Structure and Imagery

Installation view of Debra Ramsay's Painting Time From the Press Release: You might be surprised to learn that this installation— comprising a profusion of colorfully painted and curled strips that pile, unfurl, and tumble across the floor—is a landscape. Yes, a landscape. Debra Ramsay generates a strict set of rules to guide her creative process for each new body of work. For this installation, she distilled her daily walks in the woods to pure color. What you are seeing is her color record across four seasons. Painting Time is at once reductionist and exuberant. While Ramsay reduces the complexity of color change in nature to momentary snap- shots over a year of seasons, the swirling heaps of color evoke nature’s abundance. That the conceptual rigor of her work doesn’t overpower the aesthetic pleasure of the experience is a testament to Ramsay’s artistic power. Painting Time exists in the aesthetic realm—a place where interpretation is nuanced and flui...

Film still from Patrick Heron: Painter of Soul Patrick Heron: Painter of Soul . A film about the renowned British artist Patrick Heron by painter and ArtTop10.com Founder Robert Dunt coinciding with the retrospective of Patrick Heron at Tate St Ives. Follow ArtTop 10 here . Film still showing Robert Dunt, artist, film maker and narrator of Patrick Heron: Painter of Soul

A piece from George Warren's current exhibition in Dublin Real Blonde, 2016, painted bronze, 25 x 40 x 8 cm A piece from George Warren's current exhibition in Dublin. Widow Blonde, 2017, oil on hyperseal George Warren in his studio. Installation view at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Installation view. George Warren: Misprint Through June 2, 2018 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West Dublin 1, Ireland * All photographs courtesy of the artist and Hillsboro Fine Art

Untitled (Green Lock), 2016, bass for steel, 49 x 55 x 50 inches Photo by Etienne Frossard  Untitled (Purple Lock), 2016, bass for steel, 46 x 40 x 40 inches Photo by Etienne Frossard  From the Press Release: Willard Boepple is an unabashed modernist: an innovator within a strong and defined sculptural tradition that renews itself through the rigor he brings to his process, and by his being open to the element of surprise. His aesthetic is refined, with enormous emphasis on economy and restraint.  In this exhibition, his monoprints are accompanied by larger scale floor-based sculptures and by a series of 3D printed small sculptures, a new area of exploration. To make his sculptures, he rarely works from drawings or maquettes, but draws the sculptures after they are made, as if to figure out what he has done. It was this drawing practice that led to the inquiry into 3D printing. Boepple’s colorful works on paper are derived from the shapes and sha...

From the Press Release: Lichtundfire  is pleased to announce  SONIC OPERA , an exhibition of new intimate-sized, abstract reductive paintings by New York based artist  Christopher Stout . This marks the second Lichtundfire solo show by the artist, and also his sixth exhibition project with the gallery. Christopher Stout’s first solo exhibition at Lichtundfire was COME OUT 2 SHOW THEM in April of 2017. As a metaphor of the words of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French nobleman and ground-breaking scientist who was guillotined during the French Revolution due to his aristocratic background, who stated that, “…nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything transforms,” SONIC OPERA is both an expansion of, and a focused convergence on the work from his previous solo exhibition. Stout forms a vocabulary that is the result – in its original sense of res ultima (lat.) – of a synthesis of the visual disciplines of abstract reductive painting, abstract min...

Kirk Stoller, Untitled (spun), 2018, wood, metal, stain, enamel, 72 x 23 x 23.5 in Kirk Stoller, Untitled (victory), 2018, wood, paper, stain, metal, 11.5 x 8.5 x 14.5 in From the Press release:   Romer Young Gallery is pleased to present its fourth solo exhibition with artist Kirk Stoller,  the Color ran from his face.  There will be an opening reception for the artist on Friday, April 27th, 6-9pm. Using minimal color, Stoller distills the essence of the work down to its structure and its form. While traditionally the artist has used color as an emotional implicator to invite psychological, emotional and speculative engagements with the viewer, this time around he has chosen a muted, monochrome palette. By neutralizing the spectrum, Stoller minimizes the distractions and interpretations thus allowing for an experience with the larger gestalt. In these subtle and understated sculptures, line creates form and structure provides support; together they of...

The Overcoat, 2018, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 36 x 36 in The Overcoat (detail) The Overcoat (detail) The Overcoat (detail)

Gili Levy in her studio in Bushwick, 2014 This post is a collection of some favorite portraits and snapshots that have appeared on Structure and Imagery since I began the blog in 2011. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed revisiting them. Art Guerra in the doorway of Guerra Paints and Pigment on 13th Street, New York, NY Ann Purcell in her Red Hook studio, 2018 Ana Wieder Blank in her studio, 2018 Stephanie Theodore, founder and director of Theodore:Art, at her space at 56 Bogart, Bushwick, 2013 Amanda Church Alison Sirico, co-founder of ALT ESC Alex Paik, 2014 Arvid Boecker and Don Voisine at Boecker's opening at Stout Projects in Brooklyn Barbara Takenaga at Mr. Fong's on Market Street, LES Beth Gilfilen  Brenda Goodman, 2014 in Hudson, NY Brian Wood in his studio, New York, NY Debra Drexler, Brooklyn 2015 Dave Pollack with his work at Stout Projects in Bushwick, 2016 Debra Ramsay in h...