Artreview has a nice write up about a retrospective of Latiff’s Pago Pago series from the ‘60s which are as you can see top shelf modernism.
#latiffmohidin
Latiff Mohidin
Category: artists
Theresa Daddezzio
Barbara Takenaga
Since I do love Yayoi Kusama’s paintings I had to look at this piece which lead me to Barbara. Wow!
#barbaratakenaga
Suzan Frecon
Benjamin Knight
I’ve heard of Benjamin since I’m from “down East” myself and was pleased to see below included in Front Burner. If you’re from the Triangle, check this one out (and see Leonardo’s work while you’re there).
#benjaminknight
Frank Holliday
John Yau at Hyperallergic says Frank is a painter for a heated world and then elaborates on some of Frank’s fantastic new work.
#frankholliday
Robert Natkin
I noticed when looking at Andrew’s newest on David Richard’s site that they also show work by Robert, who (while he is no longer with us) was established by the time I first became interested and in abstraction.
#robertnatkin
Maya Freelon
If you didn’t know of Maya already “yes” Triangle legends Nnenna and Phil Freelon are her parents (her brother is no slouch either). Walter gives her upcoming show at CAM Raleigh a shout out.
#mayafreelon
Raimund Girke
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Keweing has presented a selection of work by this “decisive pioneer of analytical painting, Girke’s position counts among the most important in German painting post-1945. In October he would have celebrated his 90th birthday.”
More (yes, his works makes me think of Robert Ryman also).
#raimundgirke
Andrew Huffman
Dorothy Fratt
Dorothy (who is no longer with us) made works which “are too rich to be minimal, too spare to be expressionist. They deal with color and expansive space, yet they are too gestured and incidented to be straight colorfield works. They are adventures in form dealing with color as an expressive agent rather than as a mere phenomenon.”
#dorothyfratt
Thomas Scheibitz
Lee Krasner
The blog about Robert inspired me to look back into the last century. Regular readers know I often make Pinterest boards of artists as I’m looking at their work- here’s one of Lee’s work. I’ve always felt she got the lamest deal of any of the AbEx generation as her work is some of the strongest of the group. Here’s some quotes from her that help illustrate how she saw her place.
#leekrasner
Eric Louie
Philip Guston
Since Philip has been in the news…
I’ve looked at Guston’s cartoonish paintings in the last year since the cubes I paint often take on a cartoonish quality- he was of course considered by many to be a first rate abstractionist for a time (and I would agree).
#philipguston
