Tag: abstract art

Susan Roth – interview ‘Art can be made by anybody at anytime, anywhere with anything. That’s the gospel!’

The American painter Susan Roth talks about working in the ‘trenches of our time, where time bends and folds’, the ‘roiling’ surfaces of her shaped canvases, her recent works in synthetic stone, and being filled with ‘radical hope’
Suzanne Valadon

This retrospective brings the acclaimed and trailblazing, but nearly forgotten French modernist artist back into view
José Parlá – interview: ‘I was experiencing flashbacks to my dreams from the coma, and I put that into these paintings’

Following a life-and-death experience, the New York-based Cuban artist explores different notions of reality in breathtaking paintings that capture the lights we all see in the dark
The Reason for Painting

This show is billed as bringing together a group of younger artists ‘experimenting with colour, mark and form, to create moments of joy’, but while there is much to enjoy here it is hard to find commonalities
Haptic Vision: Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton

Inspired by the American Pattern and Decoration Movement, Lee and Bruton emerged in the 1980s and cut through male-dominated preconceptions of what abstract art should be
Lawrence Calver: Under the Sun

These large textile works, in which Calver stretches, bleaches and stains recycled or repurposed fabrics, speak of sustainability and the land on which we live
Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings

She was an abstract painter out of time, a visionary and a maverick, but Georgiana Houghton was also a medium, whose inspiration came from an unexpected source.
Julie Sass: Be-Bop Your Visual Acts (Shared Space)

Danish artist Julie Sass presents a cohesive body of new work as part of Copenhagen Arts Week that signals complex, painterly explorations in abstract minimalism
Agnes Martin

This major retrospective spans Martin’s career from the early 50s to the last drawing made before her death, and confirms her as one of the foremost painters of the 20th century
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

To measure the imprint that a century of abstract art has left on society, culture and politics, Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery collates artwork from every corner of the globe