Through exploration
of painterly materials, visual process and participation from the public, this new body of work will explore the imbrication of patterns and experience that structures ones vision, suspended in doubt, sometimes cured in paint.
The works included for the show explore through various applications
of painterly materials and forms, analysis of industrial techniques and social appropriations by these featured artists.
Ryman's art has often been described as Minimalist or Conceptual, while he prefers to use the term realistic, aiming not to create illusions with paint but to investigate the concrete presentation
of painterly materials.
But that, she feels, has started to change, with her more deliberate uses
of painterly materials and techniques — for this recent series of portraits, she returned to using oil paint — and by showing parts of her process.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master
of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter
Once a sufficient amount
of painterly material is accumulated, he cuts, manipulates, and applies the fabric shapes to form geometric compositions.
Not exact matches
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past
painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation
of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to
materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»
Surprisingly, this process magically transforms generally unremarkable content and consequently produces a reverse transubstantiation, where the substance
of the body
of materials; liquid or apparently solid, natural or artificial, reveals a transformation from
painterly materiality to a subtle staging for visual ingestion that is simply, but gloriously, perceptual.
His literal use
of space and his return to
painterly methods, (albeit on exotic
materials) in the mid - seventies is the period
of his work on which this exhibition is focused.
Playing on the tension between
painterly elements and raw
materials, Ruby's work is a transformative expression
of philosophical enquiry.
Each artist works in the abstract formalist tradition, but, through the development
of new
painterly vocabularies and use
of unusual
materials, attempts to redefine the boundaries
of painting.
Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction
of Color to explore the history
of racial segregation in her
painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found
materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins
of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits
of marble and scrap metal.
Each artist in the exhibition utilizes scale and weight to explore both visual and conceptual implications
of depicting the environment: Jane Callister's
painterly landscapes deftly intertwine process and imagery; each painting celebrates a
material investigation that generates fictional yet enchanting landscapes.
Throughout the evolution
of his
painterly practice, Colen has engaged in long periods
of material experimentation, using substances such as chewing gum, flowers, dirt, grass, confetti and tar and feathers.
Marden and others almost fetishize
painterly materials, as they explore the illusion
of depth that a subtle, almost neutral surface will convey.
In her ground breaking series Construct, developed in the late 70s and early 80s and taken with a Polaroid camera, Kasten transformed building
materials into tableaux whose composition, style and manipulation
of space display a true
painterly sensibility.
Works made in San Francisco immediately thereafter disclose a rapid growth in the artist's tendency to incorporate heterogeneous
materials with burgeoning accumulations
of found objects and magazine fragments, bringing representational content into dialogue with
painterly abstraction.
The artist's instantiation
of quotidian
materials,
painterly sensibilities, and space excavate a sacred geometry — connecting all possible points
of existence.
This technique conjures a striking effect that is highly
painterly, yet imbued with a sense
of physicality from the
materials that gives the works an almost sculptural sensibility as well.
The artist's handling
of materials provides a precise physical evolutionary link between the
painterly qualities
of Abstract Expressionism and iconographical, subject - driven early Pop art.
Miller's quirky approach endows the geometries
of everyday objects and
materials, such as chain - link fencing, drapery, and clothing, with
painterly personalities, as if to suggest a portrait in absentia.
The hot, intense canvases in «Sirens,» at DC Moore, have titles like «Conflagration With Bangs» (2015) and «Red Hot Plot Hole» (2016) and feature flames painted in warm colors and covered with iridescent glitter (the
painterly material of the moment).
Carolee Schneemann offers her naked body as a site for
painterly materials, with the approval
of her black cat.
In this regard, they weave together multiple strands
of art - historical lineage, ranging from Gerhard Richter's
painterly abstractions, to Andy Warhol's aesthetic
of reproduction, to the
material concerns
of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg.
Maine's use
of carefully chosen pre-existing
materials deployed in the «real» space found just in front
of the supporting wall sculpturally counters the illusionistic tendencies
of painting while clearly echoing
painterly concerns with color and structural relationships.
Rauschenberg challenged this
painterly tradition with an egalitarian approach to
materials, bringing the stuff
of the everyday world into his art.
The large glossy surfaces are scattered with drips, leaks, cracks, discolorations and folds which are subtle traces
of the parallel and unpoetic
painterly reality
of the
materials Rhodes employs.
The exhibition allies a range
of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration
of postures
of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record
of the late 20th century within the context
of high - cultural legacy
of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack
of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions
of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost
painterly rendering
of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration
of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display
of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits
of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze
of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play
of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.
