Online Journal
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Harmony and Contrast: Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the Century
Read more: Harmony and Contrast: Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the CenturyIn 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…
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Interview with Alice Adams
Read more: Interview with Alice AdamsAlice 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.…
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Stripes—The Whole Idea
Read more: Stripes—The Whole IdeaMy introduction to stripes as a certifiable subject for art came in 1971 when I was a student at Moore College of Art and visited England for the first time. It was there that I saw Bridget Riley’s hypnotic stripe paintings in her first museum survey at the Hayward Gallery. A year later, I witnessed…
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Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists
Read more: Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract ArtistsGroundings 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,…