In her essay for Diamond's 1990 show at Robert Miller Gallery, the poet Eileen Myles noted that: «Martha Diamond seems to be painting «the present,» whether it's big or little parts of buildings, specks of dust or
paint strokes floating in a raspberry sky...»
Not exact matches
One of the largest
paintings from this period, «The Year» (1964) is dominated by the presence of two great black personages
floating in a field of luscious wet - on - wet
strokes.
This is a good feeling, as is
floating in a pool of water or sliding down a slide; this seemed to be the point, too, of his large - scale abstract
painting filled with yellow, orange, red, green, and purple waves of ribbony
strokes in the front room.
Abstract Illusionism was
painting with a very specific set of devices: dropped shadow under a thickly
painting floating brush
stroke, or a sprayed halo around, but really under a
painted shape.
During this period his
paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of gestural
strokes and marks of color
floating within the picture plane.
Majerus favored quick
strokes and free -
floating images over solid, fixed compositions, lighthearted cribbing over serious appropriation (he collaborated with Basquiat and Warhol in 1999, well after their deaths, by silk - screening one of their
paintings and adding a few
strokes of his own).