The paintings represent
a series of abstract forms that are repeated throughout his work, like the «Grip» and the «Wave».
In addition to other works on canvas Thomas» recent
series of abstract forms and marks on paper — created by hands - on manipulation of printing plates and unique prints — are on view.
Not exact matches
This transition is effected by the death
of the
abstract and alien God in the kenotic process
of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious
form of faith can only grasp this process as a
series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.
The book is presented in standard medical
form, with an
abstract of the problem at the outset, and then a
series of case histories
of patients (Bolivia, Poland, Russia and so on) that he and his team have carved up with varying degrees
of success.
Such an image, called a Gabor patch, consists
of a
series of contrasting lines that
form an
abstract — and visually arresting — shape.
The exhibition features a signature work from each major phase
of Stamm's oeuvre including the «Dodger» and «Zephyr»
series, a «Tag» drawing, and polaroids
of Stamm's
abstract graffitti «Designators» - black
forms from his paintings that he spray painted onto buildings in New York.
Kate Hoffman's Dream Home
series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns
of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos
of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density
of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs
of Stoner Spots underscore the politics
of leisure through the exploration
of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext
of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «
abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations
of photocopying through the prism
of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective
forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.
These material experiments eventually led to her breakthrough
series Samurai (1981 — 83), first shown at Phyllis Kind (1983) and recently on view at JTT Gallery, New York (November 13, 2016 — January 15, 2017), one
of three galleries that currently represent the artist.4 Haunted by the memory
of a scene from Akira Kurosawa's epic film Kagemusha (1980), in particular the armor worn by samurai during a ceremonial gathering, Simpson
abstracted the cascading arcs and linear folds
of the warriors» skirts into free -
form structures.
Included in the exhibition are a
series of paintings, photographs and collages that use the crystalline
abstract structures
of rocks and minerals to create visual relationships between seemingly disparate
forms.
He also began a
series of abstract paintings whose surfaces he slashed, as if the cut embodied the body and soul
of these paintings, their
form and meaning.
While in her previous
series, including Mom's Friends (2007) and The Stylist Project (2010), the artist used figures to construct narratives, here the female
form is part
of a broader
abstracted landscape.
Also on view is a group
of bronze sculptures from Nagle's Hands On
series (1991), which use the cup as a formal vehicle rather than a utilitarian tool, employing slight variations in structure and texture to create
abstract geometric and architectural
forms.
The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta
Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery color planes suggest
abstract but recognizable elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave
forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast
of wind on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).
The selected
abstract paintings in the North Gallery are drawn from his Morphic
series of biomorphic and organic
forms, and his Del Mar
series, featuring a more linear style, suggesting striations or waterways.
Isabelle Wenzel's fascination for sculptures has resulted in the Models
of Surfaces
series, in which the artist researches the
form and appearance
of abstract sculptures.
The Light and Sea
series, inspired by the extraordinary light
of sea, sky and water on the East End
of Long Island, consists
of abstract visual meditations on the interplay
of air, light and water, the shifting
of colors and shapes from
form to formlessness.
Thomas»
series of prints often relate to her signature works on canvas and are dynamic, masterful orchestrations
of abstract forms and marks realized by hands - on manipulation
of printing plates.
From a distance this piece is an
abstract composition
of grays and blacks against a white background, but closer inspection reveals multiple
series of images (some depicting the same subjects as in the upstairs gallery) each printed in the
form of a postage stamp from an undeclared country.
Number three in the
series is currently hanging in Victoria Miro's Mayfair gallery, as part
of a deep dive into the women artists in contemporary
abstract painting who art history has ignored — in the
form of an exhibition titled Surface Work.
Allowing the work to flow through her and onto the canvas, the
series floats between figurative and
abstract works but tend to be dominated by familiar dots that
form eyes and portraits
of women — some laughing, some weeping.
A
series of sculptural assemblages, ethereal wall works, and a performance with attendant sculptures or props, present a diverse library
of possible
forms for the expression
of images
of an
abstract physical and psychic body.
Resnick continued to work in an
abstract style until the late 1980s, when he started creating a
series of gouaches featuring simplified human
forms suspended in a field
of brushstrokes and color.
Kinsey will be exhibiting a
series of new paintings in his noted
abstract style alternating between
form and loaded paint - filled strokes affirming his ability to create expressionistic
forms of tonality, texture, and emotion.
Through the influence
of pop - culture, books, art history, but most importantly nature, Smith's
abstract paintings are often created by minimalistic tools, such as loose brushstrokes in his Rain Paintings, or
form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his Tigres
series.
Thus, the sculptures
of Chul - Hyun Ahn infinitely reflect highly streamlined
forms, as in the
series Visual Echo; explore architectural spaces, as in the
series Tunnel and Well; and integrate
abstract drawings, such as in the
series Mirror Drawing.
