Reading: Jori Finkel

Saturday, November 2, 2019

... on a Shang Dynasty jade, Judy Chicago on Agnes Pelton, and Mark Bradford on Mark Rothko . LA Weekly calls the book “must-read material for anyone interested in how ...

A Tribute to BAMPFA’s Fearless Founder: Peter Selz (1919-2019)

June 21, 2019

... to 1965), he championed work by a diverse range of important artists such as Mark Rothko , Jean Dubuffet, and Alberto Giacometti, among others. Selz then accepted an ...

BAMPFA Announces Passing of Founding Director Peter Selz (1919-2019)

June 21, 2019

... with some of his generation’s most influential artists—including Mark Rothko , Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Christo, and many others. After studying in ... an eclectic range of important artists, mounting influential midcareer surveys of Rothko , Jean Dubuffet, and Alberto Giacometti, among others. In 1965, Selz accepted ...

Full: Adam Tendler

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

... at the American Museum of Natural History, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Rothko Chapel, and Maverick Concert Hall. The Baltimore Sun wrote, “if they gave ...

Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection (July 13 – December 11, 2016)

June 22, 2016

... the form of artworks by John Baldessari, Robert Irwin, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko , among others. Drawing from the breadth of BAMPFA’s varied collection, ...

BAMPFA Collection

... painter and teacher Hans Hofmann and includes significant works by Mark Rothko , Helen Frankenthaler, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, and ...

Guided Tour

... period in contemporary art. Visit our other galleries and see works by Mark Rothko , Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Ray Johnson, and others, as well as ...

Guided Tour

... period in contemporary art. Visit our other galleries and see works by Mark Rothko , Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Ray Johnson, and others, as well as ...

Rothko Chapel

... Trio perform Morton Feldman's affecting, meditative masterpiece Rothko Chapel, in the resonant architecture of the Berkeley Art Museum. The ... the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio perform Morton Feldman's meditative masterpiece, Rothko Chapel , composed for the sacred contemplative space in Houston, and Robert Ashley's She Was a Visitor . In collaboration with New Albion Records. rothko chapel ...

XXL II

August 14, 2002–February 23, 2003

... (1955), a vertical abstract canvas featuring flame-like swaths of color; and Mark Rothko's signature expanse of sublimely colored zones hovering ambiguously over one ...

Wolfgang Laib / MATRIX 188

October 14–December 17, 2000

... he explains, "it is not a painting and it is far away from Yves Klein or Mark Rothko ," two artists with whom his work is often compared.8 He notes the difference ... by Wolfgang Laib," Parkett, 1994, no. 39, p. 74. 8 Farrow, p. 14. To be fair, Mark Rothko also deplored the ascription of himself as a brilliant colorist. And, as with ... Laib's work, the spiritual, the sublime, and the transcendent are ever present in Rothko's. 9 Ibid., p. 12. 10 Tosatto, p. 30. 11 Ibid., p. 33. 12 Kathy S. Cottong, ...

Milton Avery / MATRIX 34

3/1/80 to 5/31/80

... works influenced a number of New York color abstractionists, most notably Mark Rothko and Adolf Gottlieb, both of whom paid frequent visits to Avery's studio. The close valued, horizontal rectangles of thinly washed color that characterize Rothko's mature works are a natural extension of Avery's abstracted landscapes. ...

Richard Diebenkorn / MATRIX 40

1/15/81 to 3/1/81

... Park, and Hassel Smith, as well as visiting instructors Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko , leaders of the New York based Abstract Expressionist School. When Diebenkorn ...

Elmer Bischoff / MATRIX 55

October 22–December 15, 1982

... on students and faculty alike. Other strong influences were New York painters Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt, who came to the school to teach summer sessions. It was in ...

Robert Mangold / MATRIX 68

December 1, 1983–January 15, 1984

... but profoundly moving paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko , rather than in European geometric painting. Though there is a long tradition ... a balanced relationship of parts within a whole, whereas Reinhardt, Newman and Rothko stressed the unity of the painting over all other surface incidents. ...

Kenneth Noland / MATRIX 74

August 1–September 30, 1984

... felt an affinity with non-gestural, "imagist" branch (e.g., Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko , and, later, Barnett Newman), who all worked on a heroic scale with large ... their works as expressions of either the sublime (Still, Newman) or the tragic ( Rothko ), the younger color-field painters, as they came to be known (including ...

Jake Berthot / MATRIX 78

November 22, 1984–January 22, 1985

... Minimalists such as Brice Marden). Berthot's works, in fact, grew out of Mark Rothko's deeply emotional chromatic canvases. Berthot, however, does not share the heroic and epic aspiration of Abstract Expressionists like Rothko and Clyfford Still. He prefers instead to sound a more personal and poetic ...

Robert Moskowitz / MATRIX 97

May 21–July 15, 1986

... of the non-gestural Abstract Expressionist masters such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and, of course, Ad Reinhardt, Moskowitz developed his own vocabulary during ...

Robin Winters / MATRIX 109

May 1–June 30, 1987

... to Jackson Pollock and Pattern Painting (the drip and splatter backgrounds), Mark Rothko (the three-part horizontal compositions) and Minimalism (the gridded Cherry ...

Sean Scully / MATRIX 112

October 15–December 15, 1987

... of formal elements such as color, shape and line. Instead, Scully, like Mark Rothko before him, struggles with how to use abstract forms and their relationships ... ochre of Signal ) that add mystery and depth not unlike the pulsating sensation of Rothko's rectangular washes of color. Each Scully painting proudly bears the marks of ... art, because the life that I've led has been one of great insecurity." Noting that Rothko acknowledged the unsettling effect of being an immigrant, Scully said, "I've ...