Author name: danielghill

Harmony and Contrast: Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the Century

In the early 1990’s there was an uptick in exhibitions devoted to abstract painting in New York City galleries. The development was noted as a move away from the neo-expressionist figuration that had dominated the painting scene of the 1980’s. Some of the poststructuralist trappings of 1980’s abstraction persisted, but Peter Halley’s heady interpretations of French theory (“The Crisis in Geometry”)1 had given way to the more sly and relaxed postmodernism of painters like Jonathan Lasker.

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Interview with Alice Adams

Alice Adams is an American artist known for her sculpture and site-specific land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and, since the mid-1980s, her public art projects in cities across the United States. I first encountered Adams’ work when I was curating one of the 80th anniversary exhibitions for the American Abstract Artists, in 2016. I was intrigued by her sculpture and installation work, and the great range of projects she had undertaken in her career. We spoke via FaceTime earlier this spring. 

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Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists

Groundings examines the continuing legacy of American Abstract Artists by juxtaposing the works of historic and contemporary members of the organization. Having little abstract tradition of their own, American artists, many of them immigrants to this country, formed this group in New York in 1936 at a time when abstract art was met with strong, even critical resistance. Through this group, one of the earliest to be particularly inclusive of women artists, a new advocacy emerged providing opportunities to exhibit and a much-needed refuge for discussion related to new ideas and artistic theories.

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