One week he might make twenty small,
painterly abstractions, and the next he'd be experimenting with larger ready - made objects and constructions.
This sparkly metallic paint calls attention to itself, in part because it's not something you see often on paintings like these — large,
painterly abstractions.
He created a dazzling group of
painterly abstractions in the 1970s.
Pages will go by without text or readable image, just bizarre
painterly abstractions that somehow manage to propel the grisly tale.
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.
Drawing on his deep knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, he unexpectedly broke conventions by merging representational elements with
painterly abstractions.
Maisel's
painterly abstractions in The Fall reference a variety of sources, from the landscapes of Richard Diebenkorn to the lunar renderings of NASA.
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.
Beginning with The Tormentors of 1947 — 48, Guston gradually unravels the figurative scaffolding that he used throughout the 1940s into subtle
painterly abstractions.
That said, Gorchov emphasizes that the landscapes in her paintings do not reflect places but rather capture moods in form of conglomerated places and
painterly abstractions.»
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.
American painter Nola Zirin is best known for
her painterly abstractions, but for this show she offered Detroit Debris (2017), a series of found objects covered with an enamel gold spray supported by a flat pedestal.
Bradley was born in 1975 in Georgia, raised in Maine, and has been a fixture on the New York art scene over the past decade, regularly showing new bodies of work, ranging from «modular» works and silkscreens to
painterly abstractions and sculpture.
Thornton Willis is a painter whose masterful
painterly abstractions explore space using geometric themes and variations.
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.
In this regard, they weave together multiple strands of art - historical lineage, ranging from Gerhard Richter's
painterly abstractions, to Andy Warhol's aesthetic of reproduction, to the material concerns of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg.
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.
Her sharp sense of geometric formalism is evident in the jarring juxtapositions she presents between flat,
painterly abstractions of light and abrupt shifts in volume and depth.
Vincent Dion's
painterly abstractions mimic various printed techniques which reconcile and affirm the introspective presence of the hand.
Sean Scully is known for rich,
painterly abstractions in which stripes or blocks of layered color are a prevailing motif.
In my work of 1967 - 1968 using colored lines across thick, rolled colored fields, and
painterly abstractions with allusions to nature I articulated where I thought advanced painting should go.
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.
Melding a goofy figuration with
painterly abstraction, viewers are given a choice to appreciate the narrative or the process with which these pictures are fabricated.»
The artist's early canvasses upended
painterly abstraction by incorporating goofy personal allusions, doodles and common craft materials.
Significant exhibitions include Fifty Californians, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1962); Americans 1963, curated by Dorothy Miller, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1963); Post
Painterly Abstraction, curated by Clement Greenberg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (1965); Art Across America, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (1965); and The West Coast Now, Portland Art Museum, OR (1968).
Painterly abstraction may seem to make drawings even more irrelevant.
With the exception of Kelly, all of those artists developed their versions of
painterly abstraction that has been characterized at times as lyrical abstraction, tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and abstract expressionism.
These whimsical works display vitality, inventiveness, and a distinctive
painterly abstraction.
«Post
Painterly Abstraction and Spanish Artist Joaquin Sorolla.»
Finally, in the late 1960s (partially as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to
painterly abstraction as «lyrical abstraction».
1980 Aspects of the 70's:
Painterly Abstraction, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA L'Amerique aux Independants, 91e Exposition, Société des Artistes, Paris, France Paintings from the Andre Emmerich Gallery, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN Art In Embassies, Collection of US Ambassador and Mrs. Warren Manshe, State Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Works on Paper, Allen Rubiner Gallery, Royal Oak, MI Contemporary Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
His recent paintings and prints contain elements of a figurative, cartoon, Surrealist, and Pop heritage combined with an equal interest in
painterly abstraction.
Here Thiebaud was in agreement with Philip Guston, a near contemporary of his, whose work incorporates a diversity of ingredients from
painterly abstraction to comic strips.
Aspects of the Seventies:
Painterly Abstraction (exhibition catalogue).
This exhibition traces the path of Post
Painterly Abstraction to the present day.
This exhibition present new large - scale painting and sculpture which feature exuberant pop references mixed with
painterly abstraction and stoic minimalism, unified by the over-arching motif of funerary form.
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.
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.
Post
Painterly Abstraction will also include recent works by artists exhibiting for the first time with the gallery.
Yet Rothko's work, like Barnett Newman's, can be distinguished from
the painterly abstraction that characterized much of American art in the late 1940s and 1950s (one thinks of Willem de Kooning's wet - into - wet impasto).
Informed by the Los Angeles mural culture, Cristi's complex paintings often intermix cultural signs and representations with
painterly abstraction, connecting the politics of the canvas to the politics of the street.
To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post
Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.
Neo-Dada, Post
painterly abstraction, Op Art, hard - edge painting, Minimal art, Fluxus, Photorealism, and Conceptual art came afterwards, mixing up the influences from both sides and proving that the US has become a veritable artistic melting pot.
Through such means, Walker's paintings balance realistic landscapes with
painterly abstraction, attending equally to space and surface.
Works made in San Francisco immediately thereafter disclose a rapid growth in the artist's tendency to incorporate heterogeneous materials with burgeoning accumulations of found objects and magazine fragments, bringing representational content into dialogue with
painterly abstraction.
In Hansen's «paintings» — hand - knitted constructions stretched on wooden frames — loops of yarn give form to
a painterly abstraction or assert its uncertainty.
Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions — An Introduction to Small Scale
Painterly Abstraction in America
Post
Painterly Abstraction (the term was coined by Greenberg to signal a break with what he called «the turgidities of second - generation Abstract Expressionism») was Greenberg's way of making real what he'd been writing about in such much - discussed essays as Modernist Painting, from 1961.
From afar, Untitled appears like a trompe l'oeil; however, upon closer consideration, the photographic realism dissolves into
a painterly abstraction composed from a meticulous system of thick, accrued brushstrokes that endow the surface with a textured physicality.
About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A. painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd - shaped plates, and
painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.