Sentences with phrase «of zombie formalism»

Not by coincidence, their analysis is based on the two examples: the works of Oscar Murillo and Lucien Smith, artists favored by the art market insiders and frequently connected to the aesthetic principles of zombie formalism.

Where others speak of zombie formalism, they approach subjectivity for the living dead.

Ms. Imhof's main efforts are shiny acrylic monochromes (black, white or turquoise) on aluminum with impulsive flurries of scratches — variants of zombie formalism that imply vandalism.

Much of the buzz has been backlash: painters accused of zombie formalism, sleepwalking through hackneyed styles and gimmicks that speak to market desires.

Not exact matches

Critics could complain of «zombie formalism,» but at its best it has little space for either zombies or formalism alone.

But the truth is, those works of «zombie formalism» that do indeed take up a decent amount of real estate down at Basketball City, well, they're not exactly setting the internet on fire.

While there are some talented artists working in this vein ---- Richard Aldrich and Joe Bradley, to name two ---- much of the stuff is so hopelessly bland and devoid of meaningful content that it has garnered the moniker «zombie formalism.»

Rad's equally colorful artist statement is larger - than - life, featuring a mythological hybrid of Ab - Ex legends, «Jackson Johns», who returns from exile in the midwest as a millennial in order to do battle with zombie formalism, and this anecdote from AFC's very own SPRNG BRK Fundraiser:

The critic and founding editor - in - chief of Artnet magazine for 16 years, he has chronicled the «radical masquerade» of the avant - garde, heralding new talent, skewering the deserving, and identifying epochal shifts in the art scene, from his pronouncement that «there are no art movements, only market movements» to his lament about the rise of «zombie formalism» in contemporary painting today.

Where «The Forever Now» upstairs deadens abstraction, to the point of «zombie formalism,» the second floor does the same for political art.

It helps that both Saccoccio and Maine shy away from the big gesture and quotation of «zombie formalism.»

Recent terms such as «zombie formalism» (aka zombie abstraction) appear to confirm that we are living in an age of post-historical malaise.

The legacy of modernist abstract painting has morphed into something called zombie formalism that, despite critical derision, has become a bankable art style legitimated by museums and, to a greater extent, the art market.

Despite the hue and cry about zombie formalism, there is a lot of very good painting going on these days.

Sola constructs a layered parody of trends here (successful in spite of itself and its overextensions), taking aim at zombie formalism, institutional critique, and interspecies communication.

Dubbed «slacker abstraction», «provisional painting», «neo-formalism», «casualism» and «zombie formalism» (as coined by artist and critic Walter Robinson), many of the works in question share an affinity for flatness, process - based approaches, improvised gestures and, at times, a playful sense of humour.