It surely helped to have on tap new media on temporary walls, not the fragile
physical space of painting and sculpture.
Not exact matches
The group's manifesto identifies their aims as carrying «
painting beyond the appearance
of the
physical world, through new concepts
of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual» in an effort to «widen the horizon
of art.»
A case in point is the current exhibition
of painting and installation by the artist Franklin Evans where a physical copy of Painting as Modelsits up front and center on the gallery floor while material unleashed from the book orbits about th
painting and installation by the artist Franklin Evans where a
physical copy
of Painting as Modelsits up front and center on the gallery floor while material unleashed from the book orbits about th
Painting as Modelsits up front and center on the gallery floor while material unleashed from the book orbits about the
space.
STILLPASS: You call this
space opened up by the canvas a mental field, but it seems to me that your
paintings invite a
physical relationship as much as a mental one, especially the
paintings you place in the middle
of the room.
By continually changing her working environment with lighting, mood, and orientation
of the canvas while
painting, Scully pushes the boundaries
of not only her practice, but
of physical and psychological
space.
Ferris: Often I think
of my
paintings in terms
of theater sets — a fake world surrounded by a larger atmospheric light world — you only glimpse the stage through this light construction that permeates and creates the
physical space.
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.
The so - called expansion
of course is into sculptural and installation - type manifestations
of painting, where the
space of the viewer is often encroached upon by
physical elements in the artwork.
As the contemporary practice
of painting continues to expand exponentially, with many artists becoming less concerned with the
physical medium
of paint itself, Cain's practice — a combination
of control, happenstance, and environmental information — is made unique through its reliance on
space and the structural conditions
of the locations in which her work is exhibited.
I think Poons changed his work in 1969 - 1970 because
of his
physical and literal awareness
of space and materials, his conscious philosophy
of the unknown as well as his desire to
paint great
paintings.
We were both affected by the way those sounds functioned in the Rothko Chapel, but we were also very aware
of how the
physical presence
of the
paintings alters one's emotional interaction with anything that goes on in that
space.
While drawing the viewer in, Rachel MacFarlane aims to create an illusion by emphasizing the
physical attributes
of the
painting as an object in
space.
A wall
painting inflects the surrounding
physical space differently than a
painting - as - object does, becoming indivisible from the viewer's perception
of that
space.
Challenging a Modernist perspective that
painting is defined by and bound to its surface, these
paintings — constructions
of wood, mirror, glass,
paint and, in two instances, video projection — acknowledge a
painting's
physical and imaginable
space.
Instead
of acting as a simple
physical barrier, the frame — not unlike the first glossy black «mirror
paintings»
of Michelangelo Pistoletto, also commenced in the 1960s — reflects a shard
of the viewer's own surroundings, creating a direct continuum with the external
space they occupy.
Subjecting the canvas to a range
of painted actions and erasures upon it, Humphries tests the limits
of painting, always interested in synthesizing
physical and psychological
space onto the
painted field.
AP: Throughout our conversation you spoke
of abstraction, and your
paintings, in relationship to the
physical space of not only the surface
of the work, but how it relates to your own physicality / body.
Through the use
of materials such as nylon flocking, which is a material commonly found in wallpaper, sand, resin and acrylic
paint, the highly
physical surfaces create a sense
of deep pictorial
space.
While Pistoletto has typically relied on the mirror's reflective surface to seamlessly integrate pictorial
space with the
physical space of the viewer, the Scaffali
paintings appear to complicate this relationship.
Julian Schnabel will feature a body
of significantly sized, sculptural
paintings in the iconic Court
of Honor, plus three other distinct bodies
of new work in the galleries dedicated to Auguste Rodin's sculptures; the artist's response to the
physical space of the Legion
of Honor and eternal themes in its collection.
Holme's work stems from the intersection
of material,
space and chemical reaction, transforming the contextual and
physical nature
of her materials to create a discourse between
painting and sculpture.
Both trends conceived
paintings as an experiential
space, for a
physical / psychic action, which in the case
of action
painting would be comparable to the act for someone who climbs mountains and whose literature and imagination are clearly rooted in romanticism.
She is known for creating installations
of large,
physical, two sided
paintings that establish an architectural environment that addresses the immediate experience
of time and
space and resists photographic transcription.
Opening on October 22nd, their Mid-City
space will be filled with Williams» hypnotic, large - scale
paintings on canvas and metal that present the
physical and conceptual disintegration
of structures.
Although the heretical «maximalist» Stella divided critics, his extravagant flights into literal
space extended his definition
of paintings as objects and seeing as a
physical act.
Their relationships to social, political and philosophical expressions
of feminism are as diverse as their work in sculpture,
painting, drawing, video, installation, collage, assemblage and the wearable — yet all six directly consider the literal and allegorical ways in which the female body occupies both
physical and semantic
space in the modern world.
