Elva Stewart

"Pythagoras 1", Massive, Abstract Checkered Painting

1971

Geometric abstract painting by contemporary artist Stephanie Beukers. The work features layers of hard-edged shapes in yellow, brown, black, and tan set against a light background. S...

Geometric abstract painting by contemporary artist Stephanie Beukers. The work features layers of hard-edged shapes in pink, brown, black, and tan set against a light background. Sig...

Geometric abstract painting by contemporary artist Stephanie Beukers. The work features layers of hard-edged shapes in black, grey, and tan set against a light background. Signed on ...

Geometric abstract painting by contemporary artist Stephanie Beukers. The work features layers of hard-edged shapes in black, grey, and tan set against a light background. Signed and...

Dialog, 2023, 100x140 cm

Acrylic on linen b. 1986 Yantai, Shandong, China In the Diamond Sūtra, existence and emptiness are fundamental Buddhist notions. Buddha states that, “All conditioned phenomena are ...

This painting by Linda King Ferguson depicts a rectangular linen canvas painted bright orange, with a second layer of deep wine red ellipsis and scalloped edges in the foreground. Red circles dominate the center of the painting in two different sizes. Some of the circles overlap, creating a vesica piscis shape. Linda King Ferguson lives and works in Munising, MI and Nashville, TN. She is in residence semi-annually in Brooklyn, NY. She has a MA from Rhode Island School of Design, and received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also has studied at Academia Di Belle Arti in Perugia...

This painting by Linda King Ferguson is part of her equivalence series, which began as a feminist project; works that subvert the historically male gaze and a material language speaking of gendered concerns. The diamond shaped canvas is primarily a brown cardboard color, with two circles dominating the center of the composition. Stacked vertically, the topmost circle is a light lavender color, and the lower circle is a creamy, salmon orange. Two cuts have been made in the canvas on either side of the center, where the edges of the two circles meet. Her color choices first came from Helen Molesworth’s essay, Painting With Ambivalence, published in WACK! Art of the Feminist Revolution. The Essay includes a large reproduction of Mary Heilmann’s 1979 painting...