Tag Archives: abstraction
Olivia Boa
With a background in therapy and an active practice, I draw heavily on her understanding and experience of the wide range of human emotions to capture a rawness and deep understanding in her paintings. Here, I take feelings, sensations and observations of human experience, and transforms them into stunning compositions rich in color, texture, movement, […]
The Necessary Magician: Irena Jurek Talks Work With Artist Evie Falci
Irena Jurek: When I look at your work I think about how it’s in dialogue with ancient ideas and the origins of abstraction. Kandinsky is often accredited with having invented abstraction, but it’s existed for so much longer than that. Evie Falci: If you look at Paleolithic art, it’s filled with spirals and dot work, […]
Nilüfer Usta
Art activity is an act of self-personality transformation. The attraction is to our interest in the world outside of us, and this action feeds the unknown. Art is located between these two existing processes and tries to bring these two areas together. The individual’s perception of art enables the transmission of all kinds of emotion. […]
Helmut Federle’s Ferner Paintings at Peter Blum Gallery
The Ferner-paintings, which Helmut Federle painted in 2012 and 2013, are restrained and quiet, and yet they radiate a determining power. They evade one’s view and, because of this, create an optical vortex. All of the paintings are the same size, only 50 cm high, and show only one form: a circle. The blurred borderline […]
Paola Frisoli
Through the search for equilibrium in my creations, I found a temporary lively and bold art which favors the colors, with their volumes and symbols, where there is harmony between the point and understanding. Figurative or abstract is colorful and intense, creating a harmonious dialogue between shapes and colors. As painting a fresco with Tuscan […]
Daryl Goh
My work situates the exploration of everyday life while combing through its little spaces of deeper meanings yet to be abstracted. I view them as incomplete fragments waiting to be reconstructed into a new product that not only brings aesthetics but interaction in a direct or indirect way. Each of my works call for the […]
Shirley Jaffe’s Language of Coexistence at Tibor de Nagy
Bursting with colors so gorgeous they could have been mixed by Matisse, Shirley Jaffe’s paintings bring a rare excitement to our senses. The American artist moved to Paris in 1949 and has lived and worked there ever since. Her early works, with thick brush strokes of pigment and strong gestures, were in the style of […]
Dorothee Vermaaten
I’ve adapted this statement of American novelist John Updike for me and my art, “The cave of humanity shines through the pulsating light of art!” In Updike’s novels there is a stout, powerfully designed language, vibrant colors, and poetic richness, which I also create in my pictures. There are also works that use color very […]
Sarah Hartshorne
My work is an exploration of shape and color, inspired by the ever-changing play of light and shadow. Realism is the structure on which I build my images, but the focus is more on the abstract quality of the visual world than on actual content. I am most often inspired by the natural world, the […]
The Machine and the Ghost: John O’Connor at Pierogi Gallery
Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of Chaos Theory, in his unfinished memoir told the story of when, during the early 1960s, he walked past a classroom at Harvard University and noticed a fellow-professor drawing a near-identical diagram to the one he’d recently landed upon in the course of his groundbreaking research. Possessive of his discovery, Mandelbrot […]
