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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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Natasha Wheat
Drawing & Print (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. The original photographs were taken by anonymous photographers, not as art but as documents of the building of the Panama Canal. The laborers in the images are holding cans of kerosene and spraying it into the foliage.
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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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Alexandre da Cunha
His 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. Alexandre da Cunha reinvents found objects in surprising ways that combine the material characteristics of Arte Povera with the concerns and techniques of painting. Da Cunha’s work often features flags—either as a found material per se or as a constructed form—that reflect the artist’s interest in issues of nationality, governmental politics, allegiance, and culture.
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Pia Camil
Camil has made numerous paintings and photographs of halted projects along Mexico’s highways (she calls them “highway follies”), and of abandoned billboards that look like theater curtains dramatizing failed capitalist strategies. (Espectacular, the colloquial Spanish term for “billboard,” also translates more literally as “spectacle,” and of course recalls Guy Debord’s famous 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle .) In Mexico, the urban landscape has been taken over by billboards; they are totally integrated into the landscape.
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Yang Guangnan
In Action no. 1 Yang Guangnan reflects on the interiority and exteriority of human-technological experience with mechanical gestures that are semi-human and semi-machine. A hanged shirt mounted upon the artist’s machine rhythmically bounces and rotates in a way that suggests a skeletal interior.
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Ellen Lesperance
Somewhere Along the Black Sea in the Distant North-East, or in Libya in the Furthest South, The Amazons – The Woman and the Girls Children – Exist Just Outside of the Range of Normal Human Experience
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Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Converting is a piece about the Orang Laut, often called Sea Nomads, that inhabited the Riau archipelago. They were Christians and pagans that were often oppressed by the majority Muslims in the Riau community and were eventually forced to convert to Islam. Zai conveyed this history in Converting through the stark contrasts of red, white, black.
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Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Concerned with the early history of Singapore, Zai Kuning spent many years living with and researching the history of the Riau peoples who were the first inhabitants of Singapore. Inspired by the women of Riau, Back to Mother seemingly traces the central role of maternal figures in nourishing of Riau’s history as an early archipelago kingdom that was Hindu, Buddhist, and animist prior to 14th-century Muslim invasion. Organic materials such as beeswax form a layer of balm protecting threads of red paint symbolic bloodlines in a turtle-formed mandala—a primordial womb that recalls the Hindu and animistic origin of Singaporean society.
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Yang Guangnan
Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands.
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Zai Kuning
Justice (2014) presents viewers with a curious assemblage: a wooden gallows with slightly curved spindles protruding from the topmost plank, which in turn is covered with rudimentary netting, the threads slackly dangling like a loose spider’s web or an rib cage that’s been cracked open. A bundle of small red rattan balls hang from the front end of the plank, precariously knotted to a single thread hanging from the gallows’ edge. A book hangs from similar red threads at the plank’s rear, its surfaced wrapped multiple times over with the thread to hold it in place, the red thread resembling blood vessels or connective tissue.
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Mark Bradford
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
This untitled work from 2012 is a print originally made as part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s artist limited edition series. It’s contrasting dark and vibrant tones presage his later series of works, exhibited at L. A.’s Hammer Museum as Scorched Earth. These larger works share a map-like quality, looking like aerial views of some scarred urban landscape.
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Chadwick Rantanen
Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure. The ends, protected by two, cut-open tennis balls, recall the legs of a walker. For Rantanen’s second solo exhibition at Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco in 2010, one pole was placed inside the gallery while the other was located outside.
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Natasha Wheat
Wheat’s work is built on a strong conceptual framework that weaves together commentary on social and political issues and the radical potential for change. Be Oblivion, in Disconnect (2011) is a sculpture and an intervention. Two cardboard boxes house white neon letters that collectively have the potential to spell “Be Oblivion.” The dismembered phrase is rendered powerless in its present state; the potential power lies with the viewer, who could conceivably reconstruct it.
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Bernardo Ortiz
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Casa de la cabeza (2011) is a drawing of the words of the title, which translate literally into English as “house of the head.” Ortiz uses this humorous phrase to engage the idea of living in your head.
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Scott Reeder
Reeder’s works often start with language—and his Pasta Paintings are no different. After the phrase for the title came through his head, the artist set about trying to figure out how to make a mark with pasta. These paintings are the result, made using the pasta as something of a stencil, with the paint being applied after the noodles have been scattered on the painting’s blank surface.
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Ben Shaffer
Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision. Often the artist works with the motifs of the counterculture and contemporary non-religious spiritualism. The figure hangs suspended—seemingly ascending—animation.
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Li Ming
In the eight-channel video installation Movement , Li Ming uses his body as a prop to interact with different means of transportation. Each channel features footage of the artist moving forward, jumping between various modes of transportation that weave in and out of the frame in a carefully orchestrated choreography. As the artist descends from the loader bucket of a moving construction tractor, he jumps onto a skateboard which he then discards as he lays on top of a suitcase that continues rolling forward.
