Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.
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A Painter’s Path from Bosnia to Florida’s Backwaters
Amer Kobaslija captures Florida’s lush, strange atmosphere while examining the expressive potential of oil paint’s luminous, elastic, viscous goo.
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In Praise of Shadow, Color, and Light
Xuan Chen likens the viewer’s experience of her painted constructions to “exploring a newly acquired digital device,” but they have much more staying power than that.
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Elmer Bischoff’s Haunting Figurative Paintings
The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she was a graduate student at Yale, and this encounter helped lead to her first book: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (1996).