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Diego Rivera
In 1940 Rivera came to San Francisco for what would be his last mural project in the city, Pan-American Unity . Currently housed at City College of San Francisco as a permanent installation, for a time it was in storage and not on public display. During the same period, he created the charcoal sketchentitled Shasta (1940), of large construction machinery that the artist saw near the Mount Shasta dam.
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Kelley Walker
The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series ‘The Black Star Press project’ initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo essay on the struggle for civil rights in Alabama, directed by Charles Moore in 1962 (and published by the magazine ‘Life’) which showed the repression of the black population and persistent inequalities in the southern United States. The title “Black Star Press” is taken from the name of the news agency where Charles Moore worked, and it refers to the young black man shot fighting for the rights of his community.
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Richard Bell
For Richard Bell, art is not simply a vehicle through which to represent and convey political content. On one hand, art itself has an activist charge—in its very form and presence it can shake up conventional or assumed understandings, opinions, and behaviours. But on the other hand, it is deeply implicated in the actions and attitudes associated with colonialism in Australia and abroad.
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Kadar Brock
Kadar Brock creates dynamic abstract paintings that are born from a process of painting, scraping, priming, sanding, and painting again. Retaining a commitment to his established process, Brock layers paintings about personal memory, family history, and iconographies of New Age religion, alongside representations of masculinities found in the characters of American and Japanese comic books and film. The physical and emotional process of creation, often taking place over many years, enables a reverse archaeology of the self and renders a delicate balance between body, memory, and psychology.
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Chris Johanson
Chris Johanson’s paintings, sculptures, and installations break down everyday scenes and commonplace dramas into colorful forms; the darkest sides of humanity are invoked with humor. The works comment on subjects such as capitalism, consumerism, the art world, and therapy. The triptych I Am a Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV (2004) is a meditation on the cosmos.
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Daniel Joseph Martinez
Martinez’s sculpture A meditation on the possibility… of romantic love or where you goin’ with that gun in your hand , Bobby Seale and Huey Newton discuss the relationship between expressionism and social reality in Hitler’s painting depicts the legendary Black Panther leaders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. By using Carrara marble, a material usually associated with heroic public sculptures, Martinez casts the history of African-American revolutionaries into the artistic tradition of monumentality. Like the artist’s earlier work included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, an interactive piece made up with pins that read, “I CAN’T IMAGINE EVER WANTING TO BE WHITE,” A meditation on the possibility… continues Martinez’s effort to expose cultural contradictions and increase public awareness.
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Chitra Ganesh
The title of Rainbow Body by Chitra Ganesh refers to an elevated state of, or metaphor for, the consciousness transformation known as a rainbow body. The Buddhist master Padmasambhava achieved this state from his union with Mandarava, a female spirit (dakini) and princess in Tantric Buddhism. Through study and physical connection, each played a key role in the other’s enlightenment.
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Chitra Ganesh
Rabbithole by Chitra Ganesh is a digital animation that refigures a fundamental plot device in myths and fables. Referencing iconic folklore such as Alice in Wonderland, the Odyssey, and the Mahabharata, Ganesh’s video illustrates the story of a hero’s journey and transformation that is not driven by the glory of violent conquest or saving a damsel in distress. Ganesh’s short video features a colorful style of illustration specific to the artist’s comic works.
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Chitra Ganesh
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Art of War 1, City in Broad Daylight, Leaving the House, Justice is a Virtue, and Lions are Stronger than Men are linocut prints from the series Sultana’s Dream . This series by artist Chitra Ganesh comprises a large-scale narrative suite inspired by a 1905 feminist utopian (eponymous) text written by a Bengali writer and social reformer, Rokeya Sakhhawat Hossain. Educated thanks to the support of her elite family, Hossain was one of the few Bengali women of her generation writing in English.
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Chitra Ganesh
Silhouette in the Graveyard is part of a suite of animated videos by Chitra Ganesh titled The Scorpion Gesture . All five videos incorporate figures and themes from Buddhist mythology and dialogue directly with artworks from the Rubin Museum, for which the videos were originally produced.? The central figure of Silhouette in the Graveyard is Maitreya, the Future Buddha, whose arrival on Earth was prophesied to usher in a new age.
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Caetano de Almeida
Caetano de Almeida’s abstract compositions in acrylic use delicately-rendered swirls of overlapping, colorful lines. Intersecting at regular angles within six bubbles, these thread-like lines spiral chaotically outward once they leave these spheres of order. De Almeida’s abstractions don’t imply randomness and chaos, the way much abstract painting might, but rather seem tied to algorithms, precision, and the networked realities of the contemporary moment.
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Rodrigo Torres
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In his Conceito abstrato series, however, Rodrigo Torres turns to the abstract, using the shapes, numbers, lines, and subtle colors of international currencies to create non-representational forms with lavish geometries and baroque curving forms.
