Helen Frankenthaler

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Helen Frankenthaler

Midnight Shore

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Issy Wilson

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Issy Wilson is a London-based artist originally from Chicago. Her practice is deeply rooted in the natural world, with a focus on drawing, painting, textiles, and research. She gathers inspiration by observing her surroundings from the seemingly mundane to the extraordinary: noticing water stains on pavement and moss in the cracks of city bricks to the breathtaking views of the national parks and ancient forests.

Her work explores the structures of roots, trees, mycelium, lichen, and mosses, examining how they mirror blood vessels, neurons, rivers, and mountains in their search to form strong organic connections. Her art studio has become an ecosystem of its own, with pieces evolving symbiotically.

Materials: ink, tea, emulsion, cheese cloth, acrylic, pea, canvas, pastels.

Issy Wilson

Ecdysis

ink, tea, and emulsion on canvas, 186x300cm, 2024

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Ecdysis detail

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Limestone I

ink and emulsion on canvas, 150x250cm, 2024

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Limestone II,

ink and emulsion on canvas, 150x150cm, 2024


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Color field Painting

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The term colour field painting is applied to the work of abstract painters working in the 1950s and 1960s characterised by large areas of a more or less flat single colour.

From around 1960 a more purely abstract form of colour field painting emerged in the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam and others. It differed from abstract expressionism in that these artists eliminated both the emotional, mythic or religious content of the earlier movement, and the highly personal and painterly or gesturalapplication associated with it. In 1964 an exhibition of thirty-one artists associated with this development was organised by the critic Clement Greenberg at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He titled it Post-Painterly Abstraction, a term often also used to describe the work of the 1960 generation and their successors.


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Muriel Napoli

Muriel Napoli

Nature 391 painting

Acrylic on Canvas 100 by 140 cm

Muriel Napoli

Nature 377 Painting

Acrylic on canvas 160 by 100 cm

Muriel Napoli

Nature 362 painting

Acrylic on canvas 80 by 80 cm

My paintings are a tribute to nature's unwavering spirit of transformation, untouched by human intervention, from the dawn of time to the present day. The mighty oceans and their formation, the arrival of life-sustaining water, the laying down of sediment, the fiery fury of magma, the creation of coal, the birth of celestial bodies, accretion, geological wonders...these are but a few of the subjects I seek to illuminate. Through the harmonious blending of organic and mineral elements, I strive to evoke nature's symphony of change. In my art, I aspire to strip away all that is artificial, the vestiges of human tampering, and present a celestial vision of the natural world, pure and unblemished.

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Artist Statement What is found in my pictures is nature's ability to change independently of the action of humanity, from its origins to today. The formation of the oceans, the origin of water on Earth, sedimentation, fire, magma, formation of coal, of planets, accretion, geological phenomenon ...I mix organic, mineral, the elements and various displays of these elements. I eliminate, as much as possible, everything that humanity has added to the world, all the changes introduced, everything which is artificial. My work tends to connect the world to beings and things, to form a whole, an entirety.

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Muriel Napoli is a talented French painter whose works have been exhibited in USA, Italy and France. Seeking to remove elements of pure superficiality or attractiveness, she creates impactful abstract works marked by a unique colour combination, sweeping shapes and a striking sense of space.

What is found in the paintings of Muriel Napoli is the capacity that the nature of transforming independently of the action of man, from origin to the present. Formation of oceans, origin of water on earth, sedimentation, fire, magma, coal formation, planets, accretion, geological phenomena ... "I mix the plant, the mineral, the elements and the different manifestations of these elements. I make the most of everything that man added to the world, all the transformations brought by him, which is artificial. My work tends to link the universe to beings and things, to form a whole, a whole. "

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Muriel Napoli

Passing on her emotions, feelings, transitional ideas that materialize on canvas through flat tints of the material, oil, knife directly positioned on the floor, on the frame, without any reference to reality itself.

