Muniz's Metachromes are constructed of sticks, stubs, fragments and dust of pastel sticks deftly arranged to re-imagine iconic paintings, forcing the viewer to move beyond the instantaneous recognition of such masterpieces and explore the materiality, chromatic range and
painterly process of these works.
Not exact matches
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.
Yet these
works deny their
painterly roots, sitting flat on the surface
of the stretched cotton as if the result
of a print
process rather than from the hand
of the artist.
These
painterly excavations
work and rework Bradford's own negotiation with what the artist calls «easy equations»
of racial, sexual and socio - economic realities, which are directly upended through his
process.
Highlighting better - known names — Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell — alongside lesser - known ones — Sonia Gechtoff, Perle Fine — the exhibition will encompass 12 women's
work, «focus [ing] on the expressive freedom
of direct gesture and
process at the core
of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and
painterly expression,» according to the description.
Women
of Abstract Expressionism will focus on the expressive freedom
of direct gesture and
process at the core
of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and
painterly expression in these
works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.
The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom
of direct gesture and
process at the core
of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and
painterly expression in these
works by individuals responding to particular places, memories and life experiences.
While his
work continues to explore the
process of «creation, destruction, creation» (Goode), and the atmospheric influence
of the California sky and ocean, the psychology
of painterly effects is underscored and brought to the foreground.
While Ferris's
work frequently evokes references to Tron, The Matrix, and other sci - fi movies, the use
of technology is mostly absent from her
painterly, hands - on
process.
As much as Rauschenberg's
work of the early 1950s had been championed for its elimination
of painterly conventions — no subject, no image, no taste, no object, no beauty, no message — Untitled [glossy black painting] makes the case that Rauschenberg was equally radical for what he was willing to let in — chance, duration, changing context, accidents, a life in the present.18 Historians tell us about the Rauschenberg who pursued a mode
of creativity that had «a life beyond its initial conception,» but it is not always possible to observe the
process of accretion.19 In 1986, Untitled [glossy black painting] would appear on the cover
of Arts Magazine, its identity photographically stilled.20 That was part
of the history
of this single canvas.
Marshall's layered, heavily textured
works consist
of painterly abstract expression and controlled mark making, etching and relief, whilst embarking on an amazing journey
of self discovery through his unique
processes of painting.
The DAM's exhibition focuses on the expressive freedom
of direct gesture and
process at the core
of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and
painterly expression in these
works [as they respond -RCB- to particular places, memories, and life experiences.
While Rawlings also draws upon a variety
of media to find images to
work from, she doesn't seek to appropriate them in a distinctive style or render them «
painterly» through her
process.
The
work is highly
painterly, the brushwork is explicit, simple, and direct — it reveals the
process of making.
The gallery press release notes the «
work ranges from the highly structured and pre-planned to more spontaneous
painterly language... The
process of painting is reliant upon the discovery
of new possibilities.
Alexander writes that Shields»
work is»... deeply rooted in a ritualization
of the painting
process and an assertion
of art - making as an ancient practice... the large paintings possess a rich merger
of painterly field and constructed objecthood — at once offhanded and painstakingly built.»
At the center
of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt exhibition Painting as Film are
works that reflect the
painterly process in film or even go a step further and merge both media.
This is not true, however,
of the most recent
works, which are created with a
painterly process that produces a marbleized effect.
Through choreographed,
painterly works, the artist creates impressions
of life - altering moments that have impacted his art making
process.
Beginning each painting with a low - tech computer drawing, Bauer develops his
work through a complicated
process incorporating hands - off painting techniques such as stenciling, silk - screening and spraying that translate digitized graphics towards sublime fields
of painterly abstraction.
Cesare Lucchini's rich
painterly works have emerged out
of abstract expressionism where the
process of painting is all.
For Tansey, this project was «a synthesis
of photographic, illustrative, and
painterly qualities... The meaning
of the
work resided in the
process of re-translation - reinterpretation reproduction - rather than in its perceptual equivalence to reality.»
Reproduced in stunning colorplates the paintings are shown alongside revealing images
of the
works in various stages
of development, which provide an exciting insight into Hockney's
painterly process.
Johnson is «a materialist at heart» and his earliest
work —
painterly, monochromatic photographs
of African - American men made with obsolete 19th - Century techniques — evidence a career - long fascination with materials and
processes.
Women
of Abstract Expressionism focuses on the expressive freedom
of direct gesture and
process at the core
of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and
painterly expression in these
works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences.
In addition to a more
painterly effect, these
works reflect a more nimble and freer approach to image - making than earlier
works which were bound by the limitations
of mechanical
processes.
Through exploration
of painterly materials, visual
process and participation from the public, this new body
of work will explore the imbrication
of patterns and experience that structures ones vision, suspended in doubt, sometimes cured in paint.