Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s. Resembling a black-mirrored box, this recent iridescent piece produces an uncanny effect in which the interior planes seem to enclose a mysterious light. Although austere in form, Bell’s works are far from simple: he uses technology like a vacuum-coating process, to accurately control the different levels of opacity and transparency on the surface of his immaculate glass works.
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Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight. The blocks resemble a stone carving, or slabs of wood shaped into a simple organic composition whose overall sheen is varied through a thin layer of aluminum vapor. Yet, the real material of Bell’s piece is actually light, formed within the viewer’s eye into masses as present as stone.
Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot. The arrows and directional lines suggest movement, but the forms they point to intertwine, prohibiting a straightforward reading. The shapes are as illustrative as a Rorschach inkblot; in their confounding, simple indeterminacy, they depict nothing and everything at once.
Barbara 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. Light streams from unseen sources and projects rectangular shadows against an adjacent wall. Three-dimensional shapes become suddenly flat as the objects in Kasten’s still life are juxtaposed alongside their ghostly traces.
Javier M. Rodriguez’s Going Round and Round in a Line ST (12m) is a sculptural composition made of the simplest materials—a single tape measure and metal rivets. The rivets lock the tape measure in its contorted shape, bending in angles to create a geometric abstraction. The piece hangs simply from the ceiling, at times rotating around, its shape changing with our point of view.
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.
During a residency in 2009 at L’appartement 22 in Rabat, the artist traveled in Morocco and Senegal on the traces of the German sculptor Arno Breker. On this occasion he learned about batik, a fabric printing technique which originates not only from Indonesia but also from Senegal. It is also widespread in Africa.
In Ad Minoliti’s expansive three-panel painting Abstracción geométrico-galáctica the artist’s hallmark geometric abstractions serve as playful substitutes for more straightforward depictions of the world. A departure from previous bodies of work that explore the modern interiors of 1960’s-era American homes, porn sets, and jungles, Abstracción geométrico-galáctica launches the artist’s geometric characters into space for the first time. The work draws directly from Minoliti’s experience with The Feminist School of Painting .
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This particular drawing, like many of Grotjahn’s works, presents a decentered single-point perspective. Unlike the traditional vanishing point, the rays here emanate from the surface’s middle and hover around an indefinite and impossible convergence. The resulting fluttering of the image’s sections animates the drawing in relationship to its named subject, the butterfly.
“The Prisoner’s Cinema” is a phenomenon described in neurology as a hallucination, that appears after a prolonged absence of visual sensations. A blind screen of hallucinations forms itself on the eyes cut off from visual stimuli. The subject can see this projection, but fails to register these mental images, transforming it into an intimate and personal experience.
Wind by Antonio Pichillá is a textile piece depicting the glyph that represents the element wind in the Mayan tradition. It is woven in the four colors of each of the cardinal points which, together, symbolize the entire universe. It is woven mostly with knots that the artist refers to as a “bond between two or more systems that also represents a closure […] the knot in the throat that submerges the voice.” This piece, like other works in Pichillá’s practice, is an attempt to reconcile the Maya Tz’utujil symbolic tradition with Western art historical categories and practices.
It may take a minute to recognize the background of New Fall Lineup – the colors are tweaked into a world of cartoon and candy, and it is covered by leaping energetic figures and flying squirrels. One realizes, though, that the image is of the World Trade Center exploding into flame, creating a strange contrast with the painting’s colors and the other images. The combination is peculiar because the role the explosion serves here is non-specific.
Conrad Ruiz loves to paint subjects related to the “boy zone”: video games, weapons, games, science fiction, fantasy, and special effects. He also often works at a very large scale to emphasize a connection to the tradition of history painting. Blockbuster (2011) was, at the time of its creation, the largest watercolor painting he had ever made.
G. S. F. C. #3 (Geometrical Sci-Fi Cyborg) belongs to a series of paintings that build upon the artist’s exploration into feminist speculative fiction and the cyborg as a creature of contemporary reality and fiction. The cyborg painting, as she calls it, is made through a smearing of human and machine in which the composition of color landscape with outlines of anthropomorphized forms is stenciled and airbrushed onto canvas, then photographed an printed onto canvas. Once this is done, Minoliti goes back over the printed canvas with paint.
