Locks Gallery is pleased to
present Shape Paintings, featuring Jennifer Bartlett, James Havard, Ralph Humphrey, Elizabeth Murray, Joanna Pousette - Dart, David Row, and Richard Tuttle.
Not exact matches
Much modern
painting fails to
present any clear unity of idea; it appears to be an arbitrary, and sometimes even accidental, medley of colors and
shapes.
The young Brooklyn - based artist
presents a new group of
paintings made from sheets of plywood that she cuts into organic
shapes and covers in canvas, from an ongoing series she's dubbed «cut outs.»
At
present her canvas - over-carved-wooden
shapes, still
paintings, are clearly sculptural.
The
paintings present imagery of the universe like black holes, dark matter, stellar births: phenomena that are being visualized in a variety of different
shapes and forms yet have no standardized structure.
Dagley
presented four
shaped paintings — two monochromes and two with checkerboard patterns — which were originally produced in 1987.
A selection of Castellani's large - scale
shaped relief canvases, Superfici bianche (White Surfaces), are
presented in juxtaposition with recent angular metallic
paintings titled Biangolare cromato (Bi-angular Chrome) and Angolare cromato (Angular Chrome), the latter of which Castellani installs in corners.
In Portraits, her first show in Chicago, the New York based artist
presents three medium - sized
paintings, each one featuring a head - like oval form, all of them technically dazzling with skeins of parallel dribbles that acutely change direction, forming a veritable undercarriage for hazy and more definite
shapes.
The ongoing dialogue between the digital and physical worlds provides the backdrop for Data Deluge, an exhibition that
presents a selection of sculpture, furniture,
painting, photography, video, sound and works on paper by artists who
shape Web - based and software - generated data into art.
Mac Whitney: Sculptures and
Paintings presents the Ovilla, Texas - based sculptor's steel sculptures, most featuring interlocking, geometric
shapes that he links together horizontally before welding them into his elegant
painted structures.
Newman appears again in Twice Hammered (2011), where one finds the reproduction of Diao's earlier Barnett Newman: The
Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary
Paintings (1990; for which Diao
presents all of Newman's
paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary
paintings at small scale and reduced to the
shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary Art sale.
Diverse as ever, McLean's select exhibition contains two mixed media works;
presented on the ground floor of the gallery, the Untitled
paintings are comprised of dense, black organic
shapes that veer to the abstraction on neutral backgrounds, adorned with daubs of coloured paper that on some sides have been hastily cut and others impatiently ripped, a nod to the rebellious humour of McLean who's body of oeuvre comprises witty sculptures made of rubbish and even his own body.
Aptly titled, Robert Rauschenberg's Collection (1954)
presents an array of photographs, fabric scraps, newspapers clippings, wood blocks,
paint drips,
shapes, colors, and textures jostling with one another and jockeying for position on one vibrant canvas.
The Frist Art Museum
presents Chaos and Awe:
Painting for the 21st Century, a sweeping survey of
paintings from around the world that invite contemplation of seemingly ungraspable forces
shaping contemporary society, from the ideological to the technological.
Nearby, William Villalongo
presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a
painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
Influences converged, passion and intellect were engaged, and seminal moments occurred to help
shape the process: in 1962 when Irving Blum (who had taken over Kienholtz's position at the gallery) gave Andy Warhol his first solo gallery exhibition ever at Ferus (the Campbell's Soup Can
Paintings); in 1963, when Hopps moved to the Pasadena Art Museum and
presented the first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp in the US; in 1966 with Ed Kienholtz's epochal retrospective at the LA County Museum; and in the decade from the late fifties to the late sixties when Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Ed Ruscha among a handful of others were on center stage.
«Taking
Shape» considers the affinities between sculpting,
painting, and drawing in Degas's oeuvre by
presenting the modèle bronzes alongside related pictures from the Norton Simon's renowned collection.
Since leaving London for New York in 1975, Scully has moved from colorful, plaid,
shaped canvases, to narrow - striped
paintings in single and multi-panels, to the
present monumental, irregularly banded and constructed
paintings.
For the exhibition, Crowner
presents a suite of
paintings staged above a curved, wooden platform, that mirrors the elemental, semi-circular
shapes contained by her compositions.
This fall, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
presents the first comprehensive retrospective of work by Harvey Quaytman, an under - recognized figure in twentieth - century American
painting noted for his monumental
shaped canvasses, material investigations, and interest in color as a pure medium.
Pasadena, CA — The Norton Simon Museum
presents Taking
Shape: Degas as Sculptor, an illuminating exhibition that explores the improvisational nature of Edgar Degas's artistic practice and considers the affinities between sculpting,
painting and drawing in his oeuvre.
It was through this exhibition that he first showed his «fake sculptures», a series of
shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually
paintings that
present abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.
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.
Monochromatic and
painted on canvas, Jennifer Boysen's most recent works are distinguished primarily by the originality of the structures that serve as their stretchers, objects that she has either found or made, and that
present a certain variety in terms of
shapes, dimensions, and materials — wood, copper, steel, aluminium.
