When I began to show my work with David Whitney in 1969, I was
painting stained abstractions, bordered by bands of color painted on the edges.
Not exact matches
When Poons, always a great colorist,
stained over his ellipse
paintings in 1968 he achieved some of the most beautiful, free spirited and innovative
abstractions of the decade.
«Through his ties with leading modernists on both side of the Atlantic, Hoyland is a pivotal figure in 20th - century
abstraction and the
stain paintings from this period, many of which have never been publicly exhibited outside of London, are ripe for rediscovery and new understanding.»
The Newport Street exhibition is the first major show since Hoyland's death in 2011 and will reaffirm his status as an important and innovative force within international
abstraction, providing new insights into the way in which his work evolved from the huge colour -
stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex
paintings of the early 1980s.
It seems only fair, then, that
abstraction has had a resurgence — but with no end of riffs on imagery, photography,
stains, poured
paint, trompe l'oeil, and signs and symbols.
This covered a number of movements, from
stain painting (just what it says) to systemic
painting (most famously Josef Albers, who reduced his work to a series of coloured squares, one inside another), minimal
painting (such as that of Agnes Martin, obituary, January 10) and hard edge
abstraction.
Peter Schjeldahl writes in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, «The happiest surprise in Trigger is a trend in
painting that takes inspiration from ideas of indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial techniques... The wholes and parts of bodies in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle in alternating styles of line, stroke,
stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging
abstraction... Quarles playing that process in reverse, adapting abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.
Moving from the early Abstract Expressionist
paintings of Dusti Bongé and Marie Hull to the contemporary works of Bonnie Maygarden and and Shawne Major, this exhibition includes work that ranges from the early minimalist compositions of Ida Kohlmeyer to the fresh abstract spaces of Ashley Teamer; from the
stained surfaces of Dorothy Hood and Anastasia Pelias to the biomorphic
abstractions of MaPo Kinnord and Shawn Hall.
Breathing luminous color and varying in media from
stain paintings to digitally controlled light emitting diodes, this select gathering of abstract images showcases Lyrical
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Stained Color Field
Abstraction was pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler.She diluted her
paints and poured them onto canvases often lying on a floor or table.
The
paintings include large, textured,
stained, all - over canvas creations like Schwabacher's Antigone I, from 1958, a 51 x 82 1/4 inch canvas of blood red, ochre, black, blue, gray and white markings that is a figurative
abstraction of the Greek myth.
Impressed by the «
stain»
paintings of Morris Louis, Noland developed a pictorial language of spare, often bright
abstraction centered on concentric circles and repeated chevrons, motifs that he would utilize throughout his career.
Understood as an umbrella under which hard - edge
painting, color
stain painting, lyrical
abstraction, and minimal
painting stood, post-painterly
abstraction introduced a more logical and systematic approach to creativity.
«Color:
Stained, Brushed and Poured» brings together several artists whose enquiries into color theory and
paint application revolutionized the course of
abstraction in America.
Ligon, who based his ongoing «Stranger» series around this essay, documents the smudges of
paint, oil
stains, and fingerprints that have accumulated on his copy throughout his career, which he considers a «palimpsest of accumulated personal histories that suggests... a new strategy in his ongoing exploration of the interplay between language and
abstraction,» according to a press release.
Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through
staining; Thompson's humorous oil
painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown
abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge
abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up of many different harlequin features.
This show of vintage sewn and
stained paintings demonstrated that Al Loving, who died in 2005, was not only one of the most radical painter - deconstructionists but also the one who most fully embraced the sensual potential of off - the - stretcher
abstraction.
Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly
Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who
stained first Magna then water - based acrylic
paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.
In a reaction to the all - over, process oriented
abstraction of the midcentury, Landfield
painted his
abstractions from nature, incorporating an horizon as he used random effects of pouring and
staining.
