Sentences with phrase «painterly abstraction»

He created a dazzling group of painterly abstractions in the 1970s.

What kind of pleasure (or wisdom) have you encountered in painterly abstraction?

Given the overwhelming popularity of painterly abstraction, this was also a period when he destroyed hundreds of canvases, and those that survived had little to no audience.

Working with painterly abstraction as an agent of change, each of Sheridan's paintings compresses the time of its video counterpart into object.

Ranging from painterly abstraction to figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson's solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long - standing motifs of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black?

These she filters through the unavoidable artifice of modern life, using conscious painterly abstraction as a foil.

Within the work, fragments are enlarged or brought closer, photographs dissolve into painterly abstraction, and images remain mutable, reflecting an indexical relationship to the multiplicity of meanings projected onto them.

This trend towards decorative, formalist painting - of which Newman was to a great extent a pioneer catalyst - was nicknamed Post Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg, who in 1964 curated a special exhibition devoted to the new style, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Figurative elements are always present, but often seem to serve more as vehicles for painterly abstraction than for specific narrative.

In the early 1950's, when his tall, angular presence first became known on the New York art scene, he showed painterly abstractions at several downtown galleries before branching into sculpture.

In 1964 his work was included in Clement Greenberg's landmark Post Painterly Abstraction exhibition, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and travelling subsequently to Minneapolis and Toronto.

Regarded for her «empty» images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments, those which exist almost exclusively within our periphery.

Ten artists, five from the Southland, five from hereabouts, who follow one variation or another on abstract expressionism, have been gathered together in the exhibition, «Practice and Process: New Painterly Abstraction in California,» at the Richmond Art Center through Aug. 22.

Thorton Willis, Triple Play, 2008 Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches March 9 — April 18, 2010 Thornton Willis is a painter whose masterful painterly abstractions explore space using geometric themes and variations.

Thornton Willis is a painter whose masterful painterly abstractions explore space using geometric themes and variations.

In the end, form dissolves into pure painterly abstraction, freed from meaning and liberated into the act of art - making alone.

The general course of this style developed from the more painterly abstractions of the 1950s to totally nonrepresentational, expansive, simplified works of clear bright colors through the 1960s.

The watercolor study below entitled Tree Worshipers further explores the construction of pictorial space using both representation and painterly abstraction which is the driving force behind much of this new work.

Rohrer's study of the perception of color reflected his interest in expanding painterly abstraction while at the same time referencing the Lancaster and Pennsylvania landscapes he drew inspiration from.

The approaches range from organic - looking painterly abstractions to using visceral and arresting photorealistic imagery, like that unflinching typographic stitches shot for the cover of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Peter's work is on display as part of a group show called, «American Painterly Abstractions» at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

The artist's early canvasses upended painterly abstraction by incorporating goofy personal allusions, doodles and common craft materials.

Vincent Dion's painterly abstractions mimic various printed techniques which reconcile and affirm the introspective presence of the hand.

These whimsical works display vitality, inventiveness, and a distinctive painterly abstraction.

I was reacting to Abstract Expressionism which, by the time I arrived, meant second - generation artists giving painterly abstraction a bad name.»

Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions — An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

It was old, solid British painterly abstraction.

The contrail is a swirling painterly abstraction; at the same time, Dodge's brushstrokes witness the awesome power of humans and their creations (for better or for worse).

Painterly abstraction arrived late in Cape Town, in the early postwar years, and not without widespread resistance.

This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures.

Painterly abstraction hangs next to Ellsworth Kelley's sharp planes of color.

Meanwhile Mark Dion asks how art and science grew together from some decidedly old media, and Michal Rovner makes video and fluid dynamics look like painterly abstraction.

His early, cartoonish figure paintings have diversified into maximalist painterly abstractions, on US abstract expressionist scales.

Murray grappled with an ever expanding vocabulary of autobiographical forms and images as her career progressed, incorporating Pop art, cartooning, graffiti art and aspects of minimalism and post painterly abstraction without ever completely abandoning her affinity for the New York School.

Günther Förg's geometric, gestural painterly abstractions were homages to, and sometimes appropriations of US abstract expressionist idioms radically disabused of their metaphysical address.

At the forefront of this new paradigm was HALE WOODRUFF, whose integration of African - design motifs into his colorful, large - scale canvases stood alongside an enigmatic and symbol - laden painterly abstraction in works by other painters.

Drawing on the legacies of Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky, Thomas, who died in 1978 at age 86, took painterly abstraction — a medium that had been primarily white and masculine (she was black)-- and made it her own: a personal project, with formal experiments with line and color to boot.

An early American abstractionist, Gertrude Greene sought a unity between formal geometry and painterly abstraction during the last phase of her career, an intermingling that may be seen in Triangulation (ca. 1951).

In the exhibition's last gallery, the emotions of human association and painterly abstraction coalesce in large - scale paintings, delicate ink drawings, as well as iPhone - initiated drawings and videos.

Prominent exponents of 1960s Post Painterly Abstraction include: Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Frank Stella.

Hodgkin shows an audacious confidence as he begins to abandon all representational forms and works purely in his own language of bold painterly abstraction that he is so revered for.

Beginning with The Tormentors of 1947 — 48, Guston gradually unravels the figurative scaffolding that he used throughout the 1940s into subtle painterly abstractions.

It reveals how, in the 1950s, Frankenthaler was a major second - generation Abstract Expressionist artist who advanced the methods of mid-century painterly abstraction.

Giampietro, whom I ran into last night at Michael Berryhill's opening, leans toward painterly abstraction, very similar to John Davis's aesthetic.

In February 2012, Art Forum featured a 1973 painting by Whitten on its cover, prompting art critics and curators to ask why Whitten's work had not received more recognition earlier in his career, especially given that his scraped and squeegeed painterly abstractions of the 1970s predated by a decade similar works by the widely acclaimed German artist Gerhard Richter.