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Kaoru Arima
Arima’s free brushstrokes gesture towards traditions in Expressionist painting. As with the acrylic painting Ticket (also 2015), Person in Red Sweater could be seen as an attempt at “pure painting” in which the aesthetics of the medium supersede content. But if his portraits resist social commentary, they nonetheless challenge conventional standards of beauty through a decided embrace of decayed forms and colors.
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Kaoru Arima
Arima’s free brushstrokes gesture towards traditions in Expressionist painting, and Ticket could be seen as an attempt at “pure painting” in which the aesthetics of the medium supersede content. But if his portraits resist social commentary, they nonetheless challenge conventional standards of beauty through a decided embrace of decayed forms and colors. Inspired by underground creative cultures, his paintings have the slipshod spontaneity of graffiti and other types of street art.
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Brian Tripp
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography. The two works in the KADIST collection are a continuation of these forms with in the medium of sculpture.
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Alicia McCarthy
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (the way in is the way out) is representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her abstract colorful compositions resemble somewhat formal nonrepresentational landscapes. However, a closer inspection reveals the presence of a lowbrow style that draws inspiration both from outsider and folk art traditions.
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Brian Tripp
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography. The two works in the KADIST collection are a continuation of these forms with in the medium of sculpture.
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Alicia McCarthy
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) are representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her abstract colorful compositions resemble somewhat formal nonrepresentational landscapes. However, a closer inspection reveals the presence of a lowbrow style that draws inspiration both from outsider and folk art traditions.
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Yto Barrada
In this photographic series, Yto Barrada was interested in the logos of the buses that travel between North Africa and Europe. They become like abstract paintings that recall Modernist formal experimentation. They are somehow symptomatic of the circulation of goods and people that is made to sound so abstract.
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Ed Ruscha
In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains. He experimented with a variety of materials (gun powder, dust, blood, among many others) to leave surface traces of different objects. The resulting images are negative shapes amidst blurry environments like Splinters and Seconal in which a grey surface is imprinted with the materials mentioned in the title.
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James Welling
#17 Pink is a photogram, a photographic image produced without the use of a camera. Here, the artist placed plumbago blossoms on a sheet of eight-by-ten-inch film and exposed it to light. The negative was then projected onto Kodak Metallic Endura paper through a color mural enlarger and cooler filters to produce the multicolored print.
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Federico Herrero
Federico Herrero’s energetic paintings reflect his experiences on the streets of his native San José, Costa Rica, and in the surrounding tropical landscape. Rooted in Central American folklore, politics, and culture, his works often move beyond the canvas onto the wall or into the streets. In Á rbol y Pelicao (Tree and Pelican, 2009), a tree with cartoonlike creatures drawn in pen beside it emerges from a field of bright swaths of color.
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Pablo Rasgado
Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior. Rasgado wanders through the urban landscape in Mexico City and other major cities, looking for moments of intrigue in the dirt and debris. He captures these details by extracting materials from the sites and deploying them in the gallery.
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Xiaoyun Chen
The central point of Vanishing Point is the most direct physiological reaction of the body to the environment. Chen Xiaoyun has added a written narrative and a poetic quality to his works. Image fragments containing different pieces of information are linked together by the text, their interplay producing a synesthesia effect.
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Zhang Zhenyu
In DUST 171217 Zhang Zhenyu uses fragments of dust collected across the city, and then creates dark abstract paintings, repetitively gluing the material to the canvas, applying up to 30 or 100 layers and sanding until he arrives at a smooth surface. The result is a reflective surface, an abstract object in which the viewer can see themselves staring back. The project began in 2014 and reflects a rampant process of modernization in his native China.
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Simon Fujiwara
Masks is a series of abstract paintings by Simon Fujiwara that together form a giant, fragmented portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s face. Masks (Merkel F6.1) was created in consultation with Merkel’s personal make-up artist; it features the special makeup that Merkel wears for HD cameras applied onto canvas. The image has been magnified to a near-microscopic level, rendering an ambiguous skin tone across which the makeup’s denser patches produce an abstract composition.
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Alexandre da Cunha
In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag. Where the printed surface of the towel originally served to enliven this commodity, here the pattern—now stretched and re-presented—suddenly refers to abstract painting’s promises of transcendence. And its crisply painted shape pulls the printed colors into the rectangularity of the canvas and, as da Cunha notes, the graphic iconicity of flags.
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Francisco Herrero Peñuela
Francisco Herrero Peñuela uses old forms to make his elaborate, richly textured surfaces. Practicing a form of marquetry common in 15th century Italy—intarsia—Peñuela pieces together fragments of wood to create abstract images in warm tones of gold, brown, and black. While original Italian intarsia would have been representational, embedding landscapes, objects, and narrative scenes directly into walls, Peñuela’s compositions hedge away from direct representation, with shapes and pattern emerging organically out of his carefully arranged wooden pieces.
