The exhibitors trended towards work that explored craftsmanship with a strong showing of painting — including a collection of
small abstractions by Andrew Masullo (currently in the Whitney Biennial) at Daniel Weinberg Gallery and Michelle Muldrow's paintings of abstracted store aisles at Jen Bekman Gallery.
Not exact matches
Reduced
by Refn almost to the point of
abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a
small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.
This is a simple but commendable
abstraction of the sport, marred
by the
small selection of only three songs and routines for players to compete with.
If
abstraction is favored
by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no
small amount of figurative work on the scene.
Text 2018 Ted Stamm Woosters, essay
by Alex Bacon, Lisson Gallery, ISBN 978 -0-947830-67-0 2018 From Stasis to Kinesis: The Woosters of Ted Stamm
by Robert C. Morgan, Art Critical, April 2018 2018 New York: Ted Stamm at Lisson Gallery
by E. Macdonald, Art Observer, April 2018 2017 Ted Stamm: DRM 1980, The Estate of Ted Stamm and Karma, New York, ISBN 978 -1-942607-66-3 2013 Ted Stamm: Marianne Boesky
by Robert Pincus - Witten, Artforum, Summer 2013 2013 Ted Stamm: Paintings at Marianne Boesky
by Will Heinrich, Observer Culture, April 2013 2013 Revisions: Another Alan Uglow and Ted Stamm's Minimalisms
by Saul Ostrow, Art Experience: New York City, 2013 2012 Times Square Show Revisited
by Robert Pincus - Witten, Artforum, December 2012, pp 274-275 1997 Painting Advance Stamm 1990 (1989)
by Robert C. Morgan, Between Modernism and Conceptual Art, 1997 Published
by McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997, ISBN 0 -7864-0332-2 1990 Painting Speed
by Tiffany Bell, Art In America, November 1986, pp 140-143 1990 Reconstructivism: Neo Modern
Abstraction in the US
by Peter Frank, Artspace, March / April 1990 1990 Rekonstructivisims: Neo Moderne Abstraktion in der Vereinigen Staaten
by Peter Frank, Kunstforum, January 1990 1986 Ted Stamm Painting Advance 1990, essay
by Tiffany Bell, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, curated
by Per Haubro Jensen 1985 Constructures: New Perimetries in Abstract Painting
by Peter Frank, essay for exhibition Nohra Haime Gallery 1984 Can
Small Works Carry It Off by William Zimmer, essay for small works exhibit, Muhlenberg College, pp. 9
Small Works Carry It Off
by William Zimmer, essay for
small works exhibit, Muhlenberg College, pp. 9
small works exhibit, Muhlenberg College, pp. 9 - 10.
It conjures up a much, much
smaller art world than today's, when artists were galvanized
by the antiwar movement, and
abstraction, in one form or another, was still the lingua franca of painting.
This gorgeous survey «adds to the history of postwar
abstraction by providing a first glimpse of what a
small group of Cuban artists were up to in the 1950s and early»60s, the tumultuous years leading up to, and just after, the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.»
This group show features
small scale early American
abstractions by: Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, Albert E. Gallatin, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Carl Holty, George L.K. Morris, Irene Rice Pereira, Rolph Scarlett, Louis Schanker, Charles Shaw, Louis Stone, Charmion von Wiegand and Vaclav Vytlacil.
He summed up his response: «
By 1953 my pictures appeared to have reached a stage of total abstraction and I was one of that very small band of British abstract artists much ridiculed by our critics... American art had not yet crossed the Atlantic... The experience was a surprise and a shoc
By 1953 my pictures appeared to have reached a stage of total
abstraction and I was one of that very
small band of British abstract artists much ridiculed
by our critics... American art had not yet crossed the Atlantic... The experience was a surprise and a shoc
by our critics... American art had not yet crossed the Atlantic... The experience was a surprise and a shock.
The
smallest could pass for an unusually scruffy white square
by Robert Ryman, Cordy's father, while the largest squares could pass more a more urban Spanish
abstraction.
The exhibition is accompanied
by a
small publication that features a timeline of Tang Chang's life and Thai history and an original essay
by Orianna Cacchione that traces Chang's relationship with the Thai art scene and examines affinities and divergences between his work and international forms of gestural
abstraction and concrete poetry.
Curated
by Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes, the exhibition explored four themes in her work — the Move to
Abstraction, and her Earth, Space and Mosaic paintings — and showcased a few dozen
smaller watercolors and studies.
She joined a
small group of pioneer sculptors who were committed to
abstraction, with whom she developed her more mature style marked
by organic
abstraction and innovative use of various media including string, wire and colored paint.
The pairing also highlights the different ways of representing the sublimity of the surrounding world, whether through a large representational closeup of an immense wave, or
by way of the
small - scale, quiet
abstraction of a deep blue rectangle framed
by fields of white.
