Famous for his brutal brushwork, impasto textures and clashing colours, he exemplified the «gestural painting» style of the New York School, along
with other abstract artists like Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), the founders of «action painting».
Along
with other abstract artists, she asks what painting in the present can still add.
Not exact matches
Like
other young
artists trying to define themselves in the wake of
abstract expressionism, Martin first experimented
with found assemblages of detritus from the lower Manhattan docks.
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
Abstract paintings may be made using many media,
with many
artists using acrylics, while
others prefer to create
abstract oil paintings or
abstract watercolor paintings.
Curator Gary Garrels worked
with six
abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one of their own recent paintings as well as works by
other artists who have influenced their thinking.
Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800
artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long
abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen
with Hernan Bas among
others).
An Opening Reception and Gallery Talk
with the curator takes place on Sunday, August 7, 2016 from 5 to 7 p.m. «Innovation and Abstraction: Women
Artists and Atelier 17» presents abstract graphics and works in other media by eight a
Artists and Atelier 17» presents
abstract graphics and works in
other media by eight
artistsartists.
While his imagery has changed several times over the years, the
artist characterized himself as being «from the beginning, a minimalist
abstract artist, a geometric abstractionist,
with no recognizable shapes in my work» —
other than circles, which have always captivated his imagination as «the perfect shape.»
Artists such as Phil Dike, Rex Brandt, George Post, Nick Brigante, and
others experimented
with abstract form, reflecting many of the larger changes taking place at that time in the art world, most notably the rise of
Abstract Expressionism.
Many
artists now do their best to confuse imagery and
other media
with abstract painting, and often as not they succeed.
Taking the plunge into a fascinating imaginative world, Sigethy will again team up
with sculptor Liz Lescault for «Fathom Full Five: Going Deeper,» a sequel to their May 2013 «Fathom» exhibition that featured beguiling forms,
abstract but undeniably organic, started by one
artist and completed by the
other —
with the promise, this time, of two large - scale installations.
Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte will bring together eight historical works by the Brazilian modernist Cícero Dias (b. 1907, d. 2003), which represent the height of his
abstract creations and were produced following his move to Paris, where he became associated
with other prominent
artists at the time including Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [
abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each
artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar
with the efforts of
others.»
The AAA also arranged for
abstract artists from
other countries to show
with the group in America... Activities of this type culminated in the 1957 AAA publication, The World of
Abstract Art [which is] to this date not only a major research tool but a seminal art document of the 1950s.»
In these two - venue talks, guides from the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver Art Museum collaborate to compare and contrast the work of Clyfford Still and
other male
abstract expressionists
with the leading female
artists of the movement.
In 1938 he joined
with other artists who shared this perspective to found the Transcendental Painting Group, one of the most significant artistic associations formed outside a major urban center to advocate for
abstract and non-objective art.
Such were the concerns at the heart of the Spiral Group, whose only exhibition, the 1965 First Group Showing: Works in Black and White, is represented by works by Emma Amos, Reginald Gammon, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and
others — along
with additional works by these
artists, including Woodruff's large
abstract painting Blue Intrusion (1958).
Newman is generally classified as an
abstract expressionist on account of his working in New York City in the 1950s, associating
with other artists of the group and developing an
abstract style which owed little or nothing to European art.
After a few proposals, Solomon goes on to ultimately answer her own question
with, «Mr. Stella has done more than any
other living
artist to carry
abstract art, the house style of modernism, into the postmodern era.»
With his roots in printmaking and Surrealism, British
artist Stanley William Hayter's (1901 — 1988) theoretical writings on automatism and the expressive abstraction of his own work were a formative influence on Pollock and
other abstract expressionists via his printmaking studio, Atelier 17, where Hayter taught Pollock and
other well known
artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Alberto Giacometti.
On the
other hand, both parts of Black in the
Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black
artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «
abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison
with that of their colleagues of
other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.
«Air Mail Stickers» will now be in the opening exhibition, along
with other recent acquisitions by
artists who are not American by birth but have resided here, including «July 4, 1967,» the Whitney's first work by the Japan - born conceptualist On Kawara, or «Blanco y Verde,» an
abstract painting from 1959 by Carmen Herrera, the 99 - year - old Cuban - born
artist, who now resides in Manhattan.
Lyrical abstraction, a term connected to a number of
abstract artists working between 1945 - 1960s, was used to describe the work of Meyer along
with others painting all - over compositions (
with no singular focal point) that exhibited a nearly patterned organization
with vibrational movement.
But his question wasn't wrong per se — it just didn't have much to do
with the achievement of his exhibition, which takes a more interesting, less expected tack: Garrels asked six
abstract painters working in the United States to «select one or two of their own recent paintings to be shown
with works by
other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their own work.»
[15] Despite this, Thomas was still discriminated against as a black female
artist and was critiqued for her
abstract style as opposed to
other Black Americans who worked
with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.
These
artists used familiar scenes to engage a wide range of audiences
with fine art, in contrast to the popularity of European trends in
abstract painting among
other American painters of their generation.
The
artist uses video and PVC foam board to project dizzying imagery of familiar and
abstract scenes,
with an urban projection creating an unsettling effect and a natural one being more soothing — the two create a tension in opposition to each
other.
A novel in the form of letters, this exhibition echoes the form by placing the
artists works in dialogue
with each
other: Warren's elegant blue neon
abstracts are suspended on one side of the space, while on the
other side Dyer's curious pale sculptures sit arranged on a table like so many natural history specimens from creatures either long extinct or yet to evolve.
