gesturalabstraction – Page 17 – Painting After Art is Dead

Ying Li

Ying would probably say these are abstractions and not abstraction. Buttery goodness regardless. From #hyperallergic (of course).

#yingli

Ann Thomson

Is, like Gemma and Kudditji, an Australian icon of abstraction.

#annthomson

Richard Wright

I would agree with Richard that these are old fashioned paintings. Also, AbCrit is a good, international perspective on abstraction.

#richardwright

Nigel Cooke

The online edition of Artforum spotlights Nigel’s newest works on paper at Pace.

#nigelcooke

Terry Winters

Always fun to find an idea for a blog in your own Pinterest profile.

It would be hard to overstate how much I was enthralled with the work that Terry was making in the late ’90s as I was beginning grad school (example below).

More (current)

#terrywinters

Manuel Mathieu

Manuel (who I first discovered at the Armory Show) is a contemporary Haitian visual artist best known as a painter of abstract works that often evoke figurative shapes in nondescript environments. Mathieu draws from Haitian visual cultures and from Western art movements such as expressionism and existentialism.

#manuelmathieu

Artforum- rightfully- notes Flora’s newest from her time in Venice in a space set up by #victorimiro “for invited artists to spend extended time in the historic city and make new bodies of work”. These are definitely abstractions although not clear she would call them nonrepresentational. Reminds me of Erin’s brushwork.

#florayukhnovich

Gemma Smith

A few pages after learning about Ann Cathrin, I ran across the image below. Reading and looking more reveals she works through concepts as distinct bodies of work, changing her compositional strategy from time to time.

#gemmasmith

Arshille Gorky

Blogging about Susan‘s brand of automatism made me think of Arshille who, in my opinion, utilized this modality as deftly as any other artist we have placed in the canon.

#arshillegorky

Mary Lovelace O’Neal

Artforum points out that Mary deserves more of our attention.

#marylovelaceoneal

Erin Loree

Wow

#erinloree

Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

Patricia has work in #artfields which like too many shows is virtual this year.

#patriciabaldwinseggebruch

Joan Mitchell

As I wrote my recent blog about Lien, her acknowledgment by the foundation set up in Joan’s honor reminded me of a recent visit to MOMA where this institution has ensconced her piece Ladybug in their action painting gallery.

More and more

#joanmitchell

Herb Jackson

As I’ve written about in my bio, I first began to think of myself as an artist in undergraduate school. Having spent that time in the Charlotte area, there were of course a number of Herb’s pieces around and about; as an aspiring artist, I was impressed at the time with the maturity of his voice, as his paintings are easily recognizable. Photographs also never really convey the physicality of the surfaces of his paining either. And like Jason he’s originally from Raleigh.

#herbjackson

Jason Craighead

Although Jason is based in NYC now many of you know he is from Raleigh.

#jasoncraighead

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