Cecilia Biagini

has work featured in Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini. Inspired by traditions of South American abstraction, Cecilia makes paintings, mobiles, photograms and reliefs that flow seamlessly from medium to medium. Utilizing a bold sense of color, line, depth and abstraction, the varied works find commonalities in their composition and playfulness. Evoking ideas of physics, the geometric shapes in her work are arranged in a manner suggesting movement and animation.

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Yente

Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini brings together modern and contemporary abstract artworks by Yente (1905–1990), a pioneering figure in abstraction from Argentina, and Cecilia Biagini. The exhibition will present a selection of works by Yente from the 1930s through the 1960s, in which the artist experimented freely with the visual languages of the international avant-gardes by working across mediums, figuration, and abstraction.

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Eniko Ujj

Similar to Ian, Eniko was featured in the most recent Artfields and also makes work that references trees. For the installation below they took ceramic slabs and make prints of individual endangered longleaf pine needle trees from an area near Pensacola that is under development. The title references “L’Inconnue de la Seine” and the tradition of a death mask as a memento of the deceased.

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Igshaan Adams

like Magdalena has work featured in To Weave the Sky. A queer artist who was born of a Muslim father and raised by his Christian grandmother, Adam’s elaborate textiles address the diverse cultural and spiritual contexts that continue to form his identity. The artist has embraced Islamic spirituality and particularly Sufism, and his works might be read as enlarged prayer rugs.

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection celebrates numerous textile-based works from the Pérez collection – many of which have never been publicly exhibited before – and engages these acquisitions as focal points from which to structure creative dialogues with artworks presented in other mediums. In addition to works by Gene, Helen, Etel and other painters, Magdalena is included as an example of fiber arts.

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Vasa

For EXPO Chicago, Taylor Graham staged an exhibition (which included works by Vasa, or Vasa Mihich) noting that “it is fascinating to explore the commonalities and differences among paintings and sculptures encompassing a range of mid-century into the 21st century abstract styles, including hard edge, stain, Light and Space acrylic sculpture, synchromist inspired, and kinetic sculpture.”

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Agnes Denes

is one of several artist included in Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions which highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. Agnes work while non-figurative is much closer to the lineage of conceptual art than abstract painting or sculpture.

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Idris Khan

Drawing on diverse cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion, Khan has developed a unique narrative involving densely layered imagery that inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration and speaks to the themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

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