Gravity, extreme force and painterly chemical reaction work together alongside the artist's intervention to make works that aim to split, break and reinvigorate
the possibilities of abstract painting.
During her career that spanned six decades, Helen Frankenthaler expanded
the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways.
My work is particularly invested in exploding the structural
possibilities of abstract painting, expanding the kinetic possibilities for monumental sculpture, and enlivening the dialogue around contemporary art across class, gender, age, and education.»
He occupies a unique place in the contemporary art scene, and is widely credited with having expanded
the possibilities of abstract painting after Minimalism.
They embrace both improvisation and orientation, and materiality and illusion, earnestly pursuing
the possibilities of abstract painting.
Indeed, Bowling's recent works produced over the last few years continue to explore the nature and
possibilities of abstract painting, the diverse range of principles and processes explored across his career now converging and coalescing in dynamic new configurations of colour and form.
These four artists opened up the spatial and metaphysical
possibilities of abstract painting in gradual but equally unprecedented ways.
His compositions explore
the possibilities of abstract painting and bear characters of both immediacy and delicacy.
In 1991 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for his ability to demonstrate «the expressive
possibilities of abstract paintings» (The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.)
Not exact matches
While a younger generation
of artists, led by Katharina Grosse, Carol Bove, and others, are finding renewed significance and surprising rewards in extemporaneous
abstract painting and sculpture, certain veterans like Emily Mason never lost faith in its limitless
possibilities.
A studio visit with the New York - based painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent work, traces his development, and reflects on
abstract painting's open - ended
possibilities of meaning.
The results often look like simple
abstract painting, while calling to mind the plastic
possibilities of photography, a medium that is perpetually evolving.
Greenberg was later to express his regret about the effect and influence
of his essay, which fostered the view that the self - reflexive language
of abstract painting could only lead to an exhaustion
of its
possibilities and the death
of the medium.
There is something
of Jacqueline Humphries» meteorological turbulence and leaner viscosity, and like Humphries, she remains wary
of the esoteric baggage attached to
abstract expressionism but open to the
possibility that
painting can shoulder a newer metaphorical weight that neither confirms nor denies the place
of data in meaning.
Gilliam established himself at the forefront
of American abstraction while working in Washington, D.C. in the 1960s, when his experiments with
paint application and his radical transformation
of the canvas support profoundly expanded the
possibilities for the future
of abstract painting.
Although Josef Albers» influence on color theory is pervasive, CMYK reveals that artists continue to experiment and explore the infinite
possibilities of mixing pigments based on cyan, magenta, yellow and black (K), illustrating that the future for
abstract painting is as vast as its past.
The
paintings created between 1989 and 1994 are widely considered to represent the purest articulation
of Richter's
abstract technique, and represent the culmination
of a rigorous investigation into the
possibilities of painting.
He has
painted on photos,
painted over photos, and questioned the
possibility of literally representing monumental tragedy, such as the series Birkenau (2014): four imposing works that had begun life as images
of the Nazi death camp
of the title, but then
painted over to become inscrutable
abstracts.
Both Hoyland and Noland shared an interest in the
possibilities offered by the new medium
of acrylic
paint, while Caro continued his exploration
of metal, solid
abstract shapes and abandoned the malleable clay
of his past.
In short, Reed defined and refined a whole new set
of possibilities for
abstract painting that extend well beyond an endgame strategy.
But Crumpler was increasingly drawn to the expressive
possibilities — visual and emotional —
of abstract images, which he has pursued in
paint, prints and sculpture for nearly 30 years.
Lerma functionalizes our contemporary desire for materially, chromatically rich
abstract painting as a wa ¬ ¬ y to encourage the
possibility of a deeper engagement with the motivating content and narrative behind the work.
After a few moments amongst the
paintings in his recent exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery it becomes clear that Gabriel Orozco doesn't intend to take up a dialogue with the history and medium
of painting; he is
painting not as a painter, but rather employs the format
of abstract painting as a
possibility for depicting his geometrical thought.
Spanning the media
of painting, printmaking, mixed media, and drawing, White Hawk continues to expose pre-existing intersections and mold new
possibilities between the histories
of abstract painting and Native American art forms.
Among America's leading
abstract artists, Dan Christensen was devoted over the course
of forty years to exploring the limits, range, and
possibilities of paint and pictorial form.
The
paintings never look simply «
abstracted from,» rather they seem to be free explorations
of possibilities.
