Playing with
pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.
Caivano's works are the result of an extensive decision - making process, each brushstroke and colour conceived in relation to the one that came before within the
particular space of the canvas.
Mullen's work transcends the
flat space of the canvas and invites the viewer into a new realm which is not explicit, creating access into a wider spectrum of the possible, and the imaginary.
The more time spent with Yanai's painting, the more it encourages an investigation into the
perceptive space of the canvas, a place where objects, scenery and nature are conjured, sustained and gently teased away.
May Hands recontextualizes product packaging — from luxury fashion brands such as Gucci and Chanel to mass distributed fruit labels to colored cellophane — in her sculptural paintings, often mixing the discardables within the
open space of canvas stretchers.
Specifically, this refers to Poons's regulated application of abstract brushwork combined with a seemingly spontaneous choice of color, which fills the
surface space of the canvas, producing a low level optical sensation.
As an African - born Canadian, the motif instantly jumps out at me as some thing African, and the visual rhyme with Robert Motherwell's Little Spanish Prisonseries establishes the continuity of abstract painting talking about the
confined space of the canvas as imprisonment.
The play of three - dimensionality runs like a common thread through the exhibition — in the non-existent,
imaginated space of a canvas piece or in the fragmented and reconstructed shape of a sculpture: a powerful area of tension emerges.
Wilmerding explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the
pictorial space of the canvas.
Using egg tempera paint to create precise and finely detailed figures, and a distorted and panoramic perspective to maximize
the space of the canvas, each painting is another pictorial record of her life.
To develop the sensibility and all of the new feelings that the new perception of the abstract painting action brings you in
the space of the canvas is the task of the abstract painters.
Transitioning from the sparer, more graphic works of 1960 — 61, Frankenthaler made paintings that more readily filled
the space of the canvas, moving toward what critic B. H. Friedman described as the «total color image» that would become a hallmark of her later work.
The fluidity of her line within
the space of the canvas or paper sustains the rhythm of her creation through an accumulation of marks capable of bringing us to a dimension that goes beyond time, into a perspective of infinite growth.
Kidner (1917 - 2009) is known for his explorations of the optical effects of light and color and their fluctuations when set within
the space of the canvas.
In recent years, Calvin has highlighted individual features of his subjects» faces, such as the eyes — which seem to suggest an interior world beyond
the space of the canvas — or the mouth.
A hands - on painter, she works intuitively, freely applying vigorous flurries of added or taken away, a self - imposed game explored through shapes, marks and colors, which organize
the space of the canvas.
Cain investigates painterly concerns such as color, form, and
the space of the canvas, while imbuing them with flares of emotional, psychological, relational, and bodily forces.
In these works,
the space of the canvas contains the space of Geppetto's worktable — where Pinocchio transcends his materiality to become real — and a message appears in the smoke left by a just - extinguished candle flame.
They give off a sense that everything necessary to understand about the painting is contained with
the space of the canvas.
Confined nonetheless to
the space of the canvas, this image ultimately evokes the frustrations of a subject confronted with the inescapable fact of contemporary sociopolitical realities.
She posits slipperiness as a tool for survival in a postcolonial setting and, in
the space of her canvas, allows forms and colors to embody two things at once and contradictions to survive simultaneously.
The resulting panels take on new sculptural lives as tracery that delineates
the space of a canvas behind it.
Like Dieppe, the work inspired Stella to paint abstract landscapes that satisfied his notion of what a painting could be, how it could fill
the space of a canvas and give rise to emotional content.
But then
the space of the canvas is really determined, to a large degree in my eye, by the color.
Within each painting, abstract forms not only appear to be figuring themselves out, but competing for
space of the canvas.
He dedicated himself to
the space of the canvas in a multidimensional way.