Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...primary piece for the gallery, Sigmar Polke’s “Untitled,” is an abstract painting with a variety of coats, some opaque, some translucent. Buried in these layers of the canvas are a collage of intentional marks, chaotic paint splatter, and textures both smooth and wrinkled. It confuses at first, but each new look brings out a new detail, or stratum...
...idea of this exhibit because “he likes making art accessible in an interesting space that is always open.” At Mather, exhibits rotate once a month, but this idea will linger for a while: curators are already considering a similar display that will involve abstract painting and Velcro that can be moved around. Perhaps this would be the next step in an ambitious transformation of the Three Columns Gallery into art’s future playground. Regardless, Frey’s paintings make the space well worth a walk down the river even now. Interchange...
Then, explains Abhay, 55, priorities for the developing world were decreed in abstract by the medical establishment. "For example, everyone said population control was the No. 1 priority and family planning the No. 1 solution," he says. That approach ran counter to principles Abhay learned growing up in Mohandas Gandhi's ashram at nearby Sevagram (literally, Service Village), which favored community and consensus over hierarchy and imposition...
...second drama, “Romantic Comedy,” took matters to a more abstract level. Written by Jen L. Brown ’07 and directed by Clint Froehlich ’05-’06, the action consists of four people discussing a romantic comedy that they are writing. The piece turns into a more serious fulfillment of its title when one of the writers turns out to be the “real-life” protagonist of their story in the larger play. The situation was constructed cleverly, and made this drama...
...Connor ’06 explored the realm of feminism by printing vivid and even shocking images of women—ranging from the classical nude to the bonded victim—on ripped, square pieces of white textiles. She also combined these prints with a multi-colored, abstract drip technique and chose to present the pieces by leaving them scattered on the floor of the studio, accompanied by a photograph of a similarly random arrangement on the asphalt of a parking...