«Liminal Squared»
by Julie Mehretu at the Marian Goodman Gallery In «Liminal Squared,» Julie Mehretu's latest show at the Marian Goodman Gallery on W 57 Street, she presents a
small number of huge, nonrepresentational paintings that blur the lines between landscape, architectural drawing, and pure
abstraction.
CA Spectral Hues, curated
by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Building the Art House, curated
by Katherine Connell and Emma Spertus, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Big Idea, curated
by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and JoAnn Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Along the Lines, Harrington Gallery, curated
by Julie Finegan, Pleasanton, CA 2016 Plus +1, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group show, November - December 2016, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Palette, curated
by Kelly Inouye, Theodora Mauro and Lisa Solomon, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2015 Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Therely Bare Redux, Clara M Eagle Gallery, University of Tennessee, Murray Territory of
Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Out of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA Art Market San Francisco, (with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary), San Francisco, CA The Airplane Show, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2014 un.bound.ed, curated
by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (edition) DOPPLER SHIFT, curated
by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Intuitionists, curated
by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) First / Last, curated
by Heather Phillips, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2013 DOPPLER, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Generations IX: The Red / Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Made In Paint: 2012 Artists in Residence, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY Rituals of Exhibition II, Light Space Project, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand Rituals of Exhibition, curated
by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao, Don't Be Selfish, Phayao, Thailand POSTE CONCRET II, curated
by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR 2012 Soft Luminosity, curated
by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk, IS Projects, Leiden, NL (edition) Art On Paper 2012, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (brochure) Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, curated
by Ruth van Veenen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL Doppler Stop, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) Doppler Stop, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Doppler Stop, Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE Doppler Stop, trenutak.39 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR Trade - O - Mat, curated
by Kathryn Kenworth, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, curated
by Brent Hallard, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY POSTE CONCRET I, curated
by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR BYO, IS Projects, Leiden, NL Stop & Go Rides Again, touring exhibition curated
by Sarah Klein, Z Space, San Francisco, US; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images / Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue) ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2010 TOUCH, curated
by Brent Hallard, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (catalogue) Factor XX, curated
by Jenny Balisle, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (catalogue) The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 TRANS: form color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated
by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated Color, curated
by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated
by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated
by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated
by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated
by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated
by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated
by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they aren't.
2009Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, (catalogue) ARTLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated
by Andrew Renton Altogether Elsewhere, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK (catalogue) Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, curated
by Amie Scully (catalogue) Looking Through the Other End of the Telescope, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (catalogue) Pictural
Abstraction, Tache - Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium The Act of Drawing, VIVID, Birmingham, UK Video Art: Replay, Part 1: Asking Not Telling, ICA, Philadelphia, PA The Source, Cubitt Art Gallery, London, UK, curated
by Michelle Cotton (catalogue) Are You With Me,
Small A, New York, NY
This exhibition (the first on the artist at Thomas Dane) presents new works
by Merz, who is now in her nineties: from portraits — which continue her interest in the border between figuration and
abstraction — and
small fired clay heads, to works on paper.
CALLICOON FINE ARTS Callicoon and Mother's Tankstation Limited of Dublin have collaborated on this four - artist show, with the strongest impression made
by Mairead O'hEocha, who reinvents the floral still lifes of Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750) with
small flyaway brush strokes that evoke
abstraction and organic decay.
But the standouts here are 14 radiant
abstractions from her last 30 years that parlay these inclinations into a distinctive yet flexible style of saturated monochromes interrupted
by small episodes of two or three astutely contrasted colors.
The environment of unstretched, uninhibited
abstractions by Vivian Suter is flanked
by the
small billboard - based geometries of Jessica Mein and the little - know excursions into gender and Xerox
by the Brazilian pioneer Hudinilson JR (1957 - 2013).
Don't miss, among others, Jessica Dickinson's crudely elegant
abstractions at Altman Siegel... on the same floor at 49 Geary St., Fraenkel Gallery's presentation of «Six New Animations,» ingeniously constructed
by Christian Marclay from photographs of the sidewalk on strolls about town... more video, the best work in an exhibition
by Argentine Mexican performance art master Miguel Angel Rios at Gallery Wendi Norris... «Teresita Fernández:
Small American Fires,» burning intensely at Anthony Meier Fine Arts... and the small but museum - class retrospective of the optically challenging, intellectually exciting paintings of Bridget Riley at John Berggruen Gal
Small American Fires,» burning intensely at Anthony Meier Fine Arts... and the
small but museum - class retrospective of the optically challenging, intellectually exciting paintings of Bridget Riley at John Berggruen Gal
small but museum - class retrospective of the optically challenging, intellectually exciting paintings of Bridget Riley at John Berggruen Gallery.
This exhibition took an unusual look at the work of Louise Fishman — a painter known for her art's athleticism and
abstraction —
by focusing on
small scale and sculpture.
