Mosaic Room in London went #tbt with this show exploring how Melehi and other “artists in postcolonial Casablanca created a specifically Moroccan form of Modernism, merging the influences of Pop art and Hard-edge painting with the rich tradition of abstraction in Berber craft and architecture.”
#mohamedmelehi
Big time #tbt
The featured image for this Artsy article caught my eye because Stuart has always fascinated me– I’ve been known on more than one occasion to espouse the idea that abstract painting aspires to a condition which jazz naturally achieves (where form and content are indistinguishable). Great job by Jackson Arn to point out that Davis’s aspirations for his work “had already been achieved by virtuosic black musicians.”
#stuartdavis
Sad to learn about Tony because of his passing. Hopefully that says more about the rich history of abstraction than either art history or myself. I celebrated his life by learning more about this artist who “has been associated with not one but with so many of the dominant trends of the late-twentieth-century abstraction: minimalism, optical art, primary structures, hard edge painting, California light and space, and site-specific sculpture.” I am filled with optimism that he was able to fill a lifetime with dedication to formalism. More images…
#tonydelap
It takes the author a minute to realize that abstraction is about looking (maybe they knew it from the beginning), something I think those of us romantically swinging away nearly a century later intuitively know.
#donvoisine
So sad to see Thomas has passed. He left some good ones for us!
I’ve followed Ted for a while on IG– glad to see he’s landed his inaugural solo show at Joshua Liner.
#tedlarsen
I did a double take when I saw the synopsis for an article titled Surrealism and the Subjective with the image below. The connection to and use of automatism- some would just call it “intuition”- by practitioners of abstraction is well documented and in this instance striking given the technical rigor of work whose apparent premise of planning belies the use of chance.
#jamesflynn
I found Sanford through someone else’s IG feed, lots of feels about his current show at Minus Space. Can definitely relate to the impulse to adopt a compositional strategy that one can explore indefinitely.
#sanfordwurmfeld
I’d say this is a profound read about the first and only tenured African American faculty member in the history of the Yale School of Art. Amazing story and really excellent formalist work that belies the notion that abstraction doesn’t stand for other ideas.
I also made a Pinterest “gallery” of his work, including uploading some images myself from other sources.
#robertreed
Seeing Morris Louis’s Gamma Delta in Hyperallergic’s review of Spilling Over made me go revisit David’s IG feed.
#davidmatthewking
While looking at upcoming calls at Lawndale in Houston, saw that Marcelyn is in an interesting show with Kristen Cochran and Katie Heinlein. A little poking around reveals she also does work on paper.
#marcelynmcneil
Painting After Art is Dead 