I recently stumbled upon old work by Claude Viallat, which strikes me as a precursor to the Casualist aesthetic. Born in Nimes, France in 1936, […]
Tag: Casualism
Good painting: Tatiana Berg and Sarah Faux
Berg stretches canvas around handmade wooden frames and then paints the surfaces with spray paint, oil and enamel. Comparing their process to Bill Murray’s improv, […]
Reader response to “Abstract Painting: The New Casualists”
Lauren Luloff, installation shot from “Painting Expanded,” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through July 29, 2011. The show features work by emerging artists who use new […]
Chris Martin’s bigness
When I first started writing for The Rail, in an article about the Tomma Abts show at the New Museum, I took a quote from […]
The New Casualists
Contributed by Sharon Butler / The pioneers of abstraction — the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists — emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots […]
Greetings from Nudashank and the Transmodern Festival
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I recently received a note from Seth Adelsberger and Alex Ebstein at Nudashank, an independent artist-run space in Baltimore, about […]
