Critical Texts

Reading about Aldrich in Vitamin P2 lead me on to research his ideas further

10 New Artists to Watch in Abstract Painting

process-led

stencil-like compositions

ink and paint

no waste

layers with paint then sands down to make abstract worn canvases

clear process

geometric patterns reflect his research into hidden structures and architecture

linear abstract pieces explore time and stillness in the physical world around us

lyrical fluidity

works on paper - not canvas

figure still feels present even under layers of oil stick, UV scrawl and freeform gesture

This text brought to me some ideas about my own practice as well as informing me on what other artists are currently undertaking.
Many of these artist's bare an importance to process in their work, concentrating on the application of paint whether this be thickly layered, precisely geometric, or created through chemical reactions.
Molly Zuckerman Hartung and Andrew Holmquist's uses of bright colour have created very different results and I can find similarity between their interest in vibrancy and my use of eye-catching colour.
Robert Holyhead combines gestural marks with geometric shapes, something I use in my work. I feel this creates a dialogue between the layers in my work, however Holyhead uses these marks to bring attention to negative space, his works feeling almost unfinished. Both myself and Holyhead are focused on painting itself.
Many of these artists are interested in layering and the application of paint. Liam Everett considers paints physical limitations whereas Molly Zuckerman Hartung uses a variety of materials to build up the canvas.
Kadar Brock works almost backwards. Building up the canvas to an almost sculptural state before sanding away many layers to create his signature burnt out effect. This makes me question my own work, and the importance of the original surface. This is particularly relevant

Tom Davis

Discusses importance and relevance of a frame in art. Links to my use of a frame in my work when I was testing installation ideas. 

Artist Case Studies

Artist: Peter Bonde

Exhibition: Mirror Foil
Venue: Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen
Date: 8th April to 7th May 2011

Press Release:

Andersen’s Contemporary is proud to present Peter Bonde’s first solo exhibition in the gallery: Mirror Foil. The exhibition consists of new paintings, all painted on a special mirror foil, and thus the exhibition continues Bonde’s by now familiar practice; a constant insistence on – and experimentation with – the painting as media.

Peter Bonde’s experiments with painting during the past three decades covers everything from the use of perishable materials, assemblage, collage, painting on canvases with pre-printed photographs, to the installation of video screens on the canvas. The new works in this exhibition are merely oil paintings, but the experiment and the expansion of painting is still very central, as Bonde, as stated earlier, has replaced the traditional canvas with a special, ultra reflecting mirror foil.

In the exhibited works Bonde’s broad, colorful strokes, and abstract, spontaneous style of painting is now suddenly in constant interchange with the ultra-reflective foil, which incorporates both space and viewer inside the painting. The implications of this move are obviously many. One thing is, that the combination of the reflecting foil’s linear perspective and the gesticulating, abstract surface painting, stresses Bonde’s consistent insistence on painting’s potential as exactly painting. Another is, that the foil – simultaneously with mirroring the room – also seems to dematerialize itself, and the painted motif is thus the only thing remaining, floating weightless in the space as quivering, luminous strokes.

The works exude – as is often seen in works from Bonde’s hand – a raw energy, speed, turbulence, and something uncontrolled. Bonde works consciously with these elements and has throughout his practice refined his work with them, and with what one might name ‘the error’. Bonde is one of the few who is able to translate ‘the error’ into a productive element. Through his strong sense of composition and color, he exploits the potential in the aesthetics of i.e. paint over and cross out. The result are works in which the decomposed and ‘ugly’ appears in compositional balance and painterly beauty.

Appear uncontrolled and experimental. Unplanned, spontaneous.

The reflective canvas begins to bring the space and the viewer into the painting.

The Table

Links to Rauschenberg - invaded by the real world:

Robert Rauschenberg, Rebus [1955]

Bonde paints onto mirror - interesting. brings space and surroundings into work, viewer becomes part of the work

This is my collection of artists I have come across on instagram. I always like to screenshot the image so I remember to research them. Some I have noted for the way they have curated their work, as inspiration for my own degree show piece. These artists are: 

David Bradley

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Peter Demos

Nice Weather curated by David Salle

Malte Zenses

Ida Ekblad

Installation inspiration:

Eva Magill-Oliver

Mary Weatherfold

Nora Berman

Angela Bulloch

Mevlana Lipp

Painting Inspiration:

Tom Padlock

Katharina Grosse

Erin Loree

Huseyin Sami

Anker Weyer

Thomas Grunfeld

Rachel Rossin

Corrine Wasmuht

Christopher Wool

Eileen Noonan

Charline Von Heyl

John Hoyland

Howard Hodgkin 

Rana Begum

A fellow student suggested I take a look at this artist in relation to the cutting out factor in my work. Her work is coming soon to the Sainsbury Centre so this is a perfect opportunity for me to check out her work (12 May - 1 Oct)

The show at SCVA is called Space Light Colour. These are all ideas I consider within my own practice. The bio on the museum's website describes Begum's practice as "blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture". With links to "Minimalism and Constructivism". "Fresh and relevant for today"
Considers the light and space of a gallery, responding to the architecture

Her recent work is very geometric with attention to colour

Links to my previous work

See Research File > Exhibitions and Museums for review of the exhibition

Jackson Pollock, Leonhard Emmerling

"The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces... the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating" - pollock

pollock's process is what is most interesting to me. dancing, movement, dripping

hans namuth's photographs therefore are somewhat more important than the work itself

Jason Martin

As the light hits the work, the viewer is taken deep into the crevices of Martin’s seemingly giant brush strokes. They way Martin leaves his process of making abundantly clear, is what is so intriguing about his work.

Considers light - consider how light reacts to my work

Gerhard Richter - movie