{"id":2133,"date":"2019-05-29T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsolido.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:15:47","slug":"abstract-diversity-in-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsolido.com\/es\/2019\/05\/29\/abstract-diversity-in-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract Diversity in Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

ArtSpace\/Virginia Miller Galleries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highly accomplished artists with different visions of abstract painting are being exhibited in \u201cAbstract Diversity in Painting\u201d at ArtSpace\/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables, Florida through July 2019.
For its spring show Virginia Miller, owner and director of Greater Miami\u2019s longest-established contemporary fine art gallery, selected three of the gallery\u2019s leading artists: Florian Depenthal, Ned Evans and Linda Touby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite their very different approaches to abstraction, Miller notes there are significant similarities in the work: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese artists have been painting for decades and have now reached the mature phase of their careers.\u201d \u201cAll three are painting from their personal experiences,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll are dealing with light. Although Evans work is from an earlier series, Depenthal\u2019s recent work and Touby\u2019s series of \u2018Sidney\u2019s Doors,\u2019 have become much more minimal, making the same artistic statements with fewer elements. Like the late works of Matisse, this seems to be a characteristic of experienced master artists.\u201d \u201cDepenthal\u2019s new body of work demonstrates his mastery of the illusion of three-dimensional depth on a flat canvas,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

said Miller. Inspired by the play of light and shadows in his outdoor studio, the German painter uses unorthodox compositions to create startling, elegant paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On display in the front of the gallery is a Depenthal painting from 2005. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe newer work is very different from the older paintings, which have much more structure and layers and are thicker,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

he said. \u201cNow because of my 30 years\u2019 experience, I can achieve the same volume and depth and motion with less color and fewer elements. In some of these paintings I took the color out and managed to achieve the same power and volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo me, they look as colorful. The black and white almost creates color in your mind.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Depenthal\u2019s paintings have been shown in more than 100 exhibitions throughout Europe as well as in this country. They are represented in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Art Institute and the ZKM Museum of Karlsruhe, Germany; the Cultural Ministry of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany; the Pfizer International collection; and Lake Point Tower Collection in Chicago; among numerous others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ned Evans is a world-class surfer who has travelled the world seeking massive waves. His energetic canvases, inspired by surf and strand, evolved from \u201cnatural influences of the ocean, transferring its movement and energy into abstracts of color, strokes, patterns and layers,\u201d according to the artist, who states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe physicality of surfing and the immersion in the medium translate into what happens in the studio. It\u2019s not conscious\u2014it just happens for me. I like to immerse myself in the process of the painting and the liquidity of the paint. Everything\u2019s done wet-on-wet, and it carries right over into a similar sensation when you\u2019re surfing. In other words, it\u2019s about getting lost, losing the gravitational pull, or at least suspending it all for a moment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Evans\u2019 paintings have been featured in more than 100 exhibitions in such leading venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the La Jolla Museum of Art, and the Laguna Beach Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Linda Touby is represented by two series of paintings in this exhibition, her 2006-09 \u201cHomage To Giotto\u201d series, whose canvases replicate the impastoed textures of the 14th Century Italian master\u2019s frescoes, and the more recent \u201cSidney\u2019s Door\u201d series.
The late Sidney Geist, a highly respected sculptor and author of the definitive book on Constantin Brancusi, had a studio on the same floor as hers . Whenever she looked at the battered white door to his studio, she knew that some day she would paint a series to memorialize her friend and accomplished neighbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe shapes in these paintings, and the colors under the white as well as the lines, are how I wish to emphasize the emotion as well as my impression of the experience,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Touby says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touby\u2019s paintings have been exhibited in some 250 shows and are in the collections of the U. S. State Department, which has included her work in numerous embassy exhibitions around the world, as well as those of General Motors, the Phillips Corporation, and Bertholon-Roland Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notorious Wikileaks files disclosed that Touby\u2019s week-long visit to Kuwait sponsored by the U.S. State Department\u2019s ART in Embassies Program was the subject of a series of cables. One stated that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMs. Touby\u2019s fascinating displays of her work and energetic lectures before hundreds of students on the topic of \u2018The Journey of an American Artist\u2019 were polished, riveting, and so well-received that she continued to make new contacts until just hours before her return flight to the U.S.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAbstract Diversity in Painting\u201d will be on exhibit at ArtSpace\/Virginia Miller Galleries at 169 Madeira Avenue in downtown Coral Gables from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and every first Friday from 6 -10 p.m. for Gables Gallery Night. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.virginiamiller.com<\/a> or call 305-444-4493.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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