Seldom, however, does one get the opportunity to view the work
of those abstract painters on the West Coast whose work was every bit as strong, and every bit as compelling as their East Coast contemporaries.
Not exact matches
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of painterly realism is inspired by the work
of modern
painters who combine realism with a strong emphasis
on abstract design, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson and Edward Hopper.
«Generations
of black
abstract painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the
Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused
on the history
of African American
painters working in abstraction.
Contemporary
abstract painting lacks credibility because its success depends
on the suppression
of a generation
of lyrical
painters, censored since the mid seventies.
A studio visit with the New York - based
painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent work, traces his development, and reflects
on abstract painting's open - ended possibilities
of meaning.
Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically
abstract painter whose technique
of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one
of the most admired artists
of her generation, died
on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn..
Specifically, the exhibition features several sketches from Arthur Garfield Dove 1903 and went
on to become one
of the first American
abstract painters and modernists.
More recently, multiple paintings and works
on paper by Lewis, the late
abstract painter whose first museum retrospective debuted last fall at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts (and opens June 4 at the Amon Carter Museum
of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas), have appeared regularly and covered the April catalog.
It makes me think
of everything from
abstract painting and Sam Gilliam, the noted African American
painter, to Southern rural quilting and the homeless
on the streets
of Manhattan.
I've recently become part
of an online group
of artists organized by Yifat Gat, a
painter based in France — the group is focused
on contemporary
abstract art.
Los Angeles
painter Patrick Wilson presents a magnificent new body
of his brilliantly constructed,
abstract acrylic
on canvas paintings in his highly anticipated third solo exhibition Slow Motion Action Painting at Marx & Zavattero, June 2 - July 14, 2012.
Currently the official story
of avant - garde
abstract painting and sculpture in America that is
on view at the Whitney Museum, denies works
of scores
of artists that demonstrate that American
painters and sculptors by the late sixties went beyond minimalism creating a new expressionism.
The Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts is putting
on the first ever retrospective
of abstract painter Normal Lewis.
PAUL CUMMINGS: Well, there was a time when a lot
of the
painters felt there was a while conspiracy
on Hess» part to promote certain
abstract painters and not others.
The influence
of abstract expressionism
on Eggleston, partly through his friendship with the
painter Tom Young, is addressed at points throughout the show, and it is important to recognise that perspectival lines, the balance
of colour throughout a composition, and the presence
of contextual details such as logos and pavements, are as important as the features, dress and celebrity identity
of the subjects.
«There were some glaring omissions in the collection that we were really trying to rectify, and this is one
of them,» Panetta says
of this
abstract short by the
painter - turned - filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute (which will be screened in a black - box gallery
on the seventh floor).
While his work bears similarities to that
of American
abstract expressionist
painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac»
of Rothko's formalism and the erasure
of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings
on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis
on emotion, human scale, the visibility
of the art - making process and the conception
of a painting as the product
of an individual and a time.
• 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
John Plumb was an English
abstract painter who produced paintings with large fields
of a single color and narrow strips
on the edge
of different colors.
The biggest compliment one can give the
abstract paintings
of Bill Scott,
on display at Hollis Taggart Galleries, is that they'll spur fellow
painters to run to their studios and get down to business.
As part
of Joan Mitchell Foundation's ongoing collaboration with Voices
of Contemporary Art (VoCA), please join us
on Thursday, October 12, when
abstract painter and Yaqui Indian Mario Martinez will sit down with Steven O'Banion, Director
of Conservation at Glenstone, to discuss his life, work, and personal philosophy.
Through the Mint Museum's collection you can trace the evolution
of this genre from the work
of the Hudson River School
painters such as Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford, who focused
on the natural beauty
of our country's topography, through the rise
of Impressionism: a movement whose artists celebrated a more
abstract, subjective view
of their surroundings.
CHICAGO — Congratulations to artist Magalie Guérin
on being awarded a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant.The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose
of providing financial assistance to individual working visual artists
of established ability through the generosity
of the late Lee Krasner, one
of the leading
abstract expressionist
painters and the widow
of Jackson Pollock.
[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type
of freewheeling
abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when
abstract painters returned to various forms
of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus
on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
To reduce the 40 - year career
of our most flamboyant non-figurative
painter — he insists
on «non-figurative» in preference to «
abstract» — to 22 canvases is like limiting Gary Sobers to that one over when he hit every ball for six; but in the confinement
of the Sackler Gallery it works.
