Chroma: Dine, Dzubas, Francis, Kowski, Saito, Tint, Zimmer

21 May - 29 June 2024

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    Chroma

     

    Dine, Dzubas, Francis, Kowski, Saito, Tint, Zimmer

     

     

     

    Chroma explores the evolving practice of paint handling and color use in contemporary art, illustrating the rich interplay of tradition and innovation among 7 artists. The exhibition offers an exploratory appreciation of color in painting and print.

    Chroma draws widely from local sources, including private collectors, galleries, and the artists themselves, and it includes Jim Dine, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Uwe Kowski, Kikuo Saito, Francine Tint, and Bernd Zimmer.

    • Kikuo Saito, Blue Whisper, 2013
      Kikuo Saito, Blue Whisper, 2013
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    • Kikuo Saito, Swing, 2013
      Kikuo Saito, Swing, 2013
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    • Kikuo Saito, Windmill, 2009
      Kikuo Saito, Windmill, 2009
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    • Kikuo Saito, Rhapsody, 2015
      Kikuo Saito, Rhapsody, 2015
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    • Kikuo Saito, Blue Pine, 1983
      Kikuo Saito, Blue Pine, 1983
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    • Kikuo Saito, Thorn Apple, 1984
      Kikuo Saito, Thorn Apple, 1984
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  • Saito's Studio, New York.
  • The focus of attention in the world of contemporary art began to shift from Paris to New York after World...
    Kikuo Saito, Copper Tree, 1993
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    The focus of attention in the world of contemporary art began to shift from Paris to New York after World War II and the development of American abstract expressionism. During the late 1940s and early 1950s Clement Greenberg was the first art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between differing tendencies within the abstract expressionist canon.

  • Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion of abstract expressionism), who wrote of the virtues of action painting in his article American Action Painters published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews, Greenberg observed another tendency toward all-over color or color field in the works of several of the so-called "first generation" abstract expressionists. However, by the late 1950s and early 1960s young artists had already began to break away stylistically from abstract expressionism; experimenting with new ways of making pictures; and new ways of handling paint and color.

    • Friedel Dzubas, Eagle Pass, 1976
      Friedel Dzubas, Eagle Pass, 1976
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Engadin I, 1962
      Friedel Dzubas, Engadin I, 1962
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Arcadia, 1981
      Friedel Dzubas, Arcadia, 1981
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Hot Roundabout, 1976
      Friedel Dzubas, Hot Roundabout, 1976
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Upstream, 1973
      Friedel Dzubas, Upstream, 1973
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Vendas, 1979
      Friedel Dzubas, Vendas, 1979
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    • Friedel Dzubas, Astral, 1966
      Friedel Dzubas, Astral, 1966
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  • Friedel Dzubas painting.
  • In the early 1960s several and various new movements in abstract painting were closely related to each other, and superficially...
    Friedel Dzubas, Newboro, 1977
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    In the early 1960s several and various new movements in abstract painting were closely related to each other, and superficially were categorized together; although they turned out to be profoundly different in the long run. Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, hard-edge painting, geometric abstraction, minimalism, and color field.

  • Francine Tint, Room of Mirrors, 2023

    FRANCINE TINT ROOM OF MIRRORS, 2023

    Francine Tint

    Room of Mirrors, 2023
    Chroma focuses especially on color field and lyrical abstraction. An important distinction that made color field painting different from abstract expression was the paint handling. The most basic fundamental defining technique of painting is application of paint and the color field painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied.

     

     

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    • Sam Francis, Untitled, 1984
      Sam Francis, Untitled, 1984
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    • Francine Tint, Luscious Skin, 2010
      Francine Tint, Luscious Skin, 2010
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    • Uwe Kowski, Landschaft mit Ziel, 2023
      Uwe Kowski, Landschaft mit Ziel, 2023
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    • Bernd Zimmer, Wandlung IV, 2022
      Bernd Zimmer, Wandlung IV, 2022
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    • Bernd Zimmer, Reflex, 2022
      Bernd Zimmer, Reflex, 2022
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    • Bernd Zimmer, Wassermusik, 2015
      Bernd Zimmer, Wassermusik, 2015
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  • Bernd Zimmer painting.
  • Color field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Artists like Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, and Kikuo Saito, and...
    Jim Dine, Heart in the Sand, 2006
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    Color field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Artists like Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, and Kikuo Saito, and others often used greatly reduced formats, with drawing essentially simplified to repetitive and regulated systems, basic references to nature, and a highly articulated and psychological use of color. In general these artists eliminated overt recognizable imagery in favor of abstraction. Certain artists quoted references to past or present art, but in general color field painting presents abstraction as an end in itself. In pursuing this direction of modern art, these artists wanted to present each painting as one unified, cohesive, monolithic image often within series' of related types.

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