David Zwirner has a solo show of works
by Forrest Bess (1911 - 1977), the once barely known and now much acclaimed, mid-20th-century painter of
small, enigmatically symbolic
abstractions.
Jan Groover (1943 - 2012), the photographer of dreamy, coolly formal still lifes at Janet Borden and Etel Adnan, the nonagenarian painter of
small, richly colorful, patchwork
abstractions at Galerie Lelong are two more arresting shows of works
by women.
She also worked as a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration, and spent years experimenting variously with collage, biomorphic
abstraction, hard edge
abstraction,
small - scale works inspired
by her Jewish heritage and large - scale works informed
by her personal life.
A
small 1958 canvas collage
by Conrad Marca - Relli hangs alongside a powerful ink - on - paper
abstraction by Franz Kline from 1952.
I was greeted
by the artist herself who generously took the time to describe her work: «They are
small abstractions.»
Daniel Heidkamp (through July 26) Mr. Heidkamp's canvases — flanked
by smaller shows of the fashionably hands - off photocopy - transfer
abstractions by Patrick Berran and the colorful, fashionably nonchalant gestural ones
by Jennifer Nichols — reveal an artist exploring a versatile natural talent while extending the plein - air tradition.
What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published
by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to
abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out
small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.
Challenging
by nature,
small scale works offer the artists the ability to work quickly and decisively, while giving a focus on craft and detail that is rarely seen in extra large
abstraction.
The Texas - born visionary, who was championed
by legendary NYC art dealer Betty Parsons, had some interesting theories on alchemy and hermaphroditic evolution — a worldview within which his crusty little
abstractions only played a
small part.
The show expands on the rich and significant history of Latin American conceptual
abstraction and provides a contemporary view as it is practiced
by a current generation — and contextualized
by a
small selection of works
by the late Mira Schendel (1919 — 1988), whose work will be part of a 2 - person retrospective at MoMA in spring 2009.
Since late October, visitors have been confronted
by a mural of sorts — a sprawling collection of canvases, big and
small, rendered in a variety of styles ranging from Academic Realism to Expressionism to Pop to post-painterly
abstraction —
by LA - based artist Mark Flores titled See This Through, 2009 — 10.
Riley describes Little Rock's mainstream art scene as dominated
by contemporary Southern artists, regional artists, landscapes, geometric
abstraction,
smaller scale abstract expressionism, and neo-impressionism.
It is not merely that the artist is toying with the border between
abstraction and documentation; the nature of his imagery points to a difficulty in perception and to the impossibility of grasping the work of taking apart
by hand an industrial structure the size of a
small city.
Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Invitational Painting Exhibition: Part 1, Twelfe Abstract Painters, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, USA (curated
by Michael Walls) Abstract Painting, Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (curated
by Per Jensen) Current 6: New
Abstractions, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania and Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA (curated
by Tom Hudspeth and Ron Janowich)
The second is her «Strange Fruit» series,
small abstractions made out of British Juicy Fruit gum chewed
by the artist herself and still emitting a vaguely sweet smell.
Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised
by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of
abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»
The elegant
abstractions of Sedje Hémon (1923 — 2011) come across as sympathetic, although faintly dated, and
small collages
by Elisabeth Wild appear as average, if not mediocre, formal experiments.
By 1948, when his family was reunited in London, Mr. Stanczak was making
small, patterned
abstractions in bright colors or in black and white.
While at first glance Lin seems to prefer the grand gesture, on careful inspection he rewards the viewer with more subtle, measured experiences like
small paintings on paper that recall 20th century
abstraction by artists including Miro, Kandinsky, Gorky, and Gottlieb.
Working within the vein of assemblage, Wadden's large - scale works are conceived
by piecing together his handwoven weavings, thereby transforming,
smaller process - based pieces into larger, hard - edged, geometric
abstractions.
The UAM has nicely paired Martin's paintings with a larger show of
smaller work
by Suzan Frecon, a New York - based painter who works a different mode of
abstraction.
On the opposite side is a
small but intense vertical
abstraction by Louise Nevelson, and a cityscape
by Alice Neel: I am particularly fond of works
by Alice Neel that are not portraits, but still lifes and cityscapes, because one can appreciate her drawing and paint application in a different manner when they are not applied to her strong sense of figuration which may overwhelm a viewer's ability to fully appreciate her more abstract qualities.
Often blurring the lines between figurative and geometric
abstraction, the canvases from this period are characterized
by painterly brush strokes and expansive compositions, often broken into
smaller geometric regions of color and pattern.
«More hard - edged and conceptual
abstraction is represented
by two solo shows: Michael Zahn at Eleven Rivington (May 28 to July 3) is known for monochromatic canvases in synthetic colors that resemble commercial stationery, while Alix Le Méléder at Galerie Zurcher (June 11 to July 23) makes repeating marks in the corners of
small white canvases.