Visitors to the gallery are invited to watch as Gia Condo
steps out of the canvas and takes up her own brush.
Not exact matches
Step 1: Cut triangle shapes
out of plastic
canvas.
Her
canvases are void
of figures, and yet a kind
of human presence lingers in them, as if an individual as just
stepped out of view.
Riley's influence is there in what I do, graphic and directional patterns are repeated and move in 360 degrees,
stepping off the
canvas or
out of and away from a situation.
«One
of the goals behind Vitality and Verve is to spotlight artists who are
stepping out of their studios to paint on a grand scale using outdoor walls as their
canvas as well as urban artists who are beginning to work in a traditional studio setting.»
As a continuation
of the Abstract Expressionist tradition
of dripping and pouring pigment from above, Benglis took the process one
step further to eliminate the
canvas and create a sculpture
out of the drips
of paint.
Landscape painting doesn't require much
of an imagination, because for the artist it only takes to go
out of their home or their studio and there it is — inspiration is all around them, whether they live in the city and they want to capture an urban atmosphere in their sketch or they
step outside their living space and get
out there looking for some untouched nature to transfer it to
canvas in all its glory.
Despite the fact Martin did her best to seek
out and destroy paintings from the years when she was taking her first
steps into abstraction, the exhibition features examples
of her experimental early practice — such as The Garden from 1958, for which she glued rows
of found objects onto a background
canvas.
Organized by museum director Chris Scoates and assistant curator Elizabeth Anne Hanson, the engaging exhibition is concise and satisfying, as straightforward, no - nonsense and
out of step with business as usual as Goldberg's best paintings, which make up the majority
of its 31 works on
canvas and paper, painted from 1949 - 2006.
The early pop shaped
canvases have always seemed to me to be rather unwieldy,
out of step with a sensibility whose experimental boldness was more often than not achieved with a temperate, urbane elegance.