... I don't think it was an accident that I started
shaping canvases at that crisis time in my life.
I have moved on since then, but seeing one of Richard Smith's big multiple
shaped canvases at Tate Britain recently, I found I still liked it, and liked it more than Noland's Another Line, on display in the same room, along with a vast, vapid Olitski spray painting, more than 20 feet long, not nearly as good as the ones I've illustrated above.
Stella, for example, would have started painting
shaped canvases at about the same time, 1960.
In 1964, Lawrence Alloway organized the seminal exhibition —
The Shaped Canvas at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
While Quaytman also worked with
the shaped canvas at a certain point in his career, his more stoical and significant works are his ultra-refined abstract, hard - edge paintings that deal with a traditional format in mixed mediums.
Not exact matches
Being in his best
shape ever, he proceeds to mop the
canvas with the UFC veteran, outworking him
at every turn and winning via nasty submission in the 2nd round.
«Your brows
shape your face and set the
canvas for your makeup,» says Laura Hittleman, corporate beauty services director
at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ..
Shape the shoulder with a free - floating
canvas panel called a shield, made from traditional, nonfusible hair
canvas or hymo, and secured only
at the roll line with hand stitches, as shown, and machine - stitched
at the armhole seam allowance when the sleeve header is attached.
She notes: «A lot of time is spent sitting and looking
at the
shapes and surfaces on the
canvas.
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.
The Wall is the Floor: The
Shaped Canvas / Wall Sculpture takes a contemporary look at the pioneers of shaped canvas and untraditional wall scul
Shaped Canvas / Wall Sculpture takes a contemporary look at the pioneers of shaped canvas and untraditional wall scul
Canvas / Wall Sculpture takes a contemporary look
at the pioneers of
shaped canvas and untraditional wall scul
shaped canvas and untraditional wall scul
canvas and untraditional wall sculpture.
Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw
canvas helped
shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday
at her home in Darien, Conn..
At present her
canvas - over-carved-wooden
shapes, still paintings, are clearly sculptural.
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.
This array is a development from KAWS» exhibition
at Kaikai Kiki Gallery earlier this year, where that melange of shadowy body parts is endlessly abstracted by their
shaped canvases here.
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.
A pioneer in painting and former professor
at Bard College, Murray is known for distinctively
shaped canvases that break with art - historical tradition and blur the lines between painting and sculpture.
This series of paintings that illustrate this interview are from a 2005 exhibition
at Locks Gallery featuring pairs of oil paintings on polygonal -
shaped canvases and diptychs of her iconic baked enamel steel plate paintings.
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-...]
An iconic Minimalist, Robert Mangold is a past master
at using colors and forms in unexpected ways, fusing differently
shaped canvases and drawn
shapes to create new, formalist structures.
Enrico Castellani's large
shaped canvas, «Superficie Bianca n. 34» — which dates from 1966 and that was shown
at the Venice Biennale that same year — fetched a record # 1,853,875 ($ 2,862,383)(Est. # 400 - 600,000).
In The Time Traveller, for instance, an auratic face gazes into the distance, while the
shapes that emerge from the
canvas offer a portal that is
at once a window, a shadow or a reflection.
These inventions were usually formed of symmetrical bands pointing down in a V
shape from the top of a square
canvas, with the V sometimes cut off
at the bottom.
With Diebenkorn's move to Berkeley, the illusion that we're looking down
at the
canvas is broken by the presence of
shapes we can envisage both from above and in elevation.
The youngest artist to ever receive a retrospective
at the Museum of Modern Art — in 1970,
at age 34 — Frank Stella carved his name into American art history with his innovative
shaped canvases.
In Twisted Figures, his third solo show
at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Hughes's latest series of acrylic paintings pushes this language into a new phase in which the
shapes on the
canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associations.
At Outlet Fine Art, seasoned painter Hermine Ford continues her exploration of urban decay and renewal in quirky
shaped canvases that depict fragments of floor tile mosaics.
Her paintings, smartly installed
at Mary Boone's Fifth Avenue location through February 25, feature symmetrically placed geometric
shapes, sometimes collaged onto the surfaces of the large - scale
canvases.
Maybe one has to step back a few decades after all to escape the derivative, as with a lovely and firm look back
at Ralph Humphrey and
shaped canvas.
Gilbert Hsiao, a painter of retinally invigorating
canvases, many of them geometrically
shaped, is one of a number of artists participating in the American Abstract Artists show
at The Painting Center in SoHo this month, and
at the big Minus Space show
at PS1 that opens next month.
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.
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.
About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A. painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored
canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd -
shaped plates, and painterly abstraction
at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.
If there was a part of this painting that bothered me, it was perhaps this small pink
shape at the top edge of the
canvas, sitting squarely in the middle.
Lewis was an abstract expressionist, and
at first sight his black - and - white
canvas appears entirely abstract — arrays of geometric white
shapes flickering against sepulchral darkness.
Hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia painting, assemblage painting, digital painting, postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting,
shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting
at the beginning of the 21st century.
A couple of the paintings, such as «Hebe» 2011 (pictured) have been split into two sections —
at first, the cut is hard to perceive; it disappears within the shadows and
shapes depicted on the surface of the
canvas — treading a careful line between an impulse towards sculpture whilst asserting the flatness of the painted surface.
His reductive palette,
shaped canvases and minimal compositions in the 1960s led to his paintings being included alongside those of Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Ryman and Frank Stella in a seminal exhibition
at the Kay Mar Gallery that led to the development of Minimalism.
At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created
shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.
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.
The exhibition is the first significant presentation to revisit Posen's breakthrough
shaped canvases and related paintings since his debut
at New York's gallery O.K. Harris, nearly five decades ago.
[26] In 2014, Charles Hinman was included in the group show «
Shaped Canvas Revisited»
at the Luxembourg and Dayan Gallery in New York.
September 14, 2005, Philadelphia, PA — An exhibition of new works by Jennifer Bartlett, Binary Images:
Shaped Canvases and Plate Paintings, will be on view
at Locks Gallery from October 1 through November 12, 2005.
In a review of her 1963 show
at the Feiner Gallery, ArtNews called her
canvases «marvelously colored» and «constantly expanding» concluding the review with an encapsulation of the writer's experience as follows: «
Shapes sink and rise like drum beats leaving other spots in a dead space long enough to vibrate, and then the relationship moves on catching other lights from other places.
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.
The rigorous geometric composition she shows here is an iconic work featuring hard - edge black - and - white semicircles, and a small half - black, half - white diamond
shape at center that seems to pulsate as one approaches the
canvas.
They move across schematic but fiery landscapes, several pairs
at a time, and down a pillar -
shaped canvas.
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.
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 installatio
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 installatio
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.
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.