Golden Age features critical texts
on abstract painting by Lane Relyea, David Geers, and Gregory Sholette in an attempt to summarize existing conversations about the eternal returns of abstract painting and how to further the impact, agency and relevance of contemporary art practices.
It reproduces a 2004 — 05 manifesto
on abstract painting by Rebecca Morris that Owens certainly seems to have taken to heart: «Never stop looking at macramé, ceramics, supergraphics, and Suprematism,» it reads.
Not exact matches
There are more than a dozen works
on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints
by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work
by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece
by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints
by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful
abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.
I guess if I were to pick just one to put
on my wall it would be this
abstract floral
painting in acrylic, which is strongly inspired
by a 1950s retro look, that I really love
«Peak Path» is an minimalist
abstract landscape oil
painting on canvas
by top selling Chairish artist, Trixie Pitts.
There are important works in the permanent collection (almost always
on view)
by Mondrian, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol, as well as a large number of
abstract paintings by Makevich, which are well - worth seeing if you have an interest in Russian avant - garde.
Open studio showing new works of three artists featuring large scale
abstract paintings by local educator Mike Irwin, contemporary
abstract still life
paintings by Jeanne Dentzel, and printmaking, assemblage and conceptual riddles in his numerous works
on paper
by local educator and arts activist Dug Uyesaka.
Poeta Herford
on Hastings showcases master jeweller Gordon Herford's stunning creations, alongside modern oil
paintings and
abstract photographs
by his partner Belinda.
The crowded installation of huge
abstract paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and
painting - sculpture hybrids, augmented
by works
on paper, tracks the New York artist's fifty - seven - year career.
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.
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).
In her Ambition series (2010), the artist draws
on the legacy of
abstract painting and commerce
by referencing Cecil Beaton's 1951Vogue fashion shoot that incorporated
paintings by Jackson Pollock.
By linking the Minimalist sculptures of artists like Donald Judd to the Russian supremacist
paintings of Kasimir Malevich and readymades of Duchamp, she extends the determinist history that formalism relies
on into sculpture and movements beyond
abstract expressionism.
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 essay «
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing
on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, discursive
by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around
painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, especially
abstract painting in this
painting in this country.
Blue Mountain Gallery presents new
abstract paintings by Janet Sawyer in a group of works
on canvas and smaller works
on paper.
Influenced
by feminism, quilt design, and non-Western as well as Western art, Ms. Valdez combines
paint, fabric, and embroidery
on canvas to yield
abstract forms with undeniable relation to the human body.
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.
The juxtaposition of Gendel's Matisse - like figures, Sall's
abstract painting anchored
by a large black oval, and Gomez's swooshes was particularly compelling, just
on sheer
painting skill alone.
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.
Highlights of the exhibition include a Katharina Fritsch sculpture of a bright orange octopus; two complex new
abstract paintings by Terry Winters completed this summer; a Robert Gober sculpture of a sink sprouting contorted children's legs; new portrait and landscape photographs from Paris and New York
by Nan Goldin; a Martin Honert sculpture based
on his childhood drawings of toy soldiers; a large - scale
painted white relief
by Charles Ray of his two nephews; and a photograph of Germany's largest soccer stadium
by Andreas Gursky.
Next comes both a phantasmal oil
painting by Ross Bleckner, Untitled from 1991, and an
abstract landscape
by Joan Mitchell, Sides of a River 1, 1981, which is
on loan from the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York.
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.
Housed in the Empire State Plaza's underground Concourse gallery, this sprawling bunker of generic hard - edged
abstract painting and minimal sculpture was regarded
by students and faculty alike as something of an embarrassment of riches, the last vestiges of overblown Greenbergian dictates
on advanced art.
Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending
on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed
by development; Scott Short's «
abstract»
paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.
Continuing the Warholian reference,
on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based
on Warhol's urine oxidation
paintings,
abstract works made
by pissing
on copper metallic
painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.
Peggy Bates October 20 — November 26, 2011 Presenting new acrylic
paintings on canvas
by abstract artist Peggy Bates in an exhibition entitled Channels inspired
by the artist's recent observations of light and color in California's Channel Islands.
through May 25th Julie Langsam This exhibition features several recent
paintings from Langsam's long - running series of banded montages that set nearly monochromatic, tightly rendered views of iconic modernist buildings
on top of a band of gridded
abstract motifs inspired
by classic modernist
paintings and beneath ominously lit skies that invoke Romantic landscape
painting.
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.
All of which was brought to mind
by I Don't Give A Damn / Every Moment Counts, an exhibition of
abstract paintings and works -
on - paper
by Peter Plagens.
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...
By the 1970s, de Kooning abandoned any form of representation concentrating solely
on lyrical,
abstract paintings that are widely considered some of his most triumphant works.
Contributed
by Leora Lutz «Lampblack» (and the show title of the same name) is a new perfume created
by Bruno Fazzolari in conjunction with a series of small,
abstract paintings on appropriated...
It may mean something that almost all the
abstract painting in the show is
by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel -
on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.
I may yet remember Jason Gringler's shattered mirrors as
painting from Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Sheila Gallagher's
painting in plastic from Dodge, Rachel Beach's
abstract sculpture of reclaimed wood from Blackston (like Dodge,
on the Lower East Side), videos
by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook of art students from Tyler Rollins, or Patrick Jacobs's peepholes onto constructed other worlds from The Pool NYC.
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...
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.
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.
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
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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»).
Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each
painting that make it look so realistic and
abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings
on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every
painting (piece) and every small detail in the
painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the
abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works
by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.
The entire show consists of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the body and the space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies depicting football hooligans fighting, four
paintings of the skaters in a modern art museum breaking a series of
paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black
paintings representing the infinite space beyond the surface of the
abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the way to the interactive app that allows viewers to interact with the works
on view.
Figurative
abstract oil
on canvas
painting by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963).
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.»
Room III, which is curated
by artists Eileen Cooper and Bill Jacklin (and, confusingly, precedes Rooms I and II), is filled with light, allowing the bright,
abstract paintings on its stacked walls to sing.
Pollock's cultural appropriation is retrieved
by Luna who substitutes
paint on cowhide for the
abstract expressionist
paint on unprimed canvas.
Esopus 23 presents specially - commissioned projects exclusive to this issue including a series of images printed
on translucent and metallic stocks
by Marilyn Minter, a portfolio of die - cut works
by Mickalene Thomas, a collection of images and documentation
by Jody Wood relating to her ongoing «Beauty in Transition» series, a new series of
paintings by Stefan Kürten; drawings
by Karo Akpokiere dealing with the challenges of living and working between Berlin and Lagos, and a series of
abstract photographic «landscapes» created in the darkroom
by master black - and - white printer Chuck Kelton.