sterlingsart – Painting After Art is Dead

Drawing from things in the past

1/17/22

Been working on a smaller piece based on a study loosely based on a drawing (or at least the approach of drawing on acetate as a proxy for using acrylic with thick, clear isolation layers).

Also thinking about how some early Modernists put compositions together, in particular how Weber, Picasso, Leger and Braque used a narrow chroma range with a high tonal range and a really dark dark (at least they did during their analytical cubism phases).

Abie Harris

is in Color Focus with Katie (the work in this show is distinct body of work from this sometimes figurative painter).

#abieharris

Katie Berman

is Durham-based (#ncartists) and she is in Color Focus at Sertoma (via Charlotte Russell).

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Freddie Bell

Freddie is headed into the Regional Emerging Artist Residency for Artspace for 2022. They feel (as a queer/trans person) that “language is important for expressing our experiences, but labels become limiting when we become too attached to them” and they explore this through loose shape and varied repetition.
#freddiebell

Edith London

Gallery C has a virtual version of their exhibit Artwork From The Estate of Edith London.

#ncartists

#edithlondon

Douglas Degges

Cody Tomblin at Two Coats talks with Douglas.
#douglasdegges

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Laurie Fendrich at Two Coats covers the recent survey of Sophie’s work at MOMA, pointing out that calling her “multidisciplinary” doesn’t quite encompass her.

#sophietaeuberarp

Pete Schulte

Hyperallergic has words about Pete’s magical abstract drawings.

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Rakuko Naito

Hyperallergic says Naito’s Op-inspired abstractions might have been an oblique way of dealing with feelings of displacement after moving to the United States.

#rakukonaito

John DiPaolo

Juxtapoz says John’s thick delicious paint application tempts like a newly-battered cake.

#johndipaolo

Yoshihara Jirō

Doesn’t seem right to blog about Georges and not mention Guita, which means noting Yoshihara.

#yoshiharajiro

Saerom Yoon

Saerom is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea. His work is inspired by the effortless beauty of nature, particularly the colors of both sunset and sunrise. He wants his sculptural furniture to have a similar appearance and feel as a water color painting. Furthermore, he hopes to express natural textures in his work; such as the interplay of clouds, calm water, rippling waves, frozen ice and the bark of trees.

#saeromyoon

Georges Mathieu

Seeing George’s name in Artforum recently was the first time in a while. Here’s another take on the survey of one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction linked above.

#georgesmathieu

Liz Nielsen

Artforum says Liz’s newest evoke Frankenthaler and the saturated hues of her photographs seem to simultaneously protrude and recede into space, yielding surprisingly tactile visual sensations.

#liznielsen

Stephen Neidich

Artforum says Stephen’s kinetic sculptures are made of industrial metal objects and tools found in the studio and the outside world. They leverage our familiarity of everyday objects against experience and performance of making art. These gestural spinning and rotating sculptures make plain how, and from what materials they are made, the acrobatics of their production.

#stephenneidich