"My ambition is to lead the viewer to think, to meditate, perhaps to dream"

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Muriel Napoli, an abstract painter with a passion for the beauty of nature, recently embarked on a remarkable artistic adventure in Vietnam. During her one-month artist residency program in Ho Chi Minh City, she was captivated by the astonishing richness of Vietnamese nature. Today, we invite you to join us on a three-minute artistic exploration with Muriel as she shares her techniques and the deep inspiration she drew from this awe-inspiring environment.

Muriel’s artistic process is a harmonious blend of instinct and technique. She meticulously selects her materials, ensuring they can capture the essence of the natural world she seeks to convey on her canvas. With a palette of fluid and vibrant colors, she sets out to create a visual symphony that celebrates the simplicity and beauty of the Vietnamese landscape.

Muriel’s dedication to capturing the essence of nature goes beyond the visual realm. She strives to infuse her paintings with the very essence of the flowers, fruits, and vegetation that so inspired her. Through texture, layering, and the interplay of light and shadow, Muriel breathes life into her art, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the beauty and serenity of the natural world.

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5 months ago

Alice baber

Alice Baber

“When I first conceive of a painting‭, ‬I must feel it‭, ‬I hear it‭, ‬I taste it‭, ‬and I want to eat it‭. ‬I start from the driving force‭ ‬of color‭ (‬color hunger‭); ‬then comes to a second color to provide light‭, ‬luminous light‭. ‬It will be the glow to reinforce the first color‭. ‬I then discover the need of one‭, ‬two‭, ‬three‭, ‬or more colors which will indicate and make movement‭, ‬establish the psychodynamic balance in midair‭, ‬allow freedom to take place‭, ‬add weight at the top and bottom of painting‭, ‬and create mythical whirlpools between larger forms‭.”

‬Alice Baber‭, ‬Color‭, ‬1972‭

Alice Baber‭ (‬1928-1982‭) ‬was an American abstract expressionist painter‭, ‬best known for the organic‭, ‬biomorphic forms she painted‭ ‬using a staining technique which allowed her to explore pure color and elicit a sense of radiant light‭. 

Baber’s stylistic development during the period between 1958‭ ‬and the mid-1970s is characterized by a series of experiments with color‭ ‬and technique‭. ‬Having turned to abstraction in 1958‭, ‬she began exploring a monochromatic approach to painting‭, ‬primarily using shades of red‭. ‬By 1960‭ ‬Baber came to add yellows‭, ‬greens‭, ‬and lavender to her work‭. ‬She gradually incorporated a growing variety‭ ‬of colors into her canvases‭, ‬a process that reached its hiatus by the mid 1970s when she finally introduced black to her work‭, ‬achieving a new range of effects and subtleties‭.‬

Her evolving approach to painting is also characterized by her choice of materials‭. ‬In the first half of the 1950s she worked primarily in oil‭, ‬but soon began to dilute her paint in order to emphasize the different shades of color‭, ‬eventually expanding her‭ ‬practice to include also acrylic on canvas and watercolors on paper as alternatives to oil‭. ‬Watercolors in particular lent themselves more easily to her growing interest in transparency and luminosity‭, ‬as well as her interests in joining light and color in a kinetic fusion‭. ‬Baber also worked with acrylic‭. ‬Working in both mediums in parallel led to discoveries that altered the course of Baber’s painting‭, ‬a method of‭ ‬‘sinking’‭ (‬or‭ ‬‘staining’‭) ‬and‭ ‬‘lifting’‭ ‬to create abstract‭, ‬organic forms‭ ‬–‭ ‬a visual style that has since become her signature‭. ‬Color would remain central to the artist’s practice throughout her career‭, ‬a theme on which she wrote at length in several publications‭, ‬and which became the subject of‭ ‬exhibitions the artist curated‭, ‬including Color Forum‭, ‬a large-scale group exhibition held at the University of Texas‭, ‬Austin‭, ‬1972‭.‬

