"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."
"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"
""Even now, when they've been inducted into the canon of American abstraction, it's clear that [the artists] relentlessly pursued their own trajectory." - John Yau"
Multiple current exhibitions examine the versatility and history of art, from aggressive abstraction to intimate paintings and historical artifacts. Painting in Space brings together Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella, emphasizing radical approaches to space, flatness, and opticality. Anish Kapoor's early pigment sculptures at the Jewish Museum reveal boundary-pushing material experiments that anticipated his monumental works. Luz Carabaño's small, irregular canvases use muted palettes and subtle undulations to unfold quiet, hypnotic complexity. Additional exhibitions, An Incomplete Haunting and Designing Motherhood, trace political histories and the influence of product design on parenting, respectively.
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