is one of the many fantastic artists in Queer Abstraction. Also- Small Talk at the Salad Bar may be the best painting title I’ve seen in a minute (and its a damn good painting).
#markjoshuaepstein
Tag: queerartists
Elijah Burgher
was in Queer Abstraction along with Mark and Paolo (and many others). The Whitney says his work sits “at the intersections of representation and language, imaginary and real worlds.”
#elijahburgher
Paolo Arao
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
Agnes Martin
Like Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin loved the desert and was a sort of mystic- certainly a transcendentalist. I think the definition of sublime in the dictionary should have an image of one of her paintings. Although many historians tried to call her a minimalist, she was definitely about being an expressionist- “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
#agnesmartin
Etel Adnan
Amy Sillman
Some artists can actually talk/write and they say dope shit like “Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue.”
#amysillman
Mark Bradford
I wish I lived in London- Mark is having a great moment in Art history and these massive new pieces are another step forward.
#markbradford
Julie Mehretu
Some images on Pinterest of other work by Ms Mehretu. I haven’t yet seen any of these in person- but Artsy thinks her show at White Cube in London is a must see if you are doing Frieze Week.
#juliemehretu
Painting After Art is Dead 