Lasker made use
of the art world's conceptual turn in the 1980's, engaging in new
possibilities of painting, and so developing the
abstract formal idiom that has come to characterise his oeuvre.
With such an undefined and endless landscape
of possibilities,
painting became an entirely new, somewhat chaotic domain, ushering in a wide influx
of late
abstract expressionism and countless subsequent movements and conceptual innovations.
Kyle Jenkins is an Australian artist who uses
paintings, collages, photographs, objects, Marquette's, books, films, wall
paintings and works on paper as a way
of expanding upon the aesthetic
possibilities of structures and how these are a way
of examining the world as a series
of abstract representations, compositions and constructions.
Tamarind was founded in the absence
of an American print shop dedicated to serving artists, and during a period when American artists tended to reject lithography and collaborative printing in favor
of the more «direct... immediate»
possibilities of abstract expressionist
painting.
I think every observer
of contemporary art sometimes wonders if warmed - over modernism is the only
possibility left for
abstract painting.
There is something
of Jacqueline Humphries» meteorological turbulence and leaner viscosity, and like Humphries, she remains wary
of the esoteric baggage attached to
abstract expressionism but open to the
possibility that
painting can shoulder metaphorical weight.
They are less titillating than Ms. Semmel's earlier work, but together they create a coherent conceptual project that is also — as one would expect from a painter who started off as an
abstract expressionist — still highly engaged with the tactility
of paint and the
possibilities of color.
So does the
possibility of discovering what lies deep within the
abstract paintings.
And that's how I end up with such different ways
of looking at various
possibilities, especially in terms
of abstract painting.
Incorporating strips
of Withers» work into his own piece, Bowling fuses the
abstract with the collaborative as part
of his ongoing investigation into the nature and
possibilities of painting.
The exhibition George Sugarman:
Painted Sculpture at Loretta Howard Gallery, reveals the confidence
of execution that comes from the artist's decades - long exploration
of the
possibilities of modern
abstract sculpture.
My most recent work investigates the
possibility that by focusing the field, miniature
abstract painting can carry the tradition
of heroic abstraction into a truly personal and portable (and perhaps utilitarian) realm.
Melikyan's art is multilayered, drawing upon the traditions
of rug and textile weaving in his native Turkey, American
abstract painting, and the
possibilities of computer graphics.
«Drawing on the legacies
of both figurative and
abstract painting, with nods to touchstone figures such as George Grosz and Max Beckmann, Schutz's unique voice in
painting exemplifies the expansive
possibilities of the medium today,» said Respini.
There is something
of Jacqueline Humphries» meteorological turbulence and lean viscosity, and like Humphries, she remains wary
of the esoteric baggage attached to
abstract expressionism but open to the
possibility that
painting can shoulder a newer metaphorical weight that neither confirms nor denies the place
of data in meaningMy sense is that these works offer a less encumbered romanticism, something I was reminded
of when talking with Erin in her London studio about her works and those
of Günter Umberg.
Aasan has turned this questioning to
abstract painting and to the self - reflexive
possibilities of its immediate surroundings.
By exhibiting two
abstract and one figurative painter, 68projects asserts the importance and still - meaningful
possibilities of oil
painting while signaling its primary intent
of showcasing emerging painters to new audiences in Europe.
Ever since his softly overpainted Views
of Corsica series
of 1968 - 69, the artist has revisited and reprised its
possibilities, creating black - and - white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto, illusionistic seascapes in subtly gradated tones and
paintings worked with
abstract overpainting.
Incorporating strips
of Withers» work into his own piece, Bowling fuses the
abstract with the the collaborative as part
of his ongoing investigation into the nature and
possibilities of painting.
DUBLIN — Phillip Allen is an English
abstract painter in his mid-forties, whose interest in the material
possibilities of his medium — ranging from felt tip pens to oil
paint and enamel — informs nearly everything else.
Indulging in these closing speculations I find that I am making a claim not only for the vitality
of abstract painting in the seventies but also for the new
possibilities abstraction may yet have in store.
It also might suggest that even though Santoro is much concerned with the
abstract and expressive
possibilities of paint, he is not an
Abstract Expressionist, as his
paintings were not quickly done.
Pluspace, in the Meter Rooms, just on the edge
of Coventry city centre, is host to a wonderful exhibition celebrating the continuing exploration
of the
possibilities inherent in
abstract painting.
On the other, it does not consider the
possibility — contentious, but very real — that it is a precisely a submerged figuration, and an openness to the sensuous experience
of the world that runs through, and perhaps even created, the diversity
of abstract expressionist - type
painting.