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.
Not exact matches
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-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».
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.
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.
Renowned for his large -
scale paintings combining images from advertising and mass media with vibrant color and
abstraction, Rosenquist has been credited with
creating a unique brand of conceptual realism.
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.
Though working on a diminutive
scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele draws on rigorous observations of the real world to
create fragmented images that waver between recognizable form and nonobjective
abstraction.
Using a variety of media and a series of photographic processes, Ngyuen
creates fantastical, large -
scale installations, engulfing the viewer into an otherworldly vortex that fluctuates between representation and
abstraction.
Adopting the language of
abstraction and revolutionary aesthetics, Nolan typically uses a reduced palette of red and white and simple, inexpensive, utilitarian materials to
create banners, posters, pamphlets, paintings and large -
scale installations.
Otero interweaves traditional Spanish Baroque imagery with personal subject matter, employing unconventional techniques to
create large -
scale, dynamic expressionistic
abstractions.
Bold color, high - contrast
abstraction and repeated patterning
create elaborate and visually arresting graphic pieces of intimate and oversized
scale.
Using figurative representation and playful geometric
abstraction, Brooklyn - based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing — with traditional art methods to
create organic fine art as well as large -
scale sculptures that explore humanity.
He
creates large -
scale paintings that exist in a realm between
abstraction and representation, somewhat analogous to artists like Alex Katz and Henri Matisse who often depict exterior and interior...
There are also a grouping of large -
scale paintings
created over the last thirty years which plays with the boundaries between
abstraction and figuration.
Widely recognized in Europe for his erratic paintings that maneuver around
abstraction and representation, Pils
creates large
scale paintings bursting with energetic brushstrokes and mysterious narratives.
These paintings,
created in multiple small -
scale series, allow for repeated methodical experimentation with specific color fields and patterns, shifting away from the monumental
scale of midcentury
abstraction.
Often interweaving traditional Spanish Baroque imagery with the personal subject matter, Otero employs unconventional techniques,
creating large -
scale, dynamic, and expressionistic
abstractions.
From far away many of these paintings appear to be large -
scale gestural
abstractions, but on closer inspection the viewer detects total flatness — the abstract paint marks were actually photographed and silkscreened on top of images of personal spaces,
creating an image of
abstraction rather than the
abstraction itself.
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.
Phillips uses planar form and geometric
abstraction as a visual language,
creating both small -
scale sculpture and embossed print.
The final room in the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in the United States, a major grouping of large -
scale paintings
created over the past thirty years that play with the boundaries between
abstraction and figuration.