Eddie Martinez’s frenetic, bold, kaleidoscopic paintings draw from art historical traditions such as action painting, Neo-Expressionism, and the CoBrA movement. Martinez filters tenets from his aesthetic predecessors through coarse brushwork, a wide variety of media, and abstract forms and rhythms
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One of only a handful of women to be included within the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Yvonne Thomas combined the intuitive mark-making of the movement with a keen eye for the expressive possibilities of color.
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Michael at Two Coats says Kosuke’s Exotic Star at Rain Gallery is a heady stew of inspirations.
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Yuan-Wen is an artist originally from Taiwan who has been living in Barcelona since 2008. Her abstract paintings are a unique blend of her Asian roots and the diverse experiences of living in different cultures, with varied expressions that aim to connect with audiences. For Yuan-Wen, painting is a record of her inner life experiences and emotions, inspired by the landscapes, dance, the universe, and the world around her.
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Cleve was an American painter best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. Hyperallergic’s guide to this season’s museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City makes note of Neuberger Museum launching a thorough investigation of its history through four ambitious projects, one of which delves into Cleve’s inaugural site-specific painting.
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Barry-Schwabsky at Brooklyn Rail remembers the critical contributions Sherman regularly made between 2006 and 2011 and discusses his current work Sam’s related to his two-person exhibition at MAMOTH, London, alongside Nancy Shaver.
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gets a nod from Alan Lo in Artsy recent survey of 9 collectors. Naotaka was in New Abstracts at LACMA last fall along with Sarah, Jade, Lee and others.
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Pace is pleased to present An Abstraction, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by New York-based artist Adam Pendleton, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 3 to June 20. Pendleton’s first solo show at Pace’s New York gallery in ten years, An Abstraction follows a series of significant solo exhibitions by the artist at museums around the world.
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Born(1983) in Norfolk, Virginia, Jason Woodberry’s LHAXX text is the language of his interior. Each glyph an instinctive stroke of expression. Combined in his paintings they become an excavation of identity, a landscape of the psyche.
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Jon’s studio is filled with scrap materials from years of artmaking: sketches, notes, tape, table coverings, and unfinished works. They are artifacts of phases both inside and outside of the studio, containing the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. The process is a reevaluation of each scrap, its origin, and the search for a resolution: when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.”
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Perrotin recently presented Rhapsody in Blue, the first exhibition of work by Gérard in the United States in over a half-century. Pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction, Schneider’s aesthetic is raw and vibrant, physical and unrestrained, reflecting his intention to translate pure emotion into painting. The works on view will span Schneider’s almost seven decades long career, focusing specifically on the artist’s relationship with the color blue. #gerardschneider
YI GALLERY is pleased to present Denouement, a solo show of recent paintings by Elizabeth Gilfilen. This is the Brooklyn-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.
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David Carrier at Two Coats of Paint published an interesting read recently about Emilio role as Venice’s Abstract Expressionist in the context of “Rivoluzione Vedova,” at Museum of the 20th Century near Venezia.
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