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Christine Sun Kim
Hand Palm Echo 1 is a digital animation based on Christine Sun Kim’s staircase mural at The Drawing Center in New York (10 March – 22 May, 2022). Sun produced this NFT from a still image of the animation that features a drawn notation of the sign “echo” in American Sign Language. Visually the black and white image depicts two side by side mounds, one labelled ‘Hand’ and the other labelled ‘Palm’.
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Kori Newkirk
LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel. His photograph of this throwaway object calls back the body, and the handprint is in fact his own right hand; thus the piece can function as a self-portrait of the artist, in an ironic twist on the art historical genre.
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Alexandre da Cunha
Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture. It directly engages with the readymade, a subject that Alexandre de Cunha takes up throughout his practice, often inflecting it with a tropical, and South American–inspired materiality and painterly style that could potentially come across as a stereotype. Here, da Cunha transforms the component parts into a composition that highlights often-overlooked materials of artistic production and cultural mass-production.
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Alexandre da Cunha
The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes. Here, da Cunha overlays thick bars of color (blue, green, and red) on photographs of the ocean at sunset with surfers in floating on the horizon. The solid colors contrast with the fading colors reflected in the sunset, and the tilted orientation suggests a familiar California beach scene.
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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.
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...
Alexandre da Cunha
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Brazilian
- home town: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ian Wallace
- year born: 1943
- gender: male
- nationality: British
- home town: Shoreham, United Kingdom
Zai Kuning
- year born: 1964
- gender: male
- nationality: Singaporean
- home town: Singapore
Moshekwa Langa
The oeuvre of Moshekwa Langa (b...
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...
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...
Christine Sun Kim
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1980
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Orange County, California
Alicia McCarthy
- location: Oakland, California
- year born: 1969
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Oakland, California
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
Brian Tripp
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Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
Shimon Minamikawa
Since the beginning of his career, Minamikawa Shimon has made work that deviates from conventional painting and other formats...
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...
James Welling
- location: New York, New York; Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1951
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Hartford, Connecticut
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe is a Yanomami artist who lives and works in Upper Orinoco, at the Venezuelan side of the Amazon rainforest...
Catherine Opie
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1961
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Sandusky, Ohio
Kitty Kraus
Kitty Krauss has a very particular outlook on Minimal and Constructivist Art...
Zhang Zhenyu
Zhang Zhenyu’s practice is at once conceptual and material, best-known for his dust paintings series, repurposing found matter, transforming waste dust into a highly polished image, his work is a reflection upon the trace elements of urbanization and development...
Richard Bell
Richard Bell works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video and text to pose provocative, complex, and humorous challenges to our preconceived ideas of Aboriginal art, as well as addressing contemporary debates around identity, place, and politics...
Federico Herrero
- location: San Jose, Costa Rica
- year born: 1978
- gender: male
- nationality: Costa Rican
- home town: San Jose, Costa Rica
Pablo Rasgado
- year born: 1984
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Sable Elyse Smith
Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York and Richmond, Virginia...
Vivian Suter
Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires but brought up in Switzerland where she trained to be an artist...
Phillip Maisel
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1981
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Chicago, Illinois
Ben Shaffer
- year born: 1924
- gender: female
- nationality: Canadian
- home town: Louiseville, Canada
Ellen Lesperance
Ellen Lesperance begins with archival footage of various activist events throughout history...
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this quarter (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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this quarter (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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this quarter (02/12/2024)
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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this quarter (02/11/2024)
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...
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this quarter (02/07/2024)
The best exhibitions and openings of 2024: North America - ArteFuse It’s an exciting year for art lovers — from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s world-class collection of contemporary art to the world’s first exhibition exploring Matisse and the sea — there’s something for everyone Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction Dallas Museum of Art Through 28 January 2024 Praised as one of the leading artists of his generation, Abraham Ángel produced just 24 paintings — four of which remain lost — before his tragic death at 19 years old, but those works established him as a legendary figure in the canon of modern Mexican art...
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about 3 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 3 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 4 months ago (12/29/2023)
Dutch Emerging: Ruben Janssen X GRA Fashion Bachelor 2023 – A Shaded View on Fashion From the back to the middle and around again — Ria’s wedding dress, Alan’s patterns and John’s model: ‘My project is an investigation into evolution, explored through prisms of biology, computation and a poetic personal narrative, shifting between timescales on an evolutionary timeline...
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about 4 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 4 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 4 months ago (12/11/2023)
Off-Basel Highlights from Miami Art Week 2023 | Observer For the hardcore art aficionados who recently descended on the 305, Miami Art Week is about much more than what’s on view at Art Basel...
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about 5 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 5 months ago (11/30/2023)
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....
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about 5 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 5 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 5 months ago (11/22/2023)
Kenwyn Crichlow’s Glowing Abstractions Reflect on 50 Years of Portraying Trinidad | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Kenwyn Crichlow’s Glowing Abstractions Reflect on 50 Years of Portraying Trinidad Vittoria Benzine Nov 22, 2023 7:20PM Kenwyn Crichlow, Light Dancing on the Borderline, 2019...
