At Gavin Brown's Enterprise, an established gallery in the West Village, Bradley is showing messy, large - scale abstract paintings made
with oilstick instead of paint brushes.
The white on white text painting, executed
with oilstick, graphite and gesso on panel, was originally painted in 1990 and enhanced in 2003.
Not exact matches
signed
with the artist's initials, titled and dated» «FLEXIBLE» JMB 1984» on the reverse acrylic and
oilstick on wood 102 x 75 in.
Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) Multiflavors signed and titled» «MULTIFLAVOR» [sic] Jean - Michel Basquiat» (on the reverse) acrylic and
oilstick on canvas
with tied wood supports 60 1/2 x 61in.
Gagosian Gallery, evidently jealous that one of the stars of its stable is showing
with its arch-rival, is responding
with a show in Beverly Hills of Serra's recent
oilstick drawings, which were shown to magnificent effect in his 2010 Met survey.
Acrylic, oil and
oilstick on glass and wood
with fabric and metal attachments, 83 1/4 x 33 ⅞ x 3in.
«Just as James Baldwin reflected on how Americans have made «an abstraction of the Negro,»» the Sotheby's essay continues, «here the application of
oilstick and gesso on panel combined
with the dense overlaying of text create an overall abstraction in relief, its clarity strained in its riveting textural denseness.»
Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) Untitled signed
with the artist's initials and dated «JMB 82» (lower left)
oilstick and wax crayon on paper 30 x 22 in.
While the choice of black
oilstick visualizes «blackness», Ligon's use of coal both obscures the text and imbues the work
with a host of ambivalent undertones: «I am drawn to because of all of the contradictory readings it engenders.
Demonstrating Ligon's acclaimed strategy of pushing appropriated text into abstraction, Stranger Study # 11 is the result of the systematic overlaying of stenciled passages from Baldwin's essay
with black
oilstick until they coalesce into near illegibility.
Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) Pork titled «Pork» (centre right); signed, titled and dated» «PORK» Jean Michel 1981» (on the reverse) acrylic, oil and
oilstick on glass and wood
with fabric and metal attachments 83 1/4 x 33 7/8 x 3in.
But for his next show
with Canada, Bradley delivered a group of sparse
oilstick drawings on dirty unprimed canvases.