A large -
scale pattern painted with black ink on the rear gallery wall alludes to rhythms and the underlying structures of the universe.
Known for her large -
scale pattern paintings depicting constellations of everyday items that have been isolated from their original context, American artist Katherine Bernhardt has created a new ensemble of colourful and dynamic images that take inspiration from both Brussels and New York.
On display are several new bodies of greatly varied work: a series of paintings based on Amish quilts; a series of silk - screened paintings of t - shirts; sculptures made out of stacks of flattened cardboard with enormous eyes; large -
scale pattern paintings featuring panda bears; a wall with photos of cats that look like Hitler.
For a new sculpture project he recycles bundled stacks of flattened cardboard into anthropomorphic monsters with enormous googly eyed stares, and the artist's iconic panda returns in large -
scale pattern paintings like enormous swatches of custom designed fabric.
Not exact matches
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Digital screens, halftone dot
patterns, emoticons, and other typographic symbols comprise the imagery in Jacqueline Humphries's new series of large -
scale paintings on view at Greene Naftali through June 20.
In an impressive selection of 14 large -
scale paintings, Winters»
patterned canvases display brilliantly pigmented tessellations in an array of lattice structures.
In his 2012 exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook, 11 large -
scale, richly hued, and layered
paintings create complex
patterns and grids.
Patterning and
scale recall wall
paintings by Sol LeWitt, but without an algorithm — and with a sharper break with the wall.
Recognized for her large -
scale, rhinestone - embellished
paintings of powerful black women and
pattern - rich interiors, this volume, produced conjunction with the exhibition «Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs,» gathers the photography of Mickalene Thomas for the first time — portraits, prints and Polaroids — and features a nod to fellow contemporary African American photographers who inspire her.
Taking direction from architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon's treatise on drawing four - dimensional
patterns on a two - dimensional plane, Ms. Auerbach presents a series of glass sculptures and a sculpture consisting of 3D - printed parts, along with large -
scale acrylic
paintings created with custom - made tools and a new group of her coveted Weave
paintings.
Well known for her use of dense
patterns of polka dots and nets, as well as her intense, large -
scale environments, Kusama works in a variety of media, including
painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance, and immersive installation.
Having abandoned
painting for over two decades, Mack resurrected his practice in 1991 and began his Chromatische Konstellation (Chromatic Constellation) series of large -
scale paintings and works on paper that explore colour, tonal
scale, light, rhythm and abstract
patterning, which he continues to this day.
Informed and inspired by nature, his
paintings explore
pattern ranging from the
scales of fish to the flight
patterns of birds, as well as derivations of
pattern from nature into common, everyday applications such as wallpaper and fabric designs.
Comprising five glittering, large -
scale paintings, Mickalene Thomas's latest exhibition flaunts both the presence and the absence of her African - American female subjects in boldly
patterned domestic interiors.
Although these prints were the first to emerge from a metal - relief series, they are perhaps more directly related to the affiliated small -
scale, flat, mixed - media
paintings that incorporated graph -
pattern backgrounds.
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.
In the following year he began Hoarfrost, a series of nonobjective large -
scale paintings on hardboard characterized by all - over white colour and criss - crossed
patterning.
First creating large -
scale pieces like Mason and his peers, Takemoto decorated his surfaces with
painted or incised calligraphic
patterns influenced by Abstract Expressionist
painting as well as Picasso's ceramic designs and traditional Asian ceramics, as in his 1959 work First Kumu, a bulbous stoneware vase adorned with swirling motifs.
For this presentation, the artist shows new drawings and large
scale paintings of her characteristic colorful geometric shapes and
patterns.
This Artwork is represented by FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, New Haven, CT I make both large -
scale patterned wall murals and smaller abstract
paintings of forms and rhythms.
Some parts of her
paintings are comprised of
patterns created and printed by the artist herself, such as fish
scales and wood grain, or appropriated from existing materials, the stripes in bedding and in the webbing from a lawn chair, for example.
Vuillard's interest in
patterned surfaces and domestic intimacy led him to produce many of his most compelling works around 1900 in two radically different formats: on the one hand, large -
scale paintings, conceived as decorative ensembles and commissioned for private, domestic spaces; and, on the other, intimate color lithographs, produced in series and destined for broader circulation.
Opening on 16th November, Fall will include new drawings and large
scale paintings of her characteristic colorful geometric shapes and
patterns.
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.
