The catalogue raisonné (an art historian's bible, detailing each work's provenance, exhibition history, and scholarly apparatus) is being published by the French publishing house Cahiers d'Art and has been edited by Yve - Alain Bois, an authority
on abstract painting at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
Not exact matches
Sara's collection of introspective
paintings and
abstract drawings will be featured
at Lorimar Winery's Old Town Tasting Room during the month of January with a special «Meet the Artist» reception
on January 22nd from 6 pm to 9 pm.
By pairing the first - an
abstract painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed
on a soccer field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical
painting photographed
at an angle, Uglow creates a visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.
Art fairs are often associated with
abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but,
at this year's Armory Show in New York, some galleries had
on offer works that explicitly addressed the political situation in the United States.
To recap: Marguerite Hoffman sued David Martinez in 2010 after a big red
painting by the
abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko turned up
on an auction block not long after she sold the piece to Martinez
at a discount of $ 17.6 million (he eventually got $ 31.4 million for it
at auction).
At the Indiscipline of Painting exhibition at the Mead Gallery some of the abstract paintings on show question the relationship between abstraction and representatio
At the Indiscipline of
Painting exhibition
at the Mead Gallery some of the abstract paintings on show question the relationship between abstraction and representatio
at the Mead Gallery some of the
abstract paintings on show question the relationship between abstraction and representation.
Gerhard Richter's who celebrates his eighty - fifth birthday
on February 9, is presenting twenty - six recent
abstract paintings, shown for the first time
at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures
on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting
at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting
on being read as an
abstract painting.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In «Of Earth and Sky,»
on view
at Susan Eley Fine Art, Rachelle Krieger presents a new series of elegant
abstract paintings in which winding brushstrokes float throughout tightly - cropped square spaces.
The yellow wall behind her and the other two
at this gathering, where the woman in the middle is pouring tea for the gentleman
on the right, is decorated with generic
abstract paintings.
NEW YORK — Opening June 26,
paintings by Philip Hanson and Rebecca Shore will be
on view
at David Nolan Gallery as part of a group exhibition of
abstract paintings.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / What you can't see clearly in online images of Carrie Moyer's new
paintings,
on view
at Mary Boone (in conjunction with DC Moore) through April 21, is the remarkable fusion of flat, opaque
abstract form with a masterful illusion of three - dimensionality.
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.
I was made aware of this helpful piece of writing by renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza, whose work is included in a small group exhibit of
abstract paintings and photographs currently
on view
at Main Street Arts Gallery.
Each
painting is based
on, «
abstracted from», photographs taken by the artist
at that specific location and then digitally manipulated.
I think the thought depends
on being
at a greater distance from the early 20th century, that while Reinhardt and everyone else could not imagine abstraction (whatever he may have said to the contrary) other than as a struggle to find what an
abstract as opposed to a representational
painting really might be and do, is no longer the case.
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.
Hopefully this burst of intimately scaled creativity by Joanne Greenbaum — as 1612, her first iteration of small - size
abstract paintings at D'Amelio Terras (
on exhibit through November 12th)-- is just the beginning.
Adamah by artist Patrick Adams is an orange, purple, and blue contemporary
abstract expressionist landscape made with oil
paint on panel that measures 36 x 80 and is priced
at $ 12,50...
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on Lorene Anderson's Swirl and Roil
at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
Sultan II by artist Jennifer JL Jones is a yellow, brown, green with white and hints of gray contemporary
abstract mixed media
painting on wood that measures 50 x 50 and is priced
at...
Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered
at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley,
on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural
abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.
RED EARTH by artist Patrick Adams is a contemporary red and blue
abstract / landscape expressionist oil
paint on panel that measures 48 x 64 and is priced
at $ 8,500.
The reinstallation triumphs despite the loss of a pivotal long - term loan of a major, privately owned Jackson Pollock
painting, The Blue Unconscious (1946), which was
on view
at the MFAH from 2007 until the recent Henry Ossawa Tanner survey, which the
abstract expressionist collection was temporarily removed to accommodate.
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic
on canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence
at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's
paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the
abstract -LSB-...]
