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This modest statement conceals the fact that these pieces are original and extremely challenging works of art that combine large scale abstractions in yellow, green, blue, and purple with the texture of torn, cut, and carved cardboard.

Not exact matches

Hauser & Wirth's slate tends to favor abstraction and large - scale sculpture, but the gallery, which has spaces in New York, Zurich, London, Somerset, England, and Los Angeles (under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel), will soon move further into the photography... Read More

move back and forth between abstraction, figuration and the combination of the two a lot in my work as well as changing scale from very small to very large....

Paul Behnke's curatorial criteria for the show Eight Painters are compellingly straightforward: «an individual, rigorous vision; a certain ambition without regard for scale or a specific way of making a painting; and an abiding belief in the ability of paint - and specifically, the genre of abstraction - to best communicate the artist's appetite and inventiveness.»

LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.

On the occasion of the only full - scale retrospective Porter's work has been given - the exhibition called Fairfield Porter (1907 - 1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, which Kenworth Moffett organized at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bostonin1983 - I wrote that «For myself, though as a critic I had praised Porter's work on a number of occasions during thelast20yearsand though I knew it well, I found I was not really prepared for what I found in this exhibition....

Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick OBE said, «Observations of a lover's face or a city at night, of a blade of grass or a horizon are distilled into a lyrical alphabet of abstraction in Howard Hodgkin's modestly scaled but visually arresting paintings and prints.

The range is fantastic, and I think indicative of contemporary trends within the medium: angular figures and aggressively colorful compositions in a New Objectivity vein from very young, non-German artists including Anna Navasardian (Armenian but New York - based, showing with Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich) and Pawel Sliwinski (Polish, showing with Beers Contemporary, London); representational works in thick, gestural impasto, both in Kim Dorland's grand, en plein air style (Angell Gallery, Toronto), and in Bobby Mathieson's intimately scaled portraiture (Lyons Wier Gallery, New York); and abstraction both super-reductive (like Clare Grill, showing with FRED.GIAMPIETRO, New Haven) and cosmically colorful (Jennifer Lefort, showing with Patrick Mikhail Contemporary, Ottawa); plus every conceivable style in between.

Today, the majority of these artists are best known for the large - scale, daring abstractions they created in the 1950s and 1960s, but the careers of each painter featured in the exhibition began to take off in the 1930s and early 1940s, when surrealism still held a central place among the avant - garde.

In these stills from the scene that appears in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970In these stills from the scene that appears in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970s.

Ranee has created large - scale and medium - scale works in this exhibition that tip - toe on the border of control within the realm of abstraction and result in a beautiful culmination of calculated chaos.

Then in an improvisational approach she unfurls these memories and ideas onto her vast canvases weaving them together to inform the meta narratives which emerge in the spontaneous approach she takes in creating her large scale «abstractions».

What has remained steady, however, is the desire to deal with abstraction in mostly free - standing discrete forms at a human scale.

The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.

A series of flaming red coloured large - scale canvases, created for this exhibition, testify Lavier's on - going interest in the exploration of colour and the experience of abstraction.

He is not the first in that space alone to stick to one work to a room, like Rebecca Smith, or to use scale and surfaces to disrupt abstraction, like Stephen Maine.

His recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012) and at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2013) highlighted his most recent work — a striking series of small works on paper and panels and an impressive collection of large scale paintings on canvas — work he describes as «rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics».

For his second solo outing at the gallery, White will exhibit large - scale oil paintings as well as smaller works on paper, in which he continues his examination of the interstices between representation, abstraction and the tactile sphere of everyday life.

This master of abstraction continues to reach new heights and as Rose Lord, Director of the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Paris tells us, this new series of hand - painted photographs is a constant companion to his instantly recognizable large scale works.

In response to the art fair experience, Powhida has fabricated pieces he considers emblematic of art world tropes that are seen over and over again on the international art fair circuit: Post-minimalist sculptures, large - scale decorative abstractions, shiny object sculptures, ceramics in vitrines, celebrity paintings, etcIn response to the art fair experience, Powhida has fabricated pieces he considers emblematic of art world tropes that are seen over and over again on the international art fair circuit: Post-minimalist sculptures, large - scale decorative abstractions, shiny object sculptures, ceramics in vitrines, celebrity paintings, etcin vitrines, celebrity paintings, etc..

Known for her labor - intensive, exuberant abstractions composed of matrix - like, swirling patterns of dots, Takenaga translates her meticulous, handcrafted, easel - sized work to wallpaper in this large - scale commission.

Pibal's paintings, unique in their small scale and lovely color, nevertheless allow me to make some visual connections within geometric abstraction: to Miriam Schapiro's famous Ox painting, currently part of the «Wack» show (opening February 17 at PS 1) to Frank Stella's early geometries, and to Warren Isensee's Body and Soul, which I posted recently.

