Sentences with phrase «scale abstractions»

The large scale abstractions of American modernism themselves have European roots.

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.

A series of early totemic, large - scale abstractions by Al Held are on view at Cheim & Read.

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 2010.

Built up in layers of spray gun washes and palette knife zips, these fresh and original large - scale abstractions reference textiles, graffiti, and modernist painting through a pixilated haze of neon, dark night tones, and tempered pastels.

Abstract Abstract is an exhibition, displaying over 40 works by 11 artists from across the country, that serves to spotlight the breadth and depth of small scale abstraction in contemporary painting.

James Rondeau In New York, a remarkable group exhibition — ambitious and chaotic in equal measure — «Beyond the Canon: Small Scale Abstraction 1945 — 1965» at Robert Miller Gallery contained over 90 works by more than 60 artists.

Le Brun's first exhibition with the gallery, featuring a new series of large - scale abstractions created over the past two years, will open in London in July 2018

Since the advent of Abstract Expressionism followed by Post-painterly Abstraction in the mid-twentieth century, painters and other artists have been liberated to explore large - scale abstraction through expressive gestures, geometric forms, biomorphic shapes, minimal palettes, or new materials.

Another often cited story of women artists engaged in abstraction comes later in the twentieth century when painters such as Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler engaged with large scale abstraction informed by abstract Expressionism and color field painting.

Jon Schueler, a painter of large - scale abstractions known for their strong evocations of nature, died yesterday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manhattan.

[Image above: David Hayward presents an inventive series of small - scale abstractions at Frosch and Portmann that rely on a rigorous process of reworking and overpainting.]

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.

In the late 1970s to early»80s, Fishman's small - scale abstractions referenced her renewed interest in Jewish history.

Late to commit to producing art full - time, Thomas nevertheless quickly developed an original and dynamic style characterized by large - scale abstractions comprised of rhythmic, repeated marks of vibrant color.

Le Brun's first exhibition with Lisson Gallery will feature a new series of large - scale abstractions created over the past two years, often involving great accretions of colour and gesture, towards final, «all - over» compositions.

She continues to make the small - scale abstractions with layered geometric shapes for which she is best known, but has begun to introduce ruptures, such as a diptych format and a cut corner, into the picture plane.

The solo exhibition includes small - scale abstractions.

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.

Tillmans» large - scale abstractions are presented in frames — a departure for an artist who pioneered a style of installation based on taping and pinning pictures directly to the wall.

In its large box, perhaps three times the height of a museum guard and all but devoid of natural light, it allows her barely a dozen easel - scale abstractions.

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.

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.

When he returned to painting eight years later, he reaffirmed his commitment to colour in large - scale abstractions.

Predominantly small - scale abstractions, his artworks are populated with idiosyncratic, personal symbols.

The resulting drawings range from small - scale abstractions to monumental figures and scrolls, which demonstrate Ramírez's unique draftsmanship of concentric lines, undulating patterns, and surreal topography.

At a time when big - scale abstraction was ascendant, Mr. Rose painted small, airy, light - filled views of skies and rooftops in an Impressionistic manner.

On show are two distinct but related bodies of work: the Lexicon Series and large - scale abstractions.

In presenting a key selection of Ahn's late Water and other paintings, this comprehensive exhibition explores both the sharp - edged existentialism and immersive spirituality inherent in Ahn's large - scale abstractions.

The ALL - OVER provides a comprehensive overview of her most recent bodies of work, including painting and serially exhibited large - scale abstractions, as well as diagrams, drawings, animations and sculpture.

Abstract painting was not new, but large — scale abstraction was the breakthrough of this group — artmaking was no longer confined to the canvas on an easel.

In the 1960s and»70s, Krasner continued her trademark explorations of colour and graceful, rhythmic form in paintings and collages, building upon the passion of her large - scale abstraction but also returning to her love of hard - edged figurative elements and a certain amount of cerebral control.

Varying from monumental landscapes to small - scale abstractions, Klein's atmospheric paintings reference images taken from a variety of locations that accumulated in the artist's digital and analog archive over the past decade.

Shortly thereafter, in 1951, de Kooning made one of his first major sales when he received the Logan Medal and Purchase Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago for his grand - scale abstraction, Excavation (1950).

Similarly fraught with closely tied eroticism and morbidity, the second body of work consists of virulent, predominately grey - scale abstractions, overlaid with familiar cartoon renderings of ghosts.

He is best known for large scale abstractions that express concerns about the destruction of the global ecological balance — from painterly musings on the destruction of the Mesoamerican Olmec, Maya, and Toltec cultures, to beautifully depicted visions of the natural world seen in his «Cosmos» canvases of galaxies against the inky darkness of the night skies, to brilliant portraits of birds, some of which are on the brink of extinction.

He is best known for large scale abstractions that express concerns about the destruction of the global ecological balance — from painterly musings on the destruction of the Mesoamerican Olmec, Maya...

With these experimental techniques, Bowling was able to create richly textured large - scale abstractions that embrace the expressionistic qualities of loose painterly gesture and emotive colour, as well as the elements of spontaneity and chance.

Soaked with vibrant color, her large - scale abstractions were exuberant conglomerations of snippets culled from the overlooked details of everyday life.

Known for her love of paint and process, Holt's abstractions in several sizes (8 x 8 inches, sold individually these small works are also considered studies for larger scale abstractions that can be commissioned in any size, 30 x 30 inches, etc..)

Some are realistic paintings from life, as in a series depicting his studio and images of travels in Cuba, while others record surreal fantasies of his interior life and still others are small - scale abstractions.

Each is a pair of 9 - by -6-1 / 2 foot panels that Mitchell painted separately and then joined together to form a single mural - scale abstraction.

Thomas Nozkowski was another abstract artist to challenge the inflexible conventions associated with large - scale abstraction.

While she joins Thomas Nozkowski and Tomma Abts, at least on an elementary level, in terms of small - scale abstraction, Greenbaum's compositions explode beyond the former artists» more formal architectures.