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Post-war feminist artist and lithographer Alice Baber produced brilliantly colored abstract expressionist oil and watercolor paintings by staining her canvases with rounded biomorphic forms. Using a technique of pouringdiluted oil paint onto a canvas in layers, she sometimes experimented with variations of a single hue and at other times created a purposeful interplay of different tones, as in The Song of the Wind (1977). Baber referred to her attempts to relay feelings through color as a “color hunger,” and exploration of “the infinite range of possibilities.” A member of the cooperative March Gallery in downtown New York, where she held her first solo exhibition in 1958, Baber was married to noted Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins. Baber’s work can be found in the collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

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Wheel of Jaguar, 1982

Watercolor on Paper 12 × 11 in | 30.5 × 27.9 cm

Alice Baber

The Light Inside the Mountain, 1978

Oil on canvas 33 × 55 in | 83.8 × 139.7 cm

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Just Arrived, 1962

Oil on canvas 57 × 44 in | 144.8 × 111.8 cm

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7 months ago

Exhibition 2

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The gallery has a number of exhibitions, but I mainly focused on the Amie Siegel exhibition and the exhibition from Christopher Mahon.

By Christopher Mahon.

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VISUAL is pleased to present Sincere, or what you will, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Christopher Mahon. 

Mahon works across a range of media including sculpture, painting, photography, installation and performance, and his practice is notable for the variety of disciplines and materials used. He has worked with actors and dancers to create site-responsive environments that combine the mundane and theatrical, and often incorporates found objects in the finished piece. 

For several years Mahon has maintained a studio in Cairo, Egypt, basing much of his sculptural production on the techniques and capabilities of the small industrial workshops – the foundries, metal-, stone- and wood-working studios – that dot the city’s backstreets. 

Mahon’s sculptures occupy the unstable space between lyricism and materiality, the concrete and ineffable. His materials reference the form and patina of everyday objects and their archaeological forebears. Figurative and decorative elements – carved stone arms, cast brass urns, found textiles – speak to both the historical context and daily domesticity. His material language embraces the mechanical detritus of the modern metropolis. Once functional objects now beyond repair, furniture so broken that no one will give it houseroom. The twisted fragments, nuts, bolts, cogs, pipes, of an obsolete infrastructure are repurposed or recreated so they can play their part as elements in a newly finished work. 

Take BAI GAMAYKA, a key work in Sincere, or what you will. The seemingly meaningless set of brass sans-serif letters mounted on the wall reproduces the sign that hangs above one of Cairo’s few remaining downtown bars. The cursive flourish of the r fell off long ago and there is no soft g in colloquial Egyptian pronunciation. Bar Jamaica/BAI GAMAYKA hangs opposite The Sky so Blue, a scrawled handwritten phrase that has been recreated in outsized aluminium letters that hang floating in space; half-baked poetry facing off against a hard-bitten bar. 

The exhibition’s title Sincere, or what you will foregrounds the artist’s interest in the ambiguous, the porous, the making things whole anew, if only temporarily. While it is now widely accepted that sincere derives from the Latin sincerus meaning clean, pure, sound, a common folk etymology has it that sincere is derived from the Latin sine, without, and cera, wax. The phrase was used to describe a perfect marble sculpture with no cracks needing to be filled with wax to trick unwary buyers. “or what you will” is drawn from the full title of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy replete with love triangles and protagonists in disguise. The play was written to be performed on the twelfth night of Christmas or the feast of the Ephiphany, a holiday that shifts around the calendar depending on the Eastern or Western Christan tradition, and which now marks the boundary between an extended holiday period and the imminent return to work. 

This exhibition, too, exists on the boundary between places and times both real and reimagined, where memories and materials can appear and dissolve and reappear anew. 

Sincere, or what you will is co-curated by Benjamin Stafford (VISUAL) and Rachael Gilbourne (IMMA, RGKSKSRG). A text by Gilbourne, An Ode to Spring, from the End of Winter, to the Start of Summer, accompanies the exhibition and is available here and at the gallery. 

