«In Kudo's painting, the expansion and arrangement of color areas within
the pictorial space become the dominant means of communicating the picture's emotional content.
Not exact matches
While each adjustment is undertaken to orchestrate and tighten the relation of each
pictorial unit to every other
pictorial unit, to secure formally the integrity of each painting as a whole, the overall effect of the process is also to enliven the
space, to acknowledge its flatness while simultaneously allowing it visually to twist and warp and bend, to project and recede, to be positive and negative — and thus to explore and personalize what's
become natural to
pictorial space since Cezanne and Cubism radicalized it more than a century ago.
Much like her paintings in the past two iterations of NDA, the artist's new series of geometric abstraction
becomes even more architectural as she continues her study of visually defining «place», giving the viewer a sense of being able to walk into and inhabit the
pictorial «
space».
Digesting this in the studio, Cooke made one of the first paintings from this body of work «No Holidays,» in which the
space is entirely sucked up by paint, where each mark quite literally
becomes both a support and a threat to the
pictorial space.
These observations
became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings as
pictorial compositions that reconfigure the
space and its architecture, using specific physical things.
In between fluid abstraction and sculptural figuration, these works
become three - dimensional
pictorial spaces with a potential for image making.
As secluded from the outside world as possible, they
become immersed and physically involved in the
pictorial spaces by means of interactive elements and additional devices.
His spatial reality
became part of my being, part of my painterly understanding of the infinite possibilities of two dimensional
pictorial space.
In the large photograph unscharfer Rückenakt (Out - of - Focus Nude Back), 1994, the slightly blurred contours of the naked male body possess a painterly quality reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's works; it is only at second glance that a vulnerability evoking life at the margins of conventional society
becomes evident in this image of a kneeling man with dirty feet, who is seen from above and contained in a narrow
pictorial space.
Continuing her interest in the confrontation between nature and culture, the paintings on view explore the
pictorial space, where the physicality of painting and the play with architectural elements, in all senses,
become the subject of the picture.The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, September 11 through Sunday, October 16, 2011.
Through these new materials — polyester, cotton fibers, cut canvas, burlap, glue, neon, glass etc. — the canvas
became a theatrical place where a new
pictorial space could emerge.
This ruse
became the perfect rabbit hole into the illusionistic
pictorial space of my tulle veil painting.
Boller's sensitivity to architectural structure allows him to draw and define the
space with an expanse of color so that the whole interior
becomes the
pictorial ground, including the other works of art.