Not sure how Lauriston popped onto my radar but sweet shades of Eva Hesse I’m glad she did.
#lauristonavery
Category: artists
It’s still Black History Month
If you are curious about the impact black artists are having on abstraction, you can use the hashtag function on the website (link).
Familiarize yourself and lift up these practices, particularly those that have been mostly ignored in the canon to date, such as
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
Juxtapoz takes us overseas to look at Tunjia’s newest at White Cube’s Seoul outpost, in which the NYC-based Brit “explores the diasporic body, African subjecthood and autonomy.” The figuration in the work peeks through, similar to earlier work by fellow Brit Cecily.
#tunjiadeniyijones
Hunter Reynolds
along with Dean Semashima is part of a two-person, intergenerational display which, according to Quingyan Deng at Hyperallergic, represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history. While Hunter’s pieces in this show do sometimes dissolve into something abstract, it was not the only work they made (Hunter left us in 2022).
#hunterreynolds
Ada Friedman
Elizabeth Buhe at The Brooklyn Rail has words about Ada’s Performance Proposal, Helen Rides VII: Wing and Wheel 3 (2020–24), at David Peter Francis, saying the works “propose that these thresholds are flexible, emphasizing valuable insights drawn from pre-industrial worldviews, vernacular belief systems, private magic, and seasonal rites.” One may since a shared spirit with Hilma.
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#adafriedman
Pinkney Herbert
Liz Collins
is a NYC based multimedia artist specializing in textiles and fiber and working across art and design. She finds inspiration everywhere, but especially in the materials and processes she uses, along with nature, architecture, science, metaphysics, and in the very experience of being alive and engaging with others.
#lizcollins
Carl E. Hazelwood
like Jacob is in Future Proof. He also shows with Wellancora who notes that “Hazlewood uses the structural language of abstraction as a clarifying act of progress in what he considers an unstable world.”
#carlehazelwood
Jacob Cartwright
is one of many artists (Tom, Melissa, Jason and others) included in American Abstract Artist‘s newest group show, Future Proof, at Westbeth Gallery, which examines abstract art in the present day.
#jacobcartwright
Janis Proviser
Susan Swartz
Robert Curcio at WhiteHot has words about Susan’s most recent at Georges Bergès Gallery (which aren’t abstraction per se).
#susanswartz
Patricia Trieb
John Yau says (of Stephen’s A Planar Garden at Alexandre) that it is refreshing to see a group show that hews to its curatorial statement, and includes both old friends and unexpected twists. In addition to Patricia, the show includes work by Odili, Joanna and Suzan among others.
#patriciatreib
Violeta Maya
Yunhee Min
is one of the artists, along with Emma, that Artsy notes have been shaped by the Abstract Expressionism of Helen Frankenthaler.
#yunheemin
A’Driane Nieves
A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a self-taught painter. At the urging of her therapist, she began painting as a form of art therapy in 2011 during her recovery from postpartum depression and following her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This initial experimentation led to her using Abstract Expressionist painting styles as a way to overcome the impacts of childhood abuse, specifically emotional suppression. Influenced by Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Bernice Bing, and early Black abstract painters ranging from Alma Thomas to Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
#adrianenieves
Painting After Art is Dead 