Sonia Gechtoff, who lived in San Francisco from 1951 until 1959, actively contributed to the burst of abstract painting that became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1940s and ‘50s, with the rise of ...

Mary Heilmann, “Rio Nido” (1987), acrylic and oil on canvas, 39 x 58 in (all images via cheimread.com) Before there were the New Casualists, there were the Provisional Painters, and before there were ...

On the 10th anniversary of its opening, the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights artists who didn't shirk from a critique of power.

Earlier this month, the group exhibition “To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting” opened across both of Gagosian’s Mayfair gallery locations, curated by ...

Watch this amazing abstract act time lapse where you can learn a lot of useful abstract paining techniques! Welcome to Canvas ...

"Organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture"--Page 375. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, ...

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For the first time, Gagosian has planned such a large London show that the works have taken over both of the gallery’s Mayfair locations in Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street. The additional space is ...

Anita Shapolsky Gallery, founded in 1982, was among the first galleries to reintroduce and champion abstract art at a time when Minimalism and Pop Art dominated the contemporary art scene. Continuing ...

Pablo Picasso spent the summer of 1910 in Cadaqués, Spain. Among the paintings he did there were several that took his cubism to an almost entirely abstract extreme. In “Woman With a Mandolin,” for ...

This step-by-step abstract painting tutorial walks you through using acrylics, a flat brush, and a silicone catalyst wedge — ...