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Edward Avedisian
Untitled 80: 1970s Abstract Aqua & Green Large Vertical Stripe Painting
c. 1968

About the Item

63 x 98 inches, acrylic on unstretched canvas Genuine Abstract Color-Field painting circa 1968 -1970 by Edward Avedisian. Armenian-American artist, Avedisian was best known for his work made in New York City during the 1960's: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. He was largely recognized for a series of Beach Ball paintings that emerged in the early 1960's and into the later 1960's the artist began painting larger horizontal paintings, featuring vertically intersecting beacon-like stripes that highlighted characteristics from both the Post-Painterly and Color Field movements. Pictured here is a prominent example of Avedesian's large, rectangular colored stripe paintings made in the later 1960's. Diagonal, beacon-like stripes in sky blue, bright green, forest green, and flamingo pink intersect and engage with a solid background of aqua and teal. The color beams, applied to the spanning canvas with large brushes or wide rollers, varying in size and transparencies. Each color stripe is painted directly onto the next, fading the definition between foreground and background. Lush in color (bright blues, greens, aquas, and pinks) and opulent in variety, the interpenetration of the stripes permits each color to undergo a maximum variation in both hue and transparency as it covers, and is covered by, other stripes. There is no evidence of painterly brushstrokes as each stripe is applied with large brushes or rollers onto a water soaked, unprimed canvas, therefore allowing the color to bleed and spread organically at the edges. Stripes act more as veil-like streaks rather than solid geometric lines, further creating an atmospheric space where color planes collide in harmonious juxtaposition. One painting from Avedesian's color-stripe series was featured on the cover of Artforum's January 1969 issue (pictured here). Also pictured are photographs of the artist c. 1970 in his studio in New York City and catalog pages from Avedisian's inclusion in the American Painting Now Expo at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in Dec 1967 - Jan 1968. The exhibition, organized by art critic Alan Solomon, featured one of Avedisian's signature Beach Ball paintings alongside large works by Robert Motherwell and Jim Rosenquist. About the Artist: In the 1960’s, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract painting. Shown first at Ivan Karp and Dick Bellamy’s Hansa Gallery and then at Robert Elkon in New York City, Avedisian’s insouciant mix of pop playfulness, color field cool and high formalist style put his art in a unique, and at the time generously rewarded, position. Paintings made it onto the cover of Artforum in January 1969 and were purchased by all the major museums. His were among the few abstract works shown as representative of America’s post-war achievement at Expo 67 in Montreal alongside Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Frank Stella. This exhibit comprised a cornerstone in histories of the period written by Barbara Rose, among others. Edward Avedisian moved to Hudson, NY in the later part of his life and essentially exited the art world. Paintings of this period moved toward landscape and figuration. The artist passed away in 2007. Influences for the color-field work included artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, while later paint splatter, lyrical abstract work of the 70s and 80s were influenced by fellow artist Jackson Pollock. Of his contemporaries in New York, the most prominent included Helen Frankenthaler and John Hoyland in London. Museum Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Denver Art Museum, Colorado Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas The Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase Los Angeles County Museum, California Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum *above description text is supported by Alexandra C. Anderson's article on Edward Avedesian in Artforum's January 1969 issue.

Creator:
Edward Avedisian (1936-2007, American)
Creation Year:
c. 1968
Dimensions:
Height: 63 in (160.02 cm)Width: 98 in (248.92 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Post-Modern
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
This painting is unstretched which accounts for the wrinkles in the canvas. The painting will no longer have wrinkles once it is stretched taut. The work would ship in a tube, which would greatly decrease shipping costs for a large painting.
Gallery Location:
Hudson, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2271610341

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