All new generations of artists, curators and critics seem to feel the need to defend painting. That makes sense. Painting on canvas is of little use to others, but it’s basically synonymous with big-A Art. The paintings represent the angels and demons of art, their optimism and attention, their arrogance and solipsism.
“A new tool for painters” In Manhattan’s Nahamd Contemporary, we’ll show you how contemporary artists have pushed for new media without leaving the safety of what can be read as art. A collection of 57 works by 31 creators, curators Eleanor Cayre and Dean Kissick say that while the pursuit of beauty remains the definition of painting, new technology irreversibly redefines the meaning of painting. Insist. The show, which seeks to hold both ideas at the same time, embodies the embrace of a mysterious, ambivalent tradition. Cottage core Farm life to Catholicism practiced by an almost young, very online cultural subset. Paintings are at stake — and a conservative desire for old avant-garde is at stake.
Certainly painting is a technology, and it has always been. Lenses and transistors (photographs, videos, computer graphics) are irreversible to artists and others, just as the invention of oil paints, which dries slower than Tempera, has brought new effects to the artist in an innovative range. Brought about a profound change. Let’s see the world.
Vertical layers of hovering brushstrokes and emeralds Laura Owens The canvas aposeo-sizes Photoshop techniques. Ei Arakawa “A homage to Owens is hanging nearby: One of her paintings It will be displayed in the low resolution tapestry of the LED.State-of-the-art anatomical research by video artists Kate Cooper, The camera skit the digital model of the human body slice by slice, much like Leonardo is playing with an MRI machine.
Cayre and Kissick will conduct a thorough investigation into the ongoing identity crisis of painting, whether or not the artist feels like painting himself. The show is conceptually restrained, on the one hand by artists moving from traditional painting to the digital realm, and on the other by artists creating animations and unpainted objects, and pushed into painting companies to go to the walls.
Painters represent those who are trying out new tools Julian Nguyen, A person with a reputation for applying Renaissance techniques to modern idioms. His digital portrait of a charming young man smoking in the tub throws away brushes and palettes for the iPad. The strokes Nguyen placed on the screen are displayed on the monitor, placed in the front and center, and marked with oil-based paint-like marks.
For the latter, Jordan WolfsonPixelized prints of Oz Dorothy and her companions. The outdoor Eveed Frame is actively styled with hearts, crosses, Star of David pendants, and devoted slogans like “Surrender to God.” The words “God is God, God is God …” are crawling around the border. Despite the lack of paint, the untitled work combines some of the traditional themes of the medium. A tribute to his predecessor (that is, Ashley Bickerton, a major assemblage artist of the 80’s). And enough logo confidence to blush abstract expressionists.
Kissick is a critic in New York Normal column Spike Art Magazine skips like a stone between classic and ultra-modern. For example, from considering Fragonard to pondering NFTs (non-fungible tokens), we never leave Frick Madison. Cayre Independent art An advisor specializing in the 1950s and today.Both have a stake in modern times — the meaning of living now,it’s not.
Newness does not always improve. “Imago” (2022) Ezra Miller —Artists, art directors, web developers — is a wassy abstraction that evolves in real time on a grid of four monitors that appear to be driving a car into the rain Monet with the wipers off. A distracting black cross runs in the center of the image where the screen meets. What emerges up close is not the brushstrokes, but the black gaffer tape that covers the seams. Give me a dusty Rosco about a new media experiment where physical beings are slapped together and seem reluctant.
Speaking of Rothko: “Disc buddy # 4448”By NFT Tojiba CPU Corp, Will be displayed on a square screen. A rough digital cartoon of a thick floppy disk with white hands and a dove for shoes, with the word “Rothko Maker 2” on its face. These NFT projects combine a set of properties to generate thousands of unique images, advancing the idea that art must be simple and reproducible.Let the old guards whine Bad taste.. This is a “new picture” and even an ugly picture can be a good investment.
Of course, beauty is still possible — at the exhibition, SespriceSqueeze pictorial gestures from the industrial process. Wade Guyton, A person who abuses and paints inkjet printers.Or a delicate, damp surface Jacqueline Humphreys Or Anika E. These are one of the smartest updates in which paintings tend to talk to themselves and ignore the wider world. The tone here is devoted, not iconoclasm.
The strange urgency of age is condensed in the 2022 photo Jessica Wilson, “Perfectly Clear” — A nearly photo-realistic 3D rendering of a hand drawing a squeegee on a spooky windowpane.It’s a flat UV print Debond And one of the least pictorial objects in the show. Still, the composition of the tart, our view from the outside, and the shimmering tactile sensation of the blade that scrapes off the soap reminds us that the medium is not important. What is important is the basic urge of art to go beyond the chores of life.
Painter’s new tool
Until September 24th. NahmadContemporary, 980 Madison Ave., Manhattan, nahmadcontemporary.com.
