Caivano's works are the result of an extensive decision - making process, each brushstroke and colour conceived in relation to the one that came before within
the particular space of the canvas.
Not exact matches
His paintings are typically radically simplified abstract
canvases, often based on the architecture and proportions
of particular spaces.
This five foot wide
canvas depicts the complicated
space of a modern living room, made far more complex by a
particular illumination: the late - afternoon light, flooding through a wall
of windows behind the viewer, so that their frames cast numerous disjointed shadows across furniture, floor and walls.
Formally, the border serves to contain and ground the central activity
of the
canvas with
particular focus on the empty
spaces - the «minus»
of the exhibition title.
He continues: «While Heller succinctly identifies the physicality
of «feet on the ground / paint on the
canvas» with «movement, energy, and
space,» I would further acknowledge her
particular painterly ability to evoke the deep forces underlying their connection.
He has rightly been regarded as a consummately perceptual painter — the interaction
of the dots covering his
canvases makes the most out
of a very limited palette — but what struck me about his oil paintings in
particular was how tactile they felt, with the illusion
of space seeming to change, like the surface
of a mosaic, as you move from side to front to side.
Neither Ossorio's nor Sobel's drips have the same sense
of space, openness, or lyricism
of a Pollock drip, and this
particular canvas is so densely packed and layered, with every
space filled up with drips and swirls, that it feels suffocating.
Of particular note this year is the small panel by Evertz, an example of this colorist's investigation into gray that was the subject of a breathtaking show at Minus Space.2 Landfield's small canvas reveals the lyrical abstractionist at his fines
Of particular note this year is the small panel by Evertz, an example
of this colorist's investigation into gray that was the subject of a breathtaking show at Minus Space.2 Landfield's small canvas reveals the lyrical abstractionist at his fines
of this colorist's investigation into gray that was the subject
of a breathtaking show at Minus Space.2 Landfield's small canvas reveals the lyrical abstractionist at his fines
of a breathtaking show at Minus
Space.2 Landfield's small
canvas reveals the lyrical abstractionist at his finest.