Castor Gallery's first official exhibition will open January 15th, with a two person show by Heath West, whose algorithmic paintings combine digitally - inspired patterns
with abstract traditions; and Elizabeth Winnel, whose self - portraits take the form of sumptuous, juicy lips.
Not exact matches
Although drawing on this
Tradition, as well as on the Hindu advaita - vedanta and the Buddhist pratityasamutpada (the interrelatedness of all beings), he eventually comes up
with an
abstract form of «Trinity» as a figure — a unity in triple diversity, but detached from the economic manifestation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Nor will I demonstrate here the ease
with which one can map the details of his analysis of rites of passage onto the stories about the founders of the major religious
traditions, finding in the myths and legends of Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus a common
abstract structure, following a familiar tripartite pattern.
Corwin writes: «In the
tradition of Klein and Dubuffet, Strobert chooses to site her artistic practice within the confines of painting, while literally doing everything she can to reconfigure that discipline through a re-orientation of mediums and
with an expressionistic yet pragmatic eye... Strobert's painting isn't
abstract painting but the abstraction of painting.
Over the past twenty years, Morris has resolutely trodden her own path, developing an
abstract visual language that transcends modern
traditions such as Modernism, Pop Art and urban culture,
with craftsmanship and material playing a leading role.
The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections
with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric
traditions of India.
From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived
tradition of African - American
abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled
with the
tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work
The Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Mami Kataoka has written, «
With watercolor on paper, she creates
abstract landscapes that reference mythological narrative alongside
traditions of pattern and decoration.
He notes that the artist's off - kilter, hand - painted geometry — unlike the hard - edge look created by applying and peeling off tape — places him in «a
tradition that goes back to early
abstract painting by Mondrian and Malevich,» adding, «I see his ties
with Constructivist painting.»
Like other encounters
with «masterpieces» at the Guggenheim, a 1996 survey of
abstract painting and «The
Tradition of the New» from 1994, this exhibition pretty much ends twenty years ago,
with Art Povera.
Dan Coombs has suggested that the
abstract paintings of Tomma Abts are better understood «not so much as material objects in the
abstract painting
tradition but as surrogate people
with their own personalities.
The Brooklyn - based artist challenges painting
traditions with his
abstract and textured «oil skins.»
With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western abstract tradition but also freighted with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzz
With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western
abstract tradition but also freighted
with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzz
with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzzles.
The painting is made
with bleached paper that is scored and molded by hand to produce a sculptural surface, renewing the
traditions of
abstract and materialist painting for the 21st century.
Since he already knew about
abstract expressionist painting (Willem de Kooning had had his first show) he began painting in that
tradition, informed
with what Hofmann had taught about forming.
Fusing the
traditions of European painting
with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of
abstract painting
with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined
with the earthy tangibility of paint.
Her work is a mixture of
abstract and figurative in the Modernist
tradition,
with influence from African and Mexican art
traditions.
His visceral engagement
with emotions, thoughts and other intangibles gives his
abstract imagery extraordinary immediacy, while his skilful use of fluid pigment, applied
with dance - like movements and sweeping gestures that seldom actually touched the surface, broke decisively
with tradition.
The seven drawings created for his exhibition at the Hammer Museum clearly demonstrate the artist's fluency in various dialects of the common
abstract language, resonating
with Constructivist and Minimalist tones and
with a few refrains in less analytical
abstract traditions.
The exhibits will specially be assembled and presented to give visitors in Buenos Aires a tour of the last 100 years of international art history
with a focus on
abstract tendencies, as a reference to the strong
abstract - constructive
traditions in South America.
Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint and custom - printed paper to simultaneously engage
with and advance the formal
traditions of
abstract painting.
Continuing the long
tradition of the female nude in art history, Bates»
abstract rendition communicates the act of mark making and the artist's interaction
with the material to release its form.
I fuse the domestic
with the painterly
tradition of painting by staining, mopping, throwing, printing, spraying, dragging, imprinting, brushing, washing and bleaching pigments onto fabrics, drop cloths and canvases forming expressive
abstract patterns.
This
tradition, carried forth, expanded, and transformed over the course of the 20th century, continues into the present
with innovative approaches to the genre by: Patrick Wilson Ruth C. Horton Gallery Los Angeles artist Patrick Wilson creates luminous, sumptuously colored
abstract paintings composed of richly layered geometric forms — lines, squares, and rectangles.
«Matino... paints within the western
abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting
with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization.»