Christopher Mahon is an Irish artist and the work for VISUAL was produced in his studio in Cairo. He attended the École Jacques Lecoq Movement Research Laboratory, Paris, holds an MA in Art and Research Collaboration from IADT and was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2018–2019. Mahon has exhibited in Ireland and internationally. Projects include Paris Art Book Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2024), Aswan International Sculpture Symposium (2021), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam (2019), Le Menagerie de Verre, Paris (2019), Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2019), RGKSKSRG Cribs, Dublin (2019), Double Negative, ARKO Art Centre, Seoul (2018) and Active Archive, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2018). Mahon’s work is held in private and public collections in Ireland, Europe and North America.

By Amie Siegel

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VISUAL is pleased to present Asterisms, a solo exhibition by Amie Siegel. Siegel is an American artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works across film, video, photography, sculpture, painting and installation. 

Asterisms is both a moving-image work and a sculptural installation, its uniquely star-shaped wall of overlapping images built to a scale the artist proposed in response to the architecture of VISUAL’s Main Gallery. An asterism is a loose collection of stars that form a pattern, similar to but smaller than a constellation. This notion of disparate elements combining to form a complete image is key to both Asterisms itself, and to Siegel’s practice in general, in which deep research produces artworks that address cultural, political and social questions.

The setting and context of Asterisms is the United Arab Emirates, a place that has modernized at a rapid pace, built on wealth originally derived from ownership of natural resources. Throughout Siegel’s cinematic work the viewer encounters images of factories, labour, commerce, leisure, technology, humans, and animals. These elements are interwoven in the artist’s careful montage and in the various cinematically-scaled geometries that build and layer over time, both in their accumulation of meaning but also as the images dynamically overlap and connect on the star-shaped wall. Horses play a role in the work, and are seen stabled in luxurious accommodation, in sharp contrast with the conditions in which migrant labourers live and work. Horse’s flanks echo the shape of sand dunes and seem to merge with the landscape. The material of that same desert landscape – sand – is everywhere; kicked up into dust by hooves, encroaching on buildings, filling the doorways and windows and almost totally burying houses. Sand is dumped onto artificial islands, to arrest their rapid erosion back into the sea.

These artificial islands comprise a development designed to mimic a map of the world when viewed from above. Despite having once been a flagship project of the Emirate of Dubai, they are no longer promoted by the government. They hide in plain sight, simultaneously visible and invisible. In one of the later shots in Asterisms, the camera zooms out from a party on one of the islands, where a crowd drinks and dances by a swimming pool. As the partygoers recede into the distance, the lights of the sole inhabited island in a sea of dark ones makes them appear as distant and alone as a star hanging in a night sky.

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On show in VISUAL’s Digital Gallery is Siegel’s RM, a series of photographs of radioactive minerals. This group of works allude to Asterisms both in their constellation-like display, individually illuminated in a darkened space, and their own almost astral representations, glowing gently in dark matter. Many of the minerals Siegel photographed are pseudomorphs, or “false forms”, an occurrence where one mineral’s substance is entirely replaced by another while retaining its outward physical appearance. In each of these differently scaled works, the inherent danger of the radioactive material contrasts with their jewel-like colours and forms, their true nature disguised.

Alongside these works Siegel presents Listening to the Universe (2014), a work-on-paper and act of montage derived from the artist's collection of science and space museum postcards, presenting the vacuum of sound that is outer space, and our continual efforts to listen, or know, our sphere and beyond.

Asterisms is a commission of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil and VIA Art Fund. Additional support by KTLO, Los Angeles.

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Amie Siegel (b. 1974, Chicago, IL) is a visual artist working variously with film, video, photography, sound, performance and installation. She is known for her layered, meticulously constructed works that trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, cultural ownership and image-making.

