Time Trip Part Two #8,” 2003 (acrylic on rag paper, mounted on plexiglass), by Alvin Loving In the hands of their creators, African-American women living during the slave era, quilts were often used ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

The free “Abstract Infrastructure” -- which will be on display from March 6 through July 12 in the Berkey Gallery -- includes featured works such as “… Of Course I Was Mistaken,” which was created ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

Love can be an extremely powerful motivator. For more than a decade beginning in the mid-1950s, the Russian artist Oleg Prokofiev hid his abstract works in the hope of receiving permission from the ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, a ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

On the paper roll that serves as a guest book at the Phoenix in Waterbury, one visitor wrote, “Nice gallery! So trusting!” Indeed, visiting an exhibition in the high-ceilinged room can be a solitary, ...