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;
When he began,
other young
artists were busy
with abstract expressionism; Jackson Pollock,
with his ropes of thick paint, was the man of the moment.
With about 40
other figurative
artists, joins Reality, a group protesting the emphasis on
abstract art by museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.
While Zhu's installations are simple, intuitive, practical, and readily accessible, his paintings demonstrate an
abstract aggressiveness or chaos that offer glimpses into the
artist's wealth of personal experience and openness to sharing it
with others.
Combined
with his interest in American
abstract painting this research lead him in the 70s to make a series of particularly ambitious paintings, not only by their unusual format in France at the time (two by three meters, two by six meters), but also by the almost total withdrawal of the gesture of the
artist, an indirect inscription of the pictorial surface, a minimalistic and radical process that influenced, among
others, Martin Barré.
The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and
others; the cool
abstract images of color - field painting in the work of
artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (
with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and
others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and
others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by
artists such as Robert Smithson.
Berggruen admits that even more than
with some
other artists, Riley's tonal
abstract work «absolutely must be seen in person.»
In 1940 she began exhibiting her work
with that of
other American
abstract artists.
It is a way, among
other things, of inviting the unexpected... Instead of engaging in the essentially interior monologue that is characteristic of most
abstract painting, the
artist interacts directly
with the outside world, incorporating fragments of it in the picture: scraps of paper, labels, enevlopes, wrappers, tickets, sheets of music, and pages from books» (Jack Flam, Motherwell, New York, 1991, p. 16).
By resisting being labeled as a black woman
artist, Thomas received criticism for «her
abstract style as opposed to
other Black Americans who worked
with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.»
From the famous «Erased de Kooning Drawing,» in which he both puckishly defied and meticulously paid tribute to his
abstract expressionist contemporary, to his performance work
with Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Trisha Brown and
others, to his globe - spanning Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, which propagated new work
with artists, poets and ordinary people in 10 countries, Rauschenberg was engaged in a kind of perpetual conversation.
Ossorio speaks of his youth and education in England and the United States; attending Harvard; working as a medical illustrator for the Army; coming to New York and becoming acquainted
with Jackson Pollock and
other New York
artists; a mural commission he received for a church in the Philippines; the difficulty of introducing new ideas into Catholic art; traveling to Paris; his association
with Jean Dubuffet; changes in his technique; his work in collage; his affiliation
with the Signa Gallery;
abstract expressionism.
Other artists I am always loving are
abstract painters like Trudy Benson, Wendy White, Laura Owens, and
artists that are creating immersive environments
with 2D and 3D Elements like Liz Miller, Jim Drain, Diana Cooper.
The
Other nominees for the inaugural year included sculptor Richard Deacon, the collaborative duo Gilbert & George,
abstract painter Howard Hodgkin and sculpture and installation
artist Richard Long — but unlike his fellow nominees Morley just did not fit into any one particular genealogy;
with his connection to Photorealism, or Super-realism — as he named it — later being discarded by the
artist in favour of a more expressive method of painting — that critics deemed a kind of Neo-expressionism.
Hinkle's
abstract «un-portraits» of elusive figures — the
artist draws them
with handmade brushes while improvising dances to blues, hip - hop, and Baltimore Club music — pivot between real and imagined narratives representing thousands of black women who have disappeared due to colonialism, human trafficking, homicides, and
other forms of erasure.
PULSE's consistently strong showing of international exhibitors include GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE of Cologne, Germany, who will be featuring photographic landscapes by Sharon Harper and
abstract paintings by Julie Oppermann; Nieves Fernandez Gallery of Madrid, Spain, offering works from
artists such as Jordi Alcaraz, Danica Phelps, Jeff Cohen, and more; Purdy Hicks Gallery of London, UK, displaying contemporary photographs and drawings from Susan Derges, Bettina von Zwehl, Claire Kerr, and Andrzej Jackowski; Lawrie Shabibi of Dubai, UAE, presenting mixed - media pieces by local
artists Nadia Kaabi - Linke, Sama Alshaibi, Driss Ouadahi, and Shahpour Pouyan; and Zemack Contemporary of Tel Aviv, Israel, exhibiting a group show
with Phellippe Pasqua, Ofer Lellouche, Yuval Yairi and
others.
The avant - garde
artists from Soviet Russia along
with architects and designers from Netherlands and Germany as well as from the
other European countries, gathered in newly formed Bauhaus school in Germany,
with their exploration in visual and plastic arts, significantly contributed to the rise of
abstract painting in the first decades of the 20th century.
In 1948 he, along
with Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and
others, founded the Subjects of the
Artist School as a means for exploring and promulgating ideas about the inspiration, subjects, attitudes, and possibilities of
abstract expressionism.
Almost no
other artists have been so strongly influenced by their encounters
with contemporary
abstract paintings as Sean Scully (b. 1945 in Dublin).
And while it could be argued that the dazzling boom and bust of a few 26 - year - old white male skateboarders - cum -
abstract - painters isn't representative of thousands of
other emerging
artists, the spectacular market failure of that one, tiny group had a much broader cooling effect on the market:
With collectors suddenly questioning the value of their not - insignificant investments (no matter how rich you are, watching your $ 100,000 painting go to $ 20,000 in a few months has to be unpleasant), a crisis of confidence resulted in some very good galleries going under.
The second part of the exhibition will be dedicated to European and American art from the 1970s until today, i.e.
artists who further develop the
abstract avant - garde trends
with different accents (John M Armleder, Daniel Buren, Sylvie Fleury, Peter Halley, Imi Knoebel, Gerold Miller, Olivier Mosset, Michael Zahn, and
others).