Manuel (who I first discovered at the Armory Show) is a contemporary Haitian visual artist best known as a painter of abstract works that often evoke figurative shapes in nondescript environments. Mathieu draws from Haitian visual cultures and from Western art movements such as expressionism and existentialism.
#manuelmathieu
Artsy notes Candida’s newest work, which has left the wall- like Lien she is a Joan Mitchell foundation alumn.
#candidaalvarez
Artforum- rightfully- notes Flora’s newest from her time in Venice in a space set up by #victorimiro “for invited artists to spend extended time in the historic city and make new bodies of work”. These are definitely abstractions although not clear she would call them nonrepresentational. Reminds me of Erin’s brushwork.
#florayukhnovich
A few pages after learning about Ann Cathrin, I ran across the image below. Reading and looking more reveals she works through concepts as distinct bodies of work, changing her compositional strategy from time to time.
#gemmasmith
Was reading the print edition of Artforum when the image below grabbed me. Which lead to reading this interesting interview about the themes that- like the disparate materials she uses- are woven, literally, into her work.
#anncathrinnovemberhøibo
Artforum says that Maysha is bringing us “the darker, freakier parts of living and the imperfect beauty of daily life.”
#mayshamohamedi
A living legend indeed #hyperallergic. If you like minimalism, here’s more as well as more of Carmen’s work.
#carmenherrera
Doesn’t make any sense to have entries on Eva and Arshille and not #Matta (btw- if you know all 3 of them but not Charles Seliger, check him out.)
Was reading this good article on Sol Lewitt and discovered he wrote to Eva suggesting she try making bad work.
#evahesse
Since I’ve written about banal formalist modalities a couple of times recently I figured three times is the trick? Croatian artist Julije Knifer responded to the post-revolutionary socialist aestheticism (asceticism?) of the ’50s and ’60s “with black irony, riffing on geometric abstraction in “anti-paintings” characterized by a deliberately meaningless monotony.”
#julijeknifer
Was talking about automatism with a fellow artist who surprisingly was unfamiliar. In addition to other good material on the topic the Tate’s online presence has this great article on Susan “discussing her work in the context of involuntary drawing, Susan Morris provides a history of her practice by examining the art of Jules-Etienne Marey, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Tacita Dean.” Her work deriving from data on sleep patterns is also interesting.
#susanmorris
Another icon that like Abraham we have lost recently. She was known simply as Zarina, and for her symbolist semi-abstract prints. Her website is still up.
#zarina
