Many sculptors and painters who focus on process
also create abstract work, a mode historically associated with male artists.
A major American and Japanese sculptor and designer, Isamu Noguchi spent over six
decades creating abstract works based on both organic and geometric forms.
With sculptural works combining landscape photographs with industrial materials like aluminum, zinc, concrete and steel, Letha
Wilson creates abstract works that speak to mankind's complex relationship with the natural world.
These so - called «Cailloux» are an extraordinary testimony to his vision, for starting from figuration he
unwittingly created abstract works and became a pioneer of Abstraction.
With a background as a graphic designer and a preference for design and craft Reith
creates abstract works in which the relationships between the mechanical and the natural plays a central role.
Brown's largescale canvas Figures in a Landscape 1, 2001 blurs the bodies of lovers with shards of blue sky and
greenery creating an abstract work infused with energy and action.
In this tour of the 2014 Biennial, families will explore the many ways painters are
creating abstract works today and will try their hand at creating bold, expressive marks of their own.
In New York in the early 1960s,
Smith created abstract works that shared a sensibility with the alluring colours and sheen of commercial packaging and advertising.
Moiré's PlopEgg No. 1, performed at Art Cologne 2014, was a work of action painting that involved the expelling of paint filled eggs from her vagina on to a canvas,
thus creating an abstract work of art.
Inspired by historical Constructivism and Concrete Art,
Bick creates abstract work which both adheres to Constructivist grid models and teases them apart.
Transforming light, fragile, often impermanent materials into powerful sculptures of commanding scale and presence,
Black creates abstract works that resolutely eschew metaphor while simultaneously beckoning a complex series of associations.
Al Loving was an artist who drew on sources as varied as free jazz, his family's quilting traditions and the history of Modern painting
when creating abstracted works that riffed on color, form and flatness.
«Though renowned photographer Carl
Chiarenza creates abstract works that are purposefully open to viewers» interpretations, the crystallized emotional experience of the artist is present in his works and resonates powerfully within each image.»
While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has
notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.
-- died Oct. 18, 2009, Chicago, Ill.),
created abstract works in clay and bronze that ranged from small ceramic pieces to large - scale public installations and murals.
Using latex, acrylic, and enamel paints, Michael juxtaposes the synthetic with the organic,
creating abstract works with a palpable dynamism and tension.
In The Day Nobody Died (2008) the pair captured the daily life of the British army in Afghanistan, exposing photographic paper to light during significant events,
creating abstract works that challenge journalism's traditional role in documenting war.
«Although from different parts of the world, these four artists each emerged from the Constructivist movement to
create abstract works that would bridge the relationship between object and viewer,» said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum.
On one panel she would
create an abstract work, while on the other side she created a piece that was realistic.
In the article, she discusses her current exhibition Alternative Process at David Klein Gallery and how she has been able to experiment with outdated photographic processes to
create abstract work.
Likewise, many of today's brightest young artists are exploring both time - tested traditions as well as new processes to
create abstract work that exemplifies the current zeitgeist.
Rather than
creating abstract works, I prefer to experience abstraction through the repetitive tending of images.»
Throughout his career, Mason has
created abstract work that echoes - but is never defined by - facets of the world around him.
An avid gardener, Sultan is inspired by flowers and fruit to
create abstract works that are infused with new life, according to the gallery.
Drawing on pop culture and art history, Hayuk uses what she refers to as «visual information» to
create abstract works that channel psychedelic culture.
So far we have offered to you examples of how a line is used to
create abstract works.
Artist Barbara Rothenberg draws heavily from her life and the nature that surrounds her, which she channels to
create her abstract works.
In the early 2000s Tillmans experimented with photographic processes to
create abstracted works.
Nelisse has practiced immigration law for close to twenty years, and finds balance between time in the courtroom and
creating abstract works.
Over the past decade, in particular, he has
created abstract works, whose production is no longer bound to the camera.
Her primary medium is light, which is explored through glass, luminous gasses and mixed media to
create abstract works that invite association to minimalist sculpture.
The piece exemplifies Lou's ability to
create abstract work that maintain the ability to draw attention to political issues, as the Purchase community will now be sharing an experience with people living in Durban.
I asked Pomara how he decides what images to use and how, exactly, to
create an abstract work.
In so doing,
they all create abstract works are alternatively poetic and political.
Milhazes, who takes inspiration from the brilliant flora and fauna of Brazil, local folk arts, and Matisse's cut - out paper silhouettes,
creates abstract works that exalt the beauty of the natural world.
In the mid-1980s, Chase combined mediums such as etching, aquatint and linoleum cut to
create abstract works, according to IPFDA's website.