Alyse is a contemporary abstract artist focused on large scale painting, drawing and frottage, layering expressive color and line over graphite rubbings on raw canvas, wood panel and yupo.
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William Baziotes
Baziotes was an American painter known for his luminous abstractions of biomorphic forms. Though he is considered an Abstract Expressionist, Baziotes’s work remained outside the dominant aspects of the movement. His paintings are in many ways more closely aligned with the early Surrealist works of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell.
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Morris Louis
Sometimes missing a canon artist pops up when I go to create a hyperlink in a blog about another artist- often times when I learn about one of their colleagues who was just outside the canon, like Friedel. Morris was one of the founding members of the Washington Color School, and his estate has secured an online presence for his practice.
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Friedel Dzubas
Friedel Dzubas was a pioneer of Color Fieldpainting alongside Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland. His earliest works evoked Paul Klee and William Baziotes, but he soon moved towards working in his signature, vibrant style, scrubbing thick layers of color into large canvases. The process created fields of dense color and other areas where the color seemed almost translucent; for Dzubas, these paintings referenced natural phenomena, emotion, the painterly gesture, and the experience of color itself.
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Alice Baber
like Vasa was (posthumously) included in Taylor Graham‘s booth at EXPO Chicago. Alice produced brilliantly colored abstract expressionist oil and watercolor paintings by staining her canvases with rounded biomorphic forms. Using a technique of pouring diluted oil paint onto a canvas in layers, she sometimes experimented with variations of a single hue and at other times created a purposeful interplay of different tones
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Vasa
For EXPO Chicago, Taylor Graham staged an exhibition (which included works by Vasa, or Vasa Mihich) noting that “it is fascinating to explore the commonalities and differences among paintings and sculptures encompassing a range of mid-century into the 21st century abstract styles, including hard edge, stain, Light and Space acrylic sculpture, synchromist inspired, and kinetic sculpture.”
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Agnes Denes
is one of several artist included in Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions which highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. Agnes work while non-figurative is much closer to the lineage of conceptual art than abstract painting or sculpture.
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Idris Khan
Drawing on diverse cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion, Khan has developed a unique narrative involving densely layered imagery that inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration and speaks to the themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.
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Sam Scott
Pie Projects has recently programmed Deep Nature which includes Sam Scott’s iconic masterpiece quartet entitled The Four Tides, which was created in 1996 during his artist-in-residence at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi.
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Joan Thorne
Vittorio Colaizzi at Two Coats of Paint lays out a case that Joan Thorne is a painter and artist.
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Anton Stankowski
Anton Stankowski (June 18, 1906 – December 11, 1998) was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. Typical Stankowski designs attempt to illustrate processes or behaviours rather than objects.
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Ryan Crotty
Ryan blends vibrant hues to produce contemporary paintings on canvas that employ printmaking techniques to haunting effect. While drawing on the legacy of Mark Rothko’s brooding abstractions, Crotty’s works paradoxically appear digitally rendered and devoid of the artist’s hand.
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Thomas Sills
I saw below during a recent visit to the Greenville County Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibit of his work in 2022. Sills’ first solo exhibition was held at Betty Parsons Gallery in May 1955. He experimented with color and form his entire career, moving from the action painting of Abstract Expressionism to vibrant Color Field painting with energetic palettes and juxtapositions.
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Alfred Manessier
Saw below recently at the Bechtler. (from the show placard) “Inspired by the environment of his birthplace in northern France, Alfred Manessier began to paint landscapes at an early age. Although his work became increasingly abstract in the postwar period, landscape subjects persisted throughout his career-specific places, indeterminate settings, and, as in Northern Spring, the seasons and his impressions of being in nature. The painting doesn’t portray recognizable objects; nevertheless, the lush green background teeming with jewel-like dabs of color surrounding a bright orange “sun” calls to mind a field of flowers in bloom.”
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Painting After Art is Dead 