gesturalabstraction – Page 10 – Painting After Art is Dead

Jacqueline Humphries

After a 2005 fire in her studio, Humphries produced the first of her scintillating “black light” paintings, which radiate wild, ghostly neon colors in dark rooms under ultraviolet light—not a technique that one sees contemporary artists using very often. “Fluorescent colors are very powerful, yet they were so bounded by these typical associations—African princess sex goddess, marijuana and magic mushrooms, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors, and that was kind of it,” Humphries said, sitting in a backroom at Greene Naftali, her longtime Chelsea gallery. “I grew up in the ’60s, so I was into it. Why not take something like that and see if you can make serious abstraction with it?” More

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Michaela Yearwood

Contemporary British painter Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s lush abstract paintings incorporate visual references to her West Indian identity that go beyond clichés of representation.
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Jordy Hewitt

Jordy is an Australian painter whose work navigates contending life and bodily forces, identity, and the subtle intersections of interior and exterior emotional realms.

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Astrid Dick

is showing with Erika Ranee at M. David & Co. John Yau read some of his poetry in front of them so I think that speaks well.

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Jacob Kravetz

Warm Up is a series of collaborative paintings by Jacob Kravetz and Hunter Batchelder (h/t- Bmore Art).

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Cora Cohen

Two Coats has (posthumous) words about Cora’s (recently shown) work from the ’80s, noting that the virtues of some art emerge only when it steps out of its own time.

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Kelly Walker

BmoreArt has words about Kelly’s painterly alchemy.

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Janet Sobel

Here’s the myth: alcoholic brooding genius Jackson Pollock assesses a virgin canvas as it lays prone on the ground. Then he flings, hurls, splashes, and drips paint all over it, creating a vigorous new language of art – the drip technique. Life Magazine swooned, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” The real story? Pollack’s first drip painting, Full Fathom Five, was completed in 1947. Four years earlier a Ukrainian housewife with no formal art training stunned the art world with her all-over drip paintings and primitivist surreal dreamscapes. Her name was Janet Sobel and her art career spanned just three years from 1943 to 1946.

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gaborone

Mirdidingkingathi’s paintings have a proprioceptive pull. Their gulfs of color are fed by the late artist’s sweeping ken of the sandbars, salt pans, and billabongs of her native Bentinck Island, off Queensland’s northwestern coast.

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Whanki Jim

was a painter and pioneering abstract artist of Korea, born in the village of Eupdong-ri on the island of Kijwa, of Anjwa-myeon, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province in Korea under Japanese rule. He belongs to the first generation of Korean Abstract artists, mixing oriental concepts and ideals with abstraction. With refined and moderated formative expression based on Korean Lyricism, he created his characteristic art world. His artworks largely dealt with diverse hues and patterns.

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Vittorio Colaizzi

Two Coats publishes Vittorio’s Artist’s Statement.

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Nell Stinton

was in good company during her life according to John Seed.

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Theresa Chromati

Is doing exactly what they were born to do.

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Adelie Landis

Hyperallergic notes that Jay may be the best known Bay Area woman artist who worked in abstraction, but she was far from alone.

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Héloïse Chassepot

Héloïse Chassepot (b. 1995, Paris; lives and works in London) completed studies at Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva; University of Geneva, Switzerland; and gained her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2022. She shows work with Downs and Ross.

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