For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Kent Williams propelled his dexterity
with painterly mark - making beyond spatial realism into the viscerally abstract.
The new paintings propel the artist's dexterity
with painterly mark - making beyond concerns of spatial realism and the human figure into the viscerally abstract.
Intercepting the composition
with this painterly mark - making, Alsoudani adds further complication to his disordered scenes, while highlighting the role of the human hand in the creation of violence.
And Joan Snyder and Mary Heilmann found other ways to combine geometry
with painterly mark making.
Not exact matches
But his «
painterly» style —
with its emphasis on the visible
mark and texture of paint - as - matter — resonated most powerfully
with the Venetian oil painters, such as Giorgione and Titian.
The painting I saw by Robin Bruch in that group show offered new possibilities by combining geometric forms
with rough direct,
painterly mark making.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts
with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer
with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of
painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque
Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator
Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter
His works, such as his 1975 self - portraits, evoke the power of individual expressive acts in a photo - saturated culture by reaffirming
painterly control over technical images and archetypal symbols, in this instance photographs of the artist in a crucifixion pose, drawn over
with manic black
marks.
Floating over the
painterly erasures that
mark their genesis, Mitchell's dense clusters of brushmarks meet the viewer
with a lumpish and, at times, visceral matter - of - factness.
With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the
painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.
The painting, according to the catalogue «is
marked by the brawn and power of his best work, bursting
with painterly passages that appear to continue outside the edges of the canvas.»
They were
painterly, gestural, full of vivid colors and alive
with abstract
markings.
Gina kept painting outdoors but became much more involved
with gestures and
painterly marks when she started painting outside the city.
This immediate,
painterly, action is married
with nature's
mark of time and the elements as they occur on their own accord.
With the Flower Paintings, Colen relinquishes control of the
painterly mark and turns the action of the brushstroke into a smashing or shattering gesture.
Through her
painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions
with an emotional resonance.
The transparent ink
marks and the mirror - like golden surface of the drawings play
with the
painterly convention of figure - in - the - landscape by superimposing the viewer's distorted reflection into the image.
These new compositions have developed to incorporate
painterly mark making,
with a move from collage to resin.
In this exhibition, Simpson combines lithography and photographic images
with painterly abstraction and other
mark - making interventions.
She separates hard - edge shapes
with painterly passages of carefully modulated
markings, and she uses subtle tonal shifts to create an illusion of overlapping planes of transparent color.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have
with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making
with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's
painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship
with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion
with a
marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host
with a small drawing.
Such paintings shared a spare geometry
with the sculptural style, often
with sparse
painterly or drawn
marks and the use of repetition and pattern.
Twisting the formal language of both his chosen objects and the
painterly signifiers he has built up over the course of his career,
Mark Grotjahn returns to Anton Kern Gallery for his fourth solo exhibition
with the New York Gallery.
Seriously, this season we've seen a real move towards much looser pattern
with designs that make their
mark using ink blots,
painterly brushstrokes and watercolour bleeds.