Viewed in this light, Abts» achievement is substantial and arguably profound: she makes small - scale geometric abstraction deeply personal and implicitly private, and at the same time lets us in.

In addition to a solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2010, Barbara Kasten will exhibit her new large - scale abstractions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris in Spring 201In addition to a solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2010, Barbara Kasten will exhibit her new large - scale abstractions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris in Spring 201in 2010, Barbara Kasten will exhibit her new large - scale abstractions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris in Spring 201in Spring 2010.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

Prior to 1950, monumentally sized art was generally reserved for mural paintings in the narrative tradition and abstraction was explored on an easel - sized scale.

Modest in scale and done in acrylic, which he applies in so many ways, the paintings include still - life, landscapes, architecture and abstractions.

His artistic attitude is embodied in audaciously scaled and shaped paintings, incorporating classical pictorial elements, oscillating between figuration and abstraction.

In one of the rooms, two large - scale paintings of the aforementioned type might vaguely allude to landscapes, albeit ones so distorted that they collapse into pure abstraction.

Now, however, we live in such a hybrid time of figuration and abstraction that Cecily Brown or Marilyn Minter, who are the great figure painters of today, are always borrowing techniques, looks, feelings, and scale from abstraction.

His large - scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.

It will discuss key issues, including those of scale, tiny to huge; the use of different formats; the use of the rectangle; the vertical axis and its significance; the compression of space and depth; space and its meaning; functions and the different kinds of space in abstraction.

But his body of work completed over many decades, the artist died in 1993 at the age of 71, includes many figurative, landscape and still lives that served as a foundation for his large scale abstractions.

Indicative of his mature style and inspired by a hugely productive stay in the Italian town of Voltri near Genoa in 1962, Voltron XXIV (above), which is offered from the collection, exhibits the artist's interest in geometric abstraction on a large scale.

Also given prominent spaces are Channa Horowitz, who died last year, with large - scale, intricately constructed ink drawings on mylar that are reminiscent of Hanne Darboven's numeric abstractions, and leporellos — painted accordion - folding books — by Etel Adnan, the Lebanese - American writer and artist who participated in dOCUMENTA 13 and has an exhibition at the Arab Museum of Modern Art (aka Mathaf) in Doha coming up later in March.

Diebenkorn returned to abstraction in 1967, soon after moving to Southern California and establishing a studio in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, where he created his most celebrated works — large - scale, color and light - filled abstractions.

Working often in large - scale, energetic multi-media abstractions, the artist creates erotic depictions of feral pubescent figures whose convulsive energy feminine iconography.

Stella's hard - edged, wall - scale abstractions are honored in the first major retrospective to grace the Whitney's new building, while Katz's stylized figurative portraits have been the subject of several major museum exhibitions.

Commissioned in the summer of 1943 by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York townhouse, Muralestablished a new sense of scale and audacity for the Abstract Expressionist movement, anticipating the classic «poured» abstractions that Pollock would begin four years later.

Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions — An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America

The most noticeable, and therefore notable, features of Keltie Ferris's well - lavished paintings are their two most immediate strata: Ferris finishes off her large - scale abstractions with arrays of spray - painted dots and dashes and then returns with a brush loaded with a higher - intensity, contrasting color to lay down short, chunky strokes tightly packed in vertical, parallel arrangements around the previous layer.

It is a large - scale painting with the trademark blend of abstraction, anthropomorphic forms, and wood - grain patterns Dunham orchestrated in lively paintings in the 1980s, the period when he emerged as one of the leading postmodern artists.

Different in scale and style, his painterly production contemplates both intimate and delicate paintings where figuration fades into abstraction, as well as more exuberant and confrontational works that deploy references to pop culture, sexuality and consumerism.

The artists unique vocabulary and research in abstraction will include three totemic works in Gallery 1 and a group of smaller scaled works in Gallery 2.

Although Goldberg is best known for his large - scale, New York School paintings, a close look at his later work reveals affinities with graffiti art and an urban aesthetic placed in productive tension with the rigors of postwar American abstraction.

The mainstream of German painting in the West then, a type of abstraction that tipped easily into decorative, was often provincial both in ambition and scale.

A close associate of Vladimir Tatlin and Kasimir Malevich, Popova's modestly scaled painting on cardboard anchors the exhibition in the history of European abstraction.

The result is an exhibition where variety in scale, medium, and degree of abstraction is balanced by the strong continuity among all the works — a reliance on automatism, a juxtaposition of unexpected elements and conflicting temporalities, and the presence of organic forms — bringing to light the profound impact surrealism had on pre - and post-war American artists.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.