Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1955, Patkin first gained recognition for his innovative approach in the mid-1980s with «The Black Paintings,» a series of
white ink paintings on black rubber curtains.
Laura Stack's organic hyper - color paintings and Shana Kaplow's tall black and
white ink paintings are featured at Peterssen / Keller Architecture in Minneapolis.
Not exact matches
All around us are reflective surfaces that provide contrast through pigments — black pigments like carbon black,
white pigments like titanium dioxide, which we can find in
paints and in
inks — and we're accustomed to interacting with these reflective surfaces, as they provide pleasant experiences under a wide range of lighting conditions.
Looking closer, Everhart began to see echoes of Chinese
ink paintings and the black - and -
white paintings of abstract expressionists of the»40s and»50s, such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell.
His black - and -
white works combine paper cutouts, charcoal and
paint, and occasionally, gouache, tempura and
ink.
Exhibited alongside the 35 early to mid career
paintings of portraits, adolescents and companion cats in striking interiors are 40 black and
white ink drawings from the book Mitsou.
Still Life with Four Blue - Green Stripes, Two BB Holes and
White Drips / 2015 / oil, acrylic, spray
paint, glue, mud with polymer medium, gesso,
ink, smoke stains, and floor sweepings on canvas / 84» x 30» / PLS INQ
This he referred to as his «found drawing»; it created a fluidity between his
painting, sculpture and printmaking: «I loved the idea that simply
inking the surface of the plywood board would produce a web of
white lines, if one only pressed a piece of paper against it.
Already using black - and -
white palette in a series of
ink on paper sketches, Kline now expanded the method employed the canvas and house -
painting brushes that enabled him to create broad strokes of dark color intersecting the
white background.
In contrast, Mark Tobey used black and
white to evoke the lyrical brushwork of Japanese calligraphy, in the form of a serenely organic
ink painting.
In 1951 — 52 Pollock turned away from color, just focused on black and
white, just dripping and pouring the black
ink on the pain canvas, those beautifully
inked and juicy
paintings.
Yes, in the early»50s, he had indulged in some pretty extreme gestures: making
paintings of perfectly uninflected
white, whose only formal content is the square or rectangular shapes of the abutted panels on which they were
painted, or making a print some 24 feet long by
inking one of the tires on his friend John Cage's Model A Ford and having him drive across the paper.
«Since 1949... I've been working mainly in black and
white paint or
ink on paper.
Unlike the black - and -
white formats of the
ink portraits of the 1960s, the large
paintings revisit traditions of modernist
painting such as the checkerboard works of Piet Mondrian and the Alphabet
paintings of Jasper Johns while depicting everyday speech in a variety of color palettes.
Even Christopher Deeton's black - and -
white paintings derive their symmetry less from Ad Reinhardt and Reinhardt's black
paintings than an
ink blot.
New York - based Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's recent work consists of hand -
painted ceramic sculptures exhibited alongside black
ink and
white paper drawings.
The resulting works in colour and black and
white photographs,
ink and pencil drawings and
paintings in watercolour and oils create a fascinatingly obsessive and emotional study of one woman: the model Kristen McMenamy.
First I
painted them, and then hung transparent plastic panels on them and... got the colors and the positioning right (the image was very often fairly complex, and I only had a black - and -
white ink drawing: it wasn't easy to pull out the colas from the complex web of
white lines).
A Memory of Death, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 x 90 1/2 inches (233.7 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) unique IK - 53
Everything Turns to Grey, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 1/2 x 90 1/2 inches (235 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) IK - 35
White triangles hover like patches of fog over soot -
ink paper space in a
painting by Joey Piziali.
BLACK AND
WHITE: JAPANESE MODERN ART The austere aesthetic of traditional Zen
ink painting intersects with the influence of Western modernists in a grouping of avant - garde Japanese works centered on Inoue Yuichi's large calligraphy of a character meaning «filial piety.»
Rooms Are Never Finished, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 x 90 1/2 inches (233.7 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) unique IK - 52
These prints represent all manner of special processes and innovative techniques in printing — such as using linen and cotton pulp
paint and photo - luminescent
inks; black and
white and colored lithography; creative integration of collage and cut paper; incorporation of photographic images into digital prints; screen printing; and many others.
