Harper’s Books announces Violet Paintings for the Red and Blue Studio, Los Angeles-based artist Spencer Lewis’ first solo exhibition in New York City (a selection of eight new paintings).
#spencerlewis
Tag: gesturalabstraction
Agnes Waruguru
Bryan Rattiner
Tracey Emin
Xavier Hufkens at Artsy has words about Tracey’s newest. Known for more literal work, these newest are abstractions if not abstraction (“…rather than painting literal depictions of precise events, Emin captures the emotions they awaken”).
#traceyemin
Louise Fishman
Artforum notes “Ballin’ the Jack,” and also that Louise began “her practice at the height of Abstract Expressionism; Fishman asserted herself as a queer feminist Jewish woman within the artistic milieu of the time. Her atmospheric spaces and muscular articulations recount the urgency of her self-expression, and speak to the dynamic forward motion of ballin’ the jack, or going full-speed.”
#louisefishman
Ann Purcell
Edwin Aitken
I first encountered Edwin’s work through Prosaic (which you should be following on IG if you aren’t). Looks like he’s a Beep Prize winner.
#edwinaitken
Andreas Eriksson
Frank Holliday
John Yau at Hyperallergic says Frank is a painter for a heated world and then elaborates on some of Frank’s fantastic new work.
#frankholliday
Lee Krasner
The blog about Robert inspired me to look back into the last century. Regular readers know I often make Pinterest boards of artists as I’m looking at their work- here’s one of Lee’s work. I’ve always felt she got the lamest deal of any of the AbEx generation as her work is some of the strongest of the group. Here’s some quotes from her that help illustrate how she saw her place.
#leekrasner
Philip Guston
Since Philip has been in the news…
I’ve looked at Guston’s cartoonish paintings in the last year since the cubes I paint often take on a cartoonish quality- he was of course considered by many to be a first rate abstractionist for a time (and I would agree).
#philipguston
Howard Hodgkin
Was reading in this great article on #cecilybrown (who is not an abstractionist and is IMO one of our best living painters) that she is influenced by Howard (quite literally as in she met him several times), who is another member of the canon that I’ve not previously covered here.
Howard is no longer with us but his estate has an IG feed and here’s more and more.
#howardhodgkin
Cy Twombly
One of my favorite things about living in Houston was visiting the Cy Twombly gallery at the Menil museum. I can’t think of many other artists whose work can create the kind of visceral connection that his does- I think of it first when discussions veer towards work that is beyond words or language.
BTW- you should also check out this good read about the importance of time he spent with Robert Rauschenberg.
#cytwombly
Painting After Art is Dead 