abstraction
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Gesture and Abstraction: AbEx Gallery Selections at Hollis Taggart Galleries
Released: October 21, 2011This exhibition celebrates the exuberance of gesture and innovative abstraction that came to define a central tenet of Abstract Expressionism. Often a balancing act between unbridled spontaneity and careful forethought, this body of work highlights the dynamic action painting that defined a new era in abstraction. With the primacy of the painted surface called to order, American postwar art took center stage. With work by Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Richard Pousette-Dart, Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, and Mark Tobey, Gesture and Abstraction features paintings that explore unexpected color...
Bill Scott at Hollis Taggart Galleries
Released: September 2, 2011Bill Scott - September 8 through October 8, 2011. Hollis Taggart Galleries is pleased to present an exhibition of the recent paintings of Bill Scott. The twenty paintings on view are imbued with a joie de vivre that has long been a hallmark of Scott’s lushly colored, abstracted compositions. In addition to these works, this exhibition showcases paintings that introduce an important new compositional element—as the artist re-interprets iconic historical works of art in his own uniquely inventive idiom. Taking inspiration from Renoir’s Large Bathers of 1884–87, Scott’s Two or Three Nudes...
Angela Perko
Released: August 21, 2011Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery presents their third exhibition for Santa Barbara based painter, ANGELA PERKO. Springing on to the local scene about a dozen years ago, Perko’s extraordinary vision has quickly helped her to become one of the primary artistic voices in the community. Her vividly colored abstractions of landscapes, still lifes, and figures recall the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Henrietta Shore, and Stanton MacDonald-Wright – early modernists who helped define the trajectory of Modern art in the teens and twenties. Indeed, it is as if she has taken up their project, drawi...
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