A constellation of works on paper introduces small pops of neon color, a slight buzz of glitter, and — in contrast to Barnette's controlled application of graphite — wild, yet elegant,
spray paint gestures.
Not exact matches
Perfecting his computer - based technique into what he calls «frictionless drawing», blue monochromatic works on display demonstrate how these abstract and vector - like
gestures are meticulously transposed onto canvas using acrylic, tape, UV ink and
spray paint.
Resembling a full stop or black hole, Divola's
spray painted circles, almost as lesions upon the interior walls of a derelict abandoned space, add both a lethal mark to a sinister image of utter abandonment, as well as accentuate the significance and weight of a single material
gesture enacted by the artist upon a chosen ground.
Spurred on by a 1960's enamel on paper drawing by sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965), Wendy White presented a new
painting featuring multiple canvases with
spray -
painted gestures and hints of language.
In his more recent works, including those in this show, he uses enamel on linen,
spray painting looping black lines, then erasing or blurring them with rags, engaging in a complex play of presence and absence,
gesture and cancellation.
The luridly colored
spray paint conjures the machismo and brio of the best street artists, while the abstract
gestures recall Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Richard Pousette - Dart.
Whether homage or parody, the grandness of Wool's
gesture and the luxurious drips that seep from the
spray can as they run down the
painting's surface remain their greatest triumph.
In the CAC's first - floor gallery, digitally collaged snippets of these same
spray -
painted words cover the walls, a collection of abstracted
gestures.
Abstraction grants the Berlin - based artist a limitless territory in terms of narrative and form; however, her bodily
gestures while handling the
spray paint deliver a balanced utilization of discipline and chaos on canvas.
With a visual dialogue established initially by working illegally with
spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of
painting that crosses abstracted, ambient fields of colour and
gesture with traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogans.
Approaching
painting as an experience in immersive subjectivity, she uses a
spray gun, distancing the artistic act from the hand, and stylizing
gesture as a propulsive mark.
The artist has selectively stained the documents with pink and purple
spray paint, a
gesture that conjures the ways in which blood splatters.
All territorial clashes, aggressive cryptograms, and death threats were nullified into a mass of
spray -
painted gestures that had become nothing more than atmosphere, their violent disputes transposed into an immense, outdoor, nonrepresentational mural.
«The sublime refinement of Mark Rothko is crossed with the anarchic
gestures of
spray - can graffiti» (J. Deitch, quoted in The
Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol, exh.