In earlier works, a concern with
the perceptual space of painting juxtaposed abstracted human faces with overlapping skeins of color.
Not exact matches
Adams» works draw from the constructed realities
of artists such as Thomas Demand and Hiroshi Sugimoto, the
perceptual considerations
of the Light and
Space artists, as well as the
paintings of the Dutch Golden Age and 19th century American Luminists.
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.
The only gallery without any sculpture in it embodies another one
of the paradoxes that LeWitt's art delights in: The
space feels the fullest, as if it's about to burst from the
perceptual tug -
of - war his wall
paintings generate in your gut.
Each
of these Ottawa - area artists produces
paintings that investigate
space, and
perceptual distress in different ways.
Widely known for her spectacular in situ
paintings, in which explosive color is rendered directly onto architecture, interiors, and landscapes, Grosse embraces the events and incidents that arise as she works, opening up surfaces and
spaces to the countless
perceptual possibilities
of the medium.
In modern
painting, both conceptual and
perceptual methods
of representing
space are often combined.
On view will be
paintings that explore Valledor's creation
of perceptual space within hard - edged
painting through his use
of geometric forms and dynamic color combinations.