contemporaries: eleven abstract painters

INTRODUCTION

These are eleven abstract painters that I either know personally or have become acquainted with through websites, blogs and other online resources. Their work appeals to my own aesthetic preferences-- for abstraction that is both intuitive and spontaneous, yet also in some way structured, carefully considered and edited for clarity.

Rebecca Crowell, July 2009

Nicholas WiltonPalimsest 55”x48” oil and beeswax on panel, 2009www.nicholaswilton.com

Simultaneous happenings, similar but different, hidden and clear…

Nicholas Wilton Time Unfolding, 55”x48” oil and beeswax on panel, 2009.

…Line as a way of exploring and expressing life.

Catherine CarterBrown Web with White, 30”x20” acrylic on paper on canvas, 2008www.catherinecarterart.com

Catherine CarterCobweb, 30”x20”, acrylic and paper on canvas, 2008

…the veiling and unveiling of forms

Diane McGregorButterfly’s dream, 24”x19”, oil on canvas, 2009www.dianemcgregor.com

Diane McGregorCrossing, 18”x18”, oil on canvas, 2009

Like a spiritual journey my work emerges from my consciousness.As in meditation, I am present in the moment.

Ian MacLeodComposition #185, Acrylic, paper and plastic on canvas, 20”x20.”www.ianmacleodpaintings.ca

Ian MacLeodComposition #180, 36”x48”, acrylic and plastic on canvas

Kathleen WaterlooBeboki, 48”x36” encaustic on panel, 2008www.kathleenwaterloo.com

…architectural fantasies which attempt to record the urban/urbane/mundane observances I see on a daily basis.

Kathleen WaterlooNetwork 1, encaustic on panel, 9”x9”, 2008

…movement, change, process and transformation…

Lisa PressmanLinking 3, 24” x24” encaustic, 2009 www.lisapressman.net

Lisa PressmanMapping 36” x 36” encaustic and collage, 2008

Michael KesslerUva 40”x60” acrylic on panelwww.michaelkessler.com

“…well-honed superimposition of squares and rectangles atop luxuriantly layered organic backgrounds, shot through with arcing spurts of acrylics, varnishes, and gesso…”

Michael KesslerNicturia, 80”x60” acrylic on panel

Jen BradfordAlizarin , 18”x18” oil on panel, 2008

www.jenbradford.com

…a bridge between accident and control, heaviness and lightness, clarity and confusion.

Jen BradfordCadmium, 18”x18” oil on panel, 2008

…a need to expand the boundaries of my painting practice…

Tim McFarlaneInstallation at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009www.timmcfarlane.com

Tim McFarlaneInstallation at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

…a quest to make sense of the world, both materially, and conceptually, through the observance of nature, line and color, and

how they entwine with the flow of thought and activity…

Shawna MooreXantur, 40”x40” encaustic on panelwww.shawnamoore.com

Shawna MooreTerritory, 40”x40” encaustic on panel

…a unique, immediate record of having seen and experienced and traveled and felt; a visual aggregate of what caught my eye, as filtered through my imagination. 

Anthony FalcettaP08, 22”x30” oil on paper, 2008www.anthonyfalcetta.com

Anthony FalcettaP121221 oil on paper, 12”x12” 2008