Geoffrey Dorfman

Antikythera 4

2021

Lovely abstraction in blue, white and red by experimental artist Bill Alpert. Oil on arches paper.

Oil monotype Joffe's career spans the post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement to the present. She is known for her powerful images of women and horses, often intertwined, ...

The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...

Note: oil on Arches paper Ray Parker was a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter known for his lyrical Colorfield paintings.

Oil on masonite. Like many of his compatriots in the New York School, Ben Wilson (1913-2001) began his career painting figuratively before transitioning to abstraction after WWII (and somewhat later than his compatriots.) However, because he started in a different place than they did, he ended up in a different place. His starting place was the cubism of Picasso, Braque and Leger, and their influence never left him. A critic in the Princeton Review in 1987 wrote: "Ben Wilson's canvases, while still within the abstract expressionist mode, retain echoes of Picasso, Braque and even mechanistic elements of Fernand Leger." Another critic writes: "The expressive abstractions of Ben Wilson belong among the best work created by New York artists in the 20th century; but they stand outside the critical labels applied to Abstract Expressionism..." Ben Wilson had more than 30 one-man shows during his lifetime, first starting to show in the early 1930s. As early as 1942, he was singled out by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden...

Oil on paper artist-mounted to canvas The history of the New York School painters is still being written, but Price earned a well-deserved place from the beginning. Price was one of the youngest of the first generation Abstract Expressionist circle of painters working in New York after WWII. Though only in his late twenties he began exhibiting in 1948 in New York at Hugo, Bodely, Iolas and Egan galleries. In a 1949, showing at Peridot galleries, Price was hailed for his breakthrough "Maze Series." A complex interweaving of organic shapes, automatic in nature and sometimes resembling bones or body parts, the "Maze" paintings exuded a pulsating energy that brought him critical acclaim. He received rave reviews in Art Digest, the New York Times and the New York Tribune. Price's earliest work was biomorphic or surrealist in nature, influenced by the automatism of Andre Breton and his school. By 1946, his work began to move away from this style to an all-over, decentralized style which became the "Maze" works and ultimately AbEx works which saw their culmination in the "Black Warrior" series. When the "Club" was started, Price was invited to join and forged close relationships with other members of the New York School including Fritz Bultman, Giorgio Cavallon, Weldon Kees, Bradley Walker...

Oil on Stretched Canvas 38 x 38” inches SPECIFICATIONS: - Fine Art Canvas - Professionally hand stretched over 1 " deep wood stretched bars. - Gallery stretching & wrap (image cove...

Abstract Purple Blue Oil on Stretched Canvas 38 x 38” inches SPECIFICATIONS: - Fine Art Canvas - Professionally hand stretched over 1 " deep wood stretched bars. - Gallery stretch...

Untitled 08 [Remains of the Remains 08], 2018 - 2019 oil on canvas 78 47/64 H x 55 1/8 W in 200 H x 140 W cm The large-sized paintings, signed by Zsolt Berszán, addresses the subjec...

Abstraction of linen drying in the sun treated with oil and a palette knife with the addition of fabric. The palette, in muted tones, suggests more than it imposes a similar construc...

Imaginary landscape

His way of painting exudes history, the culture of plunging his gaze as far as the techniques in broken and fragmented touches. This kaleidoscope of emotions revealed in its canvases...