Torkwase Dyson's
abstract wall
painting «Strange Fruit (Dignity in Hand)» (2015) brings the question of violence and the black body to the forefront in a title inspired by one of Billie Holiday's signature songs, which describes the «strange fruit» of lynching victims hung from trees («blood
on the leaves and blood
at the root»).
At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue
paintings with some subtle white
abstract elements
on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.
In 1974, in reference to a New York gallery show by Judy Rifka, Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe wrote that the artist addressed «the question most crucial to
painting in general
at the present time: the question as to how far the — currently compromised —
abstract «depth» of pictorial space can be newly considered — retrieved — through attention to the material basis of the conventions
on which that experience of «depth» relies.»
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.
While continuing this dialogue with the history of aesthetics,
Paintings represents a shift in McElheny's work towards a focus
on the history of
painting, and proposes that there is ongoing potential to be found in the utopian and revolutionary desires that gave rise to
abstract painting at the beginning of the twentieth century.
At once an
abstract painting (or two), a figure, a squeegeed monoprint
on fabric, a found object, a memory, a sculpture, this work has numerous points of entry.
Architectural subjects, including
paintings of the weathered barns and buildings
on the Stieglitz property that blend the descriptive and the
abstract, emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic landscape
paintings and bold, color ‑ filled abstractions that often visually related to the subjects she was working
on at the time.
In the late 1940s, she began teaching
at the California School of Fine Arts, where she met Clyfford Still, whose
abstract expressionist
paintings had an important influence
on her approach to sculpture, and she began to allow more room for the accidental and the spontaneous.
It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived
at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified,
abstracted forms
painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing
on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.
Among the second group of
abstract paintings at Firestone are works such as «Thunderbird» (1970), where a geometric cluster of blue lines, each about the width of standard masking tape, floats
on a vibrant, flat red field.
Studies fine art
at Sheffield College of Art, where emphasis is
on figurative
painting — no awareness of
abstract art.
The works
on view
at the exhibition evokes conversations between
abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with
paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.
He emerged
at a time when
abstract expressionism was in decline, while pop art, color field
painting, and minimalism were
on the rise.
From March 9 through April 15 Pamela Jorden's work is included in «Carry the Bend,» a group show
at Brennan and Griffin focusing
on the lineage of gesture within the realm of
abstract painting.
'»
At a time when abstraction remained
on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [
abstract]
painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»
In the decades up until his death in 2015
at the age of 92, the East End - based artist continued to
paint huge ebullient
abstracts with ever more vigour, the results a fixture
on the walls of the RA's Summer Exhibition.
Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, pierced and jagged forms, and pulsating energy, these wax - resist
paintings on paper, done
at the height of
abstract expressionism's ascendancy, captivated Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and inspired Jean Dubuffet to write his only monographic study
on Ossorio.
She went
on to study art
at Berkeley, where she won a fellowship that prompted a trip to Europe and her first important series, a group of
abstract paintings that fused her interests in
Abstract Expressionism, Italian architecture, and prehistoric art.
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on Selected works by Elizabeth Gourlay (2013 - 2015)
at the Fox Gallery NYC
In the 1960s Inokuma began to
paint works based
on imagined aerial views of cities, reducing three dimensional topography to two dimensional patterns which
at once suggest the energy and visual complexity of the urban fabric yet remain completely
abstract.
At Sotheby's last week there was the unusual sight of Old Master dealer Johnny van Haeften bidding
on an
abstract painting.
Willem de Kooning's
abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record
at auction when the
painting sold for $ 66.3 million
at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art
on November 15, 2016 in New York.
On Wednesday, Phillips held a day sale of 178 lots of 20th - century and contemporary art, and conspicuous by their absence were the «process - based»
abstract paintings that had been the subject of lucrative resales
at Phillips in the boom year of 2014.
The artist Louise Fishman, primarily known for her large - scale
abstract paintings, is the subject of two forthcoming exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective,» a fifty - year survey show
at the Neuberger Museum of Art
at SUNY Purchase, opening
on April 3, 2016, and running through July 31, 2016; and «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock,» an idiosyncratic presentation -LSB-...]