DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION | Group Show

Driven to Abstraction
 Featuring work by

Andrea Belag

Lisa Corinne Davis

Amy Ellingson

Catherine Howe

Rebecca Smith

Dannielle Tegeder

Canan Tolon

Carrie Yamaoka

June 9 – July 23, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, June 9, 6 – 8 PM

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present Driven to Abstraction, a group show of eight contemporary abstract artists who represent a diverse range of entry points into abstraction.

Dannielle Tegeder's angular constructions push geometric-based abstraction in new directions, while Amy Ellingson and Lisa Corinne Davis' elaborate layering and accumulated details marry geometry with organic structures. In Canan Tolon's fragmented paintings spaces are recognizable yet elude description. Catherine Howe's abstract-leaning paintings emerge spontaneously from gestures and imagined forms as Andrea Belag also focuses on gesture, creating compositions of lush brushstrokes and washes of color. Carrie Yamaoka extends and inverts a situationist minimalism while Rebecca Smith's painting-sculpture hybrids manipulate and transform the grid.

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Andrea Belag
Shift, 2011
oil on linen
22 x 30 inches

Lisa Corinne Davis
Fabricated Phantasm, 2010
oil on wood panel
48 x 45 inches

Amy Ellingson
Variation (yellow, with emblem), 2011
oil and encaustic on panel
40 x 40 inches

Catherine Howe

Night Painting (phoenix), 2011 

oil and beeswax on linen 40 x 40 in 

Rebecca Smith
Hanging Dress, 2010
painted steel
83 x 68 x 13 inches

Rebecca Smith
Hanging Dress, 2010 (detail)

Dannielle Tegeder
Transmission System with Chroma Construction, 2011 

collaged acrylic paint and ink on panel 24 x 18 in

 Canan Tolon
Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches

Carrie Yamaoka
30 by 13, 2010
mylar, urethane resin and mixed media on wood panel
30 x 13 inches