Sprayed, brushed, flung, dribbled, puddled, taped,
stained, poured, gestural, geometric, organic and more, with some of it on independent surfaces she attached to the wall, the
painting is a virtual lexicon of modern
abstraction.
These individual styles included: Hard - Edge
Painting, Colour
Stain Painting, Washington Colour Movement, American Lyrical
Abstraction, and Shaped Canvas.
Hard - edge
painting was only one of them: others included Colour Field, Colour Stain Painting, Op Art, Washington Colour Painting, «One - Image painting», «Systemic painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal P
painting was only one of them: others included Colour Field, Colour
Stain Painting, Op Art, Washington Colour Painting, «One - Image painting», «Systemic painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal P
Painting, Op Art, Washington Colour
Painting, «One - Image painting», «Systemic painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal P
Painting, «One - Image
painting», «Systemic painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal P
painting», «Systemic
painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal P
painting» (Josef Albers), Lyrical
Abstraction, Bay Area Figuration and Minimal
PaintingPainting.
The David Richard Gallery is presenting «Color:
Stained, Brushed and Poured» bringing together several artists whose enquiries into color theory and
paint application revolutionized the course of
abstraction in America.
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including: An Irruption of the Rainbow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Wall to Wall, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2016); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (2015); Three Graces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2015); Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2015); AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL (2013); Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (2012); Lines, Grids,
Stains, and Words (2008), Comic
Abstraction (2007), and Sense and Sensibility: Women and Minimalism in the 90's (1994) all at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Extreme
Abstraction, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, (2005); As
Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, (2002); Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, (2001).
As an artist who has been variously described as «the new Turner» and «Europe's answer to Mark Rothko», the show will reaffirm Hoyland's status as an important and innovative force within international
abstraction and provide new insights into the way in which Hoyland's work evolved from the huge colour -
stained canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex
paintings of the 1980s.
His oeuvre includes early modernist works, geometric
abstractions, drip
paintings,
stain paintings and abstract expressionist works.
We can cite pasted newspaper in Braque and Picasso collages,
painted paper in a Matisse découpage, the painterly poured line of Pollock's classic
abstractions... For Morris Louis the
staining technique was such a breakthrough» (E.A. Carmean Jr., Morris Louis: Major Themes & Variations, exh.
Frankenthaler had become a creator of a new kind of
abstraction which became known as Color Field
painting, using
stains and color to seep into the canvas.
The styles embraced by this term include Hard - Edge
Painting, illustrated by the works of abstract painters like Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Frank Stella (b. 1936), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926); Colour
Stain Painting, exemplified by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Joan Mitchell (1926 - 92), and Jules Olitski (b. 1922); Washington Colour Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic
Painting, which covered the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical
Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field
Painting, illustrated by the works of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal
Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b. 1930).
More importantly, she developed a body of work — as the three
paintings in her exhibition at THEODORE: Art make readily apparent — that stood in thoughtful and thorough opposition to the aesthetic attitudes — by - then widely upheld, institutionally sanctioned, particularly as they concerned
abstraction — that emphasized particular techniques (
staining), the historical necessity of flatness, and a literal (or anti-associational) mindset — all of which could be summed by Frank Stella's terse dictum, «What you see is what you see.»
Stains of hot pink acrylic and splattered globs of red
paint — formal strategies associated with Sam Gilliam's Washington Color School
abstraction — gain symbolic resonance when viewed in light of this work's title, alluding to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. «s assassination on April 4, 1968.
In the catalog essay to Reinventing
Abstraction, Rubinstein puts it this way: «Around 1980, a generation of artists who had been involved in the radical strategies of the»70s rediscovered the possibilities of
painting on stretched canvas, and working with oil
paint... applying
paint with a brush instead of spraying or folding or pouring or
staining.
She may obliterate part of a field of shocking rosy marker loops with diluted
paint (echoing both Helen Frankenthaler and her «soak
stain» kindred, plus more recently Matt Connors» meta - minded
abstraction).