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.
Not exact matches
Hung as a series of official portraits, each painting features an
abstraction whose shades and shapes convey the essence of a personality,
while weight, hues, and the overlapping layers of
painterly substance have a soul of their own.
Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work,
while retaining the
abstraction and
painterly gestures of high Modernism.
Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work,
while retaining the
abstraction and
painterly gestures of high modernism.
Michael Rudokas brings those memories even closer to the
painterly ideal of art as object,
while softening the edges of geometric
abstraction.
Employing various objects he found in his studio onto canvas, Ruby tests the limits of
painterly expression,
while subverting visual extends of both figuration and
abstraction.
While Lanyon has remained an iconic figure for painters, as an authentically British pioneer of
painterly abstraction, he is little known to the public at large.
These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work,
while retaining the
abstraction and
painterly gestures of high modernism.
He would serve in the Army, receive an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, teach college art classes for over thirty years in East Texas, and become a Catholic deacon, all the
while rejecting
painterly abstraction to produce fine - lined drawings about love, anger, and passion, so richly layered they recall art by Christian mystics like Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, and Henry Darger.
The Geometric
Abstractions show at G262 Sofie Van de Velde featuring Charlotte Posenenske (who exhibited at Art Berlin Contemporary, read about it in the ABC 2014 article), Ilse D'Hollander and Svenja Deininger is a must see for those that appreciate abstract
painterly work
while the gorgeous photography work of Veronika Pot and Daisuke Yakota both look very tempting on the Contemporary Photography Route and finally the Vivian Maier — Who are You Vivian?
Yet,
while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge
abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and
painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic performance practices (including live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).
The only important difference is that
while Richter utilizes various
painterly range from monochrome, minimal color charts, hard edge to gestural
abstraction, as well as his occasional use of croppings and other mechanical intervention of makings and unmakings, you have always stayed with one basic image and format.
In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western
abstraction;
while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of
painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.
While she achieved a great measure of commercial success in her too abbreviated life, Reeves was best known and respected by artists who recognized her powerful skills of blending
painterly style and manipulating materials in an alarmingly appealing way, avoiding the pitfalls that push
abstraction against representation.
While some compositions are executed in a
painterly, albeit naturalistic style, others are stripped down to highly - keyed geometric
abstractions.