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Presented as part of a recent group of works titled The Paradox of Healing, Rhombus for Healing No. 2 by Sandra Monterroso brings together several of the artist’s interests: the use of ritual and medicinal elements; the conciliation of Western and indigenous formal languages; and more recently, sewing as a recognition and celebration of her maternal lineage. The series as a whole and this painting in particular continue her interest in textiles as visual references and cultural tools to address her native Guatemala’s complex political and cultural histories.
Blindseye Arranger (Max) (2013) features a greyscale arrangement of rudimentary shapes layered atop one another like a dense cluster of wood block prints, the juxtaposition of sharp lines and acute angles creating an abstracted field of rectangular and triangulated forms composed as if in a cubist landscape. As the video progresses, however, a disembodied hand begins to move these forms, animating a pictorial frame that was previously still. The hand – ostensibly the “arranger” of the works title – functions as a metonym of the artist’s hand, quite literally bringing a motionless work to life.
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.
The depiction of the female figure in the sculptures remains an economic, canny composition of geometric abstractions in a Modernist spirit. Yet rather than provide us with the layers of information found in her wall reliefs, the sculptures exclusively frame space. In place of the tactile surfaces that can be carved into and drawn on, the sculptures’ outlines provide multiple perspectives on to their surroundings, and additionally unto themselves.
The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time. The installation is presented like a “parade of objects”, with images whose historical role has been suspended or their meaning has changed. The references have become lost, through repetition the works have become banal.
In mathematics, the so-called geometric problems of antiquity are shapes that elude the classical tools of an unmarked straightedge and compass. In Geometric Construction of Antiquity, 6 (2011), Badger doggedly sets out to represent one such form. Each of six circles grazes its opposite and crosses the other five.
The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. Various vanishing points and interior perspectives, like in another painting dated the same year called Continental Breakfast , create a complex matrix in which motifs, shadowy or geometric forms coexist to further confuse the map of this space. A disturbing yet alluring virtual reality composed of a medley of seemingly abstract designs is depicted through digital and painterly means.
Shaun O’Dell’s paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, and music explore the overlapping realities of human and natural structures. Whether abstract or figurative, they often read like hieroglyphics, in that they piece together a philosophical portrait of reality. Purple Brush 8 is a painting that details a meeting of geometric forms, and the optical play that results.
In Untitled (Sword) , addressing histories of colonialism with abstraction, a large steel blade extends from the gallery wall. Its severed tip dangles from the end of the blade by a string, floating just above the gallery floor.
For 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. This technical rework allows for a clinical inspection of the material contents of the piece and the resulting slanted industrial monolith echoes minimalist sculpture, although with a different expressive texture. Indeed, Untitled can be seen as a contemporary pyramid with a painterly surface.
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Kosmic Music is a musical score comprised of two parts: a single mixed media drawing titled Colors and Satellites, and a pair of mixed media drawings titled Koral Reef . Conceived of together as a single musical score, the three drawings exemplify a specific stage in the evolution of Wadada Leo Smith’s Ankhrasmation Language, which he has been developing since 1967. Although at first glance the works in Kosmic Music might appear abstract compositions drawn on paper, as with other scores produced by Smith, suggestions of musical structures are revealed upon closer inspection: an entanglement of musical sheets and bright geometric forms.
Domes #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. By 1968, the year she began creating Domes , the twenty-nine-year-old artist had moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA, and was part of a generation of artists whose work was characterized by of the masculine overtones of Southern California’s flourishing car culture. Inspired by new technologies in the auto manufacturing, these “Finish Fetish” artists appropriated industrial materials such as car paint or lacquer to create artwork with pristine finishes.
After being cast, the resulting resin block used in JCA-25-SC was cut into thin slices obtaining a series of rectangular shapes that resemble ceramic tiles. Usually displayed in grid against the wall or in a corner, the viewer is able to follow the sequence of cross sections to visually recreate the work’s genesis. In this way, Caesar’s pieces embody an interesting x-ray or archaeology of the artistic process itself.
Every work in Hoeber’s 2011 series Execution Changes is titled in alphanumeric code. The geometric pattern that composes each acrylic-on-panel painting is determined by a preordained ratio of 2 to 3. But even though a formulaic system determines the image’s structure, its surface is full of painterly effects.
