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Ryan Bock
Ryan Bock — who works under the name Bockhaus — paints and draws almost exclusively in…
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Heather Gwen Martin: Abstractions
Heather Gwen Martin works in bold, hand-mixed color, building large-scale abstractions from shapes that stay just…
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Takeo Yamaguchi: Taking Away
Takeo Yamaguchi trained in Tokyo and Paris, where Cubism’s push toward flat, unmodulated color stuck with…
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I. Rice Pereira
I. Rice Pereira (Irene Rice Pereira) started out painting industrial imagery — ship’s ventilators, gears, hinges,…
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Harold Krisel: Investigations
Harold Krisel came to abstraction early and personally: as a teenager in 1930s New York, he…
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Jean Dewasne: Color Motion
Jean Dewasne carried color blocking into industrial territory. Working in postwar Paris, he abandoned traditional paint…
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Carlos Rosales-Silva
Like Stuart Davis, Carlos Rosales-Silva builds his paintings from flat, interlocking blocks of solid color —…
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Alexander Calder: Color Play
Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, but his gouache paintings on paper reveal the…
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Mary Sully
Mary Sully was a Standing Rock Sioux artist working in the early twentieth century who produced…
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Sophy Hollington
Sophy Hollington is a British illustrator working primarily in linocut. Her images are built entirely from…