abstraction

OPEN CALL | Crossing Over: Women Artists, Abstraction, and Travel in Postwar Rome (1950s-1970s)

Thinking through the nature of individual artistic trajectories, as well as the geopolitical circumstances determining artistic production in Italy of the time, this symposium considers Rome as a transnational contact zone for abstract women artists in the decades following the Second World War, from the 1950s through the 1970s. For instance, the English painter Sandra Blow enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti as early as 1947, committing fully to abstract painting upon her return to the UK in 1950. Other women abstract artists who lived in Rome for various periods of time over the following decades include Mira Brtka and Milena Čubraković from former Yugoslavia, Gencay Kasapçi from Turkey, Marcia Hafif from the US, Bertina Lopes from Mozambique, and Carmengloria Morales from Chile.

ABSTRACT IN NATURE

ABSTRACT IN NATURE by Andrew Hockenberry (https://www.hockenberrystudio.com/)
August, September, October 2021

Session 1: August 6-14
Session 2: August 20-28
Session 3: September 17-25
Session 4: October 1-9

Abstraction

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.”

― Arshile Gorky

Abstract art is an incredibly broad visual genre, encompassing any work that has been untethered from realistic representation. Artists have approached it in many ways and with many different motivations, for example by trying to recreate the natural world in abstracted ways, such as Mondrian, or to connect with the metaphysical or spiritual, such as Hilma af Klint. 

Neoteric Abstract IX

NEOTERIC ABSTRACT IX is a thematic exhibition dedicated to abstract art. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, April 8 - May 1, 2021 and is open to all forms of abstraction, from the geometric to the lyrical, from the precise to the raw. There is a $500 cash award.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABSTRACTION: Beyond Literal Appearance

The terms “Abstraction” or “Abstract Art” are perhaps among the most common references describing particular way(s) of understanding and perceiving the cosmic and daily realities in which we find ourselves.  Abstraction, of course, can be many different things, driven by many different principles and suppositions: some conscious, some intuitive. As an artist; What are yours? 

JUROR: DAVID REIF
-- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Univ. Wyoming

Exhibition Dates:  March 4-28, 2020 .     https://www.arcgallery.org

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