Charles Seliger: The 1940s & 1990s illustrates the artist's life - long exploration of
organic abstraction with works separated by half a century.
Not exact matches
Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful
organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it
with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.
Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful
organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it
with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.
They also move easily between
abstraction and representation, as
with Calame's
organic structures, but also in representing brushwork
with or without a brush.
However, some themes have been consistent in her work including a fascination
with the beauty and abjectness of the body; the marriage of kitsch and decoration to an ambiguous
organic abstraction; and a very personal and idiosyncratic approach to feminism and formalism.
Diverse as ever, McLean's select exhibition contains two mixed media works; presented on the ground floor of the gallery, the Untitled paintings are comprised of dense, black
organic shapes that veer to the
abstraction on neutral backgrounds, adorned
with daubs of coloured paper that on some sides have been hastily cut and others impatiently ripped, a nod to the rebellious humour of McLean who's body of oeuvre comprises witty sculptures made of rubbish and even his own body.
In this new series of works, he plays
with absence and presence,
abstraction and figuration, creating silhouette - like shapes that feel
organic.
Geometric
abstraction features the arrangement of simplified shapes, while
organic abstraction describes pictures
with forms that resemble plant, animal, or other living matter.
Her technique combines the best features of
abstraction with organic representational imagery.
Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of
abstraction in which
organic forms are imbued
with a remarkable quality of luminosity.
She joined a small group of pioneer sculptors who were committed to
abstraction,
with whom she developed her more mature style marked by
organic abstraction and innovative use of various media including string, wire and colored paint.
The paintings, intensely detailed, small - scale
organic abstractions (measuring no larger than 18» x 14»), are meticulously rendered
with acrylic on masonite panels.
Instead he experimented variously
with robust formations that bear a distinctly cubist appearance, Surrealist
organic sculptures and minimal geometric
abstractions, some of which reflect Giacometti's early preoccupation
with Sumerian and Cycladic art.
We can't help but agree
with critics who compare him to Benglis, Tuttle, and Rauschenberg and describe his work as a «rare brand of
abstraction that feels convincingly
organic: neither secretly symbolic nor aspiringly decorative; capable of drawing true poetic meaning from the conscientious arrangement of things in themselves.»
By Francis V. O'Connor,
with a foreword by Thomas M. Messer and an introduction by Melvin P. Lader Hardcover
with dustjacket: 12 x 10 inches 216 pages; 218 color illustrations (Hudson Hills Press, 2003) This is the first book devoted exclusively to Charles Seliger (American, b. 1926), and offers a rare glimpse at the working methods and personal life of an artist who has tirelessly pursued
organic abstraction for over sixty years.
Using figurative representation and playful geometric
abstraction, Brooklyn - based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing —
with traditional art methods to create
organic fine art as well as large - scale sculptures that explore humanity.
The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful
abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico,
with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting
organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.
CALLICOON FINE ARTS Callicoon and Mother's Tankstation Limited of Dublin have collaborated on this four - artist show,
with the strongest impression made by Mairead O'hEocha, who reinvents the floral still lifes of Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750)
with small flyaway brush strokes that evoke
abstraction and
organic decay.
There's also a solid helping of funkier, more -
organic - looking
abstraction here — a veiny network of yellow and black lines by Daniel Reynolds, a brushy green canvas by Gregory Montreuil, a spooky painting in pesto green and light purple by Gail Fitzgerald that looks like some ghostly undersea creature (and suggests a miniature, low - key Sigmar Polke) and, probably my favorite work here, a square
with a few barely there marks, whiffs of different colors by Roberta Allen.
Adams is also a doctor, working as a part - time dermatologist, and in his art he plays
with shiny, gnarly, and matte metallic finishes to evolve the skin surface of his
organic abstractions.
Deladier Almeida's paintings meld
organic forms
with manmade order, using landscape as an armature over which to create intuitive, vigorous
abstractions.
Meg Atkinson's work explores figure / ground relationships by juxtaposing Ad Reinhardt - like «disinterested»
abstraction with text and / or
organic forms.
«Behjat Sadr: Trace through the Black» explores the artistic and intellectual heritage of the Iranian artist Behjat Sadr,
with archival material, and presenting a rare selection of works: from her early debate
with «
abstraction informelle» in the 50s to her experimentations around
organic forms, trace making, and hallucinatory networks of lines throughout the «60s and «70s up until her «collage» years throughout the (inner) exile and the irrepressible return to her world of futuristic nostalgia.
His exhibition at Michael Werner last winter stunned me
with how smoothly he slips between delicately rendered
organic shapes, geometric
abstraction, and images of civil rights leaders.
Sprayed, brushed, flung, dribbled, puddled, taped, stained, poured, gestural, geometric,
organic and more,
with some of it on independent surfaces she attached to the wall, the painting is a virtual lexicon of modern
abstraction.
The notion of «
organic life» characterised the formal modifications associated
with modernism, while the «imaginative» went beyond this to suggest the potential accommodation of
abstraction which Hepworth acknowledged in her statement in The Studio two years later.
As
with her oil paintings, Frecon's works on paper continue her investigation of a highly allusive, geometric and yet still
organic abstraction; mostly small in scale, they are remarkable for their quiet presence and power.
In Britain, in the early 1930s, Henry Moore combined humanoid forms, African and Oceanic cultures, and
organic abstraction in a varied, eclectic style that reconciled modernist methodology
with Greek sculpture.
STATEMENT My practice for the past 15 years has been concerned
with aspects of intuitive
abstraction which incorporates hard edge and
organic abstraction as well shifting methodologies of mark making and spatial narratives that are situated within paintings, collages, photographs, objects, Marquette's, books, films, wall paintings and works on paper.
With shades of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown, Claude Monet, and a sort of raw deconstruction of Henri Rousseau, Weber's special gift is for evoking and recreating the organic tumult of fecund places in the most convincing manner despite her aesthetic of near - abstraction, animated in her paintings with the chaotic spirit of actionist expression
With shades of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown, Claude Monet, and a sort of raw deconstruction of Henri Rousseau, Weber's special gift is for evoking and recreating the
organic tumult of fecund places in the most convincing manner despite her aesthetic of near -
abstraction, animated in her paintings
with the chaotic spirit of actionist expression
with the chaotic spirit of actionist expressionism.
Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting
with new forms of biomorphic /
organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.
Disappointed
with «pure» geometry and disinclined toward
organic abstraction, they began creating constructions derived from elements of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful
organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it
with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.