We find ourselves in
the presence of an abstract art.
Not exact matches
Fans
of abstract performance
art should note that Shia LaBeouf will have a
presence at Cannes.
Like the gestural painting
of abstract expressionism, Grossman's
art retains traces
of the artist's
presence, the processes by which she created it.
[3] While he believed that all
art was
abstract to some degree, he preferred to call his paintings «
presences» and «implosions
of color» rather than abstractions.
Maychack studied
art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and absorbed its traditions
of assemblage, trompe - l'oeil illusionism and personal mythology; but also the post-minimalist interest in imbuing emotion and
presence into
abstract structures; he cites the personal, idiosyncratic work
of Jessica Stockholder and Martin Puryear as major influences.
In keeping with his signature approach, Marshall has painted his figures in strikingly opaque black pigments, both fashioning and
abstracting their
presences in order to assimilate the limitations and contradictions
of style, subject, and chronology inherent in
art - historical narratives written from a white, Western perspective.
«It was such a beautiful location and Larry was very personable and we were really looking to showcase the
art and give Suzy and George a bigger market
presence,» says Kinney Frelinghuysen, nephew
of abstract artist Suzy Frelinghuysen and her husband, artist George Morris.
Also, Laura Owens» evocative figural painting and Franz West's expressive
abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to
art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series
of works that preserve the
presence of the present with images
of his own physicality.
Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic
abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode
of the
art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the
abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive
presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets
of color.
The exhibition curated by Paul Carey - Kent is a thorough investigation
of the nature
of negative space and absence in the language
of art, and exemplifies how spacial types in
art implicitly effect the viewers experience, not merely as an
abstract rationale
of»em ptiness» but as an effecting
presence across all artistic media.