Tag: Jackson Pollock

  • Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

    Known as a gallerist to the likes of Rauschenberg and Rothko, Parsons spent her weekends making her own art – and as this show proves, her art was also more than noteworthy

  • 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’

  • A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920–2020

    The Whitechapel Gallery takes us on a dizzying, exploratory tour through 100 years of artists’ workplaces in this ambitious group show

  • Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-45

    Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it

  • David Smith: Field Work

    This is a compelling show that reminds us that, though known best for his welded-steel sculptures, Smith identified as a painter

  • Mark Bradford: Cerberus

    In his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, the LA-based artist looks into the past to create an abstract art for the present

  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour

    This joyful exhibition, a testament to Krasner’s astonishing energy, creativity and capacity for reinvention, reaffirms her rightful status as a towering figure in postwar American art  

  • Shen Fan: Works in Abstraction 1992-2017

    This exhibition presents a survey of works by the Shanghai-based artist whose aim is to open up a dialogue across cultures and chronologies

  • Staging Jackson Pollock

    With glimmers of a cloak-and-danger cold war thriller, this look at the US artist’s 1958 UK debut considers the gallery design, remarkable for its time, and the murky matter of Pollock’s secret CIA support

  • Ian Davenport: Colourscapes

    The artist discusses works done over the past year, now at Waddington Custot, London, as well as the three decades of his work on show at Dallas Contemporary