graffiti taggers.
The present work, significantly larger in scale than most of his abstract works to appear at auction, is a one - of - a-kind masterpiece that comprises of the very best of Douaihy's skilful techniques and inspirations, a signature style that has been widely celebrated and acclaimed since the 1960s and have placed him at the
forefront of Modern Abstraction in the Middle East.
This definitive publication is the most thorough examination to date of Frank Stella's astounding contributions in all media, which cement his role as one of the most important
practitioners of modern abstraction.
An exhibition of some 90 rarely seen works by three artists who pioneered the
development of modern abstraction: Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862 - 1963), Emma Kunz (Switzerland, 1892 - 1963) and Agnes Martin (Canada / US, 1912 - 2004), opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 25 January.
Matthew Ronay a Brooklyn - based artist unveils his new series solo exhibition, entitled «Ramus» a balance between a
world of modern abstraction and surrealism.
Spare and geometric, his work evokes the history
of modern abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach based on the repetition of hand - drawn shapes or lines relinquishes hard - edge angles in favor of a casual, human trace.
11 Jan 2006 Abstraction exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art An exhibition of some 90 rarely seen works by three artists who pioneered the development
of modern abstraction: Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862 - 1963), Emma Kunz (Switzerland, 1892 - 1963) and Agnes Martin (Canada / US, 1912 - 2004).