Working in oil on
small pieces of canvas board near the waters and harbors of Manhattan, John Marin (1870 - 1953) was possibly the first American artist to make abstract paintings.
Not exact matches
Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range
of material, among which are an 1864 photograph
of the forest
of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph
of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a
small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits
of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on
canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.
I think you ask yourself, «What can I do on a large square
canvas, or on a
small piece of paper that might be interesting?»
Divided in 6 separate rooms, the installation includes some 60 individual stoneware and porcelain
pieces, as well as couple
of rare editions on paper by Kusaka, and around 40
pieces by Wood, ranging from
small collage showing his studio process, limited edition multiples, a series
of floral
pieces on paper, all the way to monumental oil and acrylic
pieces on
canvas.
A typical Cordy Ryman lies in a hybridized zone between sculpture and painting;
pieces of wood or perhaps
canvas may be isolated like
small geometric paintings or even extended into the full expanse
of the rooms in which they are installed, following a kind
of modular accumulation strategy.
Despite being the
smallest piece in the show, this rectangular amalgamation
of oil paint, acrylic paint, household paint, varnish and mixed media collage on
canvas (then mounted on board) had that rare feeling
of monumentality.
Instead
of revising her initial marks in certain areas, Wylie has collaged
pieces of canvas over the paint, introducing texture and
small flecks
of color that together lend the work an organic nature.
Since then, Tuttle has presented prominent and influential series in the history
of contemporary art such as the cloth
pieces, which he installed dyed and cut
canvas on the wall, and were both pictorial and three - dimensional, and the wire
pieces, which consisted
of wire and its shadow and pencil lines, and
small - scale collage
pieces among others.
Her choice
of unlikely, humble materials —
small pieces of bone, worn wood, thin semi-translucent white plastic bags, half - burnt cigarette papers, or the edge
of two stapled
canvases — that reveal and hide themselves, questions what it might mean to paint with found objects.
The
small pieces of paper that blanket the
piece curl up and peel away from the
canvas, like dead leaves or sunburnt skin.
The two
pieces by Julie Torres are both conceptual works about capital - p Painting: «Room with a View» is a
small canvas on which super-thick layers
of acrylic paint make something that appears, all at once, like a window, a picture inset into photo corners, the back
of a stretched
canvas.
By gluing thousands
small pieces of very delicate paper on the
canvas one by one, she almost creates an expression that is close to three - dimensional.
Most
of her shiny «mapping» artworks contain
small collaged
pieces that jut from the
canvas.
Large new body
of work that SF - based artist prepared for this show consists
of a series
of smaller pieces on paper as well as medium and large
canvases.
In her latest works, Tschabalala Self continues to depict the regal black body — reposing, dancing, making love — to reverberating effect in large works
of paint on
canvas to which she appends found fabrics and
smaller pieces of painted
canvas.
White Cube's Jay Jopling lost the bidding
of Afrosheen the coveted oil on
canvas which was estimated at $ 510.900 - $ 681.200 and finally sold for a record - breaking $ 2.246.481 to a telephone bidder.The
piece was part
of a
small group
of works from Charles Saatchi sold to benefit the Saatchi Gallery's Foundation.
My most recent encounter with his works was during his two simultaneous exhibits: Works: 1968 — 1977 (Petzel, March 2 — April 29) consisting
of the artist's early unstretched,
pieced - together
canvases and paper works made
of unconventional materials in serial forms; and Lost Objects (curated by Piper Marshall at Mary Boone Gallery, March 4 — April 29), which features his installation
of a
smaller reconfiguration
of 240
of the 750 cast concrete bone replicas from the fossil collection
of the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History (1991) along with a cooperative video work May I Help You?
Photographs,
canvases, colored paper,
small pieces of wood, silicon or metal are arranged in her three - dimensional collage, which describes the reproduction
of the former room.
Even transposed to the museum's main gallery, with
small, green - toned
canvas studies arranged on an overlooking wall to evoke the forest environs in Kassel, the work did not disappoint, communicating the sheer physicality that goes into the accumulation and composition
of materials for Ohtake's collage and assemblage
pieces.
The new body
of work consisted
of 30
pieces including
small studies, medium and large scale
pieces on wood and
canvas, as well as a few hand painted multiple prints.
The installation
of the 4 - foot - high Abstract, White & Black, 1960, near the entrance makes that clear, and the general similarity the
small pieces share with such larger
canvases is indisputable.
Fabric
Canvas — Take all
of your favorite
pieces or the ones that are too
small and turn them into some lovely wall art for your craft room or any room in your house!
Instead
of one large
piece, invest in three
small canvases or a group
of photographs.
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