gesturalabstraction – Page 19 – Painting After Art is Dead

Alexander Kroll

Found Alexander because Warren Isensee posted about hanging out with Tomory Dodge who posted about visiting Alex’s studio.

#alexanderkroll

Hyman Bloom

Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning thought that Hyman Bloom (1913–2009) was “the first Abstract Expressionist artist in America.”

#hymanbloom

Jeff Wenzel

Congrats to Jeff on getting picked up in #newamericanpaintings

#jeffwenzel

B Chehayeb

Caught note of B on Galleri Urbane’s IG. More.

Bernice Bing

I think I’m going to start to tag or categorize painters as “unjustly ignored in their prime”- so, add “Bingo” to the list with Michael West and Alma Thomas and Dorothy Hood and…

#bernicebing

Great retrospective of Corrine Michelle West’s work is up at Hollis Taggart. I think it is the essence of Modernist conceptions of “the Artist” (and truly American) in spirit that so many women made such great work during this era despite knowing it might never be seen let alone influence the canon. They were all painting a new world.