And, I am always thinking of how I am leading
my viewer around each canvas and why.
Not exact matches
His artworks brings together photography and painting on the same
canvas, stimulating the eyes of the
viewer and inviting to virtually «dive» into the pictures, going places
around the world.
While other artists like Richard Tuttle and William T. Wiley were also experimenting with the unstreched
canvas during the same period, Gilliam's sculptural approach was revolutionary in that it repositioned the
viewer's relationship with the painting to include the object as well as the space
around it, blurring the boundary between painting, sculpture, and architecture for the first time.
The stretchers that are normally hidden from sight and allow the
canvas to become a picture exhibited on a wall, now become the physical object
around which the
viewer can move and look through.
Through gouache and graphite in his work on paper and acrylic on
canvas, the works of Todd James challenges the boundaries between the
viewer and what probably sees
around him, trying to escape and get away from the current state of things, avoiding the contamination of the cruelest reality.
Massive Image 1991 acrylic on
canvas Robert Motherwell born Aberdeen, Wash. 1915 died Provincetown, Mass. 1991 Museum purchase made possible by Doris E. Black; Donald F. Broda in honor of Kathleen L. Broda; Natalie Harris; Sally Foley Hughston; Pat Hurst Jordan, in memory of her parents, Dr. A. E. and Ruth Hurst; Jan J. Miller; Babette M. Rothschild; Sandy Bartlett Scarborough; Marge Tilley, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Platt; Rebecca K. Yarbrough, in honor of Dr. Sidney H. Yarbrough III; special assistance from the Ella E. Kirven Charitable Lead Trust for Acquisitions; and a gift from the Dedalus Foundation 2000.13.5 The large scale of Massive Image wraps
around the peripheral vision and overwhelms the
viewer.
By eschewing the ground (
canvas or panel) altogether, the painting directly addresses the
viewer and relates more dynamically to the space
around it.
His complex, restive surfaces provide little respite for the
viewer's captivated eye as it works its way
around his massive
canvases.