In the selected works on view, similarities in color and energy between the two artist's sculptural and
painterly forms become apparent when viewed side - by - side.
Often a single gesture or cluster
of painterly forms depicts the painter's presence, a compressed or distilled essence... Through his treatment each map becomes a backdrop for events — pictorial events that he acts out, inviting narrative.»
Bartlett is known for her large installations of enameled steel plates that blend conceptualism
with painterly form.
She filters the heroic style of Michelangelo through her feminist and lesbian subject matter, yet in recent years her work has become more abstract and less overtly narrative, encompassing psychological ambiguity and
looser painterly forms.
Abstract painterly forms unearthed from the unconscious but referential to the natural world populated haunting works by a core group of young American artists.
Raphael curated a tight show showcasing a selection of terrific artists — all of whom were well known at the time — for
whom painterly form «within painting» was of the essence.
Two paintings by Rob Davis present the
subtle painterly forms of color field and abstract painters of another generation, wrought with dry wit and the materials of everyday vice.
His paintings move back and forth between representational and nonrepresentational imagery in his quest to translate his visual experience
into painterly form.
Bartlett is known for her installations of enameled steel plates that blend conceptualism
with painterly form.
An alchemist
of painterly form, Taaffe combines silkscreen, stencil, collage, marbling and staining as he integrates the following opposites: decorative + narrative, natural + man - made, ancient + modern.
The significant factor is to recognize how the matter of painting, in each case, is addressed to the spectator — a point underlined in the work of Ron Martin, whose recent shift from an open and
painterly form to a geometric colour structure is a syntactical, not a stylistic change.
In this new endeavor, Fig's particular interest takes
a painterly form.
Richter counters the gesture of Abstract Expressionism with completely neutral surfaces and vibrant textures that he does not draw from his subjective responses but, conceptually, from the fundamental possibilities of
painterly forming.
Yet the real drama lies not so much in the kissing, shooting, and running figures that populate Furnas's pictures as in the artist's knowing investigation of
painterly form.
This exhibition celebrates the resounding resonance of color and energy between these sculptural and
painterly forms.