Structure and Imagery

Installation view: John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964 - 1966 at Pace Gallery. Photograph by Paul Behnke This review was originally written for  ABCRIT ,  and appeared there in October 2017. John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964-1966 September 15 – October 21, 2017 PACE 32 East 57 th Street New York, NY 10022 John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964-1966 is the first in-depth exhibition of the painter’s work in the United States in 25 years.  Hoyland’s work is rarely seen on this side of the Atlantic and this marks only the third time I have been able to see works by the artist “in the flesh”. The first being at Flowers Gallery (NY) in the group exhibition The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie which featured a small number of works by Hoyland dating from the early 1980s through the early 2000s. The second was the stunning Power Stations mini retrospective in 2015 at Damie...

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Gili Levy: Recent Work No. 4 Studio info John Hoyland: Power Stations, Paintings- 1964 - 1982 Newport Street Gallery info Surface Tension featuring work by: Lala Abaddon, Jamie Powell, Sarah Sieradzki and Rachael Wren Garis & Hahn info Lori Ellison @ Sideshow and Open Studio Sideshow Gallery info Paul Klee curated by Ashley Garrett and JJ Manford Underdonk info

Hans Hofmann: Late Paintings Copyright © 1988 The Tate Gallery cover image: Flowering Swamp , 1957, (detail) An Appreciation by John Hoyland I first saw the paintings of Hans Hofmann in 1964 at the Kootz Gallery in New York. Clement Greenberg the American critic had kindly offered to show Paul Huxley and me around some of the New York galleries. It was our first visit to the USA and I remember he introduced us by saying 'I've got a couple of sharp shooters here from London'. I found this flattering (but I don't know if it was meant to be). We went initially to the Andre Emmerich Gallery and looked at paintings by Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, both were slightly familiar from an article Greenberg had written for Art International in 1961 and Louis had shown at the ICA in 1959 and at the Knoedler Gallery in 1963, but I had not seen very many. I was keen on both but had more trouble agreeing with Greenberg on the quality of all the Nolands. Clem said, cha...

Sandra Blow, Eclipse , acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm. (Image courtesy of Hillsboro Fine Art) Modern British Painting and Sculpture With work by Gillian Ayres, Terry Frost, Anthony Caro, John Hoyland, Sandra Blow and others. Opening: January 17th, 6 - 8 PM January 17 - February 16, 2013 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West  Dublin 1, Ireland Gallery Hours of Business Monday - Friday: 10.30am-6.00pm Saturday: 10.30am-4.00pm

John Hoyland, Survivor Man 17.08.08, acrylic on cotton duck, 152 x 140 cm. Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day.  Why can't we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself?  We can have in thought.  Then it will go hard if we can't in practice.  Our lives for it. Granted no one but a humanist much cares how sound a poem is if it is only a sound.  The sound is the gold in the ore.  Then we will have the sound out alone and dispense with the inessential.  We do till we make the discovery that the object in writing poetry is to make all poems sound as different as possible from each other, and the resources for that of vowels, consonants, punctuation, syntax, words, sentences, meter are not enough.  We need the help of context-meaning-subject matter.  That is the greatest help towards variety.  All that can be done with words is soon told. ...

The brilliant, English abstract painter is dead at 76 years old.  Below are images from " The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From The Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie ." This exhibition was held at Flowers Gallery in New York , 28 January-26 February 2011. Hoyland's work was featured prominently. "Non-figurative imagery possessed for me," he wrote, "the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning." For more information on John Hoyland follow the links below. Painters' Table Guardian UK obit Abstraktion Blog John Hoyland by Mel Gooding John Hoyland: Scatter the Devils