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Korakrit Arunanondchai
His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form. Made with bleached denim, stock images of flames and gold leaf, these works embody “human cultures as ghosts.” The gold serves as a reminder of religious paintings, and the denim as emblematic of Western capitalist waste. When describing his paintings, the artist states, “The idea of what Painting is or could be became somehow akin to the image of the earth, as seen from above, from the viewpoint of a drone or a spirit.
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Luisa Lambri
Custom-built for a silent film star in 1934 in Santa Monica, the Sten-Frenke House is an idiosyncratic icon. Designed by the architect Richard Neutra, its gray glass, white expanses, and simple forms exude austerity. Luisa Lambri’s photograph Untitled (Sten-Frenke House #04) (2007)recalls the unembellished elegance of the structure while also alluding to modernist painting; the image is less a picture than an abstract expanse that conveys its own flatness.
James Weeks
James Weeks, born in 1922, was an important figure in the Bay Area figurative painter tradition, with contemporaries such as Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park...
Chitra Ganesh
Spanning printmaking, sculpture, and video, Chitra Ganesh’s work draws from broad-ranging material and historic reference points, including surrealism, expressionism, Hindu, Greek and Buddhist iconographies, South Asian pictorial traditions, 19th-century European portraiture and fairy tales, comic books, song lyrics, science fiction, Bollywood posters, news and media images...
Ian Wallace
- year born: 1943
- gender: male
- nationality: British
- home town: Shoreham, United Kingdom
Shimon Minamikawa
Since the beginning of his career, Minamikawa Shimon has made work that deviates from conventional painting and other formats...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe is a Yanomami artist who lives and works in Upper Orinoco, at the Venezuelan side of the Amazon rainforest...
James Welling
- location: New York, New York; Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1951
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Hartford, Connecticut
Moshekwa Langa
The oeuvre of Moshekwa Langa (b...
Alicia McCarthy
- location: Oakland, California
- year born: 1969
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Oakland, California
Melvin Moti
Scientific research, high and mass culture, and the processes of cultural production in contemporary society plays an important role in the work of Rotterdam-born artist Melvin Moti, currently based in Rotterdam and in Berlin...
Brian Tripp
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Alexandre da Cunha
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Brazilian
- home town: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mary Ann Aitken
Mary Ann Aitken was known to be very private about her art practice; she was considered somewhat of an outsider by her peers affiliated with the second wave of Detroit’s Cass Corridor arts movement...
Kaoru Arima
Kaoru Arima experiments with painting in order to discover new expressive forms...
Imran Qureshi
Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s practice revives 16th century Mughal miniature painting...
Larry Bell
- location: Venice, California
- year born: 1939
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Chicago, Illinois
Maria Taniguchi
Throughout her paintings, sculptures, and videos, Maria Taniguchi unpacks knowledge and experience—connecting material culture, technology, and natural evolution—and investigates space and time, along with social and historical contexts...
Barbara Bloom
Collector Barbara Bloom mixes autobiographical details, fictional narratives, and literary quotes...
Ed Ruscha
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1937
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Omaha, Nebraska
Mike Cloud
Artist Mike Cloud builds irregularly shaped canvases and frames into unique sculptural objects...
Euan Macdonald
Euan Macdonald’s videos, drawings and sculptures are informed by a wide array of philosophical, musical, and literary references, but return repeatedly to the quotidian occurrence, the everyday as subject...
Eleanor Antin
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1935
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Bronx, New York
Nathan Lewis
Nathan Lewis’s unfeigned drawings have evolved out of the nine years he worked as a critical care nurse at a Washington, D.C...
Kadar Brock
Kadar Brock makes large-scale abstract paintings via a rigorous process of layering, erasing, and reworking his surfaces; his highly textured canvases are variously discordant, exuberant, and topographical in nature...
Michael Dean
Michael Dean (b...
Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt’s work observes, identifies, and transforms the performative phenomenology of ordinary materials, objects, and gestures...
Hossein Valamanesh
Hossein Valamanesh’s work is often made out of natural material or found objects such as Persian rugs, family photo albums or clothes...
Jonathan Monk
- location: Berlin, Germany
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: British
- home town: Leicester, United Kingdom
Gyempo Wangchuk
Gyempo Wangchuk is a unique artist in the Bhutanese, and wider Himalayan context because he combines his classical training in traditional Bhutanese painting with contemporary concepts and aesthetics, as well as discreet but potent expressions of dissidence...
Barry McGee
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: San Francisco, California
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about 11 months ago (02/12/2024)
Savannah Marie Harris’s Bold Abstract Canvases Are Rife with Tension and Beauty | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Savannah Marie Harris’s Bold Abstract Canvases Are Rife with Tension and Beauty Casey Lesser Feb 12, 2024 2:00PM Portrait of Savannah Marie Harris...
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about 11 months ago (02/12/2024)
Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias | Tate St Ives Discover the vibrant works of one of the leading abstract artists working today Tate St Ives presents a retrospective of the work of artist Beatriz Milhazes , who is known for intensely colourful, large-scale abstract canvases...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
Review: Glenn Kaino’s ‘Walking with a Tiger’ at Pace Gallery | Observer Installation view of ‘Glenn Kaino: Walking with a Tiger’ at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery...