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about 5 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 5 months ago (11/15/2023)
Open Call 2023 Group Exhibition at The Shed November 4, 2023 – January 21, 2024 545 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001 Images are courtesy of the artist and The Shed How often do we find ourselves in waves...
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about 6 months ago (10/10/2023)
El Anatsui | Tate Modern El Anatsui will create an exciting new artwork for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall One of the most distinctive artists working today, El Anatsui is best-known for his cascading metallic sculptures constructed of thousands of recycled bottle-tops and copper wire...
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about 7 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 7 months ago (10/05/2023)
Philip Guston | Tate Modern One of the 20th century’s most captivating painters responds to a world in turmoil For over 50 years, artist Philip Guston restlessly made paintings and drawings that captured the anxious and turbulent world he was witnessing...
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about 15 months ago (01/18/2023)
This elegant and exuberant new piece, Heavens Gate, 2022, is Takashi Murakami’s latest square silkscreen...
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about 29 months ago (12/05/2021)
We are pleased to present a selection of original works on paper by Kimbal Bumstead...
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about 29 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 30 months ago (11/04/2021)
Christine Wilkinson - Fragments of Wild series – 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 Following a successful showing at Photo London 2021, we are pleased to launch two new series of works by Christine Wilkinson...
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about 32 months ago (08/26/2021)
Gas Gallery will be showing for the first time at the forthcoming Photo London Fair at Somerset House from 8 - 12 September...
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about 45 months ago (08/11/2020)
Summer Show Week 2 : Abstracts on Paper + Perspex – 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 Our Summer Show continues throughout August - week 2 shines a light upon abstract works on paper and perspex - featuring works by our new Artist Christine Wilkinson, alongside works by Katy Binks, Kate Banazi and Natalie Ryde...
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about 45 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 65 months ago (12/07/2018)
Andre Elliott — UNRTD™ Andre Elliott Andre Elliott is a 23 year old artist currently based in California...
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about 68 months ago (09/17/2018)
Rudi Geyser — UNRTD™ Rudi Geyser After spending many of his twenties in the UK, photographer Rudi Geyser has returned to his homeland of South Africa for his most recent body of work...
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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
José Leonilson
1984O Africano (1984) is a large acrylic painting on canvas, made early in the artist’s career, and directly references both Leonilson’s artistic precursors and his desire to imagine and capture what it means to be Brazilian...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...
James Welling
2005#17 Pink is a photogram, a photographic image produced without the use of a camera...
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...
Ben Shaffer
2007Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision...
Luisa Lambri
2007Custom-built for a silent film star in 1934 in Santa Monica, the Sten-Frenke House is an idiosyncratic icon...
Kadar Brock
2007Kadar Brock creates dynamic abstract paintings that are born from a process of painting, scraping, priming, sanding, and painting again...
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...
Bjorn Copeland
2009Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...
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2010-2019
Alexandre da Cunha
2010In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag...
Chadwick Rantanen
2010Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure...
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...
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...
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...
Yang Guangnan
2011Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....
Natasha Wheat
2011Wheat’s work is built on a strong conceptual framework that weaves together commentary on social and political issues and the radical potential for change...
Bernardo Ortiz
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Casa de la cabeza (2011) is a drawing of the words of the title, which translate literally into English as “house of the head.” Ortiz uses this humorous phrase to engage the idea of living in your head....
Alexandre da Cunha
2011The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes...
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...
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)...
Mark Bradford
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) This untitled work from 2012 is a print originally made as part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s artist limited edition series...
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...
Scott Reeder
2013Reeder’s works often start with language—and his Pasta Paintings are no different...
Kori Newkirk
2013LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel...
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...
Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Converting is a piece about the Orang Laut, often called Sea Nomads, that inhabited the Riau archipelago...
Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Concerned with the early history of Singapore, Zai Kuning spent many years living with and researching the history of the Riau peoples who were the first inhabitants of Singapore...
Zai Kuning
2014Justice (2014) presents viewers with a curious assemblage: a wooden gallows with slightly curved spindles protruding from the topmost plank, which in turn is covered with rudimentary netting, the threads slackly dangling like a loose spider’s web or an rib cage that’s been cracked open...
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...
Maya Watanabe
2014In Escenarios (Sceneries) Maya Watanabe films forgotten wastelands through a series of 360° camera movements that highlight the dramatism and visual richness of terrain that would be otherwise forgotten...
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...
Nick Mauss
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) As in other Mauss’ works that often look unfinished, the drawings in Untitled seem ever at the phase of the sketch, his segments as if they may uproot and reorient themselves at any moment...
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...
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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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...
Christine Sun Kim
2022Hand Palm Echo 1 is a digital animation based on Christine Sun Kim’s staircase mural at The Drawing Center in New York (10 March – 22 May, 2022)...
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...
Richard Bell
2022For Richard Bell, art is not simply a vehicle through which to represent and convey political content...
