Tag: gesturalabstraction

Matthew Delegate

Taylor Bielki at TUSSLE had words about Stargazer at Portal, which I missed earlier this year. Bielki noted that “looking into each work is like looking at the sky for such a sustained amount of time, or even a body of water, and noticing more finite details within. To me, the flying shards of the palette knife seem to become the stars, the places where canvas shows through resemble glimmers.”

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Conrad Marca-Relli

was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists (he was part of the “downtown group”). Marca-Relli was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists included in the Ninth Street Show and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.

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Ana Claudia Almeida

is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Through material explorations with paper, fabric, plastic, oil pastels, and paint, Almeida investigates the tension between functionality and abstraction, interior and exterior, and the individual and the environment. Artsy notes she (like Suzanne and Teresa) is having a good moment.

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Vasudeo S. Gaitonde

One of India’s most influential modernists, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was at the forefront of the abstract painting movement in his native country; his work has drawn international acclaim since his death in 2001. Gaitonde was a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which pushed against folk art traditions. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1962.

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