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about 11 months ago (02/05/2024)
Malaysia halves Najib’s sentence, Hong Kong’s car-free village, China’s Picasso: 6 weekend reads you may have missed | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement SCMP Highlights + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak leaves a court in Kuala Lumpur in 2019...
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about 11 months ago (01/30/2024)
The Most Anticipated Art Museum Openings of 2024 | Observer Nicolai Tangen’s Kunstsilo...
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about 11 months ago (01/25/2024)
Owen Dippie “Anima” In Honor Of Artist Max Gimblett | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY In Auckland, New Zealand, a new mural emerges from the city’s urban landscape, capturing one essence of New Zealand’s artistic evolution...
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about 12 months ago (01/23/2024)
Must-see Paris exhibitions 2024: Abstract artist Fiona Rae's messages - arts24 Skip to main content Must-see Paris exhibitions 2024: Abstract artist Fiona Rae's messages Issued on: 23/01/2024 - 15:57 13:25 arts24 © FRANCE 24 By: Jennifer BEN BRAHIM | Marion CHAVAL | Magali FAURE | Eve JACKSON Follow | Loïc CHALAVON 1 min In this edition of arts24, Eve Jackson is joined by one of the most important abstract painters of her generation...
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about 12 months ago (01/19/2024)
Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre | Londonist Concrete Beauty Of The National Theatre Captured In This Abstract Exhibition By Will Noble Will Noble Concrete Beauty Of The National Theatre Captured In This Abstract Exhibition "A lot of one’s reaction to concrete is prejudice," said the National Theatre's architect, Denys Lasdun...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
Collector Ronald Ollie (1951-2020) AN AVID COLLECTOR of African American art and generous museum patron, Ronald Ollie (1951-2020) has died...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
Richard Hunt, iconic Chicago sculptor and lifelong advocate for equity, dies at 88 - Chicago Sun-Times clock CST_ The Hardest-Working Paper in America | Monday, December 18, 2023 Subscriber | Log out | Manage Account Log In | Get Home Delivery Donate Menu Show Search Search Query Search Art Entertainment and Culture News Richard Hunt, iconic Chicago sculptor, dies at 88 A lifelong advocate for equity and inclusion, the Chicagoan recently completed a model for a monument to Emmett Till that is to be installed at the childhood home of the civil rights icon...
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about 13 months ago (12/17/2023)
The Impurities of Pure Abstraction Skip to content David Diao, "BN: The Paintings in Scale (Blue)" (1991), acrylic and vinyl on canvas, 78 x 132 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York, photos Zeshan Ahmed) David Diao loves pure abstract painting as embodied by the highly revered work of Barnett Newman and Kasimir Malevich, even as he doubts their claims of attaining the sublime or achieving a utopian, universalist language...
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about 13 months ago (12/16/2023)
Elizabeth Gilfilen: De-defining the gesture – Two Coats of Paint Elizabeth Gilfilen, Territory 1, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches Contributed by Vittorio Colaizzi / “I vehemently reject the claim that mark making by itself harbors any potential.” This was Isabelle Graw in conversation in 2010 with Achim Hochdörfer ...
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about 13 months ago (12/09/2023)
In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Curator Magalí Arriola picks out some highlights from the fair's large-scale presentation Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share Lee Mullican, Entrance of the Entertainers (1984-85) Liliana Mora Although this year’s Meridians section at Art Basel in Miami Beach lacks an official theme, many of its large-scale works reference some sort of metaphorical largeness—whether global connectivity, the environment or the universal language of music...
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about 13 months ago (12/06/2023)
Ken Gun Min’s Vision of Gay Utopia Skip to content Ken Gun Min, “East Hollywood Red Chair” (2023), oil, Korean pigment, silk embroidery thread, 66 x 54 inches (all photos David S...
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about 13 months ago (12/01/2023)
Review: ‘Glory of the World: Color Field Painting (1950s to 1983)’ | Observer Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention...
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about 13 months ago (12/01/2023)
‘GONE?’ by Slawn next on CIRCA halting billboards worldwide including Africa - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 1 December 2023 Share — SLAWN, Photo: Leroy Boateng © CIRCA Heralding their entrance into the African content, CIRCA presents GONE? , a site-specific study on the theme of hope by Nigerian -born, London-based artist Slawn ...
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about 13 months ago (11/29/2023)
Emilio Vedova: Venice’s Abstract Expressionist – Two Coats of Paint M9 Museum: Emilio Vedova, Rivoluzione Vedova, 2023, Installation View (photo courtesy of M9) Contributed by David Carrier / Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), who lived and worked in Venice, was once aptly dubbed the Jackson Pollock of the barricades...
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about 14 months ago (11/23/2023)
Ahead of exhibitions in New York and London, we speak to the South African artist about her conservative upbringing and finding self-empathy....
