Ruminating on Abstraction, check out the large wet-on-wet abstract works of
Lisa Kowalski at Half/Dozen. It's up until October 23rd. A
good throw back to the
Abstract Expressionists. And I mean
good because these 60" images breathe.
I can't help but feel alot of young abstract work feels stiff, copy-cat or caught up on being non-representational for lack of anything else (this coming from a painter who is fixated on representation!). It might take a career to understand how paint relationships work. I can't understand how artists at the student-level ever
begin with Abstraction. Where are they working from?
Even though Abstract Expressionism was explored and absorbed into a sort of mainstream art language, I think it might be one of the more difficult things to explore.
Semi-Related: A friend of mine keeps pointing out that a painting I bought from a
local painter bears a resemblance to some
Mary Heilmann. It's true, but both their bodies of work (and concepts) only intersect at the stripes.
UPDATED: See Lisa Kowalski s
installation shots via OpenWide PDX.
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