There are perhaps some common abstract principles that connect
a range of abstract artists such as Ad Reinhardt, Camille Graeser, Simon Hantai, Agnes Martin and Norwegian artist Anna - Eva Bergman, who I would say have a shared connection in what I would call the «transformative surface».
Not exact matches
Each
of the 17 essays in this collection explores an individual
artist,
ranging from Géricault and Delacroix to Magritte and Barnes» personal friend, British
abstract painter Howard Hodgkin.
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web
of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a
range of his smaller
abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding
of his work as that
of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding
of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement
of the
artist's hand.
In curating this exhibition, Liu Wei and Bowen Li have selected the work
of seven young
artists, all born in Mainland China, whose practices
range from performance to
abstract sculpture.
For MoMA's first contemporary painting survey in recent memory, curator Laura Hoptman pulled together work by 17
artists, most
of whom work with various
abstract formal vocabularies
ranging from the expressionistic to the starkly minimal.
Reacting to the
range of works on view, which included a selection from the
artist's Concorde series (1997), still lifes, portraits, and
abstract works created using dye or developing fluid on light sensitive paper, Morton noted «what makes Tillmans's best work sing: the ability, through looking a little, and loving a little, to turn events in our visual lives into vivid, everyday poetry, with all the pleasure and knotty exegesis that implies.
«Functioning as a survey
of recent developments in
abstract painting, the show spans a diverse
range of work culled from 25 New York - based
artists.
Luiz Zerbini is one
of Brazil's most established contemporary
artists, known for his vivid works on canvas which draw on a
range of themes from the
abstract to landscapes, cityscapes, and domestic scenes using a
range of techniques and styles.
They were selected as
artists of distinction, representing the
range and complexity, and the vitality and potential
of abstract painting today.»
Over fifty exhibited
artists range from formally concerned Ann Veronica Janssens and Joëlle Tuerlinckx;
abstract painters Olivier Mosset and Otto Zitko; politically engaged projects by Boris Mikhailov and Wael Shawky; to pillars
of postwar art Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, Katharina Fritsch, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
To explore this question, Matter & Light is hosting a broad -
ranging group show
of established and emerging
artists whose spiritual concerns have motivated them to work in an
abstract vein.»
Throughout this process a distinct distillation
of choices developed for each
artist that is wide -
ranging but particular: both figurative and
abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.
The shows in Building 4
range from the rough - and - tumble «In the
Abstract,» where 11
artists explore
abstract art's potential for political expression, to the refinement
of Elizabeth King's obsessively made, sometimes animatronic half - size figures and limbs; from Steffani Jemison's often arcane explorations
of the connections among writing, autonomy and race (including an excellent sound piece), to the accessible Conceptualism
of Tanja Hollander's «Are You Really My Friend?
Based on four
artists represented in the Berardo Collection — Malevich, Mondrian, Josef Albers and Ad Reinhardt — this exhibition aims to analyse
abstract art, and the vast
range of actions and expressive possibilities it gave rise to, through the tension that exists between its various branches (non-objective, non-figurative, absolute and concrete).
With local photographers featured alongside international
abstract artists, the gallery seeks to appeal to a diverse
range of tastes and backgrounds.
Artist Statement Sharon Ascher aka Sascha's language
of forms is not realistic, but it
abstracts from nature the essence
of what it is to be a stone, a tree, a
range of mountains or a patch
of sky.
It is our main focus to exhibit an expansive
range of artwork from talented
abstract artists through the most eloquent and efficient means possible.
This class focuses on developing each
artist's inclination to make
abstract art through a
range of activities, studying in particular how to explore one's inspiration and ideas vis - à - vis process and using a language specific to each
artist to develop coherent
abstract images.
Constructive Spirit examines the connections, both conceptual and personal, among
abstract artists, suggesting parallels that cut across time, national borders, and a
range of media, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, -LSB-...]
The
artist's barbershop paintings from 2007 - 2009 are shot with color, and
range from figurative to completely
abstracted, color - blocked canvases referencing the architectural perspective
of the space.
This class focusses on developing each
artists passion to make
abstract art through a
range of activities, studying in particular how to explore one's inspiration and ideas via process and using a language specific to each
artist to develop coherent
abstract images.
Brooklyn
artist Andisheh Avini's
abstract works are influenced by a fascinating
range of references, from art history and Andy Warhol to traditional Persian pattern and craft.
This show presents work by more than a dozen
artists (all
of whom are also curators, and / or have run or currently run spaces
of their own) in a
range of media that covers several bases: conceptual and
abstract art, figural painting and drawings, and political pieces.
Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some
of the same
artists, Engender shows how contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a
range of abstract and figurative strategies.
Highlights this year
range from Barbara Hepworth's polished
abstract sculpture Six Forms on a Circle (1967) at Osborne Samuel (the modernist sculptor is the subject
of a major retrospective at Tate Britain this June) and On Kawara's I WENT at mfc - michèle didier — a great example
of the obsessive conceptual cataloguing for which the
artist is famous.
The show is impressive with a full
range of the
artists» oeuvre; geometric
abstracts merge into gestural hybrid geometric paintings.
Inscape — the Inner Nature
of Things contrasts twelve
artists» diverse approaches to expressing emotion through abstraction,
ranging from basic forms combined with loose, expressive lines in paintings by Louisa Chase, Mary Heilmann, and Perle Fine; to pure
abstract gesture that governs the work
of Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Hans Hofmann, Raymond Parker, and Esteban Vicente.
