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Hans Hartung, No Matter What They Say

by Joe Fyfe 20 hours agoFebruary 3, 2023

A caustic New York Times review from 1975 almost destroyed his career, but he remained one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

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Artists Reflect on the Harms of Data Collection

by Lynn Trimble May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Scotti Hill April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Daniel Gerwin February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

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.

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The Whirling, Spiritual Abstraction of June Edmonds

Avatar photo by Allison Conner December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Full Spectrum spans 40 years of the artist’s career and provides an efficient crash course for anyone new to Edmonds’s work.

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Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford October 24, 2021October 22, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

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.

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Brenna Youngblood Revises the Language of Abstraction

Avatar photo by Allison Conner April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

Youngblood’s paintings would probably make Piet Mondrian yelp.

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Stanley Whitney’s Improvisatory Approach to Abstraction

Avatar photo by Allison Conner March 22, 2021March 22, 2021

Each canvas follows its own off-beat rhythm.

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Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of Abstraction

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney December 3, 2020December 4, 2020

The artists at False Flag Gallery demonstrate the through line between art of the African continent and modern abstraction.

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Anne Neely’s Ethical Abstractions

by Carl Little August 22, 2020November 19, 2021

Neely has created paintings that respond to some of the major issues of the day: climate change, environmental water loss, and immigration.

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Alice Trumbull Mason, a Pioneer of Abstraction, Makes a Triumphant Return

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn June 15, 2020November 5, 2020

Emily Mason remembers her mother saying, “I’ll be famous when I’m dead.” Though fame may not be quite secured (yet), the artist’s first-ever monograph acts as bulwark against forgetting her legacy.

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