gesturalabstraction – Page 12 – Painting After Art is Dead

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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Sarah Giannobile

Sarah was someone the algorithm found for me. A lyrical abstractionist, she views the linear forms in her paintings as symbols that translate into invented narratives.

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Pam Cardwell

Is in Shaping of America: a Painter’s Perspective at the Painting Center (link is to catalog).

More and more

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Fabrizio Bianchi

is an #ncartist who was recently in Abstracto Latino along with Georges and Peter.

#fabriziobianchi

Wiley Johnson

is in Color Focus with Katie and Abie (alliteration unintended I assume).

He is a self-taught artist who is on the spectrum.

#wileyjohnson

John DiPaolo

Juxtapoz says John’s thick delicious paint application tempts like a newly-battered cake.

#johndipaolo

Yoshihara Jirō

Doesn’t seem right to blog about Georges and not mention Guita, which means noting Yoshihara.

#yoshiharajiro

Georges Mathieu

Seeing George’s name in Artforum recently was the first time in a while. Here’s another take on the survey of one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction linked above.

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Elizabeth Loftus

is in the newest New American Paintings (151).

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