Mixed media paintings with nails by Günther Uecker who began working with nails in the 50s.
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Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten, Bar Code II: Lateral Shift (2008), Acrylic on canvas
Jack Whitten, Alexandrian Quartet (2001), Acrylic on canvas
Jack Whitten has been painting for over 50s from his early work influenced by De Kooning in the 60s to recent work influenced by contemporary technology such as e-stamps and smartphones. His current work involves pieces cast acrylic paint which are collaged onto canvas using a mosaic-like method.
PP/S Gala Benefit Auction
I had a painting included in the PP/S Gala Benefit Auction with Whyte’s at the Irish Georgian Society last month. Above is an image from the catalogue showing my piece on the right opposite a drawing by Ronnie Hughes.
You can view an online version of the catalogue here.
Tom Ormond - Painting
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Ky Anderson
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Paintings by Ky Anderson via Juxtapoz
Michael Carmichael's Giant Ball of Paint
The Anonima Group
Francis Hewitt, Generation of the Tesseract, ballpoint pen on Paper, 1961
The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski. Propelled by their rejection of the cult of the individual ego and automatic style of the Abstract Expressionists, the artists worked collaboratively on grid-based, spatially fluctuating drawings and paintings that were precise investigations of the scientific phenomena and psychology of optical perception.
More info and images here: http://anonimagroup.org
Guillermo Kuitca
I've mentioned Guillermo Kuitca a number of times on this blog before and here are a couple of videos I've come across today. The first is Kuitca's piece Stage Fright which is described on Youtube as "animation for Kuitca's Show at Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. 2007". The piece relates to the artist's series of "drawings" involving inkjet prints of coloured theatre seating plans being dipped in water of varying temperatures. The second is the first of a three part conversation between Kuitca and the curator Douglas Dreishpoon Albright at Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY. The other two parts can be found on this youtube profile.
Guillermo Kuitca Talk at Walker Art Center
Terry Winters
Linking Graphics 2, 1999, Ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
Double Gravity, 1984, Oil on linen
Morula III , 1983-4, Lithograph on paper
Terry Winters will be exhibiting at IMMA in summer 2009.
Adrian Searle on Francis Bacon
There have been a lot of articles in the press recently about Francis Bacon due to his major at Tate Britain. Most I have seen mainly focus on his personal life and those that deal with his work are full of unquestioning praise of his genius. Adrian Searle has an article on the Guardian's website that offers a refreshing alternative perspective on his work. Searle admits that certain works by Bacon are "essential" but also makes the fair criticism that Bacon had a tendency towards mediocrity and repetition in his later work.
The top image is from 1988 and the bottom one is from 1944
The article is to be found here.
Sculptural Paintings
Here are two artists who's work involves a time-consuming, sculptural accumulation of paint without supports such as canvas or paper.
Cian Donnelly, The Light in a Raindrop Wizard, acrylic and medium
http://www.thethirdspacegallery.com/cd_04.html
Craig Staff: Untitled, emulsion paint and sawdust, 1996-7
LS Lowry - Industrial Landscape
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