Wylie often paints through the filter of memory and impression, using text to enhance facts and recollections and editing images by overlaying new
pieces of canvas over images, like a collage.
Instead of revising her initial marks in certain areas, Wylie has collaged
pieces of canvas over the paint, introducing texture and small flecks of color that together lend the work an organic nature.
Not exact matches
I cut two
pieces of ribbon, centered them, flipped
over the
canvas, and hot glued the ribbons into place.
Where Cimino (
over) reached for grand themes on an even grander
canvas, Cooper delivers what essentially amounts to a character driven genre
piece, albeit one wrapped in the ubiquitous state -
of - the - nation accoutrements
of its 2008 setting.
In addition to the new works in the show, Richter has punctuated and augmented the exhibition with a selection
of paintings on
canvas, glass and photographs made
over the last 15 years — including his «Abstraktes Bild» and «Farben» paintings — which inform and re-contextualize his more recent
pieces.
Puns abound in his paintings: in his «Cover Letter» series (2010), a
piece of felt in the shape
of a lowercase «a» hangs
over a stretched
canvas.
This solo will put somewhat
of a new direction from the street collagist on display described as «Abstract Expressionism meets Pop - Art» in
pieces similar to «giant petri dishes where his text and pop iconography, aka germs, take
over the
canvas.»
To create her large - scale
pieces, she lays unstretched
canvas on the floor
of her Brooklyn studio (à la Pollock) and then attacks it with sweeping brushstrokes, taped - off geometrical passages, and Rorschach - like splotches (made by allowing paint to pool and then folding
over the
canvas with a tight crease).
Some
of them were dark twins
of the white works, matte and smooth, but in most he collaged
pieces of newspapers to the
canvas and painted
over them.
These towering
pieces, stretching almost two and a half metres in height and
over a metre in width, are titled with the singular word printed at the bottom
of each
canvas; they are synonyms, and therefore, as one work is titled, «Connected.»
The 1951 three - panel White Painting is believed to have been painted
over almost immediately as Untitled [matte black triptych](ca. 1951, fig. 2).6 In fact, there is no exhibition history or any other evidence to indicate that White Painting [three panel] was extant between 1951 and 1968; 7 in those years, most
of the original White Paintings had slipped out
of existence, their
canvases used as the supports for other
pieces.8 Though artists throughout history have created new works on used
canvases, Rauschenberg did so with an unusual frequency and ease, particularly in the early 1950s.9 Looking back at that period some ten years later, he commented, «Today I wouldn't do that....
By favouring the aluminium surface as his
canvas over more traditional means, Cánovas emphasises the tangible nature
of each
piece, highlighting its place outside that
of the conventional printed paper photograph and emphasising its status as an art object in and
of itself.
There followed a number
of dark paintings with irregular or mottled surfaces, often with relief effects produced by placing
pieces of fabric or newspaper on the
canvas and then painting
over them.
The
piece, which consists
of a flag collaged on
canvas and painted
over with encaustic, has been in the collection
of Johns's assistant, the artist Mark Lancaster, since its creation in 1983.
Adhering the book pages to the
canvas happened first, then Ala un-stretched the
piece and executed an archival pigment print
over the surface
of the book pages — the blue galactic scene in the shape
of the star.
These elements in the drawings offer clues on how to read the painting, which also bears the words «in» to the left and «out» to the right, inviting the viewer to walk along the
canvas from left to right and perceive it
over time, as one would a
piece of music.
She then began to create
canvas collages, in which she would attach cutout
pieces of canvas to a
canvas, and then paint
over them with oil paint.
And then you come to the
pieces made with rubber glued to
canvas, some
of which are just amazing and quite frightening in the way her work is, and finally all the drawings on found paper — maps and such with figures drawn
over them.
In murky tones, the 72 by 60 inch
canvases are painted
over sheets
of papers, bits
of this and that, bringing about an underlying texture that offers different impressions according to your physical relationship to each
piece.
In this, his most colourful and complete body
of work, Remi has created
over 50 new
pieces on paper, wood, and
canvas that strengthen his resolve within the discipline
of abstract painting... His use
of colour and line is critically acclaimed, which has led to his work being acquired by some
of the most influential contemporary collectors in the United States and Europe.»
The Absorbed
pieces are achieved using Gleason's signature technique
of deploying a thin coat
of silver nitrate deposit
over acrylic on
canvas.
Spreading
over three galleries, the exhibition pays tribute to Fairhurst's talents in a multiplicity
of artistic mediums, from a specially commissioned wallpaper
of his Underdone, Overdone oil on
canvas series, and finely detailed gorilla line drawings, to the infamous early Gallery Connections sound installation and numerous collage
pieces.
As in the past, he works on his
canvases flat, spreading out the paint with the aid
of spatulas or scrapers
over a base
of wet rabbit - skin glue, the drying time
of which determines the duration
of the
piece's execution — a few hours at most.
Adian's wall - mounted abstract paintings, made by stretching
canvas over shaped
pieces of foam, will find themselves in a group show titled «Rascal House» with Blair Thurman, John Armleder, and Stephane Kropf at Half Gallery in January 2015, followed by an installation at Lever House in New York.
Deconstructing the images and then repositioning them
over stenciled backgrounds, with
pieces of torn
canvas and wax for texture, Opalka questions the role
of the artist in the cultural and political climate we live in today.
He soon regarded such aesthetic freedom with suspicion, however, and began to paint more premeditated
pieces, such as Number 9: In Praise
of Gertrude Stein (1950), in which calligraphic and typographic shapes form a floating, but controlled, network
over the entire surface
of the
canvas.
His
pieces are created through a method he developed himself: He reproduces images in thick oil paint on a
piece of glass, scrapes off the «oil skin» from the glass when it's dry, and collages these
pieces over large - scale
canvases to create totally new art
pieces — proving,
of course, that there's more than one way to skin a
canvas.
Multiple layers
of plastic sheeting, black or transparent, are draped
over another painting, though one
of the bottom corners has been left uncovered and a tear in the black plastic reveals an area
of painted
canvas, but visible only dimly through the underlayer
of transparent plastic; onto the surface
of a third painting the artist has glued a frayed blanket, colored drab brown like a
piece of army surplus.
In Kaamos, the most all -
over abstraction, with the
canvas treated explicitly as a two - dimensional surface covered with jots
of blue and white paint, there are sections that are clearly birches, or
pieces of birches.
Stretch
pieces of fabric in bold - coloured solids and stripes
over canvases or wooden frames for a cohesive collection
of punchy, geometric art.