Shapes seem to advance and recede from the surface, coming back to the study of contrasts
present in her early black - and - white
paintings.
Zander Blom's exhibition «Place and Space»
presents a selection of recent
paintings, drawings and photographs in which the artist explores different configurations of lines,
shapes and forms.
There, Pascali showed his Fake sculptures, a series of
shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually
paintings that
present abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.
Courtesy Karma International, Zurich and Los Angeles © Sylvie Fleury The exhibition spans art in multiple media, from the Renaissance to the
present day, with
paintings, sculptures, installations, prints and watercolours, photographs, films, costumes and armour by some sixty artists: two hundred pieces testifying the many ways artists have viewed, commented and
shaped the world of fashion through the centuries.
For his first solo exhibition in South Korea at Galerie Perrotin, KAWS (aka: Brian Donnelley)
presents new entries into his well - loved series of
shaped Snoopy & abstract
paintings.
Initially
painted in a standard rectangular format, as a final step to the
painting process the
paintings were cut into unusual
shapes to focus the viewer's attention on what's
present and not
present.
His
paintings move between abstraction and representation,
presenting simple organic
shapes in graphic and often chromatically vivid compositions.
In Views of Main Street, the artist's use of tattered furniture — Couch (2012), Chair (2003), and Untitled (2011), an oddly
shaped maroon carpet,
presented on a wall as a cross between
painting and sculpture — illustrates most forcibly the artist's fifteen - year fascination with the effects of inequality.
For this exhibition Ezawa will
present a series of
paintings and silver gelatin prints derived from historical photographs and
paintings that underscores a keen understanding of how images
shape our experience and memory of events.
Lately, she says, she's «been thinking about the many ways in which one can view the same object, and how far one idea or one
shape can be stretched, simply through how it is
presented»; her new show accordingly runs variations on a fixed subject via a set of «inverted landscape»
paintings (plus some 15 drawings), in irradiated hues, where space seems to twist itself inside out.
Hsiao will
present a suite of new acrylic
paintings on irregularly -
shaped wooden panels.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to
present the first New York show of
shaped, monochromatic
paintings from 1965 - 66 by Ronald Davis — including four iconic examples that have not been on public view since the 1960's.
In addition to her
shaped paintings, the artist will perform with a contribution from Ryan Lynch, promptly at 7:30 p.m. Kristin Skees will also
present photographs of relatives and friends obscured by hand - knit sweaters, in a solo show.
This volume
presents his most recent abstract pieces — most of them
painted on canvas covering
shaped stretchers — alongside an essay by critic and curator Vincent Pécoil.
East & West Galleries: Toronto Wall Drawings This Peterborough artist will
present an installation of graphite and tempera drawing on the gallery walls in the West Gallery against
painted shaped forms, projecting minimally off the walls of the East Gallery.
In his first one - man show at the Peridot Gallery in 1950, he
presented stained and «dripped» canvases, influenced by his close friend Jackson Pollock, in which stains made on the reverse side of the canvas were used to generate «spontaneous»
painted shapes on the front.
David Richard Gallery
Presents New Mixed Media
Paintings By Phillis Ideal That Emphasize Bold Compositions By Leveraging Color With Large, Reductive Modernist
Shapes
For his fifth solo show at Casey Kaplan, Berlin - based, British artist, Jonathan Monk, will
present a new body of work that takes
shape from key principles of Conceptual art — the favoring of ideas over object - making, serialism, the dematerialization of the art object — interpreting them with a playful sensibility and through a variety of media: 16 mm film,
painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and a laser - light installation.
For this exhibition Vance will
present twelve new
paintings that share the same dimensions and vertical format, allowing for a particularly nuanced experience of their interior
shapes and bold, primary hues.
He also
painted stripes in interlocking grid patterns, resembling plaid, and later turned to irregularly
shaped canvases that
presented the illusion of three - dimensional objects.
Painting on raw canvas, she
presents an assortment of recognizable objects (fire, smoke, alligators, matchsticks, letters) and simple geometric
shapes (circles, zigzags) by using bright even colors and sharpened edges, leaving strong instant impression which continues to resonate visually, and creating moments of perverse tension.
For his first solo show in the U.S., the German Hurzlmeier
presents a new series of
paintings in his distinct, playful style — figures and faces crafted using angular
shapes with rounded edges, all in eye - popping hues.
Many of the
painting titles, Amber, Floater, Twister or Aura / Arch
present a duality of meaning and like the images themselves - land, city, and outer space -
shape - shift, fluctuating between the positive and negative, the microscopic and infinite.
The
present work features a pyramidal
shape, so named in one of the works in this series of
paintings made virtually simultaneously.
Works including Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Treatment series of black pen drawing of famous white men like President Herbert Hoover rendered black, Zoe Buckman's feminist Every Curve series of lingerie embroidered with Biggie and Tupac lyrics, and Titus Kaphar's George Washington's Chef oil on canvas
painting explore the historical and
present impact of blackness on the
shaping of identity and popular culture.
This Peterborough artist will
present an installation of graphite and tempera drawing on the gallery walls in the West Gallery against
painted shaped forms, projecting minimally off the walls of the East Gallery.