Good interview with Johan by Noah Becker at White Hot- I find the take many Europeans have on abstraction to be helpful in getting back to seeing and out of my head.
#johanwahlstrom
Johan Wahlstrom
Category: artists
Lynda Benglis
I’ve been a big fan of Lynda since discovering her poured work during my undergrad days. Seeing her work getting new juxtapositions inspired a revisiting of some like Contraband and Wing.
Eric Mack
Mack’s paintings investigate how different materials reflect identity. He also works in other media. Artforum caught this recent show (which caught my eye because Linda Benglis is a personal fav).
#ericmack
Howard Hodgkin
Was reading in this great article on #cecilybrown (who is not an abstractionist and is IMO one of our best living painters) that she is influenced by Howard (quite literally as in she met him several times), who is another member of the canon that I’ve not previously covered here.
Howard is no longer with us but his estate has an IG feed and here’s more and more.
#howardhodgkin
Wolfgang Tillmans
As I was spending some time cataloging queer artists I found this good read which features some photography from early in Wolfgang’s career (the part of his oeuvre that lead to him receiving the Turner prize).
#wolfgangtillmans
Richard Lippold
was part of the same cadre of queer creatives as Cy in the ’60s and had no small part to play in the story of Modernism himself.
#richardlipold
Cy Twombly
One of my favorite things about living in Houston was visiting the Cy Twombly gallery at the Menil museum. I can’t think of many other artists whose work can create the kind of visceral connection that his does- I think of it first when discussions veer towards work that is beyond words or language.
BTW- you should also check out this good read about the importance of time he spent with Robert Rauschenberg.
#cytwombly
Keltie Ferris
was in Queer Abstraction along with Joshua and Paola and Mark B/JE and Bo and Elijah. #queerartists
#keltieferris
Joshua Van Dyke
Not hard to see why I’d be attracted to the painting below for those who know my own work.
Joshua’s practice also includes a performance element, something in which few abstractionists engage despite the performative nature of much painting in this genre (there are some photos of other work and stills of his last performance here).
BOMB also chose Joshua for their artist portfolio series.
#joshuavandyke
Bo Hubbard
Mark Joshua Epstein
is one of the many fantastic artists in Queer Abstraction. Also- Small Talk at the Salad Bar may be the best painting title I’ve seen in a minute (and its a damn good painting).
#markjoshuaepstein
Elijah Burgher
was in Queer Abstraction along with Mark and Paolo (and many others). The Whitney says his work sits “at the intersections of representation and language, imaginary and real worlds.”
#elijahburgher
Mark Surridge
Lisa Corrine Davis
Pursuit of Aesthetics has some solid work- Lisa has a piece included as do Jason and Andrea.
#lisacorrinedavis