It was through this exhibition that he first showed his «fake sculptures», a
series of shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings that present
abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.
In «Beyond the Black», exhibited last autumn at Victoria Miro in London, he showed a
series of large canvases with snatches from Nietzsche hand - stamped in black paint,
forming abstract shapes against their shimmering slate backgrounds.
Working in watercolor, the artist tries his hand at a
series of abstract motifs whose sparse
forms float to the surface like notes
of visual Muzak.
She bedecked her
series of Totems and Hoofers — both long, tall,
abstract forms mounted on walls — with sparkles and glitter, basically Mardi Gras glitz.
A few years later, she enrolled at the Institute
of Design and received her Master's degree in 1966 based on her
series of abstract nudes entitled «Human
Forms».
Entomological Specimen # 6 (1987 - 91) is from this
series and shows the insect's
form, at one time wholly precise and used for taxonomic purposes,
abstracted by the deterioration
of time and handling.
Petra Feriancova employs a different photographic tactic in her work, reproducing the small colour snapshots
of distant birds taken by her aunt in 1970s east Africa, while her new
series of sculptural works evoke the
abstract forms of various habitats through their incorporation
of nests and shells.
The result, a
series of abstract compositions that look like clusters
of oddly shaped cellular
forms — «images
of primal slime», one critic said, illumined by «a sunlit mescaline glow» — was completed in 2009.
Created for a
series of murals, the nine painting studies
form a concise example
of Hofmann's strengths as an
abstract painter and modernist visionary.
[19] In a
series of insidious small
abstract paintings from 1994 — 95, words
forming threats are rendered as blank widths
of contrasting color like Morse code.
In his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female
form in the «Sunset Nudes»
series, where the compositions,
abstract imagery, and sanguine moods recall the odalisques
of Henri Matisse.
Elsewhere, a perfectly circular «bomb pond», made by an American bomb in a Cambodian rice - field,
forms part
of the photographic
series «Takeo» (2009) by the young Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana, while an antique exhibit from the National Museum in Beirut was transformed into a fusion
of metal, ivory, glass and terracotta by the bombs that fell there during the Lebanese civil war (1975 — 90) and thus given a new
abstract beauty.
There, Pascali showed his Fake sculptures, a
series of shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings that present
abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.
The Help examines the roles
of the artist, the muse and the «help,» mixing found objects with
abstract forms; Incidents
of Travel in Yucatan is a mixed - media installation including a wall
of pedestals, autonomous sculptures and video; and the Sunset
Series comprises 31 photographs
of a single source image, a photograph
of a sunset.
Joshua Mittleman, for his first exhibition at castillo / corrales, will show a
series of works based on the 8 - page inventory
of the torture tapes, a new development in his work that looks at the politics
of surveillance and government through
abstract and minimal
forms.
«A specially designed LED light suit
abstracts the human
form to shapes
of light,» explains Belfast photographer Michael Taylor, on his new
series LightPath.
The majority
of her work on view were intimate
series of abstract works that combine color, line and
form to create surreal landscapes.
Mr. Motherwell's work ranged from a
series of brooding
abstract paintings known as «Elegies to the Spanish Republic» — whose obsessive theme roughly took the
form of oval shapes confined by vertical bars — to elegantly playful collages contrived from scraps
of music, stamps, tobacco labels and other ephemera.
The colourful photographs
of abstracted forms and planes are reminiscent
of Los Angeles - based artist Walead Beshty's Color Curl and Black Curl
series of photograms, in which he exposes photographic paper to different coloured lights.
Around the same time, the artist made a group
of drawings that
abstracted a
series of mechanical and human
forms found in magazines.
Number three in the
series is currently hanging in Victoria Miro's Wharf Road gallery, as part
of a deep dive into the women artists in contemporary
abstract painting who art history has ignored — in the
form of an exhibition titled Surface Work.
Created between 1979 and 1980, this
series consisted
of arrangements
of abstract geometric
forms coated with loose powdered pigments that spilled beyond the object itself and onto the floor or wall.
Twenty years after appearing as one
of the first
of the National Gallery's Artist's Eye
series of modern artists and their influences among the Gallery's pictures, this ever - evolving mistress
of abstract form returns with a similar display
of influences and new pictures, including two large works painted directly onto the Gallery's walls.
With Tree line two slopes Davos from below, the pine trees struggle to remain on the surface after having been covered by the white mantle
of a violent avalanche, yields a
series of abstract compositions charged with movement, where we see the pines on the hillside, and the channels the avalanches
formed in between them.
He will make a
series of polychromed objects, carved with a chainsaw and chisel, which will
form enlarged
abstracts with details referencing historic carving.