Sadly, understandably —
the smooth surfaces of his work cry out to be touched — notices in each room ask us not to — the exhibition organisers have chosen to display these diminutive works in perspex boxes.
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Rose Sharp writes that Goodman's oeuvre «is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course
of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions);
smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup on canvas; and intimate small - scale
works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.
In these
works the colour was bleached, the paint
surface smooth, and the light conceived as a revealer
of detail, e.g. Girl with a White Dog, 1951 - 2 (Tate Gallery).
While Stella makes one imagine that he — or the
work's own organic logic — created the twisting forms and
smooth or roughened
surfaces, Rubins lets rust, steel, and fragments
of the original paint job speak for themselves.
With its combination
of irregular, hand -
worked surfaces and
smooth, highly finished elements, Spider III is a complex hybrid
of menace and emotional vulnerability.
Her «thing» is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course
of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions);
smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup on canvas; and intimate small - scale
works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.
In 1980s, de Kooning changed to
working on
smooth surfaces, glazing with bright, transparent colors over fragments
of gestural drawings.
Both qualities are evident in Knight's Heritage, an important transitional piece in which Truitt still employed a brushy texture to define the paint
surface and actual grooves to mark the three divisions (elements she abandoned in her later,
smoother work) but began to break out
of the somber tones
of her earliest
work and embrace glowing color.
Indeed her
works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use
of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use
of diagonals that creates a solid sense
of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the
smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough
surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.
For the past decade, Raphaël Zarka's
work has prominently featured images
of skateboarders taking advantage
of the slick
surfaces, hard edges, and
smooth slopes
of monumental public artworks.
She originally hoped to
smooth the
surface completely, but eventually realized it was a fitting expression
of her intention, integrating the digital origins
of the
work with its final form.
The diversity found between the craggy
surface of Madame Noblet (1897) and the
smooth sealant - coated
working plaster
of Ecce Puer (Behold the Child)(1906) is even more apparent in the multiple wax - and - plaster versions
of Child in the Sun (1891 — 92) and Jewish Boy (1893) on display.
Discovering what lies behind a facade, or beneath our feet beyond the
smooth surface of the pavement, is a central motif in Weismann's
work.
Sara Cwynar presents three
works, each consisting
of images assembled through collage and re-photography from objects and found photographs, a process
of intervention and manipulation that ultimately disrupts the
smooth surface and the perspective
of the stock image.
With its combination
of irregular, hand -
worked surfaces and
smooth, highly finished elements, the spider form is a complex mix
of menace and emotion.
In Davenport's
work the viewer is placed in front
of these paintings, there can often seem to be very little on the
surface of his
work, especially the minimalist glossy pieces which are almost like a painted Donald Judd:
smooth, clean and restrained.
Her initial representational painting would be done from life, out in the open air, then she would take the canvas home to her studio and
work over it so that it took on an emotional resonance — something she described as: «that memory or dream thing I do that for me comes nearer reality than my objective kind
of work».6 She painted on canvas with a very fine weave and coated it with a special primer to make the
surface extremely
smooth, blending one colour into the next, making sure that the brushstrokes were invisible.
Schanck
work is bold, architectural pieces that are coated in a super fine foil that reveals every nook and cranny
of their original
surfaces (the table is cheap OSB wood), now
smooth to the touch thanks to a glossy finish.
A «show within a show» platform
of the commercial interface
of large - scale lightboxes featuring «the
smooth surface of a «communicative» capitalism» and the
work of Dora Budor, Hood by Air, Martine Syms, Stewart Uoo and others.
Working with the seemingly narrow subject
of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition
of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs
of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity
of paper pulp editions to the
smooth, mechanical
surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet prints; from the subtle tonalities
of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance
of an 111 - color screenprint.
In addition to using the traditional framework
of oil on canvas, Van Deventer
works on stretched silk, a material she describes as «both a traditional painting
surface and a fabric that is in between opaque and transparent, in between a fabric for the body and a
smooth surface for painting.»
The new
works have a visceral effect that blends the effects
of color field painting with offhanded gestural movement and the paint's own organic movement on the
smooth matte
surface to ethereal effect.
The title
of the exhibition is borrowed from a poem by Mei - Mei Berssenbrugge, a poet who refers to her
works as «collages,» inasmuch as they're composed by culling a collection
of texts, images and physical objects to form a map, which she eventually
smooths out grammatically to create a «linguistic
surface.»
Shapiro's most complex artistic practices are illustrated by his ephemeral
works, where
smooth surfaces show no trace
of human intervention.
His canvas
works are primed with five layers
of acrylic mat gel, which prevents the ink from invading the canvas and, instead, allows the ink to pool into a
smooth wash on the
surface, gradually obliterating some
of the pen strokes.
Building up strips
of various materials on a single
surface — these can be rough,
smooth, gestural, flat, reflective, or matte — Wallace's
work constantly evokes tactile or natural occurrences like rock outcroppings, seascapes, molecules, or even, on a more macro level, galaxies.
The
surfaces of her
work — from the waxed,
smooth plywood to the subtle fuzziness
of brightly colored felt — are engaging and tactile, offering an immediacy, familiarity, and a temptation to touch.
Building up strips
of various materials on a single
surface — these can be rough,
smooth, gestural, flat, reflective, or matte — Wallace's
work constantly evokes tactile or natural occurrences...
Through a variety
of application methods Edwards
works the
surface of his paintings to set static backdrops through combinations
of gestural abstraction,
smooth gradients, and flat color.
His
smooth surfaces, however, are not completely uniform; the complex and subtle interaction between transparency and opacity, as determined by the density
of his paint,
works to activate a dynamic and constantly fluctuating visual field.
«In Udomsak's earliest
works, meaning slips and skitters across their
smooth monochromatic
surfaces or sinks between the pin pricks
of light in a blanket
of black.
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