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about 14 months ago (11/16/2023)
Frederick Iseman, nephew of the renowned Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler, has initiated legal action against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation The post Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Faces Allegations of Legacy Destruction appeared first on Artlyst ....
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about 15 months ago (10/05/2023)
My sketchbook: Emyr's life drawings and abstract lines | Blog | Royal Academy of Arts Emyr’s sketchbook My sketchbook: Emyr’s life drawings and abstract lines Read more Become a Friend My sketchbook: Emyr’s life drawings and abstract lines Published 21 August 2023 Take a look inside the sketchbook of artist Emyr Williams and learn how drawing with your opposite hand can improve your technique...
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about 15 months ago (10/02/2023)
BOMB Magazine | Sylvia Snowden Necessary (Required) Cookies that the site cannot function properly without...
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about 17 months ago (08/26/2023)
Mark Rothko — Louis Vuitton — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Mark Rothko — Louis Vuitton — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Mark Rothko Exhibition Painting Mark Rothko, Light Cloud, Dark Cloud, 1957 Collection of the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Museum purchase, The Benjamin J...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
 Frieder Burda, Prodigious Collector of German Expressionism Who Founded Private Museum, Has Died at 83 - via ARTNEWS...
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about 37 months ago (12/21/2021)
Features | The Independent Features Long Reads William Cook Gabriele Munter: The forgotten woman of German expressionism Long Reads William Cook David Chipperfield meets Mies van der Rohe Features Anish Kapoor: ‘The government is a bunch of f***ing liars’ Features Gene Simmons: ‘Mortality? It helps to be delusional’ News What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like Features ‘Traces of this tumult’: The precious artworks looted by the Nazis Features Sold to Hitler: What constitutes art sales under duress? Features Light Years: the exhibition proving photography is an art form Culture Mark Hudson Sophie Taeuber-Arp at the Tate Modern is almost the show she deserves Culture Aindrea Emelife Untitled finally gives a forward-thinking display of diasporic art Culture Mark Hudson Thought photography was about taking photographs?...
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about 38 months ago (11/23/2021)
I've curated a number of collections in the run up to Christmas to make it easier to browse the available works...
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about 53 months ago (09/04/2020)
Mary Weatherford Revisits an ARTnews Profile of Joan Mitchell – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All September 4, 2020 10:27am ©ARTnews In 1957, art critic Irving Sandler paid a visit to the studio of painter Joan Mitchell , an Abstract Expressionist known for her brushy images capturing nature...
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about 54 months ago (08/01/2020)
Summer Show - week 1 Abstract Paintings – Gina Cross - Curator + Mentor Close Thin Icon Close Thin Icon Your cart Close Alternative Icon Now partnered with Art Money for interest free art collecting Now partnered with Art Money for interest free art collecting News Written by Gina Cross Previous / Next Opening today is the first week of our Summer Show which shines a light on Abstract Painting, featuring brand new works by Marie Lenclos...
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about 59 months ago (02/28/2020)
Roberta Smith on the Power of Donald Judd’s Criticism – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All February 28, 2020 1:04pm A page from ARTnews ’s October 1959 issue featuring Donald Judd's review of Yayoi Kusama's show at Brata Gallery...
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about 77 months ago (09/13/2018)
Book Review: "Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 13, 2018 By Reaksmey Yean (950 words, five-minute read) A result of a research collaboration organised by the University of Sydney’s Power Institute in partnership with the Institut Teknologi Bandung and National Gallery Singapore, Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990 is a recently published volume of ten collected essays...
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about 92 months ago (06/09/2017)
Summer ’17 Consortium Partner Programs - Asia Contemporary Art Week Asia Contemporary Art Week ABOUT Consortium Partners PRESENTED ARTISTS FIELD MEETING ABOUT FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS (2018) TAKE 5: THINKING PROJECTS (2017) TAKE 4: THINKING PRACTICE (2016) TAKE 3: THINKING PERFORMANCE (2015) TAKE 2: AN AFTERTHOUGHT (2015) TAKE 1: CRITICAL OF THE FUTURE (2014) FIELD REVIEW ABOUT FIELD REVIEW ISSUE 1: SOUTH ASIA ISSUE 2: MIDDLE EAST PAST EDITIONS ACAW 2002 – 2018 PRESENTED ARTISTS PRESS PRESS RELEASES PRESS COVERAGE Announcements Summer ’17 Consortium Partner Programs New York City Venues ASIA SOCIETY MUSEUM Inspired by Zao Wou-Ki: Works by New York City Students Exhibition | Through August 6 Artworks created by New York City public school students based on Asia Society’s fall 2016 exhibition “No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki” are exhibited in this one of a kind exhibition...
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1940-1949
Diego Rivera
1940In 1940 Rivera came to San Francisco for what would be his last mural project in the city, Pan-American Unity ...
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1960-1969
James Weeks
1962Both Head-Portrait with Red and Blue Background and Man with Blue Tie are classic examples of Weeks’ deftness of line, shape, and color...
