Current studies include the
structure of pictorial space throughout the history of art, particularly the dramatic emergence of geometric perspective in the 15th century.
The new video works will play with the spatial
dynamics of pictorial space using familiar everyday materials and objects in new and unexpected ways.
Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topographies will explore the radical experimentation of both artists as they began to utilize unorthodox materials and reject traditional concepts
of pictorial space in search of a direct, physical language.
Because of his working method, with the paper flat on a table, he could never really see how the picture turned out until it was framed, which makes his vertiginous, highly expressive
use of pictorial space all the more impressive.
Similarly, Elaine de Kooning and Joan Mitchell engaged in the new
explorations of pictorial space, while Lee Krasner began treating the pictorial space as a continuum.
Paul Corio posts the second part of painter George Hofmann's theory of a «new
kind of pictorial space beginning to crystallize in painting which he refers to as «Fractured Space.»»
Leduc now felt that automatism had unconsciously held on to a dated
concept of pictorial space by maintaining the dichotomy of object and background.
«Highway to Heaven is part of a series of works where I dissect the
nature of pictorial space by attempting to translate it into three dimensions.
Waltercio Caldas, for instance, invites us to join him in his study of Velázquez's mastery
of pictorial space by presenting a depopulated version of the artist's Las meninas.
The American painter Morris Louis (Bernstein; 1912 - 1962) explored new realms
of pictorial space with his series the Veils, the Unfurleds, and the Stripes.
The show features work by Maya Hayuk, Jason Karolak, Anna Kunz, Karl LaRocca, Melissa Oresky, and Kirk Stoller, artists who «Painters who are each navigating space through color, shape and line, at times even breaking free of the planar
reality of pictorial space to enter the Z - axis, or rather, the world of three dimensions with the rest of us.
They stare
out of pictorial space into an unknown distance, with their detached gazes separated from the viewer's own perusal of them.
Stäglich's abstract works are based on her examination of colour painting as well as her interest in the expansion
of the pictorial space into the real space.
The artist's flawlessly rendered surfaces; use of stark lighting and awkward
compression of pictorial space heightens the detachment of his subjects from lived experience and, as some writers have acknowledged, offers a reading of his work as a form of abstraction.
He turned the structure
of pictorial space on its ear and expanded the language of gesture by trading in the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism for decorative switchbacks drawn from the needle of an industrial sewing machine... The Shields avatar continues to influence the work of contemporary artists ranging from Jessica Stockholder to Jim Lambie to Lauren Luloff, and his aesthetic reach is one that crosses platforms, mediums and milieus.»
In doing so they brought the peripheral field, perceptual curvature, and the artist's own body into the
realm of pictorial space.
Andrew's painting practice plays with, meditates on, and explores the conventions and
contradictions of pictorial space through ambivalent gesture, personal allegory and the materiality of paint.
It turns out Gauguin is admonished for a number of things: arbitrary color choices, an inconsistent
navigation of pictorial space, halting draftsmanship, ungainly surfaces (Gauguin preferred working on coarsely woven canvases), and cultural naiveté — the whole «primitivist» excursion to Tahiti.
His works have been discussed as a form of abstraction, in the sense that his use
of pictorial space emphasizes a detachment of his subjects from lived experience, and a freedom from emotional or psychological investment.
An enormous aspect of the conversation within the paintings becomes wedded to the
creation of pictorial space and an acute awareness of the «nobility of design» as in desegno, such as in the grand figurative paintings of Poussin and Claude.
A work like «Kandampat» (2002), a tangle of stainless - steel sheets and aluminium tubes that fly off the wall like plumbing fixtures caught in a whirlwind, results from Mr Stella's desire to push the limits
of pictorial space rather than an effusion of raw emotion.
The encounter between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies as «a latent desire to leave behind the
parameters of pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural space.»
She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound
expectations of pictorial space.
Occupying
much of the pictorial space and printed in pale magenta, it is a permeable form - the marbling effect suggests a distant landscape or map, tightly connecting tissues of a brain, as well as classical sculpture.
Forget necessities like composition, light, or the
establishment of pictorial space: For Kass, paint is a vehicle to be utilized for programmatic means, not a medium to be explored and savored.
Frankenthaler made her first prints in 1960, and she continued to use various print media in her exploration
of pictorial space utilizing color and line on a particular surface.
Where the abstract expressionists sought harmony and
purification of the pictorial space, his neo-avant-garde instead aimed to diminish the authorial role of the artist and bridge the gap between art and life.