I think Harry is right, «commitment to being abstract is not something held as important by the wider art community», and as Patrick suggested, there are any number of galleries happy to show
semi abstract work, it's easier to sell.
I began to do kind of
semi abstract work.
A participatory performance at Fehily Contemporary Art (Australia) by Gosia Wlordarczak saw the artist creating drawings of visitors throughout the week, layering the collected images and creating one large
semi abstract work on linen.
Moving through the earlier
semi abstract works to finished (mostly female) figures during his later Miami period, the move to Brooklyn and an altogether urban setting in 1991, allowed his late period to flourish.
Not exact matches
Artist Statement «My
work draws inspiration from the
semi abstract nature of landscape and interpreting a «sense of place», incorporating the sounds, smells and atmosphere of the place or subject.
Her
works are
semi abstract, painterly, collaged observations of Provincetown, Venice and Paris.
«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British
semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their
work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»