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Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...

The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

Gary Petersen, "Both of Us" (2022), acrylic and oil on canvas, 54 x 90 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York; photos by Jason Mandella) I have been following Gary Petersen’s work ...

Piet Mondrian died in 1944, aged seventy-one, and by the time of his death he had pushed the concept of abstraction in painting on into the field of the non-objective and beyond it, into areas where ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

Since the 1960s, artists throughout Northeast Ohio have experimented with geometric abstraction and Op Art. Many local contemporary artists continue to advance the genre in new and unexpected ...

Davide Balliano’s “Abacus” is at Tina Kim Gallery through March 7, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni. If a formal rhythm—both mathematical and symbolic—can be ...

Walking around the geometric abstraction exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, one explores the varieties of Taiwanese abstract art, as well as examining the melding of Western concepts with ...

While going through our stash of fabrics, we were this week inspired to focus on prints; both abstract and geometric, in both cotton and knit. We worked with simple silhouettes that played up the ...