Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
Read ArticleBurgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...
Read ArticleThe work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
Read ArticleThrough sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
Read ArticleJames Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...
Read ArticleShirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...
Read ArticleCups of coffee appeared frequently in Elizabeth Murray's paintings. National Coffee Day was first celebrated in about 2005, but did not take off as a holiday until September 29, 2009. That&rs ...
Read ArticleMoe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...
Read ArticleAlvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...
Read ArticleBorn in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
Read ArticleHananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...
Read ArticleLudwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the United States as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck wi ...
Read ArticleThe tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
Read ArticleConrad Marca-Relli was part of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionism, along with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His artistic vision, however, was uniquely apart from eit ...
Read ArticleLeon Polk Smith was an American artist of Cherokee descent who was a pioneer of modernism long before Abstract Expressionism evolved in New York. His works throughout his career emphasized a pure geom ...
Read ArticleYnez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...
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