Downey uses the
material,
painterly process
of image - creation to merge a history experienced only through books, movies, and photographs with autobiographical memories set in the leftover landscape
of that history.
Made in Provence, this new canvas
material was ideally suited to registering ink, and allowed Guyton to explore the
painterly possibilities
of the printer.
By re-staging
painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable
materials and willful deliberation, the processes
of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix
of the serious and the sensual.
An extreme excess
of contrived
painterly incident but somehow emptied
of depth and
material presence.
Anna Rosen, with her use
of the marbling technique, Nick Irzyk, with his incorporation
of marble dust, and his idiosyncratic, jig - saw method
of constructing and deconstructing paintings with foam core and plaster, and Nicholas Cueva, by painting against the irregular textures
of a wide assortment
of textiles typically used to make clothing, all use both art and non-art
materials, alike, in order to set up
material problems to resolve — but also to produce (5) enzymatic phenomenon to respond to in
painterly fashion.
Anna Virnich's artistic practice incorporates a variety
of media, such as sculpture, installation, photography, video and textile - based tableaus made
of found fabrics as well as new
materials, stretched on wooden frames thus creating organic and almost
painterly compositions that oscilate between transparency and density.
One
of the sixteen small paintings that plays with me — holds me — the most is grounded by shiny reflections reminiscent
of pennies in a wishing well, layered with these thick, orgasmic (for the
painterly painter), awkward rectangles
of material exploration which bar out Washington like stacks
of gold or grids
of currency, all finally subtitled with the words, «I HOPE IT RAINS» — maybe or maybe not a reference to the Louis Prima song, «Pennies from Heaven.»
She uses
materials with cavalier abandon, and her paint handling is loose and playful and incorporates a variety
of techniques such as
painterly monotype backgrounds, fluid shapes, lyrical gestures, and impasto.
January 22 - March 4, 2016 Sherman Gallery 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor Although her work speaks to
painterly concerns, Stacey Piwinski (CFA» 99,» 00) uses textiles and found
materials to create intricate weavings that consider the passage
of time, the tactility
of material, and interpersonal relationships.
While these works reflect the atmosphere and palette
of the gardens that surrounded her after she settled at Vétheuil, her
painterly space clearly remains the space
of Abstract Expressionism — often disjunctive, yet always primarily grounded in the physical nature
of the canvas and the
materials deployed on it.
Instead, a strong engagement with the physical properties
of materials is a starting point for his survey
of repurposed
painterly tropes.
Compared to the artists
of the Pictures Generation, artists like me might appear more comfortable playing with the
material aspects
of media images, even fascinated with them, for example, taking a
painterly approach to editing and compositing video footage.
True to his enigmatic nature, Devine takes the realism
of photography — in his case, stock photography as source
material — and reworks it using his fluid,
painterly style.
Amelia Biewald works with a wide variety
of materials creating
painterly drawings and sculptural works.
The overall concept
of Dummy Vexillography seems a means to an end — a pretense that allows Robinson to indulge in
material experimentation and formalist preoccupations, engaging with and reveling in
material culture and
painterly styles and traditions, rather than political discourse.
Evolving a unique
painterly language over the last two decades, Cloud's work often comprises a mash - up
of thick paint and patchworks
of collaged
material and language culled from photo books, newspapers and other ephemera from daily life.
Concrete works, their surfaces hacked and molded into the impression
of a thick impasto, are emblazoned with a range
of emotive colors, forcing an oscillation between the heft
of the
material and the pure ecstatic
painterly surface.
Thus an almost entirely abstract painting like Stil (Style)(1977) hangs adjacent to one
of Lüpertz's reworkings
of a classical subject, Satyr + Nymphe II (Satyr + Nymph II)(2014); and one
of his many portrayals
of the human back, Nacht (Night)(2013) hangs next to a
painterly treatment
of building
materials, Holzschindeln — dithyrambisch (Wood Shingles — Dithyrambic)(1966).
The tension between the
material and the
painterly surface
of each work is key.
If anything her aesthetic recalls the casualness
of Mary Heilman, but, in formal terms, the work appears to be closer to that
of Jessica Stockholder, although Barlow transforms her
material into sculptural form whereas Stockholder's allusions spring from the
painterly and hint at the two - dimensional.
In a nearby series
of imposing wall works, Chutes d'Atelier, studio scraps are fused into multi-dimensional panels —
painterly studies
of his signature raw
materials (resin, steel, and pigment).
The real was also the goal
of post
painterly abstraction and minimalism which focused on the
materials of production to the exclusion
of all external considerations.