Painting After Art is Dead

Noela James Bewry

has an image (below) featured in this article from AbCrit, which was originally intended to be the catalog essay for a show at Linden Hall Studio in Kent.

#noelajamesbewry

Prunella Clough

Artforum notes 6 decades of “Pru”‘s work up at Ballant House and gives some great context for her oeuvre.

#prunellaclough

David Row

Saw the gem below at the #armoryshow

#davidrow

Gregory Amenoff

Wasn’t familiar with Gregory before this Hyperallergic article- you can find older work on IG using hashtags if you want to compare to below, which is a nice corner to have turned.

#gregoryamenof

Landon Metz

Artsy gives Landon some deserved snaps.

#landonmetz

Stephen Mueller

“My paintings don’t depict anything. I’m trying to reach that kind of experience where you are on the edge. There and not there.”

Artforum notes a recent, posthumous show at Barry Whistler (more).

#stephenmueller

Horace Farlowe

#GalleryC has Horace in rotation for their new best of NC virtual tour- snaps, posthumously.

#horacefarlowe

Emily Berger

Emily was noted in this article about the power of green.

Shizuko Yoshikawa

Shizuko is new to me, having caught this #Artspace piece in my RSS feed because I am usually quite drawn to Concrete artists’ work.

#shizukoyoshikawa

Tahiti Pehrson

Kind of hard not to be mesmerized by these- picture below with a human for scale. And he makes cool videos so you can make your own!

#tahitipehrson

Clyfford Still

Art in America notes a new documentary of the most reclusive of the male AbEx practitioners. Realized I haven’t ever blogged about him so here a few more in addition to the gem below.

Hard, for me, not to have a lot of respect for a painter perhaps most known for never compromising to advance his career.

#clyffordstill

Shirazeh Houshiary

Since exploring abstraction from artists born in Muslim countries was so enjoyable recently Artsy’s newest on #womenartists from the Middle East would have caught my eye even if Etel wasn’t featured.

“Shirazeh Houshiary, who emerged in the early 1980s with British sculptors like Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, and Anish Kapoor, first became known for her allusive environments and biomorphic sculptural forms. However, in the following decade, Houshiary increasingly created drawings and monochromatic paintings.”

#shirazehhoushiary

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Maria, who is no longer with us, stills gets respect for her contributions to abstraction, mostly because her unique approach was a melding of her early schooling with the French Cubist Fernand Léger with other modernist modes like Futurism and Constructivism.

#mariahelenavieiradasilva

Carlos Cruz-Diez

I felt like I’d seen Carlos’s work before seeing the first piece below in #surmoderno. A little internet searching turned up some things that… yeah, I’m sure I’ve seen these in popular culture, definitely the ones in Houston. His work focused (he’s no longer with us) on the kinetic energy of color particularly the #moiré effect.

#carloscruzdiez

Jane South

Full page add for the gem below in the April #ArtForum. Led me to look for more.

(spoiler- her other work is very different and just as awesome).

#janesouth