There are quasi-geometric areas, made perhaps by rubbing the canvas on corrugated cardboard, floorboards, or other
patterned surfaces, that give the
paintings structure and shifting internal
scale.
He was only 23 when he arrived in New York, straight out of Princeton, and produced his now - historic «Black
Paintings,» a series of large -
scale, austerely monastic canvases divided into right - angled
patterns of horizontal and vertical stripes.
She is responsible for large
scale prints, drawings and
paintings that are based on heavy layering in order to create images from
patterns and architectural photographs — although the end result does not give away what Mehretu used to start creating.
Known for his large -
scale painting interventions based on vibrantly
patterned Taiwanese textiles, Lin's practice has been hailed as a new approach to contemporary art and the museum through the creation of immersive and experiential environments.
Collage is also an important influence on McIntosh's
painting and in her sketchbooks she creates collaged drawings of different
patterns that often end up as one of her large -
scale paintings.
Known for his large -
scale painting interventions based on vibrantly
patterned Taiwanese textiles, Lin's practice has been hailed as a new approach...
With their symmetrical compositions, intricate
patterns, and lush colors, Hayuk's
paintings and massively
scaled murals recall views of outer space, traditional Ukrainian crafts, airbrushed manicures, and mandalas.
Monumental in
scale, the BLOCKHEADZ
paintings feature square and rectangular cartoon faces in loose grid
patterns that recall hard - edged abstraction and color field
paintings.
For her first solo show in the States, the far - flung American presents a selection of large -
scale analog prints and small
painted photographs of saturated scenes and dynamic
patterns that are drawn from the highly diverse African continent.
Thomas is known for her large -
scale paintings of luxurious black females surrounded by a confetti of collaged
patterns and textures.
The similarly
scaled White Shadow (1998) consists of a densely
painted elongated oval from which a
pattern reminiscent of wood grain extends, repeating in concentric bands.
How the collaged element below the coffee can on the
painting's left half sneakily uses the same
pattern repeated at two different
scales.
Ghada Amer is best known for her large -
scale, hand - embroidered
paintings of seemingly abstract lines that resolve into repetitive
patterns of highly erotic figures and scenes.
Reflective Radiation will feature large -
scale geometric
paintings, which blend continuous
patterns of color with dynamic metallic reflections.
At the other end of the
scale, just eighteen by thirteen inches, Celmins has
painted a close - up of a glazed ceramic plate, depicting it as an allover
pattern of white cracks on greenish - gray field.
This
patterning is used on multiple
scales from
paintings to immersive installations, which unfolds across exhibition spaces as meditative encounters.
Rendered in a vibrant palette of forest green and royal blue, overlaid by a dappled
pattern of brilliant, sunset orange brush marks, In the Green Room is a stunning, large
scale example of Howard Hodgkin's commitment to
painting, and its emotive potential.
Katherine Bernhardt's large -
scale paintings based on Moroccan rugs take intricate
patterns as a starting point for her loose, gestural brushwork.
One of very few large -
scale oil
paintings from the 1980's as well as a number of other smaller works will represent Mary Grigoriadis, an originator of the
Pattern and Decoration Movement.
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.
Elsewhere in the gallery, small
scale paintings of television test
patterns leave the artist's enigmatic message in the hands of the viewer.
Based in Brooklyn, Hayuk creates colorful, geometric, trippy, drippy,
patterned large -
scale works — think outdoor murals — full of popular culture,
painting, and psychedelic visual references.
Some of the more decorated kites are like tiny
paintings; each «superflat» composition floats above or below its surrounding neighbour, intrinsically incorporated into the design like the
patterned scales of a fish.
Bill Komoski uses the layering and weaving together of
patterns and material such as polyurethane foam, hydrocal, enamel and acrylic
paint in his large -
scale paintings, 2.14.15 and 10.29.15, to create complicated, ambiguous spaces that evoke a shifty, unsettled experience about order and disorder.
And Ruth Root's «Old Odd and Oval», that focus on her latest body of work, medium - to large -
scale to site - engaged
paintings that demonstrate her experimentations with new materials and fabrication methods as she combines hand -
painted Plexiglas with colorful fabric
patterns she designs digitally.
Mark Bradford's large -
scale canvas The Rabbit Didn't Dare, 2013, combines
painting and collage to form grid -
patterned abstractions, recalling the artist's history of mapping the «psychogeography of the city he calls home [Los Angeles].»