James Weeks
1962Both Head-Portrait with Red and Blue Background and Man with Blue Tie are classic examples of Weeks’ deftness of line, shape, and color...
Judy Chicago
1969Domes #1 represents a significant moment in Chicago’s career when her art began to change from a New York-influenced Abstract Expressionist style to one that reflected the pop-inflected art being made in Los Angeles...
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1970-1979
Eleanor Antin
1973Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City...
Larry Bell
Drawing & Print
1979(Drawing & Print) Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
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1980-1989
Ian Wallace
1986Wallace says of his Heroes in the Street series, “The street is the site, metaphorically as well as in actuality, of all the forces of society and economics imploded upon the individual, who, moving within the dense forest of symbols of the modern city, can achieve the status of the heroic.” The hero in Study for my Heroes in the Street (Stan) is the photoconceptual artist Stan Douglas, who is depicted here (and also included in the Kadist Collection) as an archetypal figure restlessly drifting the streets of the modern world...
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1990-1999
Barbara Bloom
1997In the 1980’s, while browsing Parisian fleamarkets, Barbara Bloom stumbled into an anonymous watercolor (dating to around 1960) in one of Paris’ fleamarkets, probably a study made by an interior designer for a bedroom...
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2000-2009
Ian Wallace
2000Untitled (Breathless) presents a folded newspaper article on Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle (Breathless)...
Mark Grotjahn
Drawing & Print
2002(Drawing & Print) This particular drawing, like many of Grotjahn’s works, presents a decentered single-point perspective...
Mary Ann Aitken
2002Untitled (Boom Box, Double-Sided) by Mary Ann Aitken is representational painting of a boom box on an unconventionally long canvas painted on both sides, to mimic the scale and appearance of the actual appliance...
Kota Ezawa
2002The Simpson Verdict is a three-minute animation by Kota Ezawa that portrays the reading of the verdict during the OJ Simpson trial, known as the “most publicized” criminal trial in history...
Jonathan Monk
2003Untitled (rolled up) , is an abstract portrait of Owen Monk, the artist’s father and features an aluminum ring of 56.6 cm in diameter measuring 1.77 cm in circumference, the size of his father...
Kelley Walker
2004The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series ‘The Black Star Press project’ initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker...
Chris Johanson
2004Chris Johanson’s paintings, sculptures, and installations break down everyday scenes and commonplace dramas into colorful forms; the darkest sides of humanity are invoked with humor...
Yto Barrada
2004In this photographic series, Yto Barrada was interested in the logos of the buses that travel between North Africa and Europe...
Moshekwa Langa
2004Hybridized drawing is a continued exploration in Moshekwa’s practice, integrating elements of graffiti, thread and yarn to enrich his abstract drawings of maps and space...
Daniel Joseph Martinez
2005Martinez’s sculpture A meditation on the possibility… of romantic love or where you goin’ with that gun in your hand , Bobby Seale and Huey Newton discuss the relationship between expressionism and social reality in Hitler’s painting depicts the legendary Black Panther leaders Huey P...
James Welling
2005#17 Pink is a photogram, a photographic image produced without the use of a camera...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs...
Toby Ziegler
2005The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection...
Carlos Amorales
Drawing & Print
2005(Drawing & Print) Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive...
James Welling
2006Welling employs simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, wrinkled fabric and pastry dough and directly exposes them as photograms, playing with the image in the process of revealing it...
Moshekwa Langa
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) In “Untitled II (Mapping text)”, 2009, Langa abstracts language in an attempt to change the familiar into the absurd...
Kadar Brock
2007Kadar Brock creates dynamic abstract paintings that are born from a process of painting, scraping, priming, sanding, and painting again...
Luisa Lambri
2007Custom-built for a silent film star in 1934 in Santa Monica, the Sten-Frenke House is an idiosyncratic icon...
Ceal Floyer
2007NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist...
Larry Bell
2007Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...
Barbara Kasten
2008Barbara Kasten’s Studio Construct 51 depicts an abstract still life: a greyscale photograph of clear translucent panes assembled into geometric forms, the hard lines of their edges converging and bisecting at various points...
Melvin Moti
2008“The Prisoner’s Cinema” is a phenomenon described in neurology as a hallucination, that appears after a prolonged absence of visual sensations...
Federico Herrero
2009Federico Herrero’s energetic paintings reflect his experiences on the streets of his native San José, Costa Rica, and in the surrounding tropical landscape...
Jedediah Caesar
2009For Untitled, Caesar encased recycled objects such as scraps of plywood, paper or cloth in resin and then cut and reassembled the pieces into abstract forms...
Mary Ann Aitken
2009Untitled (Diptych) by Mary Ann Aitken is a pair of paintings; one entirely abstract and the other a hybrid of representational and abstract elements...
Jean-Luc Moulène
2009Head Box by J ean-Luc Moulène i s not the representation of a space but a real space that remains in the domain of sculpture which the artist develops in parallel with his photographic practice...
