Does it make you look at spray
paint in a whole new way?
Not exact matches
If I distrust Olitski more than ever and
in a
whole new way, I can at least see the same impulse toward squeezing
paint out of the tube and getting it on the wall.
Peter Schjeldahl writes
in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The
New Yorker, «The happiest surprise
in Trigger is a trend
in painting that takes inspiration from ideas of indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial techniques... The
wholes and parts of bodies
in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle
in alternating styles of line, stroke, stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the
way to physically engaging abstraction... Quarles playing that process
in reverse, adapting abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.
Talking about her work, Akunyili Crosby notes, «
In much the same way that inhabitants of formerly colonised countries select and invent from cultural features transmitted to them by the dominant or metropolitan colonisers, I extrapolate from my training in Western painting to invent a new visual language that represents my experience - which at times feels paradoxically fractured and whole - as a cosmopolitan Nigerian.&raqu
In much the same
way that inhabitants of formerly colonised countries select and invent from cultural features transmitted to them by the dominant or metropolitan colonisers, I extrapolate from my training
in Western painting to invent a new visual language that represents my experience - which at times feels paradoxically fractured and whole - as a cosmopolitan Nigerian.&raqu
in Western
painting to invent a
new visual language that represents my experience - which at times feels paradoxically fractured and
whole - as a cosmopolitan Nigerian.»
At the gallery's basement, the viewer comes across three bodies of work: black photographic paper (coin studies), museum barriers standing
in vertical position (distance keepers) and wall
painting (model), that act as collage elements and manage
in a quite unexpected and paradoxical
way to serve as a
whole new system of reference.
This
painting became her best - known, most influential work because of the
way she used color and canvas
in a
whole new way.
Once I started
painting and honing
in on my artistic side, I really began to notice nature
in a
whole new way.