internationalartists – Page 11 – Painting After Art is Dead

Alfred Manessier

Saw below recently at the Bechtler. (from the show placard) “Inspired by the environment of his birthplace in northern France, Alfred Manessier began to paint landscapes at an early age. Although his work became increasingly abstract in the postwar period, landscape subjects persisted throughout his career-specific places, indeterminate settings, and, as in Northern Spring, the seasons and his impressions of being in nature. The painting doesn’t portray recognizable objects; nevertheless, the lush green background teeming with jewel-like dabs of color surrounding a bright orange “sun” calls to mind a field of flowers in bloom.”

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Natasza Niedziolka

Interweaving modernism, folk tradition, and arts and crafts, Natasza Niedziolka knits and embroiders large works filled with bold colors and shapes. While her techniques are traditional and domestic, Niedziolka’s work is distinctly contemporary, merging modernist abstraction with the textile tradition.

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Eduardo Chillida

Renowned for his monumental sculptures, Chillida created domestically-scaled sculptures, drawings, collages, and prints. His work is the subject of a recent exhibit at the Bechtler.

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Josef Albers

It would be hard to overstate the influence Albers has had on me as a creative and an instructor. I’ve written recently about this coming to the forefront of my practice including how my feelings about the moral deficiency of so many white l, male Modernists is a part of holding contradiction for me.

There is a foundation of course dedicated to the careers of Josef & Anni Albers.

More (my Pinterest board)

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Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson

has an amazing exhibit up at the Bechtler. If you are in the Charlotte area any time soon I highly recommend it. The artist and her longtime assistant, Jillian Glass Braganza, dress a loom with silk yarn, a task that can take weeks for larger works. These threads, called the warp, will remain stationary on the loom during the weaving, but first, they are placed over the schematic drawing and soaked with water. Using fiber-reactive silk dyes, Jónsson either pours liquid in her desired colors onto the threads or dabs it on with a brush. While the warp threads are drying, Jónsson soaks and paints the weft threads, which will be drawn through and inserted over and under the warp, to run perpendicular along the length of the textile. When all the threads are dry, weft meets warp bit by bit on the loom, slowly bringing Jónsson’s painting into being.
more (video on process)

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Ellen Lesperance

whose patterned paintings depict full-body garments of female activists engaged in direct action protests, like Xylor, is in The Apex is Nothing.

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Johannes Itten

As often happens with canon artists (given their numbers), I discovered recently while writing about my own practice that I had yet to blog about Johannes, one of the greatest colorists of the Modern era (probably only slightly less well known than Josef Albers). He was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school.

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Erin Shirreff

Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images.

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Richard Paul Lohse

was a Swiss painter and graphic artist and one of the main representatives of the concrete and constructive art movements along with Max and others.

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Artist Ummah

like Hiba and Hanane is included in Contemporary Muslim At of North Carolina. Pictured below is “The Invitation” (2023). With over 750 in person and online participants from the Triangle Muslim community, Ummah’s first community interactive art project asked for participants to make the intention to be “Invited” to perform the Holy pilgrimages, Hajj and Umrah. This traveling canvas visited several mosques and Muslim spaces, where participants inserted pins around the Ka’bah which represented themselves and their loved ones. While pinning their dot, they did Du’a for Allah to call them on this spiritually intense and challenging journey, the goal of which is cleansing of the heart and purification of the soul. The end result was a canvas symbolic of a community’s collective anticipation, yearning, and hope to be Invited.
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Hanane Jamili

is a native of Raleigh, NC, is a painter and instructor with a distinctive style that blends abstract art with Arabic calligraphy, and- like Hiba– is one of the creatives included in Contemporary Muslim Art of North Carolina.

About the piece below Hanane says “this painting captures the unwavering resistance of the beautiful people of Palestine. Their courage inspires the ordinary person to overcome hardships through ‘tawakul’ which is the God consciousness, and trust in God’s plan.”

Through her work, Hanane has raised over $15,000 to various charities and local organizations. Her complete collections can be found at artsybyhanane.com.

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Hasani Sahlehe

is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of abstract paintings, installations, and performances that explore memory, migration, and the supernatural.

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Camille Graeser

Camille Graeser was a Swiss painter and member of the circle of Zurich Concrete artists along Verena and Max.

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Yuan-wen Wang

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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Michael Hambouz

gets a mention by Two Coats of Paint in their Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024 for “Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes” at Elijah Wheat Showroom. He likes to play with language and optics and is not always dedicated abstractionist- Hambouz’s delicately crafted works of art, infused with an autobiographical element, break a mold of surface and allow viewers to see differently.

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