symbolistart – Painting After Art is Dead

Latiff Mohidin

Artreview has a nice write up about a retrospective of Latiff’s Pago Pago series from the ‘60s which are as you can see top shelf modernism.

#latiffmohidin

Eric Louie

Boom notes that Louie’s latest work evokes a sense of strength and vigour– agree.

#ericlouie

One of my favorite things about living in Houston was visiting the Cy Twombly gallery at the Menil museum. I can’t think of many other artists whose work can create the kind of visceral connection that his does- I think of it first when discussions veer towards work that is beyond words or language.

BTW- you should also check out this good read about the importance of time he spent with Robert Rauschenberg.

#cytwombly

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

Muzae Sesay

Juxtapoz has words about how the forms in Muzae’s newest compositions “are often blocked by internal barriers in structure that make access difficult to navigate. Beyond these doors could be paradise—or strife, and they invite intriguing, challenging questions.”

#muzaesesay

Judit Reigl

RIP

#juditreigl

Paolo Arao

is a Hopper Prize finalist.

#paoloarao

Loie Hollowell

Just wrapped up a solid show at Pace. I see influence from Agnes in her work.

#loiehollowell

Bethany Czarnecki

Two Coats says (about Bethany’s newest at Massey Klein), while resolutely abstract from a strictly visual standpoint, Czarnecki’s work metaphorically zones in on human contact and cognitive limitation.

#bethanyczarnecki

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

Leonardo Drew

Leonardo Drew is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates sculptures from natural materials and through processes of oxidation, burning, and decay, Drew transforms these objects into massive sculptures that critique social injustices and the cyclical nature of existence.

I saw one at the Perez in Miami a few years ago and was blown away.

#leonardodrew

Bram van Velde

was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as member of the School of Paris but his work resides somewhere between expressionism and surrealism, and evolved in the 1960s into an expressive abstract art.

#bramvanvelde

Clarence Holbrook Carter

was an illustrative painter for most of his career. He evolved into a surrealist and started painting some really great ovals in the ’60s that look like Buddhist prayer mandalas.

#clarenceholbrookcarter

Myra Greene

Artforum has words about Myra’s current series of textually deep work that underscores, I think, the potential of non-representational work to carry potent symbolism:

“Piecework refers to labor paid according to the number of items produced rather than the amount of time spent on the job. Often associated with the ruthless economic exploitation of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this system …is sadly making a comeback—thanks to its versatility in allowing employers to get around minimum-wage and other labor laws…”

#myragreene

Eva Hesse

Was reading this good article on Sol Lewitt and discovered he wrote to Eva suggesting she try making bad work.

#evahesse