Abstracted

Abstract painting has long been understood as a celebration of the act of painting itself. A space where intuition, gesture, and color take precedence over representation. From the visionary experiments of Hilma af Klint and Vassily Kandinsky to the bold innovations of later American abstractionists, the movement has continually pushed artists to explore what happens when form is liberated from a subject.

This freedom grants artists complete autonomy: the ability to translate emotion, style, memory, and imagination directly onto the surface without the constraints of traditional narrative or figurative rules. In abstraction, the canvas becomes a field of possibility and a place where intuition leads, and meaning emerges through sensation rather than depiction.

For viewers, Abstract art is designed to evoke, not explain. It invites emotional response, curiosity, contemplation, and sometimes even disorientation. Abstraction remains one of the most flexible and expansive modes of expression in contemporary art. It adapts to the artist’s voice, the viewer’s perception, and the moment in which it is encountered.

This May, we invite artists working in all forms of abstraction to submit work that embodies the freedom, experimentation, and emotional resonance that define the abstract tradition.