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.
Not exact matches
Another says that space and time are discrete
at the smallest
scales, emerging from
abstractions called «spin networks ``.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From
abstraction he takes the gigantic
scale and an art
at least one step away from seeing.
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.
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.
For his fourth solo show
at the gallery, Wynne will exhibit work across a range of mediums, including large -
scale poured and mirrored glass wall
abstractions, canvases of baroque imagery embroidered with text, and collaged prints of a magic act.
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.
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.
In 2007, together with Iris Müller - Westermann, McElheny co-curated a groundbreaking display of the very first painter of geometric
abstraction, the visionary Hilma af Klint,
at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and in 2011 McElheny's highly researched interpretations of Blinky Palermo's «lost» wall paintings of 1970 - 1972 were exhibited
at the Hessel Museum of Art
at CCS Bard College as part of his large
scale collaborative curatorial project with curator Lynne Cooke and CCS director Tom Eccles.
The 2004 painting, 4 Pattern Dub, on a monumental
scale at nearly 9 feet square, isn't a cut - up
at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape
abstractions of Arthur Dove.
A series of early totemic, large -
scale abstractions by Al Held are on view
at Cheim & Read.
In tandem with an independently organized retrospective
at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, this hometown survey of Fishman's fifty - year - long career features the painter's esteemed large -
scale gestural
abstractions alongside a selection of intimate studio investigations — an assortment of miniature paintings, sketchbooks, and small sculptures — that share the same physicality and unapologetic emotional punch as her bigger, iconic works.
To be standing
at this particular intersection of art and technology, science and instant photography, bringing new ideas, new nomenclature, new picture signs to our global photographic culture, it had to be me, through this machine, to talk about
abstraction and minimalism, size and
scale, color and non-color, form with feelings.
At the forefront of this new paradigm was HALE WOODRUFF, whose integration of African - design motifs into his colorful, large -
scale canvases stood alongside an enigmatic and symbol - laden painterly
abstraction in works by other painters.
He mixes materials like glass and string or paper and stone, achieving a balance of volume, weight, and form that allows his lyrical
abstractions to stand alone, but would be impossible to achieve
at any larger
scale.
This exhibition took an unusual look
at the work of Louise Fishman — a painter known for her art's athleticism and
abstraction — by focusing on small
scale and sculpture.
Gilfilen's exploration of piercing color and gestural
abstraction continues in her exhibition of new large -
scale work
at Gallery Aferro this month.
The founders invited their friends and younger artists to exhibit
at their gallery where together they explored cutting edge and experimental art that included geometric
abstraction, Op Art, shaped canvases, minimalism and large -
scale sculpture.
With due fanfare, the Museum of Modern Art will reexamine the beginnings of
abstraction, at once marking the centennial of that watershed moment and inadvertently reminding us of the subsequent backlash, as «Inventing Abstraction, 1910 — 1925» will be — surprisingly — the first large - scale survey of its kind at MoMA (the very bastion of modernism) since Alfred Barr's «Cubism and Abstract Art&raqu
abstraction,
at once marking the centennial of that watershed moment and inadvertently reminding us of the subsequent backlash, as «Inventing
Abstraction, 1910 — 1925» will be — surprisingly — the first large - scale survey of its kind at MoMA (the very bastion of modernism) since Alfred Barr's «Cubism and Abstract Art&raqu
Abstraction, 1910 — 1925» will be — surprisingly — the first large -
scale survey of its kind
at MoMA (the very bastion of modernism) since Alfred Barr's «Cubism and Abstract Art» in 1936.
Opening: «Robert Swain: Color Energy»
at Minus Space Minus Space inaugurates its new ground floor gallery in Dumbo with a solo show of large -
scale geometric
abstractions by the venerable Robert Swain.
Her «work process and focus on a synthetic quality — amplified
at a large
scale» continues to «imbue a sense of ease and spontaneity from a distance, yet
at closer view, captures the immense
abstraction of speed, density, and signal that traverse space and time.»
Zawadski's four colored solids in painted concrete are
at just the right
scale so they flicker between looking like minimalist
abstractions and Oldenburgian children's blocks.
At Simon Watson, Louise Fishman's first full -
scale exhibition in three years presents a group of elegiac
abstractions, redolent of dimly lighted closed - off spaces and inspired by a recent journey to Auschwitz.
This is a great show,
at once fresh and knowing, the concept of rendering commercial imagery into
abstraction beautifully served by Simon's razor - sharp sense of line, color, and
scale.
How Richter evolved from his earlier photo - based paintings to the Abstraktes Bilds is lesser known, however, and this painting (one of his earliest
abstractions) is a key in that transition: to make it he put an earlier canvas under the microscope and painted a tiny square of it
at greatly expanded
scale.
The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and
scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper - real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing
abstractions that might be galaxies or cities
at night.
We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in
at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced
at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through
at MoMA in New York») and looked both
at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental
scale that we observe in his own most ambitious
abstractions?»
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.
The exhibition will also present a group of the artist's large -
scale, anthropomorphic Lemurenköpfe (Lemure Heads), which playfully meld sculptural figuration and
abstraction and which were first shown
at documenta IX, Kassel (1992).
Working in almost total isolation, first in New York State, later in Oakland, California, Still had arrived by 1943,
at a style that was more radical in its
abstraction, and more sweeping in
scale, than the work of any New York School artists of that time.
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.