Art Review
Geometric Abstraction in the Age of Disparity
Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams.
Abstraction
Features
Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction
With his latest series of shaped paintings, layered with meaning and symbolism, the artist insists that the so-called canon is informed by non-Western visual traditions that preceded it.
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Celebrated and Unsung Histories of French Abstraction
Is it not social practice to provide an experience in which a different kind of attention and, above all, a different kind of thinking is demanded?
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Refreshing Abstraction in Marfa
Though each artist’s work in Vision Pool is distinct in media and style, they share elements that test perception.
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Hans Hartung, No Matter What They Say
Hartung’s work most likely didn’t go over well in the heyday of conceptualism, earth art, and the literal use of materials.
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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection
For her first museum exhibition, Grace Rosario Perkins invited four other artists to ponder the definition of data, centering questions about how it's collected, authenticated, documented, and distributed — and by whom.
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Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.
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Abstractions Inspired by Light and Space Are an Exciting Perceptual Experience
These are works in the tradition of Light and Space, but instead of light, Brian Wills works with the earthy media of paint and colored thread.
News
Carmen Herrera, Celebrated Cuban-American Geometric Artist, Is Dead At 106
The long-overlooked artist received her first museum survey at age 83.
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The Whirling, Spiritual Abstraction of June Edmonds
Full Spectrum spans 40 years of the artist’s career and provides an efficient crash course for anyone new to Edmonds’s work.
Books
Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography
Francis made over 10,000 artworks, starred in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and, in the late 1950s to mid-1960s, commanded the highest prices of any living painter.
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The Urgency and Resonance of Chakaia Booker
The intentionality of Booker's abstraction gives me the impetus to discuss something about the current zeitgeist that’s been on my mind for a while.