Abstract Expressionism February 3–June 4, 2017 Guggenheim Bilbao Abandoibarra et.2 48001 Bilbao Spain www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus Exhibition organized by the with the collaboration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Curators: David Anfam, Edith Devaney, and Lucía Agirre The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Abstract Expressionism, an ambitious selection of works by the artists who spearheaded […]
n the 1950s, artists like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline elevated the gesture to the position of the protagonist in abstract expressionism. In the 21st century, Donald Martiny advances that idea considerably further by freeing the gesture of gestural abstraction from the substrate which, heretofore, provided the context that brought […]
by Sara Evans Eighty-nine-year-old Ellsworth Kelly is one of the pillars of Abstract Expressionism, a major figure in both Color-Field and Minimalist painting. His abstractions are precise, tight and geometric, with color-block grids and intensely hued, hard-edged forms floating in space. But there is a softer, less well-known side to […]