Phillis Ideal

American Abstract Artists* has released a free, digital version of their most recent journal in which 32 current members write about a chosen past member, no longer living, who inspired or encouraged them, or simply whose work they admire. Phillis writes about Jean. TIP- open the link on a laptop to view the rag (the print and images are pretty tiny on your phone).

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*American Abstract Artists was founded in 1936 in New York City to promote and exhibit abstract art at a time when it was not well received in the United States. Since then, AAA has supported its members with exhibitions, panels discussions, talks, a website, and journals. BTW, hard copies of the current journal are only $20 due to a generous gift from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.

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Lenore Tawney

Julie at Hyperallergic has words about Weaving Abstraction at the Met which pays tribute to the designs and technical innovations of long-ago weavers and the 20th-century artists who took inspiration from them. The exhibit includes work by Lenore (posthumously) along with Sheila and some of the women of Bauhaus. Because of her unorthodox weaving methods, Tawney was spurned by both the craft and art worlds, but her distinct style attracted many devoted admirers (More).

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Megan Bickel

I’ve had the pleasure of getting to work with Megan as we’re both members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Was pleased to see she has work up at Surface Noise. About her work, she writes “I make objects, paintings, and videos that abstract or oscillate between announcing and concealing meaning.
The resulting work cultivates unserious fields of imagery and installations that interrogate what it means to be visually critical in the 2020s and the future. I do this to playfully mimic, mock, and question the American confrontation between the public and the intertwined spectacle of journalism, political science, advertising, and propaganda.
The resulting work embraces the absurdity of painterly abstraction against fictional digital landscapes superimposed onto real landscapes.”

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Alice Baber

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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Agnes Denes

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.

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