Sentences with phrase «possibilities of abstract painting»

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.
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