The NYOC Gallery is pleased to present IMMEASURABLE LIGHT, a solo exhibition of Karen Fitzgerald's luminous
tondo paintings.
Of the five distinct Rondinones in this exhibition, one contributed three very large
tondo paintings (all works 1999 — 2000 or 2000): concentric bands of color à la Kenneth Noland but executed with a spray gun so that the circles look blurred, out of focus.
Mason's Yard In the ground - floor gallery at Mason's Yard, The Indifferent Owl,
a tondo painted in a disquieting mix of browns, purples and blues, will overlook a group of paintings of flowers and plants that suggest innocence and newness, their mood a stark contrast to the owl's world - weary, unappeasable gaze.
Not exact matches
Each artist will be represented by multiple
paintings including a new series of
tondos by Lenaghan and four pastels by Jacquette.
Caroline Kha uses the term «transcriptive
painting» to describe parts of her practice that include small silverpoint
tondos of islands found on Google Earth, monochrome
paintings of mountainscapes sourced from websites, and transcriptions of Rembrandt
paintings made at The National Gallery in London.
Think of a Renaissance
tondo, or circular
painting — or a medieval Crucifix.
In other recent works Smith
paints tondos of broken plates.
Much of it works perfectly well as abstraction, including
tondos, or round
paintings, that might serve as bundling for characters unseen.
By 1967, convexity had become the dominant feature in a series of
tondo - shaped
paintings made from aluminum and acrylic discs that project out from the wall.
Micchelli writes: «The thickly
painted, brightly buzzing circles, rectangles and trapezoids in Analogue Future — which includes conventionally rectilinear canvases as well as several
tondos — derive from the 8 - bit graphics of primitive computer programs and video games... While the works in this show, at first glance, come off as
paint - as -
paint, the longer you look at them, the more their evocation of memory and lost time deepens their impression, even if you are unaware of their origins.
Ugo Rondinonei's
painting, a hallucinatory
tondo, vibrates with optimal color combinations.
In a show full of passionately polemical
paintings — Alice Neel's heroic portrait of the union organiser Pat Whalen, fists bearing down on the newspaper headlines; Mussolini as a green - faced jack - in - a-box; Guston's horrifying Guernica
tondo — Wood's lyrical ruralism still holds its own.
Higgs, the director of White Columns, asked twelve artists to
paint a
tondo, then he tethered appropriate books to the
paintings.
Over the years she had produced various works on the subject of Jewish identity, such as the wonderfully sarcastic Jewish Star
Painting (1973 - 74), a small
tondo with «Louise Edith Fishman» demurely inscribed in pink
paint beneath the Star of David.
Characterized by straight and curving shapes of color and the use of
tondo (round) canvases, by the 1960s Smith's circular explorations culminated in his shaped, multi-part Constellation series of
paintings and drawings, among his most exuberant and inventive compositions.