Sentences with phrase «years painting abstract»

With Rothko an influence, Morico spent years painting abstract expressionist paintings after graduating in 1994 from Paier College of Art in Hamden while pursuing a career as a graphic artist, including on a freelance basis the past 10 years.

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I've been painting large abstracts for past 5 years, with some moderate success.

Born next to the saloon that has been in his family for one hundred years, Sunny has over the years partied with Andy Warhol, spent time in India at the feet of a guru, and painted abstract expressionist originals.

In 1965 he painted thin plywood reliefs, with stretched canvas as surface, and three years ago he used plywood, minus canvas, with a painted abstract surface.

In recent years Tuttle has busied himself with overlapping plywood panels and with bits of Foamcore that burst with bulbous abstract forms painted in rich, sensuous colors.

Ted Asnis tedasnis.com «For a long time, I have had the desire to paint in an abstract mode, and in the past few years I have been applying all I learned from my landscape painting to this new effort.

An ostensibly abstract painter, Walker has been painting the same spot in Maine for years, revitalizing abstraction through intense, prolonged immersion in nature.

The crowded installation of huge abstract paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and painting - sculpture hybrids, augmented by works on paper, tracks the New York artist's fifty - seven - year career.

I was painting all over the map before this year and have decided to hone in on my most favourite type of painting, which I call «Heirloom Art Pieces» — they're a highly textured form of abstract art that I've been doing for over 6 years (undercover).

Consider the most visible trend in recent years of Zombie Formalism, a kind of reductive, easily produced abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name of the artist himself becomes the brand.

Art fairs are often associated with abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but, at this year's Armory Show in New York, some galleries had on offer works that explicitly addressed the political situation in the United States.

I did that for many years but then wanted to let the work break open and not be as controlled so for the next several years I did large abstract paintings that I couldn't fully explain but were very freeing.

3 Clyfford Still painted a traditional portrait of his mother (PH - 420) in 1946, the same year as his breakthrough exhibition of completely abstract paintings at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery.

It should have been clear from the start that any book whose aim was to discuss only the abstract painting of the past fifty years was necessarily doomed to give a shallow and misleading account of much of it — which is exactly what M. Seuphor, in perhaps forty pages of undistinguished prose, has done.

Trained academically in China, Cai Jin also spent ten years (1997 - 2007) in New York, which may well have broadened her sensibility to abstract painting, by now a global phenomenon rather than a purely Western modernist achievement.

Boy, Bushwick Open Studios is really producing large returns for those who love large - scale abstract painting and sculpture this year.

So I was very much, in the first couple of years of abstract painting again, I was very much on guard for....

The exhibition titled «Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art,» presents works of Italian abstract art, bringing together fifty years of history over two floors.

Forty - five years of abstract color painting, defined rather reductively by Phillips as stain painting, is inadequately represented by four lonely works, that span a mere six - year period: Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea, (1952), Sam Francis's, Black in Red, (1953), Morris Louis's Iris, (1954) and Kenneth Noland's Song, (1958).

We began talking about it, and they were astounded because they had been painting abstract art, so I had twenty years they didn't remember, they didn't realize anybody remembered that they made collages with matchsticks and tried to look like Picabia.

In 2013 NYTimes review, Holland Cotter praised Whitten for his restless energy: With a career grazing the 50 - year mark, Jack Whitten is still making work that looks like no one else's, which is saying something, given the flood of abstract painting in New York... read more... «Quick study»

Over the past several years, abstract painting has become, once again, a buzz phrase within contemporary art.

Over the last twenty years, Liliane Tomasko has created abstract painting, sculpture and photography that examines places of domesticity.

Over the course of her 40 - year career, Williams has made an array of artwork, from modest paintings of mostly representational scenes in a cartoonish style to large - scale abstract paintings erupting in brilliant colors.

These important exhibitions bring the faint hope that quality in abstract painting might begin to re-emerge finally from the Duchampian eclipse of the past twenty odd years.

That year he made new dot paintings on white fields that introduced an abstract and new compositional awareness to his dot paintings that emphasized the unique character of each picture.

Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

Marilyn Lerner is an extraordinary artist who has been committed to making inventive abstract geometric paintings for over forty years.

I've been making abstract paintings for fifty years and I don't think they're about anything.

It comes at a decisive moment for abstract painting in the United States, booming again after years of false death notices.

And I was continually thinking back to the abstract painting, and those years, and it seemed to me that things just flowed so freely, and it was kind of invention and — what's the word I want?

«Wolf Kahn» at Ameringer McEnery Yohe (through December 23): This week is the last chance to catch «Wolf Kahn,» an exhibition of paintings that push the limits of an abstract language that the American artist has been developing for over seventy years.

His return to the San Francisco Bay area followed three years in New Mexico and Illinois, and he continued pursuing abstract painting for the next few years.

That same year Peter Young painted a series of large abstract paintings that were tight clusters of primary colored dots on white fields.

Trying to keep pace with him, Willem de Kooning was meanwhile flowering forth, and within a year or two, every ambitious artist in New York seemed to be bashing out big - scale abstract paintings, borne aloft by great puffs of critical rhetoric.

The survey spans a 40 - year career marked by notable inventiveness, determination and verve, from the artist's first abstract painted - wood sculptures to her most recent pop assemblages.

Kandinsky is generally regarded as the founding father of abstract art; however, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint may, according to art historians, have created the first abstract painting as early as 1906 — a whole five years before Kandinsky.

The term «abstract» fails to evoke the unforgiving rigor of the paintings by San Franciscan John Meyer (1943 - 2002) that George Lawson has just brought back to light after many years in storage or in private hands.

But over at Victoria Miro this spring, it's a season of «sisters are doin» it for themselves» with an exhibition dedicated to over fifty women that have defined abstract painting through the years.

These almost abstract, monochrome paintings treat the plain yet distinctive ads that New York's most famous jewelry brand has run daily for many years in the upper right hand corner of the same page of The New York Times, while echoing associations with another classic, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, whose object of desire Holly Golightly lures admirers only to elude them later.

At this year's 50th Annual Springs Invitational at Ashawagh Hall, Zacharias's Hat, a 40 x 46 inch abstract painting, invites viewers to take in its clues and «fill in for themselves with their own imagination» the painting's story.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previopainting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previoPainting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previopainting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right with regard to the artists who are making abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all about.

Tate Modern's new exhibition, Henri Matisse: The Cut - outs, opens tomorrow, and it's already been hailed as the exhibition of the year — a colourful, life - affirming show of the artist's bold, abstract collage works, which he created when health problems prevented him from painting.

Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.

Albers's connection with Mexico, which he described to Kandinsky as «the land where abstract art existed for thousands of years», was long and inspiring: in 1935 he produced his first oil abstract painting after making his first trip there with his wife, Anni, and his first Homage to the Square while teaching in Mexico City in 1949.

(The second highest price for a woman artist at auction is $ 11.9 million — for an abstract painting by Joan Mitchell, was also achieved that year.)

Gruin noted that she had already been preparing a «response» exhibition to Hirst's «Veil Paintings,» which will take place from May 16 through June 17 and include the work of Maringka, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi and Polly Ngale, each of whom works in an abstract painterly style and whose works look similar to that of the 52 year - old British Hirst.

The trends seen at this year's opening night were intriguing — tons of fabric and textile - based work, like Verena Dengler's embroidered canvases at Thomas Duncan and Laure Provost's spectacular tapestry at MOT International; a pull towards representative painting, like Marcel van Eeden's cake painting at Clint Roenisch or Louise Bonnet's»60s - style oil paintings of peculiar sad - sacks at Mier Gallery; and any abstract work to be found was very multicolored, like William J. O'Brien's trippy plant - like paintings at Shane Campbell and Stanley Whitney's vibrant grids at Team Gallery.

After his discharge from the army, Kelly spent seven formative years as a young artist living in Paris, where he was influenced by the city's museums and architecture and began to develop his signature style, exemplified by his purely abstract paintings comprising differently colored panels.