FAIR WEATHER: Geometry (First of Two)

Miami Art Fairs, Art Basel Miami Beach, Aqua, Art Miami, Bridge, Pulse, Red Dot, Scope, Rubell Collection
Already posted:
FAIR WEATHER: Deal or No Deal
FAIR WEATHER: Prologue
FAIR WEATHER: Art Basel
FAIR WEATHER: The Containers
FAIR WEATHER: Art Miami
FAIR WEATHER: Art Imitates Art
FAIR WEATHER: Pulse
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Animals
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Cut Paper
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Looms with a View
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Hotel
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Wynwood
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Stacks and Bales
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Giants
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Manual Labor
FAIR WEATHER: Scope
FAIR WEATHER: Red Dot
FAIR WEATHER: Bridge, Both Locations
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Suspense

FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-"We Are the Borg"

ABMB: Frank Stella "protractor" painting, John Chamberlain sculpture, Josef Albers painting (another Chamberlain/Albers pairing) at Waddington Galleries, London

I feel like the marathoner who has hit the wall and pushed past it. I'm almost there! To those of you who have commented here on the blog, mentioned my effort on your own blog, or e-mailed me directly, thank you. You've been like the folks on that 26-mile route handing out water.

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If you follow this blog, you know that I write regularly about geometric abstraction. My own work falls into this category, and I'm intellectually and visually engaged by the endlessly inventive ways artists have employed a few basic shapes with a variety of materials (a few in these Geometry posts: household gloss on canvas, tempera on canvas, wax on panel, plastic tape, lights, paper and pins, needlepoint, cast resin, plexi, collage, painted wood and aluminum, and colored pencil as both drawing material and collage element).

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I've included many splendid examples of the genre in the posts from the various venues, but I wanted a dedicated post on geometry. Turns out there will be two. Even after I edited and re-edited my selections, I still had too much for one post.

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ABMB: Alfred Leslie, Cough Control, 1961-62, at Allan Stone Gallery, New York

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So let's start with some works from the Sixties and Seventies, and then follow a visual narrative of shape, color, proportion and material as one image leads into the next.

Art Miami: Artist and date to be identified at McCormick Gallery, Chicago

Art Miami: Jesus Rafael Soto, Mural Cinetico, 1983, painted wood, aluminum and other materials, at Leon Tovar Gallery, New York

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Art Miami: Frederick Hammersley (two paintings at left dated 1965), Jeremy Thomas and William Metcalf at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe



ABMB: John McLaughlin, paintings from the 1960s, including 1963, foreground, at Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

ABMB: Jo Baer, Untitled (White Square Lavender), 1964-1974, and Dan Walsh at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

ABMB: Esther Stocker at Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna

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ABMB: Francesco Vezzoli, Galerie Neu, Berlin

ABMB: Robert Mangold at Pace Wildenstein, New York and elsewhere


ABMB: Richard Tuttle, also at Pace Wildenstein

Closer view of one work below




ABMB: Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine, New York


Scope: Pepe Lopez at Hardcore Contemporary, Miami

Art Miami: Joseph Goldberg at Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle



Art Miami: Regine Schumann at Galerie Renate Bender, Berlin

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Art Miami: Carlos Estrada Vega at William Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe



Aqua Hotel: Cecilia Biagini at The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn



Art Miami: Mark Fox at Larissa Goldston, New York
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Pulse: Ivelisse Jiminez at Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami

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Pulse: Beat Zoderer at FTC Gallery, Berlin
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