Rooms Are Never Finished, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 x 90 1/2 inches (233.7 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) IK - 52
NARI WARD Royal, 2017 U.S. currency edges, acrylic
paint, indelible
ink, overproof
white rum, and used cash register drawers on wood panel 68.75 x 56.75 x 4.5 inches 174.6 x 144.1 x 11.4 cm LM25282 Photo: Max Yawney Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong
Idris Khan Everything Turns to Grey, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 1/2 x 90 1/2 inches (235 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) IK - 35
NARI WARD National (detail), 2017 U.S. currency edges, acrylic
paint, indelible
ink, overproof
white rum, and used cash register drawers 68.75 x 56.75 x 4.5 inches 174.6 x 144.1 x 11.4 cm LM25286 Photo: Max Yawney Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong
Idris Khan Rooms Are Never Finished, 2015
ink on
white gesso and aluminum
painting: 92 x 90 1/2 inches (233.7 x 229.9 cm) framed: 93 1/4 x 91 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (236.9 x 231.8 x 6.4 cm) unique IK - 52
NARI WARD Hanging study, 2017 U.S. currency edges, acrylic
paint, indelible
ink, overproof
white rum on wood panels, wooden saw horses, and Kraft paper 11 panels: each, 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches, 611 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm installed dimensions variable LM25289
NARI WARD Tec (detail), 2017 U.S. currency edges, acrylic
paint, indelible
ink, overproof
white rum, and used cash register drawers 68.75 x 56.75 x 4.5 inches 174.6 x 144.1 x 11.4 cm.
Other: Derwent embossing tools, Elmers opaque
white paint marker, Daler Rowney FW Artist's Acrylic Ink: White, Sakura battery operated e
white paint marker, Daler Rowney FW Artist's Acrylic
Ink:
White, Sakura battery operated e
White, Sakura battery operated eraser
4/5 + 2 AP Frank Stella Untitled, 1959 Enamel on canvas board 17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches Collection of Bill and Sheila Lambert Dan Flavin «monument» for V. Tatlin, 1967 cool
white fluorescent light 96 x 28 x 5 inches Robert Morris Untitled, 1976 - 1980 Felt with metal grommets 96 x 85 x 20 inches Back Gallery Richard Serra Untitled, 1975 Paintstick on paper 37 3/8 x 49 5/8 inches Private collection, Switzerland Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, 1960 - 1966 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches Tony Smith New Piece, 1966 Welded bronze, chemically treated black 20 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 42 inches Jo Baer Untitled, 1972 Oil on canvas 72 x 72 inches Second Floor (left to right) Rotunda Agnes Martin Untitled, 1965 Black ink on paper 11 x 11 inches David Hammons Untitled (Basketball Drawing), 2006/7 Dirt on paper, wood frame, asphalt Overall: 120 1/2 x 100 x 27 inches Robert Indiana Love, 1966 - 1999 Stainless steel 36 x 36 x 18 inches Front Gallery Andy Warhol Ambulance Disaster, c. 1963 Silkscreen ink on paper 40 x 30 inches Anselm Reyle Untitled, 2006 Mixed media on canvas, acrylic box 92 x 78 1/2 inches Mark Grotjahn Untitled (White Butterfly), 2002 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 inches Sol LeWitt Progressive Structure, 1997 Painted wood 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Agnes Martin Untitled, 1960 Oil and ink on linen 12 x 12 inches Liza Lou Comfort Blanket, 2005 Cotton and glass beads 29 1/2 x 53 1/8 inches Private collection, New York Günter Uecker Gegenstroemung II, 1965 Nails on canvas, painted with white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 i
white fluorescent light 96 x 28 x 5 inches Robert Morris Untitled, 1976 - 1980 Felt with metal grommets 96 x 85 x 20 inches Back Gallery Richard Serra Untitled, 1975 Paintstick on paper 37 3/8 x 49 5/8 inches Private collection, Switzerland Ad Reinhardt Black
Painting, 1960 - 1966 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches Tony Smith New Piece, 1966 Welded bronze, chemically treated black 20 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 42 inches Jo Baer Untitled, 1972 Oil on canvas 72 x 72 inches Second Floor (left to right) Rotunda Agnes Martin Untitled, 1965 Black
ink on paper 11 x 11 inches David Hammons Untitled (Basketball Drawing), 2006/7 Dirt on paper, wood frame, asphalt Overall: 120 1/2 x 100 x 27 inches Robert Indiana Love, 1966 - 1999 Stainless steel 36 x 36 x 18 inches Front Gallery Andy Warhol Ambulance Disaster, c. 1963 Silkscreen
ink on paper 40 x 30 inches Anselm Reyle Untitled, 2006 Mixed media on canvas, acrylic box 92 x 78 1/2 inches Mark Grotjahn Untitled (
White Butterfly), 2002 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 inches Sol LeWitt Progressive Structure, 1997 Painted wood 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Agnes Martin Untitled, 1960 Oil and ink on linen 12 x 12 inches Liza Lou Comfort Blanket, 2005 Cotton and glass beads 29 1/2 x 53 1/8 inches Private collection, New York Günter Uecker Gegenstroemung II, 1965 Nails on canvas, painted with white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 i