Recent solo exhibitions include Panorama, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2023); Bloodlines, Scottish National Museum Gallery of Modern Art (2022); The Silence, ArkDes, Stockholm (2022); Medium Cool, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2019); In Focus: Amie Siegel – Provenance, Tate St. Ives (2018); Winter, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2017); Strata, South London Gallery (2017); Double Negative, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2016); Ricochet, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2016) and Imitation of Life, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2016). She has participated in the 34th São Paulo Bienal; 12th Gwangju Biennial; Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; Glasgow International, Scotland; 5th Auckland Triennial, New Zealand; and the Whitney Biennial, among numerous other group exhibitions. 

Siegel’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Art Institute of Chicago; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; MAK-Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her films have screened at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam and New York film festivals. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm and Guggenheim Foundation, a Fulton Fellow at The Film Study Center at Harvard University and a Smithsonian Artist Fellow. Siegel has received numerous grants and awards including from the Sundance Institute, Princess Grace Foundation, ICA Boston (Foster Prize), Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. In 2023 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.


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7 months ago

Marbling

The quality of a surface that has streaks of color, like marble

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The patterns are formed by first floating the colors on the surface of a liquid, and then laying the paper or fabric onto the colors to absorb them.

looking through ancient volumes full of arcane recipes for mixing such exotic ingredients as Irish moss seaweed, spirits of green soap, and distilled bile from the gall bladder of an ox.

They were used for decorative purposes, and also as a background for official documents and signatures, to prevent erasure and forgery. 

The traditional marbling inks were just not durable enough to stand up to washing. Now, though, fine marbling can be done just as easily on cloth as on paper with these new paints, and modern colors are much more vivid and brilliant and long-lasting than ever in the past.

Stone Marble:  Gives the effect of real marble.  Stone marbles are the simplest patterns, but they often take longer to make than the more complex combed patterns, because so many thousands of tiny droplets of color must be applied.

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Marble is metamorphosed limestone, quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone, and gneiss, another common metamorphic rock, sometimes begins as granite.

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Metamorphic rocks are sedimentary or igneous rocks that have been transformed by pressure, heat, or the intrusion of fluids. The heat may come from nearby magma or hot water intruding via hot springs. It can also come from subduction, when tectonic forces draw rocks deep beneath the Earth's surface.


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1. letters to felice, frank kafka | 2. strangers, ethel cain | 3. overture (1992), helen frankenthaler | 4. desperation sits heavy on my tongue, a.m | 5. against the loveless world: a novel, susan abulhawa | 6. a green thought in a green scale (1981), helen frankenthaler | 7. wife, mitski | 8. ruth 1:16 | 9. lush spring (1975), helen frankenthaler | 10. no exit, jean-paul sartre


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Exhibition

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23rd of October

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They have a private collection upstairs, They also have on going o'Malley collection that is on show.

Ciara Roche, The 'honeymoon' exhibition

12th oct- 1st Dec

This exhibition takes place in there largest area, the main gallery.

Butler Gallery is very pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Wexford-born artist Ciara Roche. This is the artist’s first large-scale museum exhibition in Ireland. 

This suite of paintings on canvas and paper refer to domestic scenes and public places with source imagery derived from the artist’s own photography, film stills and found imagery. Roche continues to explore representational image-making using wet and quickly applied oil paint to create a sense of luminosity and movement on the surface. The paintings explore places and themes that range from exclusive anonymous hotels to empty 24-hour cafés. 

For this exhibition, Roche has embraced new challenges and created her largest paintings to date. The process, she says, was akin to learning a new language. The paintings were realised by translating her smaller sketchbook sized works onto a substantially larger framework. Figuring out materials and brushes that worked well for this new format took a while to master but the resultant paintings have been achieved with great skill and an acute awareness on how far to push things.

