Abstract Painting – Page 108 – Painting After Art is Dead

Tony DeLap

Sad to learn about Tony because of his passing. Hopefully that says more about the rich history of abstraction than either art history or myself. I celebrated his life by learning more about this artist who “has been associated with not one but with so many of the dominant trends of the late-twentieth-century abstraction: minimalism, optical art, primary structures, hard edge painting, California light and space, and site-specific sculpture.” I am filled with optimism that he was able to fill a lifetime with dedication to formalism. More images…

#tonydelap

Mark Sheinkman

Two Coats of Paint posted a review of Mark’s new show. He’s also on IG.

#marksheinkman

Carla Tomlinson

Found Carla’s site via an IG hashtag I follow (you can guess which one).

#carlatomlinson

Sarah Walker

Not sure where I stumbled onto Sarah- which makes me think Tumblr? I made a Pinterest board a while back and followed her on IG, Pierogi shows her work.

#sarahwalker

Andrea Belag

Hyperallergic brings the stuff, as always. All the good painters live in NY…

#andreabelag

Don Voisine

It takes the author a minute to realize that abstraction is about looking (maybe they knew it from the beginning), something I think those of us romantically swinging away nearly a century later intuitively know.

#donvoisine

Robert Hyatt

I discovered Robert when he and I were in a show together. Check out more of his newest work.

#roberthyatt

Thomas Nozkowski

So sad to see Thomas has passed. He left some good ones for us!

Margaret Neil

I first came across Margaret through an article in Ideel Art on Lyrical Abstraction. Great drawing and she also paints!

#margaretneil

James Flynn

I did a double take when I saw the synopsis for an article titled Surrealism and the Subjective with the image below. The connection to and use of automatism- some would just call it “intuition”- by practitioners of abstraction is well documented and in this instance striking given the technical rigor of work whose apparent premise of planning belies the use of chance.

#jamesflynn

Susanne Bonowicz

I love that Susanne tags her work #urban (probably because it’s one of the first adjectives I thought of).

#susannebonowicz

Sanford Wurmfeld

I found Sanford through someone else’s IG feed, lots of feels about his current show at Minus Space. Can definitely relate to the impulse to adopt a compositional strategy that one can explore indefinitely.

#sanfordwurmfeld

Alicia McCarthy

Juxtapoz has a joint up ’bout Alicia’s upcoming show in Brussels. She’s on IG where you can see a fantastic mural she’s been involved with.

#aliciamccarthy

Robert Reed

I’d say this is a profound read about the first and only tenured African American faculty member in the history of the Yale School of Art. Amazing story and really excellent formalist work that belies the notion that abstraction doesn’t stand for other ideas.

I also made a Pinterest “gallery” of his work, including uploading some images myself from other sources.

#robertreed

Shane Walsh

Juxtapoz just reviewed Shane’s newest show. He’s also in NAP #137.

#shanewalsh