Reidel's grandmother is loosely painted on an irregularly
shaped piece of canvas tacked to the wall in Pink Grandma and Kleenex Crown (2016).
Not exact matches
Puns abound in his paintings: in his «Cover Letter» series (2010), a
piece of felt in the
shape of a lowercase «a» hangs over a stretched
canvas.
This
piece, a hybrid
of sculpture and painting at Marianne Boesky Gallery, takes the formally rigorous experiments
of Piet Mondrian into the third dimension, adding physical weight and heft to
shapes that the Dutch artist treated with such verve on
canvas.
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.
Marca - Relli often worked in collage, «drawing» rapidly with a razor blade, cutting
pieces of canvas into random
shapes and dispersing them across the picture surface.
Adhering the book pages to the
canvas happened first, then Ala un-stretched the
piece and executed an archival pigment print over the surface
of the book pages — the blue galactic scene in the
shape of the star.
However, this camera, while recognisable as a very specific object, is
pieced together from terracotta
shapes reminiscent
of children's building blocks, inviting other forms to materialise on the
canvas.
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.
Pieces in progress abound at her sun - splashed Brooklyn studio, amid
canvas shapes painted a deep teal hanging on a line to dry and heaps
of paper cutouts numbered like tailor's patterns.
Yellow
Piece (1966), the artist's first
shaped canvas, represents Kelly's pivotal break with the rectangular support and his redefinition
of painting's figure / ground relationship.
Minimal and spare, Nunes»
pieces push the boundaries
of genre, rendering the iconic
shapes and structures
of modern architecture and Minimalism outside the parameters
of the blank
canvas.
Mangold became known for his use
of shaped canvases, often creating works
of art that weren't merely square, but that incorporated the
shape of the
piece in order to enhance the painting.
In «Compounding Visions,» the unique
shape of the Oakes»
canvas is a unique feature
of their
pieces.
After sewing each fragment onto a
piece of canvas, Cloud cuts the
canvas into the
shape of the clothing, and then sews the resulting items into a larger, oddly
shaped patchwork «quilts.»
By the time I was in graduate school, I began dealing with the problem
of image / object where I took the
canvas off the stretcher, folded it into zigzag
shapes, painted on both sides, and they became sort
of like feminized versions
of Robert Morris's felt
pieces.
This volume presents his most recent abstract
pieces — most
of them painted on
canvas covering
shaped stretchers — alongside an essay by critic and curator Vincent Pécoil.
This 45 - year - old Brazilian artist makes abstract paintings by first painting
shapes on a
piece of plastic and then pressing the paint side
of the plastic onto a
canvas, thus transferring the images.
This
piece, which an effusive volunteer told me the paint was still drying on, is emblematic
of her oil on
canvas paintings with their precise black lines, warm hues, and intricate abstracted
shapes.
To explore this relationship between form and ground further, Kelly began using nontraditional,
shaped canvases, as in the monochromatic 1966 Yellow
Piece, from, whose two curved corners draws the eye to the wall behind it, as though the gallery wall itself were part
of the composition.
The play
of three - dimensionality runs like a common thread through the exhibition — in the non-existent, imaginated space
of a
canvas piece or in the fragmented and reconstructed
shape of a sculpture: a powerful area
of tension emerges.
He is best known for his minimalist works consisting
of several solid colored, geometrically
shaped pieces of stretched
canvas fitted together to form a single work.
The exhibition features a selection
of approximately 10 works including distorted new
canvas piece that combine two circular forms reminiscent
of scenes viewed through binoculars, and painting on pyramid -
shaped canvas.
Adian's wall - mounted abstract paintings, made by stretching
canvas over
shaped pieces of foam, will find themselves in a group show titled «Rascal House» with Blair Thurman, John Armleder, and Stephane Kropf at Half Gallery in January 2015, followed by an installation at Lever House in New York.
Schulz and Bandau: In recent
pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part
shaped canvas as a foil for one
of abstract painting's potential weaknesses: the merely decorative.
Like Stella, but less soberly, perhaps with a thought
of Elizabeth Murray (1940 - 2007), Rappaport makes the perimeters
of several
of his
pieces on stretched
canvas interact compositionally with
shapes painted on them.
In the corner
of the annex sits Alizarin Crimson Corner
Piece (1974), a painting made on
canvas shaped to fit the three sides
of a corner.
This is also the case in another Untitled (2015), an Ellsworth Kelly-esque
piece that features a pistachio - colored dividing line and rounded
shapes in Yves Klein blue undulating across the top and bottom
of the white
canvas; here, miniscule drips in various hues dot the
canvas, undermining the impression
of minimalist mimicry.
He soon regarded such aesthetic freedom with suspicion, however, and began to paint more premeditated
pieces, such as Number 9: In Praise
of Gertrude Stein (1950), in which calligraphic and typographic
shapes form a floating, but controlled, network over the entire surface
of the
canvas.
Large oil - on -
canvas pieces, these show latticed rows
of light - and dark - grey blobs whose
shapes quasi-repeat as they race across the frame, their angle modulating from painting to painting.
His work progresses from hard - edge,
shaped painted
canvases to systems - based wall
pieces and three dimensional work, echoes
of which I believe can be seen in the work
of artists such as Andrew Bick.
The
canvas pieces of Flasche paint on raw linen evoked an organic character and intensified the
shapes that float about.
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