like Vasa was (posthumously) included in Taylor Graham‘s booth at EXPO Chicago. Alice produced brilliantly colored abstract expressionist oil and watercolor paintings by staining her canvases with rounded biomorphic forms. Using a technique of pouring diluted oil paint onto a canvas in layers, she sometimes experimented with variations of a single hue and at other times created a purposeful interplay of different tones
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is one of several artist included in Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions which highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. Agnes work while non-figurative is much closer to the lineage of conceptual art than abstract painting or sculpture.
#agnesdenes
Vittorio Colaizzi at Two Coats of Paint lays out a case that Joan Thorne is a painter and artist.
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#joanthorne
Interweaving modernism, folk tradition, and arts and crafts, Natasza Niedziolka knits and embroiders large works filled with bold colors and shapes. While her techniques are traditional and domestic, Niedziolka’s work is distinctly contemporary, merging modernist abstraction with the textile tradition.
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has an amazing exhibit up at the Bechtler. If you are in the Charlotte area any time soon I highly recommend it. The artist and her longtime assistant, Jillian Glass Braganza, dress a loom with silk yarn, a task that can take weeks for larger works. These threads, called the warp, will remain stationary on the loom during the weaving, but first, they are placed over the schematic drawing and soaked with water. Using fiber-reactive silk dyes, Jónsson either pours liquid in her desired colors onto the threads or dabs it on with a brush. While the warp threads are drying, Jónsson soaks and paints the weft threads, which will be drawn through and inserted over and under the warp, to run perpendicular along the length of the textile. When all the threads are dry, weft meets warp bit by bit on the loom, slowly bringing Jónsson’s painting into being.
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whose patterned paintings depict full-body garments of female activists engaged in direct action protests, like Xylor, is in The Apex is Nothing.
#ellenlesperance
BmoreArt says Sheila’s newest, Relief at New Door Creative, is one of nine April exhibitions to check out.
#sheilacrider
Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images.
#erinshirreff
Elizabeth Frazzare at Artsy says abstract weaving is having a moment (and explains why she thinks so). She gives a nod to Liz (and covers Melissa and the women of Bauhaus obviously).
#lizcollins
Michael at Two Coats has words about Caroline’s “compelling in-betweenness” – a commentary on her very unique process that involves found materials.
#carolineburton
Hyperallergic says (among other, relevant things) Jackson’s “anti-canvases” in the Whitney Biennial is their “most thrilling discovery.”
#suzzanejackson
In Angela Heisch’s abstract paintings, deep blues and warm taupes swirl together in bold spirals of light and dark, hard edges and soft gradations. Her enigmatic forms resemble slices of plants, flowers, living beings, and even the cosmos; they vibrate with energy that’s both familiar and otherworldly.
#angelaheisch
One of only a handful of women to be included within the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Yvonne Thomas combined the intuitive mark-making of the movement with a keen eye for the expressive possibilities of color.
#yvonnethomas
Painting After Art is Dead 