With a grand use of white space dominating the work, one can't help but feel the push and pull — of the artist's intention and of the suggested action beyond
the physical edge of the painting.
Placed in the upper half, and held in place by
the physical edges of the painting's top and flanking sides, the ghostly bands float above a subtly inflected surface that we look at, as well as into, unable to settle comfortably in either domain.
Not exact matches
Done in enamel on identically sized aluminum panels, the highly concentrated compositions are the result
of a visual algorithm in which the forms increased incrementally in height and width as they moved outward from the central, vertical axis — a narrow, empty space — toward the
painting's
physical edges.
Kaz Oshiro's sculptural
painting contorts the
physical plane
of the canvas, playfully breaking the traditional hard
edges in a brilliant shade
of hot pink.
Moving from drawing, to
painting, to sculpture, the
physical manifestation
of her forms brings to life the precision
of Herrera's sharp
edges.
Together forming an oasis
of color, each
painting is dominated by a bright tone and finished with the artist's signature slanted
edges, pushing the piece into the
physical space
of the viewer.
As with Noland's earlier work, he continued to apply color as a
physical material substance, but unlike his earlier hard
edged paintings which rely on fields
of dense color, for Into the Cool he used color through subtle tone and transparency.
When hung, these beveled
edges projected the works off
of the wall and towards the viewer, removing the image from the two - dimensional realm
of traditional
painting and into the viewer's «real»
physical space.
The narrow rectangles pressing against the
painting's
physical edges raise the question: Is the image a slippery glimpse
of something larger or something self - contained?
Experimenting with modulations
of form, color, and plane, Clark's early abstract works challenged the canvas»
edge and extended the visual field
of painting into the
physical realm
of the viewer.
His
paintings embrace and rethink all the
physical tropes
of abstraction, including oily pigment halos, AbEx scale, hard
edge geometry, and Twombly-esque calligraphy, reformulating each in the artist's own idiosyncratic, endearingly low - skilled way.
When hung, the beveled
edges projected the works off
of the wall and towards the viewer, removing the image from the flat, two - dimensional plane
of traditional
painting and into the viewer's
physical space.
Utilizing a number
of different supports including canvas or linen, fiberboard and marble dust panel, Olson plays with the notion
of surface and framing as constructs in his work, at times, employing handmade frames and thick borders
of unpainted surface around a central
painted field that act as both a
physical edge to the
painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an object.
Olson considers surface and framing as constructs in his work, employing handmade frames and, at times, thick borders
of unpainted surface around a central
painted field that act as a
physical edge to the
painting and call attention to its nature as both an image and an object.
Richter's surfaces also record the quickness or slowness
of his gestures, gestures made with
physical effort, but mediated through large unconventional tools, such as house
paint brushes taped to long bamboo rods and variously sized squeegees
edged with transparent Plexiglas.
Even in his freest inventions he restored the flat,
physical reality
of the surface by letting his pigment clot or by slapping the unsized
edges of the canvas with his
paint - dipped palms.