The artwork can
range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and all 2D and 3D
artists over the age
of 18, regardless
of location or experience, are encouraged to submit their best representational or
abstract «Cityscapes» art and photography.
Inventing Downtown presents works from fourteen
of these crucibles
of experimentation, highlighting
artists» efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works
of art —
ranging from
abstract and figurative painting, assemblage, sculpture, and works -LSB-...]
Curated by Pat Swanson, Another Story examines the
range of conceptual,
abstract, and figurative approaches that
artists use when the book or its surrogate is at the heart
of their investigations.
These
artists used familiar scenes to engage a wide
range of audiences with fine art, in contrast to the popularity
of European trends in
abstract painting among other American painters
of their generation.
Of course, artists continued working in representative styles, but the buzz of the day now ranged from Kandinski's first purely abstract works to surrealism's fantastical compositions and Picasso's sometimes bizarre and fractured subject
Of course,
artists continued working in representative styles, but the buzz
of the day now ranged from Kandinski's first purely abstract works to surrealism's fantastical compositions and Picasso's sometimes bizarre and fractured subject
of the day now
ranged from Kandinski's first purely
abstract works to surrealism's fantastical compositions and Picasso's sometimes bizarre and fractured subjects.
Utilizing a
range of media including photography, sculpture, sound, and video, the
artist flattens historical and everyday records
of violence, obsession, and desire in order to render them
abstract.
The ease with which he can unearth archetypal images out
of abstract shapes, and his ability to create associations that
range from the frivolous to the sublime, have made him an
artist's
artist.
By including seventy - one
abstract works from 1905 to 1968, by fifty American and European
artists, the exhibition attempted to give aesthetic content to the science
of biology, specifically to the study
of organisms which lie beyond the
range of unaided vision.
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.
A.F.A was unique in that it operated as an anti-conventional commercial gallery where de Land presented a broad
range of artists whose practices spanned from large - scale installation to institutional critique, video, and
abstract painting.
Visual
artist and independent curator Aaron Skolnick has assembled an exhibition that explores, challenges, and pushes the boundaries
of the medium, which includes works
ranging from classically rendered silverpoint portraits to vividly colored
abstract collages.
Pop Art offered a clear contrast to
abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and
artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others
of their generation challenged a whole
range of assumptions about what fine art should be.
Their striking imagery —
ranging from
abstract compositions to scenes
of everyday life — drew the attention
of artists such as Edward Weston and László Moholy - Nagy.
Group Exhibitions 2016 Regrouping, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Spaced, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Philadelphia Painters, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 2015 Summer Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Haunted Summer, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY The Nothing That Is: Chapter 1 DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC (Curated by Bill Thelen and Jason Polan) Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Mark DeLong and Sarah Gamble, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Katherine Bradford and Sarah Gamble, Adams / Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR Listening In: Philly
Artists Speak, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Grizzly Grizzly) Begin Where You Are, Crane Arts, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Love's Industrial Park, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY Between Matter and Experience, Presidents Gallery, University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Underdonk Selects, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Reprefantasion:
Abstracting Reality / Representing Fantasy, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Down the Moon, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Group Show: Paintings and Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Love's Industrial Park, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Psychedelphia, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Season Review: Selected
Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Assembly 2012, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY First Contact, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY Peep, A Curious Look Into Painting, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Free
Range: Painting at the University
of Pennsylvania, University
of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Lee Arnold, Sarah Gamble, Andrew Gbur, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY Places, Everyone, Cross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Art
of the State, Pennsylvania Museum
of Art, Harrisburg, PA Former AIR, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2008 Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Vision Quest, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2007 Sarah Gamble and Terra Fuller, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY minty, VoxPopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 New Trends in Painting, Concordia University, Seward, NE Omaha Hobo Showbo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tate Modern, London, until 9 August 2015 Sonia Delaunay's first retrospective in Britain throws into relief the
abstract artist's deft use
of colour across a wide
range of media, from painting to textiles design.
French
artist Marie Angeletti uses the repetition and re-presentation
of photographic images to capture a
range of subjects and
abstracted objects.
Spanning a wide
range of mediums, the exhibition features more traditional studies
of light — such as the delicate landscape paintings
of English
artist LS Lowry RA, and more
abstract works such as Anish Kapoor RA's reflective installations.
Other works in the show
range from the luminous marble
of Carrara — long beloved by
artists and architects as well as
abstract sculptors such as Sergio Camargo — to concrete, which offers the
artist new and entirely different plastic possibilities thanks to the interplay
of cement and steel armatures.
Although the six
artists in this installation — Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek — represent diverse points
of view, working methods, and pictorial modes
ranging from
abstract to representational, their images all begin in the studio or the darkroom and result from processes involving collection, assembly, and manipulation.
And while Hoffman and Frankenthaler might be known for
abstract expressionism, Hodgkin for a more semi-abstraction related to making objects instead
of two - dimensional works (painting into and around the frames), and Stockholder for her
range of two - dimensional and installation work, the fact remains that the finished work from these
artists often reveals a trace, or truckload,
of the process the
artist used to get there.
His small - scale, brightly - colored
abstract sculptures pack a powerful punch, suggesting a
range of moods from comic to surreal and ranking him as one
of the best American
artists of his generation.
Lee Bontecou, (born January 15, 1931, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.), American
artist whose work
ranged from dark, dramatic
abstract constructions to softer, transparent natural forms, evoking a correspondingly broad
range of response.
All four
artists mentioned portray altered visions
of reality that
range from the allegorical to the
abstract to the horrific.