Six views of abstract painting. David M. Roth reports.
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Tucker Nichols @ Gallery 16
Posted on 16 February 2015.
Minus the cacophony of his installations and wall works, these standalone paintings and drawings reveal a droll sense of humor and abundant invention.
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Don Voisine and Cary Smith @ Gregory Lind
Posted on 04 December 2014.
Two approaches to abstraction, each calibrated for bodily and cerebral impact.
Mike Henderson @ Haines Gallery
Posted on 30 June 2014.
Henderson’s thickly clotted, intensely worked abstractions seem spring from hands directed an urgent, clawing impulse. Julia Couzens reports.
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Thoughts on Recent Abstract Painting
Posted on 05 October 2011.
Are we witnessing a deep rethinking of the historical enterprise of abstract painting? Mark Van Proyen investigates.
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Mark Emerson & Penny Olson @ JAYJAY
Posted on 10 June 2011.
Emerson merges geometric abstraction with Op; Olson probes the microscopic essences of plants.
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Tony May @ SJICA
Posted on 27 January 2011.
Tony May’s SJICA retrospective showcases the artist’s genius for embedding strong ideas in meticulously crafted objects that both tweak and invoke art history.
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Mike Henderson @ Haines
Posted on 15 January 2010.
Employing Cubism’s floating color planes and Abstract Expressionism’s turbulent paint and ambiguous ideographs/hieroglyphs, Henderson’s works generate their own force field.
Westfall & Thibeault @ George Lawson
Posted on 04 June 2009.
Stephen Westfall and Marie Thibeault are abstract painters whose work is rooted in bodily experience.