In her geometric paintings on wood panel, Madriz employs the Fibonacci numbers to illustrate, in simplified form, the pattern of natural plant growth—beginning from a single stem, and growing exponentially, rationally, and efficiently outward from there. Tinting the underlying wood but not covering it, Madriz’s delicate cubes seem to hover on the surface of the warm wood surfaces, drawing more attention to the grain and its own natural pattern. Always drawing the attention back to the natural world, Madriz’s multimedia works aim to reassert the natural, and our own links to it.
The Korean title for U: Repair the cowshed after losing the cow = Too late is —a famous Korean proverb meaning “you are doing something when you are already late to do it”. This work by Seulgi Lee is a nubi (traditional Korean quilt) blanket project that shows Korean proverbs expressed as geometric shapes. Nubi blankets were used as single sheet summer blankets in Korean households until the 1980s.
Conrad Ruiz makes watercolor paintings of fantastic scenes...
Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s practice revives 16th century Mughal miniature painting...
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...
The work of Daniel Boccato deals with the relationships between form and language, abstraction and figuration, and forces the viewer to try to name, categorize and differentiate...
Ad Minoliti is a painter who combines the pictorial language of geometric abstraction with the perspective of queer theory...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe is a Yanomami artist who lives and works in Upper Orinoco, at the Venezuelan side of the Amazon rainforest...
Visual artist, poet, and essayist Etel Adnan writes what must be communicated through language, and paints what cannot...
Matti Braun’s work entails research and experienced wanderings during sojourns and journeys...
Born in Costa Rica and living in Germany, artist Lucía Madriz has a global perspective...
Christopher Badger begins with a root fascination—a shape, a landscape, or a sound—and then pursues it methodically to its logical, and usually open-ended, conclusion...
Seulgi Lee’s artistic references range from anthropological materials, archetypical linguistic elements, vernacular culture, handcrafts tradition, to the graphic culture of animistic belief found in diverse locals around the world...
Stephen Beal is a painter and the current president of California College of the Arts...
Margo Wolowiec uses her multidisciplinary practice to examine space, material versus conceptual practices, and affective responses...
Ruijun Shen conceptualizes her painting-based practice as a form of extended meditation and a means of processing tensions between time and space in the world around us...
Artist Mike Cloud builds irregularly shaped canvases and frames into unique sculptural objects...
Anna Molska uses video performance to explore the effect of artistic culture on the production of art...
American Artist makes experimental work in the form of sculpture, video, and software that comments on histories of race, technology and forms of knowledge production...
Through video, drawing, sculpture, sound, installation, and publications, Jesse Chun’s multidisciplinary practice critically engages with the politics of language...
Asier Mendizabal explores political subjects and their symbols...
Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due Annabel Keenan Feb 12, 2024 9:44AM Portrait of Sarah Grilo by Lisl Steiner...
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When Forms Come Alive; Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction 1950-70 review – a restless triumph and a badly lit jumble sale | Sculpture | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation ‘You are viscerally aware of being caught in some nameless system’: Pumping (2019) by Eva Fàbregas at the Hayward Gallery...
Harriet Korman’s Nonchalant Rigor Skip to content Harriet Korman, "Untitled" (2022), oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery) Harriet Korman’s paintings are simultaneously rigorous and nonchalant...
The Data Behind Artsy’s Online Art Fair, Foundations | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art Market The Data Behind Artsy’s Online Art Fair, Foundations Arun Kakar Feb 8, 2024 5:39PM Underway through February 14th, Artsy’s online art fair Foundations spotlights 130 tastemaking galleries from more than 35 countries worldwide, united by their ability to uncover fresh and underrecognized artists...
12 Must-See Shows during Mexico City Art Week | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art 12 Must-See Shows during Mexico City Art Week Maxwell Rabb Feb 6, 2024 8:00PM Installation view of Nilufar at Casa Pedro Ramírez Vàzquez...
5 Artists on Our Radar in February 2024 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art 5 Artists on Our Radar in February 2024 Artsy Editorial Feb 5, 2024 8:50PM “Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention...
13 artists at Art Rotterdam Skip to content By Paul Carey-Kent • 2 February 2024 Share — This year marks the 25 th anniversary of Art Rotterdam (1-4 Feb), and the last before it moves from the iconic Van Nellefabriek ex-factory, an architectural classic, to a bigger and more central site...
Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: Feb 2024 – Two Coats of Paint Geary: Will Hutnick, Shake the Sheets, 2023, acrylic, ink and wax pastel on canvas, 36 x 48 inches Contributed by Karlyn Benson / A few Hudson Valley galleries are taking a break this month, but many are opening exciting new shows...
29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month, Part 1 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art 29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month, Part 1 Isis Davis-Marks Feb 1, 2024 4:57PM To recognize Black History Month, Artsy is spotlighting 29 emerging Black artists—one for each day of this important month...
Explore the Next Generation of UK Artists with 'Present Tense' - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 25 January 2024 Share — ‘Present Tense’ spotlights the next generation of artists living and working in the UK, from emerging to mid-career, celebrating a breadth of creative talent and socially engaged practices...
Bartek Świątecki: “the light vibrates under our eyelids” in Stare Kawkowo | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY The nature’s gentle harmony is, probably, the best remedy for the speeding time of today...
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...
The 10 Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction in 2023 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement The Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Art Market The 10 Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction in 2023 Maxwell Rabb Dec 14, 2023 4:18PM While 2022 at auction was a “ return to routine ” after the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 was a year of more subdued action under the hammer...
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8 Emerging Artists Who Made a Splash at This Year’s NADA and Untitled Art in Miami - Galerie Subscribe Art + Culture Interiors Style + Design Emerging Artists Discoveries Artist Guide More Creative Minds Life Imitates Art Real estate Events Video Galerie House of Art and Design Subscribe About Press Advertising Contact Us Follow Galerie Sign up to receive our newsletter Subscribe Installation view of Henrik Godsk at Vigo Gallery at Untitled Art 2023...
In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists María Elena Ortiz, curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, picks her favourite works at Art Basel in Miami Beach Alexander Morrison 9 December 2023 Share April Bey, COLONIAL SWAG: Not Conceited, CONVINCED! (2023) © Liliana Mora María Elena Ortiz is a trailblazing curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (the Modern), but she also has close ties to South Florida...
Private Collections Around Miami Delight as Museum Shows Disappoint – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Maximilíano Durón Plus Icon Maximilíano Durón Senior Editor, ARTnews View All December 8, 2023 8:00am "Utility," at the Bunker Artspace, featured works from Beth Rudin DeWoody's collection...
Artblog | Poetry and memory, Patricia Moss-Vreeland at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Poetry and memory, Patricia Moss-Vreeland at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College By Martina Merlo December 4, 2023 Our contributor Martina Merlo sees an exhibition about memory at the Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College....
Artblog | Five Decades of Abstraction in a revelatory exhibit at Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Five Decades of Abstraction in a revelatory exhibit at Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg By Dereck Stafford Mangus November 30, 2023 Artblog contributor Dereck Mangus, who is based in Baltimore, visits the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg and finds excellence in a wide-ranging exhibit of modern and contemporary abstract art....
Uman to be represented by Hauser & With in partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery...
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...
Jessica Silverman announces representation of Beverly Fishman, painter of geometric forms...
© 2023 All rights reserved - The Eye of Photography Laurence Biaggi, 27-(4°72_S,37°29_O) © Laurence Biaggi / Galerie Mondapart, 2023 Laurence Biaggi, 1-(25°10_N, 80°42_O) © Laurence Biaggi / Galerie Mondapart, 2023 Laurence Biaggi, 28-(40°28_N, 17°85_E) © Laurence Biaggi / Galerie Mondapart, 2023 Laurence Biaggi, 24-(5°09_S, 36°27_O) © Laurence Biaggi / Galerie Mondapart, 2023 Laurence Biaggi, 6-(2°86_S, 40°65_O) © Laurence Biaggi / Galerie Mondapart, 2023 “Instantly, the images take us to an elsewhere, at first geographical, then, with time, transformed into an inner elsewhere...
Field Guide - Imagined Specimens and Ecosystems — Artnome Menu Blog Exploring art through data using the Artnome database...
Lee Jinju's riveting scenes, with cascading planes and perspectives, offer both intimate symbology and an invitation to draw your own associations...
Liu Wei: China’s Trickster Mixer-Upper – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Barbara Pollack Plus Icon Barbara Pollack View All February 26, 2014 5:00am When the Rubell Family Collection opened its doors with an exhibition of 28 Chinese artists in time for Art Basel Miami Beach last December, one of the stars that emerged from the show was Liu Wei , whose brand of geometric abstraction surprised many Americans looking for more stereotypical hallmarks of Chinese art ...