Brooklyn - based artist Arthur Simms (b. 1961) fuses modernist assemblage
with folk
traditions of African and Afro - Atlantic object - making in his near -
abstract sculptures.
«Yet the absence of recognizable imagery in his work aligns Mr. Bhavsar more
with American
traditions of
abstract art, and in particular color field painting; one is reminded variously of the work of the American painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jules Olitski.»
Sullivan Goss is pleased to announce a new exhibition of contemporary
abstract works by nine artists
with distinct approaches to the 100 year old
tradition of non-objective art.
A pioneer of infusing
abstract painting
with influences from popular culture and craft
traditions, Mary Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the most important yet least recognized artists in the United States today.
His practice combines traditional motifs, symbolism, and ornamentation from the Moghul
tradition with conceptual thought and contemporary
abstract painting.
Faiz continues this
tradition with her large - scale oil painting «Divider» (2015), by combining post-painterly abstraction
with Albert Oehlen's version of
abstract art, an aversion away from recognisable forms.
Highly engaged
with international art movements such as cubism,
abstract expressionism, arte povera, and conceptual art — but also having studied and lived in Europe and the United States — an older generation of the artists on view pioneered modern art in Cyprus, through a dialogue within local
traditions.
Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint, and custom - printed paperto simultaneously engage
with and advance the formal
traditions of
abstract painting.
Working in the
tradition of Minimalism, Joel Shapiro's (b. 1941) sculptures present carefully engineered
abstract, colored shapes, and play
with form, balance and perception.
With abstract expressionism at its peak, and based on the traditions of the abstract avant - garde in dialogue with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting beh
With abstract expressionism at its peak, and based on the
traditions of the
abstract avant - garde in dialogue
with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting beh
with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting behind.
Rejecting
tradition, they favored bold,
abstracted forms that broke free from the illusion of depth, creating simplified and stylized landscapes that expressed their personal, subjective encounter
with nature and response to the region, rather than trying to imitate the exact visual appearance of a location.
The Los Angeles artist's «Designer» photographs of shop windows, taken
with a cheap hand - held camera and then blown up to a just barely decipherable resolution, at once evoke 20th - century
abstract painting and the photographic
tradition of shop windows as subject matter that goes back to Eugene Atget and Brassaï.
Caro became instantly famous
with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963
with brilliantly coloured
abstract sculptures, breaking the
tradition of displaying sculptures isolated on plinths by placing them directly on the floor, an innovation much copied since.
Working within the
tradition of other text - based conceptual artists such as Glenn Ligon, Tony Lewis will exhibit
abstracted text works made
with graphite on paper;
At 50, Humphries is part of a stalwart group of painters (many of them women) who are continuing a
tradition of making large
abstract paintings
with strong roots in both Minimalism and
Abstract Expressionism.
The modernist
abstract tradition where the words «big» and «
abstract» belong together has clear resonance
with Morris» work, yet in these little paintings she almost turns the theory of colour - field abstraction on its head.»
This richly illustrated book shines a light on the work of Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect who famously broke
with 19th century European
tradition in favour of using native fauna and
abstract geometric garden design.
Behnke quotes Floyd Herman who wrote of Hine's work: «His abstractions synthesized a keen sensibility of an accomplished draughtsman
with the poetry and inventive structure that linked his work to the American
abstract tradition of Stuart Davis, Al Held, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
Mr. Shear follows the
tradition of intuitive, stylistically polymorphous
abstract painters like Raoul De Keyser and René Daniëls, but connects more directly
with the canvas.
Combining the shocks of color and crisp geometries of
abstract painters like Frank Stella and the disturbing micro-thrills of Man Ray's fashion pictures (see: the mysterious extra pair of hands in slide 2, or the unlikely angle and skin color of the model's reflection in slide 4)
with the body painting, materials, and
traditions of her native Africa, Muluneh's pictures are designed to short - circuit your eye.
With roots in
traditions of Chinese landscape painting, my monumentally sized paintings and installations evolve a fantastic,
abstract vision of the natural world.
But since
abstract and conceptual art broke
with Chinese and Taiwanese
tradition, he soon left his home yet again to pursue his aesthetic vision.
The show itself is rather a mixed bag, and the artists in it I preferred seem to have little to do
with the by - now hoary
abstract expressionist
tradition.
Is a strain of recent
abstract painting obsessed
with revitalizing the celebrated
tradition of the 1950s New York School?
But more importantly she's breaking
with a
tradition and succeeding in breaking a formal taboo: as a female artist she's successfully intruding into the traditionally masculine domain of
abstract art.