gesturalabstraction – Painting After Art is Dead

EC

AbCrit has work by EC up.
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André Lanskoy

A recent trip to Europe and encountering Olivier’s work lead me to André’s work – the influence of André awakened Olivier’s marked fondness for colour. More to come soon on Tachisme, a school of painting about which I know too little.
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Jean Messagier

Messagier is often associated with Lyrical abstraction, Tachisme (like Oliviér and André), Nuagisme, Art informel and paysagisme abstrait, though the artist himself had never accepted any labels, and had always refused the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

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Olivier Debré

Like Shirley and Yaacov, Olivier’s work was new to me from a recent trip to Paris.

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Ed Moses

JD Malat Gallery has posthumous props for Ed who is California Cool.

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José Carlos Casado

Hyperallergic says that in the universe created by the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial, abstract art invited viewers to engage their imaginations and to consider the multiple realities conveyed by the artists through their distinctive visual languages. José’s work is included.

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Leonardo Silaghi

Like Jennifer, Leonardo shows with Robert Berry.

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Dorothea Tanning

Hyperallergic notes that as Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations.
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Claire Seidl

Hyperallergic says Claire’s contemplative works are closely aligned with the Abstract Expressionist/Existentialist ideal whereby the painter must be eminently present in order to access and transmit the sincerity of experience.

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Beauford Delaney

In 1929 aspirations and the energy of the Harlem Renaissance drew Beauford Delaney—trained in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Boston—to New York.
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Joanne Robertson

Artforum thinks Robertson has intuited that there is room for sincerity these days and that gestural abstraction can be buoying.

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Daisy May Sheff

…there is something polluted about Sheff’s bucolic tableaux. Animals in repose are disturbed by passages of mottled hues that refuse to settle into familiar, nameable shades. The chroma are telluric and ripe, even vaguely threatening. Painter Amy Sillman, whose work seems an inspiration to Sheff, has described her own use of color as a tool of negation.

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Rachel Jones

Working in painting, installation, sound and performance, Rachel Jones explores a sense of self as a visual, visceral experience. In her paintings, she grapples with the challenges of finding visual means to convey abstract, existential concepts. She shows with Thaddaeus Ropac.

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Winston Branch

Artsy notes Winston is having a moment.

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Zachary Keeting

Zachary’s newest at Underdonk is titled Haunt the Margins.

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