Domes #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...
La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
Carib Carnival illustrates Aubrey Willams’s unique artistic language, combining Pre-Columbian iconography with abstraction...
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This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall’s Landscape for Fire performances...
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Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
This ephemeral installation by Jirí Kovanda, documented in the same way as his performances with a photograph and a text, belongs to a body of works that took place in his apartment/studio...
The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time...
In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon...
Apartment on Cardboard (2000) is an exterior view of an abstracted apartment building...
This photograph seems to be awaiting meaning, it more or less evokes known elements without really identifying with them completely: a motorway interchange, a bridge, an electric pylon… In fact this is the end of the tracks of the Aérotrain, a wheelless monorail invented by Jean Bertin in the 1970s, which acts like ‘a fossil of movement on landscape scale’, as explained by the artist...
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This particular drawing, like many of Grotjahn’s works, presents a decentered single-point perspective...
Lambri’s careful framing in Untitled (Miller House, #02) redefines our understanding of this iconic mid-century modernist building located in Palm Springs, California...
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 Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection...
#17 Pink is a photogram, a photographic image produced without the use of a camera...
Welling 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...
In Seven Deadly Sins (2006), Shen utilizes abstraction to produce complex topographies of color that evoke associations with violently tumultuous landscapes...
Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...
Barbara 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...
“The Prisoner’s Cinema” is a phenomenon described in neurology as a hallucination, that appears after a prolonged absence of visual sensations...
Raphaël Zarka discovered the scientific manuscripts of Abraham Sharp while in Oxford...
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Ranging from Baudelaire to the Koran, each of Hassan Massoudy’s drawings are titled with a quotation from a text...
During a residency in 2009 at L’appartement 22 in Rabat, the artist traveled in Morocco and Senegal on the traces of the German sculptor Arno Breker...
It may take a minute to recognize the background of New Fall Lineup – the colors are tweaked into a world of cartoon and candy, and it is covered by leaping energetic figures and flying squirrels...
In Untitled (Sword) , addressing histories of colonialism with abstraction, a large steel blade extends from the gallery wall...
For 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...
Federico Herrero’s energetic paintings reflect his experiences on the streets of his native San José, Costa Rica, and in the surrounding tropical landscape...
After being cast, the resulting resin block used in JCA-25-SC was cut into thin slices obtaining a series of rectangular shapes that resemble ceramic tiles...
Beau Soleil #7 ’s title (translated as Beautiful Sun) gives a good sense of its effect...
Like the film Le Mouton noir, this dimension is counterbalanced by a burlesque element...
Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky...
Conrad Ruiz loves to paint subjects related to the “boy zone”: video games, weapons, games, science fiction, fantasy, and special effects...
In mathematics, the so-called geometric problems of antiquity are shapes that elude the classical tools of an unmarked straightedge and compass...
Shaun O’Dell’s paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, and music explore the overlapping realities of human and natural structures...
Every work in Hoeber’s 2011 series Execution Changes is titled in alphanumeric code...
Mo(nu)ment / (…) / mem(y)orial (2011) is one of the artist’s first artworks after his retreat as a monk...
There was a tragedy in Sialkot, Punjab, in August 2010, when two adolescents were murdered by vigilantes who were apparently in connivance with the police...
Fairy #2 (2011) depicts a surreal scene of roughly assembled household ephemera, potted plants, and a faintly visible figure rendered in thin red line...
In Gradation (2011), nine raspberries lined up on a lichen-dotted rock progress from left to right, dark to light, plump and juicy to not-yet-ripe...
Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion) is part of a series drawn from architectural objects that mark the boundary of public and private spaces Wong encountered while strolling in Hong Kong...
Rotation presents the image of a crowd, a re-appropriation of 19th or beginning of 20th century photographs published in newspapers and magazines...
Cosmic Tautology I and II are two textile pieces representative of Santiago Borja’s practice and long-standing interest in disrupting universalist assumptions of minimalism by connecting them with other, non-Western or esoteric references...
Blindseye Arranger (Max) (2013) features a greyscale arrangement of rudimentary shapes layered atop one another like a dense cluster of wood block prints, the juxtaposition of sharp lines and acute angles creating an abstracted field of rectangular and triangulated forms composed as if in a cubist landscape...
