The Cuban - born, Puerto Rico - based artist Zilia Sánchez has been painting abstract forms
on shaped canvases for decades, and a group of these elegant works spanning the 1960s to 2015 are on view in Galerie Lelong's booth.
«Push and Pull» features SCAD Atlanta foundation studies professor Marcia Cohen's «Summer Reading» series of abstract compositions
on shaped canvases; SCAD Atlanta painting program coordinator Tom Francis» gestural text - based paintings; and SCAD Savannah ceramics program coordinator Yves Paquette's reinterpretations of the shapes and color of antique French Sèvres porcelain in his «L'hiver bleu» series of ceramic sculptures.
Berthot's early paintings were abstractions
on shaped canvases.
The student work ranges from letterform - inspired abstractions to painterly landscapes to intensely graphic narrative scenes
on shaped canvases.
He started working
on shaped canvases and opted for increasingly large formats.
Not strictly a minimalist, he has made a number of monochrome paintings
on shaped canvases and single color rectangular panels.
Peter Stämpfli, Royal, 1971, oil
on shaped canvas, paint on the ground.
Gerald Laing, Lincoln Convertible, 1964, Oil
on shaped canvas, 73 x 111 inches (185.4 x 282 cm) The Estate of Gerald Laing © The Estate of Gerald Laing
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life with Blue Jar and Smoking Cigarette, 1981, oil
on shaped canvas, in 4 parts, overall: 108 × 221 × 66 inches (274.3 × 561.3 × 167.6 cm)
For a take
on shaped canvas, although a canvas shaped not by a stretcher, but by bare hands and its own weight, one might turn instead to Al Loving.
Lot 200, «Horizon,» is rather unusual as it consists of two parts, a large curved oil
on shaped canvas and enamel and the other part silkscreen ink on 20 steel plates.
He made Sneakers and Purple Panties in 1981: a large still life
on shaped canvas with simply a pair of sneakers and purple panties as the subject.
Liquitex and collage on canvas and oil
on shaped canvas, 84 x 144 1/2 x 18 inches.
Her oil paintings of geometric masses of color
on shaped canvas look sculptural, but mount flat on the wall.
These geometric paintings are masses of color in acrylic and oil paint, with wood dowels
on shaped canvas.
Acrylic
on shaped canvas with trompe l'oeil frame.
The artist hangs the work
on a shaped canvas stretcher that is at once concave and convex, a shape critics have compared to shields or saddles.
Zilia Sánchez, Lunar I (detail), 2003, mixed media
on shaped canvas, 77 x 60 x 14 inches.
Zilia Sánchez, Conjuncón (Conjunction)(detail), 2003, mixed media
on shaped canvas, 72 x 54 x 24 inches.
1982 diptych, acrylic
on shaped canvas left 20 x 89 1/2 in.
BLAIR THURMAN Born in New Orleans, LA, 1961 Lives and works in New York, NY Vintage Turntable, 2010 Acrylic
on shaped canvas Variable dimensions
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930) Superficie bianca indistinctly signed, titled and dated «Enrico Castellani Superficie bianca agosto 1967» (on the stretcher) acrylic
on shaped canvas 39 3/8 x 47 3/8 in.
Allsorts showcases works from Hawtin's Torqued Series, including paintings
on shaped canvas, fiberglass panels, and the new corner pieces.
TOM WESSELMANN Landscape # 5 1965 Liquitex and collage on canvas and oil
on shaped canvas 84 by 144 1/2 by 18 in.
(Lest viewers be tempted to pigeonhole him as a textual appropriator, Sandner usually includes at least one textless monochrome painting, often
on a shaped canvas, in each of his solo shows.)
Not exact matches
It's like a
shape - shifter or a
canvas, assuming whatever meaning or emotion we project
on it.
Lovely
on its own - with a swingy
shape, elongating seams, and a curvy hemline - it's a blank
canvas for your favorite accessories.
Well, spherically -
shaped Kirby is back in his latest outing
on Wii U, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, the spiritual successor to the early DS game, Kirby:
Canvas Curse.
