He spent most of his career exploring
the possibilities of white paint accompanied by blue and brown tones.
Not exact matches
«Painterly Pasted Pictures» an exhibition
of 20th century painters
of collage curated by E. A. Carmean Jr. @ Freedman Art, New York, NY 2013 «Color & Edge» with Lauren Olitski Poster and Ann Walsh @ Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 «Extreme
Possibilities: New Modernist Paradigms» The
Painting Center, NYC, NY curated by Karen Wilkin 2009 «Direct Sculpture: A Dialogue in Polymers», Student Union Gallery, Univ.
of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 2006 «Greenberg in Syracuse; Then and Now», Company Gallery, ThINC, Syracuse NY 2005 «Studies in Abstraction: Lauren Olitski, Susan Roth, and Ann Walsh», curated by Wendy S. Evans, Student Union Gallery, Univ.
of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005 «Rural Artists / Urban Sensibilities», C. W.
White Gallery, Portland ME 2003 «The Clement Greenberg Collection», Joe & Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2003 «Clement Greenberg, A Critic's Collection», Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 2001 «The Mirvish Teaching Collection», Agnes Ethrington Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ont.
They wend their way into Walinska's black and
white paintings, and it is tempting to conjecture about the
possibility of her deliberately quoting the giant with whom she took coffee one day in the»20s.
Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new
possibilities for figurative and expressionistic
painting, breaking the
white male stranglehold
of Conceptual and Minimal art, and foreshadowing, among other tendencies, Germany's Junge Wilde movement.
For the current show, in
paintings of varying sizes, he presents dazzling
possibilities for black and
white.
For de vries (who spells his name without capitals in order to avoid hierarchy), the
white paintings on a
white background signify an object that has been stripped
of properties, and loaded with
possibilities.
White space is clearly as important to Holyhead as the application
of colour, the tension between the two is an intrinsic aspect
of his compositions, with crisp, stencil - like geometric shapes cutting into flat translucent areas
of wash, heightening both gestural process and media and making artistic intentions — an investigation into the enduring
possibilities of painting — subtly present.
[She once] remarked: «I had to work through the black - and -
white paintings before I could even begin to think about
possibilities of color.»
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.
In 1951 Rauschenberg created his «
White Paintings,» in the tradition
of monochromatic
painting, whose purpose was to reduce
painting to its most essential nature, and to subsequently lead to the
possibility of pure experience.
In this interview Rauschenberg speaks
of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship
of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation
of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance
of that element in his work; the facsimile quality
of painting and consequent limitations; the influence
of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime»
of painting and the problems
of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the
possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use
of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence
of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges
of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance
of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss
of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing
of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect
of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation
of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his
white paintings; and his disapproval
of value hierarchy in art.
Along with Kiefer's earliest book, The Heavens, the exhibition includes Cauterization
of the Rural District
of Buchen, 1975, seven books made from charred remnants
of paintings, indicating Kiefer's longstanding interest in alchemy and his exploration into the
possibility of metaphorically healing a wounded German landscape; and Twenty Years
of Solitude, 1971 — 91, which uses unbound lead pages as a foundation for a series
of white, semen - stained ledgers.
«Exemplary
of [The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle's] strengths is a brief interlude in the middle
of the main gallery marked by a stripe
of grey
paint that hangs on the walls and floor between two halves
of the
white cube... Isolated Fictions: A Reenactment, as the sub-show is titled, presents a provocative case study in the generative
possibilities between art schools, small galleries, art centers, and other «middle men»
of the art economy.»
Eight
white monochromes by Robert Ryman made from 1958 to 1992, a recent promised gift
of Peter and Mimi Haas, and an early monochrome by Brice Marden, named after his friend Bob Dylan, also recently acquired, suggest the
possibilities of monochrome
painting.
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.
I'm not familiar with his explanation about how he came to become curious about Stevenson screens and the
possibility of temperature record deviations as the result
of changing the
paint on the boxes from old - fashioned whitewash in a strictly specified formulation to modern, more durable, but more heat - artifact - inducing
white latex
paint.
Once the
possibilities were clear, so was its potential, and Bryan and Duffey both give credit to the entire design - build team for the success
of this project, notably builder David Childers
of Macallan Custom Homes, metalsmith Charles Calhoun, landscape designer Alex Smith
of Alex Smith Garden Design and Vintage Lumber Sales, which supplied and installed elements such as river - recovered cypress and antique oak beams (even once
painted white, the old - growth wood retained its depth
of character).
When picking out the
paint color, all I can really suggest (since I can't see it in person) is to look at the samples in all lighting
possibilities — daylight, overhead lighting, at night, when it's overcast, etc. — to make sure you'll like the shade
of white at all times.