Berthot's early paintings were abstractions on
shaped canvases.
PAUL CUMMINGS: Scarpitta, after
the shaped canvases and some other things, started building his automobiles?
Now, the New Yorker gallery Luhring Augustine is showing him in a group exhibition featuring
shaped canvases, alongside Blinky Palermo and Frank Stella.
Similarly, Stella's
shaped canvases engage in a subtle play with perspective space.
Although the surface is a riot of lines and abstract shapes, there is something somber about this work when compared with the more carefree
shaped canvases of Elizabeth Murray — a difference that feels particularly emblematic of the 21st - century conceptual divide that these artists have crossed.
Textile patterns and gold leaf are incorporated into the compositions, and oval and diamond -
shaped canvases occasionally frame her figures.
Frank Stella (b. 1936) Minimalist, Hard - Edge painter, noted for
his shaped canvases and printmaking.
The student work ranges from letterform - inspired abstractions to painterly landscapes to intensely graphic narrative scenes on
shaped canvases.
Since 1967 he has been a pioneer in painting curved surfaces and
shaped canvases that recall shields of saddles.
He has made paintings on traditional, rectangular canvases, paintings on differently
shaped canvases, murals, prints, three - dimensional relief paintings and paintings that many people would describe as sculptures.
In a clever move on MoMA's part, you can see out from the show to an early Frank Stella painting in the museum's permanent collection galleries; Mr. Stella was the first American artist to make
shaped canvases, in 1960.
Besides
the shaped canvases, and the silkscreen posters he was to make a year later, Krushenick also designed sets and costumes for a performance of Haydn's comic opera Il Mondo della Luna (The Man in the Moon) at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in conjunction with his 1968 survey exhibition at the Walker Art Center.
This trend of manipulating raw materials can be seen throughout his oeuvre, especially in his «
shaped canvases».
Metz's new works take the form of grandly scaled,
shaped canvases, each one stained a deep indigo.
The artist retained the irregular forms of his «
shaped canvases» of the late 1960s, but replaced the minimalism of his earlier paintings with three - dimensional reliefs that project forwards from the picture plane into the surrounding space.
The two - part exhibition contains a series of paintings on variously
shaped canvases in one room and large - scale aluminum and steel sculptures in the other.
Riley notes: «Touring this notably similar trio of exhibitions — and comparing the exquisite surfaces, sculptural
shaped canvases and inventive color choices — induces a combination of awe and reverent attention to the details of the works in all their uncanny perfection.»
In the early 60's, inspired by the work of senior painters like Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers, Jackson moved away from the gestural style that had marked his work of the» 50's, developing his signature style of austere, hard edged geometric compositions on square and diamond
shaped canvases.
Color indexes and logical patterns pervade her abstract paintings, including her rule - based plate pieces,
shaped canvases from the early 2000s, and the «blob paintings» from 2012 — 13.
With a career spanning sixty - five years and inclusion in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Zilia Sánchez is known for
shaped canvases made of material stretched over handmade wooden frames.
Among the more unexpected choices are
shaped canvases by Thomas Downing, a neon sculpture by Keith Sonnier, a cascading graphite wall hanging by Michelle Stuart, and Rafael Ferrer's striking Neon Corner (1970), consisting of a metal pipe leaning in a corner, with a circular white neon shape at the base.
Were you looking at Frank Stella, thinking about his history with
shaped canvases?
Continuing where Pace Gallery's 2011 exhibition Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the «70s left off, Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the «80s explores another critical decade in the artist's career, the decade during which Murray began painting her iconic
shaped canvases.
In the seventies and eighties, Richard Smith's exploration of alternatives to the traditional two - dimensional canvas led to stretcher-less kite paintings and irregularly
shaped canvases attached to collapsible metal rods.
In the early 1980s, he produced his first «Metal Works,» in which
he shaped canvases and cut metal to create abstract three - dimensional images.
Fully committed to painting, Murraybroke new ground depicting personal, poeticand at timesfeministnarratives on complex multidimensional
shaped canvases.
These large - scale, dark - toned pieces usually contain ominous, organic voids at their centers and are made from patching together accumulations of
shaped canvases, leather, porcelain curios, wire mesh, conveyer belts and muslin recall nests.
