The most recent ones hang on the walls so he can assess the new
painting strategies each suggests.
Not exact matches
Maybe the exhibition title
suggests that the works are only just at the point of gesture, like the Andrea Madjesi - Jones
painting, where gesture seems to be included in a wider pictorial
strategy, or perhaps that they have arrived at the point of gesture having set out from some other place, Clem Crosby's work, for example, coming out of the monochrome tradition to a reconsideration of the role of drawing.
While the formal still lifes may conjure associations with Audubon and are occasionally mistaken for watercolors or drawings, the consequence of motion is a startling and surprising range of subtle colors,
suggesting painterly
strategies that refer to a long tradition of European still life
painting.
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.
Truax says the artists he has selected have «a romantic and emotional engagement with
painting and its history,» At the end of his essay, he even
suggests that Conceptual artists are adopting
painting as a
strategy, too.