Back in the days when Mel Ramos could paint Chiquita Banana pinups, Tom Wesselmann could sex up his still lifes by putting sunburned nudes with pubic hair into them, and Allen Jones could obnoxiously use a lifelike playmate
on her knees as a coffee table, Marjorie Strider was making
shaped canvases featuring 3 - D breasts that were smartly violating the picture plane as if to one - up the men, who never noticed.
Gottlieb, for instance, tells Goodnough that painting is «not only a matter of colors and
shapes on canvas, but images made visible and integrated» (p. 58) while Baziotes gives a contradictory statement, remarking that «reference to existing objects is not particularly helpful in contemporary painting.»
In between are too few of the swaggering compositions — of target - like concentric stripes, designs based
on compasses and protractors, and
shaped canvases that echo the
shapes painted
on them — that made Stella a god of the sixties art world, exalting tastes for reductive form, daunting scale, and florid artificial color.»
She notes: «A lot of time is spent sitting and looking at the
shapes and surfaces
on the
canvas.
In the larger of the rooms was a series of ink paintings
on cracked ceramic
canvases shaped as life - sized banana leafs.
Untitled (Golden Yellow) Acrylic
on canvas, 72 x 60 inches Ian Hughes October 9 — November 8, 2014 Over the arc of his career, Ian Hughes has honed a distinctive visual language in which paint reveals its lushest and most viscous qualities while simultaneously giving
shape to bio-reminiscent forms that have a compelling life of their own.
In 1960 Stella started introducing right angles into his stripes, but a funny thing happened:
on a rectangular
canvas, once you change the
shape of the stripes, you're left with a blank space.
GERALD LAING Lincoln Convertable 1964 Oil
on irregular,
shaped canvas 111 x 73 inches (282 x 185.5 cm) Estate of Gerald Laing © The Estate of Gerald Laing
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..
With his irregular polygons, the stripes were gone, replaced by angular expanses of hot pink and deep green
on canvases in the
shape of wonky nonagons.
From the «modular»
shaped canvases of pristine color fields tapped from the minimal canon, to rudimentary line drawings
on found cardboard and post-its, to saturated, unprimed
canvases, unceremoniously stitched together, Bradley's evocations of exalted and disposable culture lend equivalency to the discrete elements as they champion the materials of their making.
To grant pure abstraction its utmost wish is to say that it is a painting in the same way a table is a table — there is nothing to it apart from that formation of
shapes and colours
on canvas or board.
Stella's ingenious solution was to cut away the leftover parts of the
canvas, and to stretch the remainder
on a
shaped armature, with corners incised or a central hole evacuated.
Aluminium
on flesh colour painted
canvas (mushroom
shaped grinder), table and electrical candles
The works from 1967 to 1971 feature acrylic
on mylar and
canvas and feature both subtle and more obvious female symbols — Keyhole and Side OX feature distinct hole
shapes, while the disjointed geometric forms in Horizontal Woman No. 2 may only reveal a woman to viewers upon a close look.
Roughly - cut
canvases are tacked
on irregularly
shaped hand - made wood frames where both the layered plywood edges, usually four inches thick, and staples are deliberately exposed as compositional elements.
Basing his work
on the interaction of colors and
shapes, his practical geometry developed into an «intricate halftone technique» applicable
on both
on canvas and in large scale murals.
He laid them
on top of
canvases that formed unusual
shapes (T -
shapes, L -
shapes — anything but old - fashioned rectangles).
Each «Controlled Substance» painting such as «Morphine Sulphate» — often painted
on irregularly
shaped canvases — corresponds to a «Controlled Substance Key Painting».
In the early - to - mid»60s he constructed nearly human - sized, egg -
shaped canvases, monochromes, which he painted in a heavy impasto the colors of Easter eggs, poking and jabbing lots of holes
on their surfaces in all - over fashion, à la Pollock, as in Concetto Spaziale, La Fine de Dio (Spatial Concept, the End of God).
This series of paintings that illustrate this interview are from a 2005 exhibition at Locks Gallery featuring pairs of oil paintings
on polygonal -
shaped canvases and diptychs of her iconic baked enamel steel plate paintings.
She expresses her compassion in playful compositions of acrylic paint, mixed media and resin
on canvas, balancing organic
shapes, while often masterfully incorporating delicate ink drawings.