Abstraction in the Singular
Abstraction in the Singular is a survey of painters from the West Coast and Arizona that have had an impact on how we think about the genre of abstract art.
Running counter to the New York aesthetic of what Jerry Saltz recently termed 鈥淶ombie Formalism,鈥� we can say there is no way to lump the divergent practices of the painters that are included in Abstraction in the Singular into a particular school, trend, or ethos. By using the gestural and the geometric, the atmospheric and the iconic, the theoretical and the pleasurable in any number of hybrid ways, the artists in this survey challenge how we think about non-objective imagery as an integral set of pictorial relations. In other words, the painters included in this show ask us to engage with how the indexical quality of abstract art is intimately tied to a language of touch, tempo and transposition. Such singular qualities characterize the very best of what abstract painting has to offer us today by building on the achievements of a genre that has kept art goers captivated for well over a century.
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Abstraction in the Singular is a survey of painters from the West Coast and Arizona that have had an impact on how we think about the genre of abstract art.
Running counter to the New York aesthetic of what Jerry Saltz recently termed 鈥淶ombie Formalism,鈥� we can say there is no way to lump the divergent practices of the painters that are included in Abstraction in the Singular into a particular school, trend, or ethos. By using the gestural and the geometric, the atmospheric and the iconic, the theoretical and the pleasurable in any number of hybrid ways, the artists in this survey challenge how we think about non-objective imagery as an integral set of pictorial relations. In other words, the painters included in this show ask us to engage with how the indexical quality of abstract art is intimately tied to a language of touch, tempo and transposition. Such singular qualities characterize the very best of what abstract painting has to offer us today by building on the achievements of a genre that has kept art goers captivated for well over a century.
Artists on show
- Alison Rash
- Audra Graziano
- Bill Dambrova
- Bryan Ricci
- Chris Trueman
- Christopher Kuhn
- David Michael Lee
- David Spanbock
- Dion Johnson
- Helen Garber
- Ian Pines
- Jenny Hager
- Joe Lloyd
- Jonathan Apgar
- Kent Familton
- Mark Pomilio
- Max Presneill
- Michael Kindred Knight
- Michelle Jane Lee
- Rachel Goodwin
- Rema Ghuloum
- Samantha Thomas
- Travis Rice
- Yvette Gellis
