These free - style, smooth, vector - based motifs of angular scribbles, slicing zig zags, looping lines, biomorphic
shapes and colour fields are then exactingly transferred onto large scale canvas with paint and tape as well as digital printing.
Like his American counterparts, Law's canvases strip back painting to monochrome stripes, blocky
shapes and colour fields.
Not exact matches
In addition to the instrument dials under the dome -
shaped cowl behind the steering wheel
and a central LCD
colour display integrated between them, the MMI also supplies information via its swivelling flat screen, well positioned within the driver's
field of vision in the upper section of the centre console.
By simplifying images into
shapes, flat
fields of
colour and areas of mark making, an image is pushed towards the unrecognizable.
Shaping Forms (2007) is a collection of three videos that brings Edmunds» data - centric concerns back into the environs of
colour -
field painting
and Abstract Expressionism.
But on it went, altering
and transforming through op - art, lyrical abstraction,
colour field painting, minimalism
and so on, to the point where nobody now would imagine that this once curious obsession with
shapes and colours and non-descriptive marks is likely to come to an end.
Focusing on multiple
colours, sharp lines, three dimensional
shapes and multi layered optical illusions, I prepare my visions digitally, using
colour fields and multiple layers, before transferring these creations to «one - off» original pieces.
It focuses on the experimental transformation of
shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, from which the three artists draw their inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms
and geometry, Nelio through a dense texture of
colour fields that he uses to compose his name,
and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long
and vaunted past as a graffiti writer, evolves his style in three - dimensional works, in which painting, drawing
and architecture interact with one another.
He has organized numerous retrospectives
and traveling exhibitions, including Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity (2000)
and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City (2001), both at the Birmingham Museum of Art,
and then, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, The
Shape of
Colour: Excursions in
Colour Field Art, 1950 - 2005 (2005),
and Julian Schnabel: Art
and Film (2010).
By the end of the decade, the artist's ongoing exploration of figure - ground tensions is expressed in works such as «Große Flächenteilung / Spiegel» (Large
field - division / mirror)(1989)
and «Unterbrechung» (Interruption)(1989), in which simple
shapes are painted over horizontal swaths of intense
and even acrid contrasting
colour fields.
That spirit is kept alive also via the incorporation of other techniques: airy, expressive
fields of stained painting evoking his light - filled
colour fields, stencilled patterns
and outlined
shapes recalling the seminal Map Paintings, an underlying geometric rigour
and structural complexity which has encompassed his career in the interplay between rectangular
and circular forms.
Tillmans makes
colour and line appear as one indistinguishable substance; instead of
colour being confined by
and filling in drawn profile, here
colour seems to thicken
and extend into its own tendriled
shapes, arriving at forms
and fields that look organically spawned» — L. RELYEA «What connects all my work is finding the right balance between intention
and chance, doing as much as I can
and knowing when to let go, allowing fluidity
and avoiding anything being forced» — W. TILLMANS Immersing the viewer in a mesmeric expanse of deep blue, Wolfgang Tillmans» Freischwimmer 186 lyrically transcends the boundaries between photography, painting
and drawing.
Exhibition: SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2012 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada 2011 Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2011 Kamploops Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2010 Mendel Art Gallery - Saskatoon, Sask, Canada 2008 Poussin Gallery, London, England 2007 Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2005 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, The
Shape of
Colour 2005 Excursions in
Colour Field Art, 1950-2005 2006 Canada House, London, England, William Perehudoff,
Colour Chording 2002 Post Painterly Abstraction of the Canadian Prairies 2002 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, William Perehudoff, Now
and Then 2001 - 04 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 2004 Clement Greenburg, A Critic's Collection 2001 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs 1994 Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB 1994 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB 1993 The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK., William Perehudoff, Edmonton 1990 Waddington Gorce Inc., Montreal, PQ 1988 Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1982 Waddington Galleries, New York, N.Y. 1980/78 Meridith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 1976 Waddington - Tooth Gallery, London, UK 1977 Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
2012 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada 2011 Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2011 Kamploops Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2010 Mendel Art Gallery - Saskatoon, Sask, Canada 2008 Poussin Gallery, London, England 2007 Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2005 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, The
Shape of
Colour 2005 Excursions in
Colour Field Art, 1950-2005 2006 Canada House, London, England, William Perehudoff,
Colour Chording 2002 Post Painterly Abstraction of the Canadian Prairies 2002 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, William Perehudoff, Now
and Then 2001 - 04 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 2004 Clement Greenburg, A Critic's Collection 2001 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs 1994 Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB 1994 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB 1993 The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK., William Perehudoff, Edmonton 1990 Waddington Gorce Inc., Montreal, PQ 1988 Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1982 Waddington Galleries, New York, N.Y. 1980/78 Meridith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 1976 Waddington - Tooth Gallery, London, UK 1977 Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Furthermore, despite some formalist success stories like Frank Stella's
Shaped Canvas genre, which proclaimed the «objecthood» of the picture, by 1973, the formalism of such styles as
Colour Field Painting was soon replaced by the Anti-Formalism of movements like Pop Art
and Minimalism.