symbolistart – Painting After Art is Dead

Diane Christiansen

Like Selena has work in An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman.

#dianechristianson

Carla Accardi

is represented in Biennale, although she is no longer with us.

#carlaaccardi

Eamon Ore-Giron

Hyperallergic suggests Eamon’s abstraction is from a different origin. The show in question is Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago at MCA Denver. Gotta love any creative who has a series titled “Talking Shit.”

#eamonoregiron

An Hoang

Not sure where I first stumbled onto An’s paintings.

#anhoang

Mimi Chen Ting

Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022), a Chinese-American painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose high-spirited practice fused Eastern and Western aesthetics, has died on March 6. The cause was complications due to a long battle with cancer.

#mimichenting

Gabrielle Vitollo

Gabrielle is an American painter living in Berlin, Germany who abstracts reality to explore the human condition’s relationship to nature through modernist painting approaches.
#gabriellevitollo

Matthew Thomas

By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.

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Isamu Noguchi

has his own museum; opened in ’85 by Isamu (1904–1988), it was the first museum in the United States to be established, designed, and installed by a living artist to show their own work. Located in Long Island City, Queens, the Museum itself is widely viewed as among the artist’s greatest achievements.

#isamunoguchi

Nasim Hantehzadeh

Artsy thinks that Nasim’s work at The Pit’s booth at Frieze LA is top shelf.

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Byron Kim

Hyperallergic says that despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.

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is in Cosmic Geometries at EFA Project Space, which also has work by Carrie and Dorothea and Yevgeniya and Biren. Organized by Hilma’s Ghost, the show is a group exhibition of intergenerational and intersectional artists that examines the spiritual and aesthetic functions of abstract painting and geometry in art.
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#mahirwanmamtani

Renée Stout

gets noted in a wonderful article by Hyperallergic about two recent shows at the Philips Collection (which includes Alma and Sam and Sanford). Her work is mostly figurative and she also uses non-representational strategies like below.

#reneestout

Victor Ekpuk

Victor is an internationally-renowned Nigerian-American artist based in Washington, D.C. His paintings, drawings, and sculptures reimagine the ancient Nigerian communication system, Nsibidi, to explore a diverse spectrum of meaning addressing historical narratives, the contemporary African diaspora, and humanity’s connection to the sacred. Much of his work is figurative- his public art is this blogger’s favorite.

#victorekpuk

J.M.W. Turner

This Artforum article spoke to me, having recently been in Texas. Wish I had made it to Dallas to see the show but I did get to see below speaking of inspiring sunsets.

Clearly, Turner was not an abstractionist (romantic is the term the canon demands we use). Particularly in his later life, Turner painted many pictures exploring the effects of the elements: wind, rain, snow, sea, and storms.

Speaking of romantics and clouds…

#JMWTurner

Abie Harris

is in Color Focus with Katie (the work in this show is distinct body of work from this sometimes figurative painter).

#abieharris

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