Even though Neel spent most of her career painting people she had
the sensibilities of an abstract painter.
Not exact matches
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque
Sensibility in Recent Painting features the work
of thirteen intergenerational emerging and mid-career
abstract painters, working in studios across the United States.
With an
abstract sensibility, each
painter defines the illusion
of space in their own personal way by capturing nature's exquisite light and atmosphere with its many colors and textures.
Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one
of the leading
abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide
of the quick fix that has dominated the
sensibility of so many
of his contemporaries.
The museum was founded by an
abstract painter - Hans Hofmann - and I think that founding moment has reverberated through the decades in the
sensibilities of directors and curators.
June 11 - August 17, 2014 «Beauty Reigns: A Baroque
Sensibility in Recent Painting», organized by René Paul Barilleaux, the McNay Art Museum's Chief Curator / Curator
of Art after 1945, assembles the work
of thirteen emerging and mid-career
abstract painters whose art is characterized in whole or part by high - key color, obsessive layering
of surface imagery, use
of overall and repeated patterns, stylized motifs, fragments
of representation, and a tension between melancholy and the sublime...»
In a challenge to the boys» club
sensibility that has historically shaped
abstract painting, the female
painters featured in the exhibition achieve a level
of mastery, innovation, and chutzpah that doesn't need external validation.
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque
Sensibility in Recent Painting assembles the work
of 13 emerging and mid-career
abstract painters — Jose Alvarez, Kamrooz Aram, Charles Burwell, Annette Davidek, Fausto Fernandez, Nancy Lorenz, Ryan McGinness, Beatriz Milhazes, Jiha Moon, Paul Henry Ramirez, Rex Ray, Rosalyn Schwartz and Susan Chrysler White — whose art is characterized by high - key color, obsessive layering
of surface imagery, repeated patterns, stylized motifs and a tension between melancholy and the sublime.