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  • Ryan Bock

    Ryan Bock

    Ryan Bock — who works under the name Bockhaus — paints and draws almost exclusively in…

  • Heather Gwen Martin: Abstractions

    Heather Gwen Martin: Abstractions

    Heather Gwen Martin works in bold, hand-mixed color, building large-scale abstractions from shapes that stay just…

  • Takeo Yamaguchi: Taking Away

    Takeo Yamaguchi: Taking Away

    Takeo Yamaguchi trained in Tokyo and Paris, where Cubism’s push toward flat, unmodulated color stuck with…

  • I. Rice Pereira

    I. Rice Pereira

    I. Rice Pereira (Irene Rice Pereira) started out painting industrial imagery — ship’s ventilators, gears, hinges,…

  • Harold Krisel: Investigations

    Harold Krisel: Investigations

    Harold Krisel came to abstraction early and personally: as a teenager in 1930s New York, he…

  • Jean Dewasne: Color Motion

    Jean Dewasne: Color Motion

    Jean Dewasne carried color blocking into industrial territory. Working in postwar Paris, he abandoned traditional paint…

  • Carlos Rosales-Silva

    Carlos Rosales-Silva

    Like Stuart Davis, Carlos Rosales-Silva builds his paintings from flat, interlocking blocks of solid color —…

  • Alexander Calder: Color Play

    Alexander Calder: Color Play

    Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, but his gouache paintings on paper reveal the…

  • Mary Sully

    Mary Sully

    Mary Sully was a Standing Rock Sioux artist working in the early twentieth century who produced…

  • Sophy Hollington

    Sophy Hollington

    Sophy Hollington is a British illustrator working primarily in linocut. Her images are built entirely from…