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2010-2019
Chitra Ganesh
2010Rabbithole by Chitra Ganesh is a digital animation that refigures a fundamental plot device in myths and fables...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Alicia McCarthy
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (the way in is the way out) is representative of McCarthy’s work...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Alicia McCarthy
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) are representative of McCarthy’s work...
Alexandre da Cunha
2010In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag...
Walead Beshty
2010Black Curl (CMY/Five Magnet: Irvine, California, March 25, 2010, Fujicolor Cyrstal Archive Super Type C, EM No 165-021, 05910) is a visually compelling photogram...
Carlos Garaicoa
2010From the series the Old and the New (XI) by Carlos Garaicoa belongs to the series Lo viejo y lo nuevo / Das Alte und das Neue (The Old and the New) which was first exhibited in 2010 at Barbara Gross Gallery in Germany...
Shahzia Sikander
2010The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China...
Edith Dekyndt
2010Edith Dekyndt looks at the waters of the Dead Sea, that become almost an abstract undersea landscape...
Euan Macdonald
2010The video 9000 PIECES by Euan Macdonald was filmed at a musical instrument factory in Shanghai where 90 percent of the pianos that they manufacture are exported around the world, and only 10 percent are “finished” and can be labeled “Made in the US (or) Europe.” The video captures an intricate network of mechanisms as they interact with each other, their rhythmic movements resulting in an intense choreography and a cacophony of metallic sounds dramatized by Macdonald’s editing...
Pablo Rasgado
2011Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...
Matt Lipps
2011In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...
Imran Qureshi
2011There was a tragedy in Sialkot, Punjab, in August 2010, when two adolescents were murdered by vigilantes who were apparently in connivance with the police...
Shaun O'Dell
2011Shaun O’Dell’s paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, and music explore the overlapping realities of human and natural structures...
Natasha Wheat
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Natasha Wheat’s Kerosene Triptych (2011) is composed of three images, one each from the digital files of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Field Museum tropical research archive...
Clément Rodzielski
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) These photographs are installation shots of the exhibition De A à B, de B à P at Bielefelder Kunstverein (13 November 2010-30 January 2011)...
Asier Mendizabal
2012Rotation presents the image of a crowd, a re-appropriation of 19th or beginning of 20th century photographs published in newspapers and magazines...
Sriwhana Spong
2012Inspired by the 1934 novella Duo by the French writer Colette, Sriwhana Spong’s film Beach Study explores ideas of disappearance and the ephemeral, both physically and psychologically...
Maria Taniguchi
2012Untitled (Celestial Motors) is a visual meditation on an icon of modern urban Philippine life—the jeepney...
Sebastián Díaz Morales
2012Pasajes I is the first in a series of Sebastián Díaz Morales’s four videos Pasajes , which focuses on a solitary man walking through Buenos Aires...
Shimpei Takeda
2012While still living in New York, shortly after the nuclear power plant disaster, Shimpei Takeda heard an NPR interview with a survivor living in temporary housing in Fukushima...
Caetano de Almeida
2013Caetano de Almeida’s abstract compositions in acrylic use delicately-rendered swirls of overlapping, colorful lines...
Rodney McMillian
2013In his evocative Landscape Paintings, McMillian uses second-hand bedsheets, sourced from thrift shops, as his starting point...
Anne Imhof
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) “School of the seven Bells (SOTSB)” is based on a series of hands games in which an object is passed from hand to hand...
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
2013In the hologram “Mano con hojas” (”Hand with Leaves”, 2013), nature is portrayed simultaneously as an interconnected system of processes and the essence of the universe...
Xiaoyun Chen
2014The central point of Vanishing Point is the most direct physiological reaction of the body to the environment...
Francisco Herrero Peñuela
2014Francisco Herrero Peñuela uses old forms to make his elaborate, richly textured surfaces...
Som Supaparinya
2014When Need Moves the Earth is a three-channel video that combines elements of documentary footage, archival material and abstract aerial shots to encompass a painterly yet forthright exploration of a coal mine and a water dam in Thailand...
Marc Nagtzaam
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Nagtzaam’s medium is drawing and his repertory of forms varies from abstract hard-edge and wall drawing to the reproduction of written material that he collects from art magazines...
Shimon Minamikawa
2014In Play , the image comes from a fashion magazine from the 1950’s (USA) whose theme is costume sportswear from the 19th century...
Sebastián Díaz Morales
2014In Suspension a young man is hanging in the air, falling, or perhaps drifting through time and space...
Kaoru Arima
2015Arima’s free brushstrokes gesture towards traditions in Expressionist painting, and Ticket could be seen as an attempt at “pure painting” in which the aesthetics of the medium supersede content...
Melvin Moti
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Cluster Illusion examines the brain’s tendency to recognize a pattern as something abstract...
Maria Taniguchi
2015Maria Taniguchi works across several media but is principally known for her long-running series of quasi-abstract paintings featuring a stylized brick wall device...
