Shaped canvas works became popular in the 1960s as artists sought to emphasize the potential for paintings to be considered objects.
Photo - realist,
shaped canvas works whose draped forms echo the Old Masters he studied in Europe after Yale.
Beyond this map,
shaped canvas works mimic the ubiquitous air freshener trees found in automobiles.
In creating these works, the artists used various techniques including altering the outline of the canvas, building up relief, cutting into the plane, and using materials alternate to traditional canvas as support...
Shaped canvas works became popular in the 1960s as artists sought to emphasize the potential for paintings to be considered objects.
Painted in 1979, «Druid,» which is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is one of Elizabeth's early
shaped canvas works.
Reed systematically increased the complexity of his color relationships in
his shaped canvas works from 1967 to 1972.
Not exact matches
An American pioneer of hard - edged
shaped canvases, Charles Hinman's
work received immediate global acclaim in 1964 — 1965, with
work at Sidney Janis Gallery and a one - person exhibition at Richard Feigen Gallery.
That year, Stella also exhibited a series of 30 - year - old sketchings he made in Spain in the early 1960s that disclosed how he
worked out ideas about
shaped canvases.
Intricately detailed
works, with dynamic and organic
shapes spiraling across the
canvas, each painting is mixed media, combining the artist's use of plastics (an ironic and intentional nod to the subject matter) with paint and digital effects.
Works by painters Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, and Frank Stella clarify or confuse elements of figure and ground by redefining the possibilities of the
shaped canvas and how it can contain color and gesture.
She first received public recognition in New York when her richly - colored
canvases holding single
shapes were prominently featured in the New Image Painting exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1968 with
works by artists such as Susan Rothenberg and Joe Zucker.
Although a better understanding of Oh's
work would be a comparison with Richard Tuttle's early career, which smacked of formalism (the
shaped canvas pinned to the wall, bent wires with false shadows) but in the end were completely intuitive.
If these paintings, like all of Kelly's
shaped canvases, seem simple at first sight, that's because Kelly has already done the hardest
work.
The foregrounds of the 1960s
works, strongly represented in «Power Stations», characteristically feature abutting quasi-geometric
shapes that float freely from the
canvas edge.
In his
work, Quaytman was an inventive dramatist with his palette who brought a sculptor's flair for form to the game of the
shaped canvas.
Early in his career, his
work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the sphere of postwar art, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962), The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
The
works from 1967 to 1971 feature acrylic on mylar and
canvas and feature both subtle and more obvious female symbols — Keyhole and Side OX feature distinct hole
shapes, while the disjointed geometric forms in Horizontal Woman No. 2 may only reveal a woman to viewers upon a close look.
Basing his
work on the interaction of colors and
shapes, his practical geometry developed into an «intricate halftone technique» applicable on both on
canvas and in large scale murals.
During the 1960s Kelly began
working with
shaped canvases.
A master of unexpectedly pleasing
canvas shapes and paint application, her
work brings to mind the fluid paint handling of Christopher Wool, the complex compositional arrangements of Jean - Michel Basquiat, and the aggressive surface treatments of Sterling Ruby.
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on
canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of
shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape
works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract -LSB-...]
This is not, however, to say that there is no visible progression in Poliakoff's
work, for the series of four
canvases on the main wall, each titled Composition abstraite (1968) and each linked by a recurring claw - like
shape, are undoubtedly the most accomplished of the show.
The earliest examples — the Aluminium Paintings (1960) and Copper Paintings (1960 - 1961), were followed by
works that extended the concept of the
shaped canvas, including the Irregular Polygon
canvases (1965 - 67) and the later Protractor series (1967 - 71).
Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly
shaped canvases, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on
works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.
It present
works in different media and formats that used found objects and geometric
shapes, before she began making her visionary pencilled grids on large, square
canvases.
Sydney Ball, Infinex Lumina # 6, 2010 Acrylic on
canvas 65 x 102 inches April 7 - 24, 2011 The Infinex Series The
works are an orchestration of individual
shapes that are related to each other in various combinations in a contemporary context.
In an effort to liberate her
works from the Euclidian space of wall and floor, Grosse also incorporates into her multidimensional paintings a variety of unexpected objects, including beds, clothes, balloons,
shaped canvases, and soil.
Stella's
work was included in several important exhibitions that defined 1960s art [citation needed], among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's The
Shaped Canvas (1965) and Systemic Painting (1966).
Unexpected Portrait (2016) is a large - scale acrylic - on -
canvas painting where a long tube -
shaped orange line with dark edges glides across the
work defining a cartoon - like head...
However they use a wider range of colors, and are his first
works using
shaped canvases (
canvases in a
shape other than the traditional rectangle or square), often being in L, N, U or T -
shapes.
Kelly's best - known
works are his
shaped canvases.
In 1960, he began introducing color into his
work and using unconventionally
shaped canvases to complement his compositions.
His
work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard - edge painting, Color field painting,
Shaped canvas painting, and 3D Computer Graphics.
On view for the very first time will be Jennifer Bartlett's large - scale
shaped canvas Moth (2001), an important
work from a little - known period of production for the artist.
Newman appears again in Twice Hammered (2011), where one finds the reproduction of Diao's earlier Barnett Newman: The Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the
shapes of their
canvases) next to that
work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary Art sale.
Moran's paintings reflect an intentionally responsive
working process: as she paints, the artist reacts to the material itself, shifting or rotating the
canvas, reworking textures, and reconsidering the
shapes and figures that emerge.
However, unlike other artists who utilize
shaped canvases, Novros»
work emphasizes the critical meeting point of the
canvas and wall, as if his paintings are extensions of the walls themselves.
One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of
shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early
works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the
canvas in a controlled setting.
The exhibition included only six
works - 4 large assemblages of
shaped canvases, and two cube -
shaped canvases.
By 1967, Overstreet started
working with
shaped canvases.
Working beyond the confines of the conventional rectangle, she is known for her elaborate multi-panel paintings comprised of irregularly
shaped and colorful
canvases.
Mary Corse (b. 1945) earned acclaim in the 1960s for producing pieces ranging from
shaped -
canvas paintings to ingenious light
works.
Tonico Lemos Auad, Gabriel Pionkowski and Johnny Abrahams perhaps exhibit the most direct «weaverly» tendencies but each includes the destruction of the weave simultaneous to the order it provides: Lemos Auad makes his
works by actually unthreading parts of the textile to make ghostly
shapes of removed threads in his screen pieces, while Pionkowski as mentioned above begins by de-threading the
canvas completely.
Both
works are constructed with rhythmic, overlapping
shaped canvas planes, strings and struts, using an abstracted lexicon of forms derived from crosses, diamonds, zigzags and arcs.
In contrast to many of his contemporaries who were moving out of the studio and away from painting, Quaytman remained committed to
working on
canvas and to pushing the modernist idiom in a new direction with monumental
shaped canvases that demonstrated his unique vision and style.
Early in his career, his
work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962) The
Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
Gottlieb's most effective
works were his oppositions of both colors and
shapes in
canvases called Bursts.
He then poured paint on the back of the
work and shifted the
canvas to create different
shapes.
Early in his career, his
work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the art of the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; Geometric Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962; The
Shaped Canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 — 65; Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966; Documenta 4, Kassel, 1968; and Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971.
The influence of modern masters such as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian can be seen in
works from the 1980s, such as Matisse (1989), a white and dark blue
shaped canvas with a geometric motif, and Little Mondrian (1985) and Sliding Square: Green and Gold (1975), which are made up of rectilinear forms.