"“The normal response to Peter Sutherland’s photographs of deer would probably be a feeling of sadness, or possibly regret. How is it, one might ask, that nature has become so utterly banal? How depressing that wild animals drink out of storm drains and die beside freeways. Yet deer haven’t exemplified wildness and wonder since the days of Robert Burns: one step above squirrels and raccoons, deer have long been a suburban commonplace. I ..."
"Swiss artist Rudolf de Crignis (1948-2006) began his career in video, photography and performance art. In 1985, a studio fellowship in New York introduced the artist to the work of American minimalist painters such as Robert Ryman, Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin and Barnett Newman, precipitating his shift to painting. De Crignis began by making paintings that at first appear to be a single hue, but which were actually begun as a finely work ..."
Self Evidence by LarryRinder, Jerry Estrin Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1989 by Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions ISBN-13: 978-0-937335-05-5, ISBN: 0-937335-05-3
"This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth-based colors, and, in the case of her watercolors, “found” pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and opennes ..."
""Extraordinary and necessary in terms of both critical approach and geographical range, Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment provides a look at parallel art developments in Eastern and Western Europe and in North and South America in the late 1960's and early 1970's. This richly illustrated catalogue and its five revelatory essays demonstrate how a select and forward-thinking group of artists translated similar concepts into a ..."
"Today revered as one of Europe's master painters, Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser (born 1930) first came to public attention in the mid-1960s as a member of the Nieuwe Visie ("New Vision") group, alongside Roger Raveel, Etienne Elias and Reinier Lucassen-a fraternity of painters interested in reanimating earlier strains of European abstraction. De Keyser's abstractions balance austerity and gentleness, and retrospectively seem to evoke C ..."
"Fast-rising painter Avery Preesman (b. 1968) is self-taught, his only training consisting of the guidance he received at the Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1992 to 1994. Preesman is the recipient of the first Theo Wolvecamp prize and was cited by Chris Dercon, director of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum for "the open and original way in which (he) breaks new ground in Dutch painting and his invigorating approach to painting in general." T ..."