Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat
planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.
Not exact matches
Wilke described the arrangement
of brightly coloured sculptures, which were originally installed on real earth and grass as «womblike blossoms resembling Venus mounds, a centrefold evolving from a circular
plane, universally existing in both
primary and secondary
colors.
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is revealed in pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural
planes.
pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural
planes.
Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are all there: Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant - garde artists
of the 1910s and 1920s, with their images
of flat, intersecting
planes and floating shapes; artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard - edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, whose
primary interest lay in the investigation
of reductive form and
color; and contemporary artists who continue to exploit the infinite potential
of simple geometries.
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is clear in her pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect
of her oeuvre is evident in her paintings
of grids and squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural
planes.
Expanding on his signature abstract geometric style, works from this period demonstrate the expansion
of his
color -
plane theory beyond the use
of primary colors and simplified
planes.