Baby Blase

“Their work reveals that the all-over lines do not give rise to positive or negative areas:

we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to the line or the space through which it moves…. They have managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas.”

Link here to a video of the artists at work – a window into the unique world of this new wave of vanguard abstract expressionism, based right here in Austin, TX.

Listening: The Bird and The Bee