Opening: «Mike Kelley: Shaped Paintings» at Skarstedt Never previously exhibited as a group, Mike Kelley's
shaped canvases of the 1990s marked the bad - boy artist's return to painting after a productive 15 - year period creating performance, multimedia and installation art.
Continuing to develop drawn forms, the 1990s introduced outlined geometric forms more autonomously depicted on solidly - colored,
shaped canvases: Attic Series III, Study (1990) places an ellipse inside of a parallelogram; Plane Figure Series A (1993) sets two ellipses within a two - color parallelogram; and Curved Plane / Figure VIII (Study)(1995) places two ellipses within a three - color half - circle, cut off a canvas truncated on its right edge.
The first time I looked at the work of Cuban - born artist Zilia Sánchez I was struck by how simultaneously assertive and retiring her massive
shaped canvases are.
Mexican native Olivié Ponce also suggests organic environments with his large - scale,
shaped canvases.
His elegant
shaped canvases and balanced prints draw from both sources.
In addition to circles comprised of perfectly and colorfully painted stripes, Tadasky has painted his famous stripes on narrow rectangular and large triangular -
shaped canvases, but he always returned to the circular compositions.
Within these ten works he essays realism, pattern painting, hard - edged abstraction, painterly abstraction, rectangular and
shaped canvases — declaring a reserved pluralism.
Jones favors lines, circles, squares, and ovals formed by
shaped canvases that he carves, cuts, etches, and paints like a craftsman, while Slater layers the paint over the surface resulting in images that are never flat, line - driven, or hard - edge.
While there is a hint of
the shaped canvases of Ellsworth Kelly, in fact the syncopated silhouettes and acid tones of these Freeforms spontaneously evoke the -LSB-...]
In 1968, Leo Valledor returned to San Francisco where he continued to explore his unique abstract painting that extended musical harmonies and rhythms to
shaped canvases and colors.
The ruddy Copper Paintings, named for mining towns in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, torque this play toward the sculptural with emphatically
shaped canvases.
Contino's early works are hard - edged geometric paintings (including
shaped canvases) composed of thick lines and contrasting solid colors that divide the canvas and form intricate shapes.
While his first
shaped canvases were determined by the silhouette of a single depicted object, as in the Smoker series, later works such as Nude with Lamp are shaped according to their own logic, rather than that of the painted image, utilizing the blank space of the bare wall behind.
This exhibit is the first to comprehensively trace this thread in Bartlett's practice, debuting her newest paintings on canvas, the «Blob» paintings, and gathering works from three pivotal series in her career: early plate pieces from the 1970s,
shaped canvases from the early 2000s, and plate pieces relating to the 2008 — 2010 room - size installation Recitative.
He started working on
shaped canvases and opted for increasingly large formats.
Not strictly a minimalist, he has made a number of monochrome paintings on
shaped canvases and single color rectangular panels.
Wesselmann used collage, assemblage and
shaped canvases to usher in a new vocabulary of painting.
This publication is the first to comprehensively trace this thread in Bartlett's practice, reproducing her newest paintings on canvas, the Blob paintings, and gathering works from three pivotal series in her career: early plate pieces from the 1970s,
shaped canvases from the early 2000s, and plate pieces relating to the 2008 - 2010 room - size installation Recitative.
They hark back to a time when flatness was abstract painting's primary goal, and the physical facts of the medium were starting to be endlessly parsed — beginning with
shaped canvases — in a process that continues today.
A pioneer in painting, Murray's distinctively
shaped canvases break with the art - historical tradition of illusionistic space in two - dimensions.
The show consists of 11 diptychs: 6 pairs of oil paintings on polygonal -
shaped canvases and 5 pairs of painted, baked enamel steel plates.
Parrino called his works «misshaped canvases», in direct response to
the shaped canvases of the 1960s.
There is nothing moody about their silvery, reflective surfaces or about the dazzling logic with which the bands of aluminum paint jog in and out in response to the discreetly
shaped canvases, which have cutaway notches and squares at their corners, sides and centers.