We don’t have a huge local art scene in Raleigh, so I’ve had the chance to meet Kelly and see her approach to teaching in a crit format. More and more.
#kellysheppardmurray
Tag: nontraditionalmaterials
Lynda Benglis
I’ve been a big fan of Lynda since discovering her poured work during my undergrad days. Seeing her work getting new juxtapositions inspired a revisiting of some like Contraband and Wing.
Eric Mack
Mack’s paintings investigate how different materials reflect identity. He also works in other media. Artforum caught this recent show (which caught my eye because Linda Benglis is a personal fav).
#ericmack
Bo Hubbard
Polly Apfelbaum
Polly was one of the hits I remember from Abstract Painting, Once Removed. Her work is literally removed from the constraint of a traditional, rectangular canvas (like Rhia and Meg). Image below is from that time frame.
More (her work has moved back onto the wall as she explores new iconography)
#pollyapfelbaum
Jim Hodges
was also in Abstract Painting, Once Removed, and is similar to Polly in making work off the wall. Of interest to the reader may be new reads of the work through the lens that it is in fact “queer formalism.” Jim is of course not alone among queer artists in using non-mimetic modalities. Gonna explore this topic this week.
#jimhodges
Ingrid Calame
As I continue to think back on artists that were having a (or their first, in Calame’s case) big Art world moment while I was doing grad studies I’m reminded of course (since she, Monique and Polly were often mentioned collectively by the critical community) that Ingrid’s works* were considered lineage and departure from Pollock.
(*image below is from that time; her work like her colleagues mentioned above has moved in new directions over the last two decades)
#ingridcalame
Kapwani Kiwanga
like Myra and Torkwase and Kevin is creating a system of related formal elements that also refer to socio/economic relations between elements in American life.
#kapwanikiwanga
Tracy Barwick
Torkwase Dyson
has new work up at NOMA (through the end of the year) that examines the legacy of plantation economies and their relationship to the environmental and infrastructural issues of our current age.
#torkwasedyson
Kevin Beasley
Glad to know that academia has mostly been doing a good job recognizing significant #blackartists- most of the creatives featured in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art at BMA earlier this year weren’t new to me. Glad to “discover” Kevin’s work.
#kevinbeasley
Stephen Maine
Stephen says about below as a series that “conveying paint to canvas by means of a system that uses printing plates instead of brushes would save a lot of time and trouble. This indirect, intentionally imprecise production method yields the great pleasure of surprise while providing a concrete way to think about color, surface, scale, seriality, figure/ground, original/copy, and the psychology of visual perception.”
#stephenmaine
