Karl at Whitehot has words about Georg’s chromatic logic (in the context of a recent, posthumous exhibit of the German artist’s work at Nino Mier Gallery.) Rising through the hard-edge movement after World War II, his work pivoted between Bauhaus experimentalism and New York’s emergent formalist abstraction.
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#georgkarlpfahler
I first wrote about Timothy when BmoreArt noted the “systematic rigor” in States of Mind in 2021.
Updating the blog as he recently passed. If you have a moment and need some sad but uplifting prose read Cara Ober’s homage to this artist and teacher.
#timothyapp
is (posthumously) one half of After the Responsive Eye at Pie Projects Contemporary Art (along with Signe Stuart
#olisihvonen
gets a nice nod in an Artnews article covering new acquisitions by the Tate (“yes” they were one of the included artists)
#lubnachowdhary
work is orchestrated with a collection of colours, shapes, and lines that have caught her eyes as she moves through daily life. These elements have slowly become the vocabulary she uses to tell her stories and give shape to her personal impressions of the world around her. Her hope is that her art becomes a space for the viewer to transcend the moment and to experience a sense of relief and inspiration, as a favourite piece of music might.
#mariongriese
has actually been mentioned here before, when he wrote for TUSSLE Christopher. They’re also a good writer: (from his statement) “Abstraction, now more than ever, has become an exercise in painting in tongues, pulling both painter and viewer toward a practice of highly idiosyncratic systems of signs, and paradoxically seems to be at the moment one of the best tuned visual instrument to explore our diverse commonalities.” He is one of the ten artists Saul Ostrow included in Building Models.
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#gwenaelkerlidou
is one of the 10 artists included in Building Models: The Shape of Painting at the Painting Center which is recently referenced in another blog. Stamm’s work are fully abstract, and it is unnecessary for the viewer to know the origins of what he or she is looking at in order to experience them the way the artist intended. Black is a consistent component of Stamm’s work, a color that he associated with rebellion, rigor and reduction.
#tedstamm
Patricia Zarate is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally in Croatia, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and Thailand.
#patriciazarate
Sharon at Two Coats notes a major shift in Paul’s work evident in a (posthumous) exhibit at Garth Greenan. She notes that today when artists work freely across all mediums and platforms, “the measured boundary-crossing that Feeley undertook in the 1960s may seem quaint. Still, there is something durably refreshing about his conviction, then iconoclastic, that undulating lines and shapes could convey a robust sense of humanity, and that even hard-edge geometric shapes could convey emotional content.”
#paulfeeley
Sweet shades of Carlos Cruz Diaz these are some sublime paintings. Suzanne shows with White Cube.
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#suzannesong
Martin sits down with the always insightful Amy Sillman (courtesy of Art in America) to unpack signs and symbols and semiotics in general and the context of his most recent (he is showing now at Sikkema Jenkins Molloy in New York).
#cameronmartin
Over at Burnaway Merin McDivitt reviews Asheville’s Blue Spiral 1 summer group exhibition, where artists adopt an irreverent approach to surfaces. The show includes Caroline among others.
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#carolinecollom
(from the Weatherspoon) Lucy Bane-known as “Mackey” to her friends-had an early interest in art, but Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech) did not offer any classes in the discipline, so she majored in science. Some years later she began studying art again, this time at Woman’s College (now UNCG). Her most influential instructor was Gregory Ivy, founder of UNCG’s art department as well as this museum. Progressive and somewhat controversial, he was known for urging his female students to seek and value freedom of expression. Ivy was Bane’s mentor throughout her student years and beyond.
Ivy (below) was painted in honor of this notable teacher and illustrates Bane’s decidedly abstract style.
#lucymcdonaldmackeybane
#mcdonaldbane
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