"What happens when abstract art gets inventive, playful, even rebellious? A handful of current exhibitions offer compelling answers. Painting in Space brings together four titans of abstraction - Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella - whose visions of space, flatness, and opticality are as radical now as they were decades ago. Anish Kapoor's early pigment sculptures at the Jewish Museum also pushed boundaries and set the stage for the monumental artworks for which he's best known today. These creators laid the groundwork for later generations of artists, including Luz Carabaño, whose quiet, dreamy paintings are almost hypnotic."
"A quick glance at Luz Carabaño's oil paintings could lead someone to dismiss them as lightweight crowd pleasers. Their convenient sizes, most ranging from tiny to merely small, and sweet, muted palettes make them almost too charming. But spend more time with them and their complexity unfolds. The artist works on canvases that are just a little irregular, like a rectangle drawn with an unsteady hand, undulating subtly. Nothing about the works seeks to greedily grab attention. Instead, their smooth, luminous surfaces, stained with amorphous dots and lines, become ever more hypnotic. In her 2023 Hyperallergic review, Ren&eacut"
Four major abstractionists — Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella — are presented together to examine radical approaches to space, flatness, and opticality. Anish Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures at the Jewish Museum demonstrate boundary-pushing material experiments that prefigure his later monumental works. Luz Carabaño’s small, irregular canvases use muted palettes, undulating edges, and luminous, stained surfaces to create quietly hypnotic paintings that reward prolonged viewing. Additional exhibitions, An Incomplete Haunting and Designing Motherhood, revisit historical forces: one traces how past politics shape contemporary experience, and the other considers how product design influences parenting practices.
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