Phillip Maisel
2015While his works can function as abstract, they are very much rooted in physicality and the possibilities that are inherent in the materials themselves...
Michael Armitage
2015In “And so it is” shows the image of a faceless man before a microphone, ready to deliver an important message...
Elisabeth Wild
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Her collage works are made from the pages of glossy lifestyle magazines, from which the artist identifies colors, forms, and textures that she reconstitutes into rich, abstract compositions...
Julia Rommel
2015On the artwork, Rommel states: “I was reading Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Purity, where they take a lot of walks through the jungle in Uruguay, or Paraguay, I can’t remember...
Yuji Agematsu
2015Each day, Yuji Agematsu smokes a pack of cigarettes and wanders the streets of New York City looking for trash...
Rodrigo Torres
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) In his Conceito abstrato series, however, Rodrigo Torres turns to the abstract, using the shapes, numbers, lines, and subtle colors of international currencies to create non-representational forms with lavish geometries and baroque curving forms....
Simon Fujiwara
2016Masks is a series of abstract paintings by Simon Fujiwara that together form a giant, fragmented portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s face...
Wade Guyton
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) This untitled print by Wade Guyton depicts an iteration of elements that are characteristic of the artist’s work...
Laura Henno
2016In 2009, Laura Henno began research in the archipelago Comoros for her first film Koropa the first episode of a triptych— completed in 2016...
Gyempo Wangchuk
2016The various distinct but connected lineages of Himalayan painting remain thriving languages employed by artists from across the region to express their unique perspective in our shared contemporary world...
Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form...
Daniel Boccato
2017Birdstones is a series of flat concrete slabs made from moldings of different shapes, each with two small holes...
Mika Tajima
2017Mika Tajima’s Pranayama sculptures are built from carved wood and chromed Jacuzzi jets and are presented as artefacts...
Imran Qureshi
2017At first glance, This Day by Imran Qureshi appears to be an energetic, gestural painting reminiscent of Action Painting from the mid-20th century...
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
2017This triptych is based on a Tesla whose interior the artist customized on the Tesla website...
Wolfgang Tillmans
2017Wolfgang Tillmans initiated the ongoing series Faltenwurf in 1989, representing compositions of unused clothing, with special attention paid to the ways in which they drape and fold...
Pak Sheung Chuen
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) The series Nightmare Wallpapers represents a shift if Chuen’s practice, allowing the artist to immerse himself in an “artistic pilgrimage of self healing” following the failure of the 2014 Umbrella Movement...
Chitra Ganesh
2018The title of Rainbow Body by Chitra Ganesh refers to an elevated state of, or metaphor for, the consciousness transformation known as a rainbow body...
Chitra Ganesh
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Art of War 1, City in Broad Daylight, Leaving the House, Justice is a Virtue, and Lions are Stronger than Men are linocut prints from the series Sultana’s Dream ...
Chitra Ganesh
2018Silhouette in the Graveyard is part of a suite of animated videos by Chitra Ganesh titled The Scorpion Gesture ...
Zhang Zhenyu
2018In DUST 171217 Zhang Zhenyu uses fragments of dust collected across the city, and then creates dark abstract paintings, repetitively gluing the material to the canvas, applying up to 30 or 100 layers and sanding until he arrives at a smooth surface...
Judith Hopf
2018Hopf’s works reference the effects that developments in economics and technology have had on our bodily and mental composition...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
2019Wateoma husipe / Larvas de oruga / Caterpillar larvae by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe exemplify his most abstract work, where he choses particular elements of a living organism to create his renditions...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
2019Perawesi / Estómago de animal / Stomach of animal by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe exemplify his most abstract work, where he choses particular elements of a living organism to create his renditions...
Xaviera Simmons
2019Xaviera Simmons often employs her own body and collected materials in the service of her photographs and performances...
Hana Miletic
2019Incompatibles (Unitas) is made from discarded samples of the yarns that are exported from Croatia and not actually available in the local market...
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2020-2029
Mike Cloud
2020In his series Hanging and Beheading Paintings Mike Cloud speaks to the suffering of a series of named (and occasionally unnamed) individuals, addressing their trauma within the language of abstraction...
Sable Elyse Smith
2020Sable Elyse Smith’s Pivot III resembles playground equipment uselessly reconfigured...
Nikita Gale
2020RUINER III by Nikita Gale is part of an on-going numbered series of abstract sculptures in which various ancillary materials necessary for sound production and recording such as towels, foam, and audio cables, are riddled around piping resembling crowd control bollards, lighting trusses, and other like stage architecture...
Nathan Lewis
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Nathan Lewis has always made figurative and abstract drawings, which are related to anatomical textures and patterns he encountered when working as an ICU nurse...
Richard Bell
2022For Richard Bell, art is not simply a vehicle through which to represent and convey political content...
Yuyan Wang
2022One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception...
Laís Amaral
Drawing & Print
2022(Drawing & Print) Laís Amaral abstract paintings dialogue with the feminine power...
