Les Nouveaux Vestiges No. 19 by Richard Cloutier 12″x18″, acrylic on panel
Through April 19, 2015
Endless Beginnings: Non-Representational Art Today
“Endless Beginnings” closes on April 19, 2015 in the South Gallery of West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. In earlier posts, we wrote about Tom Cullins finding abstraction in the natural world (here); how Val Rossman and Idoline Duke continue a tradition started by early Modern abstract artists that use color and shape as a way of expressing ideas about the world in which we live (here); how Lois Eby paints motion, energy, and music (here) and how Richard Cloutier offers viewers “hypothetical architectures” that convey the emotions of space (here).
In the exhibition “Endless Beginnings: Non-representational Art Today”, West Branch Gallery explores the art of eleven gallery artists who make non-representational paintings and sculpture.
In Summer 1950, a writer for The New Yorker paid a visit to Jackson Pollock’s “big, gaunt, white clapboard, Ulysses S. Grant-period structure in the fishing hamlet of The Springs” on Long Island, New York and chatted with the artist about his “uncommonly abstract” paintings. “There was
