Tag: abstraction

Christopher Le Brun & Charlotte Verity – interview: ‘There is such a thing as too much dialogue’

To coincide with a rare joint exhibition now on view at The Gallery at Windsor in Florida, the artists consider the limitless possibilities of paint, their resistance to genre boundaries and the importance of keeping a harmonious distance between one…
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
Maki Na Kamura – interview: ‘People in the presence of my work can project their memories of all kinds of genres of bygone paintings’

The Berlin-based Japanese painter touches on her interest in patterns of structures and texture, a knowing circumvention of figuration and the magic of painting
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Paths to Abstraction

This show gives visitors the chance to follow the Scottish artist from her early work at the St Ives School to her exploration of Switzerland’s Grindelwald Glacier in 1949, which proved a turning point that led her to a more…
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction, 1940-70

This thrilling exhibition brings us work, much of it never seen before in the UK, from a largely forgotten generation of female artists working in gestural abstraction
Hans Op de Beeck – interview: ‘It’s about suspension of disbelief and how far you can take a spectator into something undeniably fake’

The artist talks about art-making as catharsis and why, for him, it is all about the creation of visual fiction
Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’

Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter
Robert Fitzmaurice – interview: ‘I started to truncate the figure a lot more, take liberties with it, and add extra limbs’

The artist talks about the work in his latest show, now postponed, his interests and influences – and how he is coping with lockdown
Hedda Sterne

Long-known as ‘the only female at the birth of abstract expressionism’, Romanian-born Sterne always denied being an abstract painter, and this gem of an exhibition makes it clear why
Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’

Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time