But most
of all, he filled the place with images
of himself, as stoical lighthouse keeper, 1960s
abstract painter, a camera - shop owner, and passer - by
on the street.
Brooklyn - based
abstract painter Katherine Bradford is
on the graduate faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
To reduce the 40 - year career
of our most flamboyant non-figurative
painter — he insists
on «non-figurative» in preference to «
abstract» — to 22...
It is undeniable that many early 20th century
abstract painters drew
on spiritualism to fuel their artistic projects but this does not mean their interest in occult sources exhausts the meaning
of the work.
The
painter Basil Beattie RA, who I met at the gallery
on the show's opening day, reminded me that Bert — like Basil himself — was converted to the
abstract creed by the exhibition
of Abstract Expressionism that visited London's Tate from America in two touring shows at the end
of the 1950s.
Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play
on the language
of ancient art as well as modernism and the
abstract compositions
of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.
The current show at Artspace in New Haven, CT, highlights seven
painters whose
abstract work focuses
on elements
of color, shape, and surface.
Mark Bradford
on Clyfford Still Los Angeles - based
abstract painter Mark Bradford is co-founder
of Art + Practice and currently has an exhibition
on view at Hauser and Wirth Gallery in New York.
Judith Leiber, an internationally known handbag designer, and her husband
of 72 years, Gerson Leiber, a noted
abstract painter, died
on Saturday at home in Springs.
We are back in the territory
of the last discussion
on Picasso's «Mandoline et Clarinette», back in the
abstract painter's dilemma
of how to paint
abstract space, and whether that dilemma might be circumvented by dabbling in three - dimensions.
I remembered that growing up I would visit my friend whose father was an
abstract painter, and
on his studio wall was a poster
of Wool's Cats in Bag Bags in River (1990).
Washburn Gallery will offer a selection
of recently rediscovered landscapes and tree studies by
abstract painter Myron Stout, and Chambers Fine Art will exhibit recent
abstract ink paintings
on rice paper by noted Chinese artist and calligrapher Wang Dongling, alongside mixed - media paintings by Yan Shanchun.
When British artists saw the first London exhibitions
of American
abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom
of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled
on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size
of the paintings.
In celebration
of the exhibition,
Painter of the Fields is the first major overview
of Warren Rohrer's work held in Lancaster County and will examine the various stages
of his career; including works from his early days
of drawing to his fully realized
abstract artistic language based
on the fields
of Lancaster County where he lived.
The paintings were completely
abstract and they expressed big themes and emotions — tragedy, despair, the unconscious, angst
of every description; feelings that were embodied not through imagery, but the intensity with which the
painter got the paint
on to the canvas.
In 1951, Gechtoff moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco, where she installed her studio in «Painterland,» an affectionately titled building
on Fillmore Street that was home to a bevy
of abstract painters, including DeFeo, with whom she developed a friendship but also a rivalry.
The lower horizontal band retains an emphasis
on bands
of color similar to
abstract works by
painters such as Morris Louis and a repetitive logic that foreshadows minimalists such as Donald Judd.
Gary Petersen, Wish You Well, 2009 Acrylic
on panel, 20 x 16 inches February 10 — March 17, 2010 Curated by Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama, Color - Time - Space is an exhibition
of thirteen geometric
abstract painters that highlights the relationship between art and music.
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He began his career as a
painter, drawing
on the work
of the
abstract Expressionists, but as time went
on he became increasingly dissatisfied with painting, a medium that he came to believe was a thing
of the past.
Jack Whitten (1939 — 2018) The
abstract painter and sculptor has died in New York at the age
of 78, his gallery Hauser & Wirth announced
on Sunday.
The recent debate
on Abcrit about Howard Hodgkin made it pretty clear to me that many
abstract painters begin with light, and are attempting to paint the effects
of light.
The respected architects Caruso St John designed the space, which opened with an exhibition focused
on British
abstract painter (and personal hero
of Hirst) John Hoyland.
Even so, there is a special quality about these California
abstract painters that carries not only a classical context in terms
of pictorial space but also a certain unpredictable eccentricity, which the Hammersley exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe expresses paradoxically
on both a modest and heroic level.
As Alan Gouk pointed out recently, those somebodies often end up being Joan Mitchell and Philip Guston, American
painters not without their own flaws, and it is
on their account that scores
of contemporary
abstract artists readily and without question adopt a «hell for leather» approach to paint handling that through its complacency tends to have very familiar results.