Memorial for intersections #2 (2013) is a minimalist, black metallic structure that contains the brightly colored translucent circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares that originally were presented in Pica’s performance work A ? B ? C (2013)...
These two large format untitled paintings by James Collins feature the artist’s hallmark technique, which transforms abstraction into an optical illusion that creates dimension, space, and mass...
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...
Francisco Herrero Peñuela uses old forms to make his elaborate, richly textured surfaces...
In her geometric paintings on wood panel, Madriz employs the Fibonacci numbers to illustrate, in simplified form, the pattern of natural plant growth—beginning from a single stem, and growing exponentially, rationally, and efficiently outward from there...
After two years of research in close conversation with anthropologists and archaeologists, Linares eventually enrolled in classes to study archeology—specifically the history of material artifacts...
In Rogers’ Columbine works, the artist explores the 1999 high school shooting that took place in Littleton, Colorado, claiming 34 victims...
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...
The depiction of the female figure in the sculptures remains an economic, canny composition of geometric abstractions in a Modernist spirit...
Figueiredo’s succinct forms are rendered in bright hues of yellow, red, green, and blue, with white and black defining positive and negative spaces within the overall geometry...
Employing both the High Modernist technique of abstraction and monochronism, as in the work of Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, and bodily states of fetishization, Yea High (sweetpreparator) reworks the art historical canon of movement and the body to consider flesh as a physical construction of man-made matter...
Drawing & Print
Wolowiec’s textile work Not This Time (2015) translates pixelated images into sensuous fabric and ink based forms that are at once beautiful in their abstraction and anxiety-ridden in their visualization of a malfunctioning digital world...
Drawing & Print
Cluster Illusion examines the brain’s tendency to recognize a pattern as something abstract...
Through a semi-fictional approach, Extrastellar Evaluations envisions a version of history in which alien inhabitants, the Lemurians, lived among humans under the guise of various renowned conceptual and minimal artists in the 1960s (Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, and James Turrell to name a few)...
Parrot Drawings or Paintings look like children’s drawings and seem quite innocent...
Wind by Antonio Pichillá is a textile piece depicting the glyph that represents the element wind in the Mayan tradition...
At first glance, This Day by Imran Qureshi appears to be an energetic, gestural painting reminiscent of Action Painting from the mid-20th century...
Birdstones is a series of flat concrete slabs made from moldings of different shapes, each with two small holes...
This triptych is based on a Tesla whose interior the artist customized on the Tesla website...
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In conjunction with KADIST’s 2017 exhibition If Not Apollo, the Breeze , artist and filmmaker Lynn Marie Kirby performed Transmissions , a video and live reading created with longtime collaborator Etel Adnan...
The Korean title for U: Repair the cowshed after losing the cow = Too late is —a famous Korean proverb meaning “you are doing something when you are already late to do it”...
Gated Commune , a video by Camel Collective, is a critique of the complex, and often obtuse, language used to describe sustainable development projects...
My Shape (2018) is the final work of the exhibition “Sorry”, taking the form of a Levi’s denim jacket pattern, expanded three or four times larger than its original shape...
Extrastellar Evaluations is a multimedia installation produced during Yin-Ju Chen’s residency at Kadist San Francisco in the spring of 2016...
Winfield St by Sadie Barnette depicts a seldom documented scene of men and boys in an intimate domestic setting...
In Ad Minoliti’s expansive three-panel painting Abstracción geométrico-galáctica the artist’s hallmark geometric abstractions serve as playful substitutes for more straightforward depictions of the world...
Secrets Between Her and Her Shadow 10 by Maryam Hoseini is from a series of paintings of the same title that are inspired by the story Layla and Majnun – an Arabic love story about Majnun, a 7th century Bedouin poet, and his lover, Layla...
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In her new series titled Ninas Peruanas Cusquenas , Teresa Burga depicts young indigenous women from Peru’s Andean region, dressed in traditional garments...
Wateoma 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...
Perawesi / 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...
In 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...
O (for various skies) by Jesse Chun is a two-channel video sculpture that decentralizes American colonial narratives about the moon through “unlanguaging”—a methodology that the artist has conceptualized for unfixing language...
tombs and ignitions is a collaborative ceramic sculpture by artists Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka...
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Laís Amaral abstract paintings dialogue with the feminine power...
Drawing & Print
Presented as part of a recent group of works titled The Paradox of Healing, Rhombus for Healing No...