I first blogged about Zio in 2021 by noting A Case Against Reality, a two-part solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Zio. At the time I wrote their work was like Christian– abstractions but not abstraction.
Zio’s recent Six Trees exhibition at the Almine Rech gallery features work that harkens more to Mondrian.
#zioziegler
Getting ready to teach the history of Abstract painting recently made me realize I’d never blogged about Piet, the founder of De Stijl and easily one of the most recognizable early Modernists.
More on How Piet Mondrian’s Abstractions Became a New Way to See the World.
#pietmondrian
Danielle at Artsy ranks the 10 best public art works installed in 2025 (international version in case you were wondering) and points at Shaikha’s Deliberate Pauses. Mazrou’s practice is anchored in history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. Influenced by artists from the Modernist and Bauhaus Movements – such as Paul Klee, Carle Andre and Wassily Kandinsky – Al Mazrou uses the formal aspects of minimalism to engage in a current fascination with materiality in art.
#shaikhaalmazrou
was Janice‘s brother and also an abstract painter. Tworkov’s early work owes much to Cézanne. Applying paint in large blocks that flaunt the flatness of the picture plane, his paintings cohered into still lifes, landscapes, and narrative scenes.
More and more
#jacktworkov
was a Polish-born American artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France (where she spent many years) and the United States. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction.
Rebecca at Two Coats has words about a recent, posthumous exhibit of this rarely discussed Modernist.
#janicebiala
Agrade Camiz channels trauma and her youth spent in Rio’s graffiti scene into sensual, urban paintings (she is in Artsy’s Vanguard along with Geoffroy and Sayan).
#agradecamiz
made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).
#geoffroypithon
Nnena is the 2025 winner of the Turner Prize. She is the first learning-disabled artist to win. Born in Glasgow in 1966 to Nigerian parents, Kalu is known for sculptures resembling cocoon-like forms that she strews with videotape, cellophane, and other unconventional materials.
#nnenakalu
Artsy recently asked Jeffrey Gibson to list 10 Native American artists to watch. employs acrylic polymer, reindeer hair, acid-free Mylar, nylon thread, and steel pins to evoke animal skin and guts.
He also mentions Caroline and Teresa.
#sonyakellihercombs
was a founding member of Supports/Surfaces, known for questioning pictorial illusionism with unmounted stretchers, flexible ladders, and assemblages of collected objects. He is represented by Ceysson & Bénétière.
#danieldezeuze
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.
More (estate IG)
#georgkarlpfahler
Jonathan Stevenson discusses Stephanie’s “coolly seductive” paintings on display at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. Below is one of many titled “Emotional Calculus” like the show itself. He notes that, in “due course, the paintings reveal deeper intent, which is to complicate and enrich your ultimate apprehension of the presumptively simple life.”
#stephaniedeady
Painting After Art is Dead 