Not exact matches
«Regardless
of intent, the very process
of rendering a geometric
form would seem to indicate the workings
of a mind no longer tethered solely to the here and now, but capable
of a uniquely
abstract form of conscious «wandering»,» Edelman says.
Altogether, Grabner's exhibition
renders contemporary art and, more significantly, contemporary culture as one that continues to be submerged in
abstract, oversized
forms that rely more heavily on their physicality than the depths
of their intellectual value.
His early paintings balanced a complex but elegant pileup
of images and
abstract forms that could have been
rendered by a large community
of talented artists.
Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres — that have been, at times, linked to the legacy
of German painting, or even
of Albert Oehlen himself — the panel will consider
abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations
of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure
of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling,
rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations
of form, the notion
of style).
The arrangement
renders the performing bodies and the
abstract forms strangely interrelated through a conduit
of social control and artistic sublimation.
Reeder also pokes fun at minimalist and conceptual artists with
abstract, crumpled
forms rendered in aluminum that dot the floor
of the gallery — evocative
of John Chamberlain or Frank Gehry's sculptures — entitled Bad Ideas.
While the drag - and - drop method
of WYSIWYG programs allows a visual perception
of accuracy, it is, in fact code — a string
of abstract signatures — that
renders the final
form.
For over 20 years Jian Wang has been serving bountiful helpings
of color to audiences in the
form of abstracted landscapes
rendered in both paint and pastel.
Portraits
of You are paintings that
render the world metaphorically, in which scale is discontinuous, space is
abstract, and
form more idealized.
In all
of these paintings I am painting toward a metaphoric
rendering of man, in which scale is discontinuous, space
abstract and
forms more idealized.»
From these images, intricate and
abstracted drawings are
rendered as linear disintegrations
of form and then transferred onto a substrate
of sewn - together fragments
of found paper.
Renderings of the small, oblong
forms initially appear in an
abstract 1988 etching.
[19] In a series
of insidious small
abstract paintings from 1994 — 95, words
forming threats are
rendered as blank widths
of contrasting color like Morse code.
Dominating the lower portion
of a four - panel, untitled piece (the show's largest, at over 8 feet square) are crude
renderings of abstracted flowers and other organic
forms, plus collaged paper rectangles with black - and - white polka dots.
Mark Booth's drawings and paintings feature random fragments
of ideas or memories surrounded by intuitively
rendered abstract forms and shapes.
Rendered unrecognizable, the architectural
form evokes an
abstracted flower bloom or the cosmic rays
of a black sun.
These
forms are
rendered so
abstract, however, that explicit narrative readings
of these works are impossible.
In his viscerally
rendered charcoal drawings, Milan distills these
forms into near -
abstract arrangements, highlighting areas
of physical struggle, while leaving other passages sketched out or blank.
These large - scale compositions draw attention to the
abstract properties
of each depicted
form, the interlocking positive and negative shapes evoking the technique
of collage in areas
of sharp delineation, bold color, and softly
rendered detail.
This transformation from an object - based system
of communication to an increasingly virtual method
of transmission is mirrored in
abstract painting's move from an embodiment
of frontal space, manifested through color,
form and canvas shape, towards the illusion
of infinite space,
rendered with digital - like precision.
When McCartney moved from San Francisco to Minneapolis, she not only embraced the freezing weather, she made it part
of her work, shooting frozen waterfalls, snowdrifts and other icy
forms in ways that often
rendered them
abstract.
For all their attention to
rendering the truth
of objective appearance in meticulous detail, Mark Wethli's paintings
of interiors treat
form in a highly
abstract manner.
During the 1950s, Sterne's notable contribution to
Abstract Expressionism came in the
form of her use
of commercial spray paint to depict motion and light in her
abstract renderings of roads, highways, and cityscapes.
As part
of this process they subject
forms and figures to varying stages
of virtual and material transformation, here resulting in theatrical atmospheric smoke being flattened onto carpet and horizon lines being
rendered as
abstract sculptures.
Torey Thornton creates raw and crudely
rendered abstracted forms often painted on paper, found wood and slatted panels, using a mix media
of spray and acrylic paint, as well as collaged objects.
Concialdi uses an alphabet
of organic
forms, half -
abstract, half - detectable (heads, penises, fruits), constantly recombined and
rendered in rich washes.
In that sense her sculptural
forms could also be read as containers
of life,
rendering an
abstract idea graspable.
«It seems to me,» Weston wrote, «that this powerful duality, this combination
of the
abstract, in the emphasis upon
form, and the sense
of presence, in the
rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.»
From the 1930s to the early 1940s, while working for the Federal Arts Project and assisting the revolutionary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pollock's style evolved from a dark, turbulent
form of regionalism to a more freely
rendered abstract expressionism.
In many
of Pendleton's related works he
renders language — from «Black Lives Matter» to «victims
of American democracy,» Malcolm X's oft - repeated descriptor for black people —
abstract, Xeroxing and collaging them into new
forms.
«It seems to me,» this usually laconic man wrote, «that this powerful duality, this combination
of the
abstract, in the emphasis upon
form, and the sense
of presence, in the
rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.»
In her work there is often a balanced tension between boldly
abstracted geometric
forms and a soft, dreamy
rendering of human flesh.
With no required distinction between the realistic and
abstract forms, one untitled painting on display combines clean, curved lines with a representational
rendering of the rear end
of a horse.