White Butterfly), 2002 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 inches Sol LeWitt Progressive Structure, 1997
Painted wood 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Agnes Martin Untitled, 1960 Oil and ink on linen 12 x 12 inches Liza Lou Comfort Blanket, 2005 Cotton and glass beads 29 1/2 x 53 1/8 inches Private collection, New York Günter Uecker Gegenstroemung II, 1965 Nails on canvas, painted with white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4
Painted wood 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Agnes Martin Untitled, 1960 Oil and
ink on linen 12 x 12 inches Liza Lou Comfort Blanket, 2005 Cotton and glass beads 29 1/2 x 53 1/8 inches Private collection, New York Günter Uecker Gegenstroemung II, 1965 Nails on canvas,
painted with white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4
painted with
white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 i
white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches
White People Are the Cliff and What Comes After (2001 — 02) From the Skin Set Project (1997 ---RRB-
Ink, felt - tip pen, and
paint on paper 27.9 × 21.9 cm
Elsewhere in the exhibition, next to a black - and -
white abstract calligraphy
ink painting by Hasegawa and an untitled piece by Robert Motherwell featuring an oil
paint — splash «wave» cresting through the air, Asian - American AbEx artist Satoru Abe presents The Idol (1958), an equally delicate copper and bronze skeletal monument.
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and vinyl
paints, silkscreen
ink, and acrylic spray
paint on primed Stonehenge paper;
white frame and mat 54.5 x 37.75 inches
Like a scientist growing cultures in a lab, Jaq Chartier methodically arranges her
inks, stains, and dyes to interact with layers of
white paint and acrylic resin on immaculately prepared wood panels.
In addition to this key
painting and its related studies, the exhibition will also present a range of works in a variety of media that attest to Albers's lifelong investigation into black,
white, and grey, from
ink and watercolor works on paper that pre-date his time at the Bauhaus, to gouaches executed during his tenure at Black Mountain College, to color studies that shed light on his working process.
Pentagrams and other occult - looking stars and symbols were
painted in bloodlike
ink on large black - and -
white photos of good - looking models.
Wether depicting
white or black people, she
paints them all in black
ink.
Chocolate Utopian Underground City with Yellow Inner Structure Station with Square Grid under Construction Safety Chrysalis and Abandon Square Habitat with
White Expulsion Area and Central
White Mine Tunnel Transportation Center, 2003,
Ink, watercolor, pencil, colored pencil, felt - tip pen, synthetic polymer
paint, and gouache on colored paper, 54 1⁄2 x 78 5/8 in.
Defying the heroic myth of abstract expressionism - the artist exploding with spontaneous invention before a blank canvas - Kline rehearsed ideas for his big black - on -
white paintings in these
ink drawings.
«Colony Room» presents some of Zak Prekop's new work (Pictured above: Black with Green / Blue, 2014, oil and
ink on canvas, 27 x 35 inches) that utilizes a wider range of color than we saw in his 2012 series of
white - on -
white paintings.
Paintings, black - and -
white ink drawings.
About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and -
ink drawings of erotic subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions of canine and feline subjects have been a crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny»
paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her face is represented as a mop of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim in a 2016 solo exhibition at the prestigious venue
White Columns, surprise and enchant.
[14] The
painting Vanescere (2007), a black - and -
white composition that depicts what appears to be a maelstrom of
ink and acrylic marks, some of which are sanded away on the surface of the linen support, was a catalyst picture for this series.
Also influenced by natural surroundings such as the mountainous areas of southern China, free - flowing charcoal lines and
ink washes, overlaid with solid arcs and circles of
white paint, in delicate, harmonious compositions are features of Zhou Li's (b 1969) work.
POPE.L Sunny Day
White Power 2016 Acrylic, cellophane tape, charcoal, collage, gel medium,
ink, latex mask, oil
paint, oil stick, painter's tape, push pins, and rope on newspaper on shower curtain in artist's frame 90 3/4 by 74 by 24 in.
As the artist recalls in her autobiography, Infinity Net, «Deep in the mountains of Nagano, working with letter - size sheets of
white paper, I had found my own unique method of expression:
ink paintings featuring accumulations of tiny dots and pen drawings of endless and unbroken chains of graded cellular forms or peculiar structures that resembled magnified sections of plant stalks.»
Tec, 2017, US currency edges, acrylic
paint, indelible
ink, overproof
white rum and used cash register drawers on wood panel, 174.6 × 144.1 × 11.4 cm