Not exact matches
What Lee has accomplished with single lines transforms inanimate, everyday inks into vibrant fields of
color with trailing edges that sway
through a
luminous atmosphere, seemingly with no top or bottom.
In these early silver works, the result was an iridescent layering of muted
color, in which the undercoats of paint glimmered
through the overlying metallic sheen, creating an almost classical illusion of
luminous space.
Appleby's
luminous, oil and wax paintings communicate
through the formal language of
color - field abstraction.
The Sam Feinstein retrospective at the Cape Cod Museum of Art will reveal the seventy - year trajectory of Feinstein's development from realism
through expressionism, cubist - expressionism, Hofmann - influenced abstraction to Feinstein's own unique language of
color - forms —
luminous and life - enhancing — in his monumental, mature abstract paintings.
Applying pigments to his canvases using a palette knife, he began to saturate his paintings with expressive swathes of
luminous color achieved
through wide, rhythmical brushstrokes, which he then contrasted with raw, but graceful, lines that pulsated with emotion — a practice that he would continue to pursue for the remainder of his career.
The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives
through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with
luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.
Dion's use of
luminous color becomes his essential means to ascertain form
through memory.
Matisse had worked his own way into abstraction
through color, from perceptual studies based on Cézanne to the pointillism of Signac, immersing his subjects in
luminous space, from which boldly simplified
color compositions like The Blue Window (1913) were to emerge.
Brown's paintings deliver biting commentary on the Gulf War, the HIV / AIDS pandemic, and the Savings & Loan industry collapse and bailout
through inventive use of
luminous color, silhouetted figures, stylized natural forms, and dramatic shifts of scale and perspective.
Pat Steir: «Kairos»
Through 10/21 at Lévy Gorvy The conceptual painter, known for the effervescent
colors and forms in her «Waterfall» series, returns with more than a dozen new works, including a
luminous blue - and - orange canvas dedicated to Agnes Martin.
They might do so by alluding to a classic Renaissance palette or, in scurrying ribbons of electric
color that seem to surge up
through multiple top layers of
luminous oil, by referring to Pop Art.
Thin
color has flooded the canvas or, as he increasingly turns to smaller formats, sheets of paper, and receded, leaving visible a residue of barely emerged imagery: hutlike structures, wobbly Roman numerals,
luminous grids that suggest an archeological dig seen
through patchy fog.
It's rapturously beautiful, shot
through with strands of
luminous color like a piece of blown glass.
His transparent, plastic «bubbles» were then painted from behind, achieving a
luminous effect
through the integration of
color and ambient light, to create works which can not be classified as either painting or sculpture.