I had just done small shows like the Nietzsche - Haus, and suddenly I found myself with hundreds
of paintings, and having to install them in a
physical space, and I learned so much from Kasper and his vision.
Although TPG members were committed to a shared set
of philosophical concepts and ideals, each artist developed his or her own artistic language and sought a unique path «to carry
painting beyond the appearance
of the
physical world, through new concepts
of space, color, light, and design.»
This is an exit out
of the picture, but the language
of the
painting forms a ligament to the edifice, connecting the pictorial, conceptual, and
physical spaces through the established language
of color and form in the
painting.
Although TPG members were committed to philosophical concepts and ideals, each artist developed his or her own artistic language and sought «to carry
painting beyond the appearance
of the
physical world, through new concepts
of space, color, light and design.»
He often responds directly to the
physical gallery
space through the spatial embodiment
of his
paintings.
These textual landscapes set forth a
physical space in a three dimensions, but through the two dimensions
of painting and one
of time.
In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material
of her
paintings — not only the subject in the photograph, but also the photograph itself; the material quality
of the printed image, its traces
of weathering, handling and use, its
physical presence as an object lying on the corner
of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a
space that might be a studio.
Nathan Cohen's
paintings explore the nature
of our relationships with phenomena in the world around us, and how this can be altered through images and
physical interaction with
space and visual form.
Modeling her CG animations on the allegorical
paintings of Casper David Fredrich, Fu continues her aspirations in the sublime from her
painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous la
painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature
of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect
of Chinese Traditional Landscape
Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous la
Painting, which often presents a type
of virtual
space where the significance
of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous landscape.
Inasmuch as actual
physical parts form shapes and surfaces to be
painted, Stella's rich illusionistic mix has pushed composition outward from the wall, while retaining the idea
of pictorialism in the use
of pattern and gesture to create an anomalous fictive
space on any given surface.
The event is presented alongside Markus Schinwald, the Vienna - based artist's first major museum commission in the United States, featuring 19th - century
paintings and wooden sculptures created from the legs
of Chippendale - style tables that alter the
physical and psychological potential
of the gallery
space.
My recent
paintings and sculptures focus on the African - American experience
of navigating public
spaces while remaining buoyant within them... Working beyond the
physical image
of the body, objects
of buoyancy, and navigation become metaphors for selfhood, resilience, and the sanity required in the turbulent oceans
of contemporary America.»
These renderings are then executed in acrylic
paint and overlaid with enlarged drawings
painted with a vinyl
paint that alternately reinforces the illusionistic
space of the
painting and calls to attention the
physical reality
of the
paintings» two - dimensional linen support.
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.
For McLean, the two - dimensional shade
paintings are sculptural, explorations
of light and shadow as
physical, almost tangible entities in
space.
From the psychedelically primordial My Forsaken Love, in which biomorphs traverse a black - fringed molten - pink ground, to the strata - like composition
of Standing on the Riverbank
of My Hometown I Shed Tears, a canvas filled with sedimentary layers
of cell - like dots, eyes and extravagantly decorated lashes, the
paintings generate new motifs and arrangements
of forms while continuing a lifelong preoccupation with the mysteries
of the
physical and metaphysical, the tangible and ineffable - the
space where seeing and feeling intersect.
Physical / Ephemeral by Casey Snyder features two dimensional mixed media works that challenge the boundaries
of painting and
space.
Throughout Georgia Noble's vivid abstract works, her objective is to exceed the conventions
of customary
paintings of landscapes that instead award the spectator with an illusion
of space that travels outside the
physical and real to conjure a perception
of somewhere «other».
Her
paintings allow psychological, historical and geographical
space to flow into one another, sensitively and intuitively summoning a feeling
of the experience
of nature on the writer and evoking the sense that the world in the
painting lies somewhere between our
physical and more essential interior world.
The artist also incorporates sculpture, sound, photography, and video to create installations that further expand the
space of painting and draw parallels upon interdependent
physical and cognitive relationships.
The
physical and metaphysical potential
of such textures is explored further in installations
of Caivano's work where touch, tone, pace and pitch are made resonant through juxtaposition and
space is orchestrated as much through pauses as
paintings.
Leigh Ruple creates large - scale
paintings that use colour to create energy and define
space while also addressing
physical and psychological situations
of isolation and reclusion.
This relationship between the pictorial and the
physical space is often linked to Color Field
painting, a style
of abstract
painting -LSB-...]
Interspersed throughout the floor, serpentine - like sculptures extend the installation into the
physical space of the gallery, connecting the flat level
of the
paintings with the volumetric realm inhabited by the viewer's body.