The Late Lounge, Roche’s largest painting to date, is both an interior and a window out to a city scape. We are invited to step into a high end restaurant, or perhaps it is a bar, complete with grand piano, and insulated against what might be happening in a corporate blue city beyond. Glass Table, like many of the paintings on view, presents more questions than answers: who sits here and what schemes are conjured up around this glass table? People are purposely missing from these paintings; the viewer is encouraged to insert themselves into the scene and create their own narrative. 

There is frequently an unease in Roche’s paintings, a sort of critique of this hugely capitalistic world we live in. She is often struck by the dark side of scenarios and says that her solution is ‘to paint those fears, acknowledging the things that might happen, like exploring different versions of my life’. Viewing the works in this exhibition is like entering an uncanny world of suspense made up of light and shadow. These lushly rendered paintings, either small or large, capture timeless moments for the viewer to ponder. The rewards are wonderful.

curated by: Claire Keegan

"I don't paint people into my paintings because if I were to put a figure in them, then it would feel like the viewers couldn't go in and imagine themselves in that space... I like the idea of being able to let your mind wander and fill in the empty spaces".

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Sam Gillan

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Watercolour, 4 1969

Watercolor, and aluminum powder on fiberglass paper 23 3/4 x 18 1/8" (60.3 x 45.9 cm)

Blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation, Sam Gilliam wrestles with the physicality of the art object and its relationship to the viewer.

he moved to Washington, DC, during the formation of Color Field painting, which emphasized the use of flat planes of color and novel paint application techniques.

Gilliam soon experimented with color, form, and technique, pouring pigments and folding canvases while still wet. 

 remove his canvases from their stretchers entirely, and, inspired by laundry on clotheslines, hang them from the ceiling or walls.

Gilliam transformed painting into something sculptural and three-dimensional, disrupting traditional modes of presentation and viewing. 

He also incorporated metal forms, alternative materials like yarn and glitter, varied applications of paint, and quilt-inspired patterning into his practice.

“the expressive act of making a mark and hanging it in space is always political. My work is as political as it is formal.”

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Sam Gilliam emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School
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Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969,

acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson.

his lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials.


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Wangechi Mutu

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Kenyan American, born 1972.

“I create as a way of reinvigorating myself by replacing and reworking images and ideas that never fully represented me and the women and the people I was born from and who made me,” Wangechi Mutu has said.1 Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1972, the artist relocated to the US in the mid-1990s to study fine art. Her experience of migration and her diasporic identity have infused the artist’s creations with an expansive philosophy of belonging: “If a plant has just one root that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to stand straight and strong. The idea of having many roots, of having your feet really grounded in different places, is extremely empowering for me.”

 Mutu is committed to reshaping the narratives of womanhood; by doing so, she challenges Western culture’s racist and misogynistic tenets

In her collages, sculptures, videos, and performances the figure of the woman is depicted with the complexity and profundity of a timeless archetype

As the artist explained the origin of her collage-making practice,

“I took these idealized stereotyped images of women and Eden-like ‘tropical’ images of Africa to create other images, tension-charged, potent, because they were full of my own emotional upset at the original ones…I was taking apart the images of a world that refused to acknowledge me.”

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In Yo Mama (2006), the heroine—modeled after Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, the Nigerian feminist and mother of the legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti—embodies the role of Eve, the biblical first woman. She stands atop a beheaded snake, piercing its severed head with the stiletto heel of her boot. The serpent’s coiling body unravels placidly through the pink outer space, holding the two panels of the collage together as its tail wraps around a distant planet. Mutu’s cosmic composition utilizes the potent symbol of the snake in all its richness: the cunning creature associated with Eve’s damnation morphs into a mythical, celestial being whose dead body bridges two planets, while its wounded phallic form evokes oppressive masculinity. In Mutu’s retelling of this foundational tale, Eve defeats the snake and emerges victorious, taking control of her own story.

In Mutu’s practice, mixing materials through collage, bricolage, and montage is not a mere formal choice but a guiding principle of resilience and regeneration. 

Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu
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