Artist Information:
Beata Taschner
Vienna,
Austria
Member Since: May 2003
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Gallery & Studio Magazine,Vol.
6 No. 4,
April/May 2004, New York
Beata Taschner Puts a New Spin
on Color Field Painting
To place Color Field painting
into a historical context,
critics and scholars often
refer to it as “post painterly
abstraction,” a term that
Clement Greenberg, the
monolithic critic and
formalist champion, coined for
the title of an influential
exhibition he curated at the
Los Angeles County Museum in
1964.
Beata Taschner, whose luminous
oils on canvas were recently
exhibited at Agora Gallery,
415 West Broadway, Soho, would
appear to be direct descendent
of Jules Olitski, Ellsworth
Kelly, and other renowned
Color Field painters who were
featured in that landmark
exhibition.
However, while they involve
fields of color, Taschner’s
paintings could hardly be
called post-painterly. For
unlike her worthy
predecessors, who generally
treated the canvas as a single
plane, and in case of Kelly,
often employed a single color,
Taschner employs myriad,
subtly modulated strokes of
various colors to bring her
canvas alive. Her paintings
are hardly impassive and
definitely not hard-edged. And
even when she appears to
employ a single overall color,
such a red or blue, subtle
modulations and tonalities can
be discerned on ...
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Welcome to Beata Taschner's Portfolio. Browse Taschner's body of work: Gallery & Studio Magazine,Vol. 6 No. 4,
April/May 2004, New York
Beata Taschner Puts a New Spin on Color Field Painting
To place Color Field painting into a historical context, critics and scholars often refer to it as “post painterly abstraction,” a term that Clement Greenberg, the monolithic critic and formalist champion, coined for the title of an influential exhibition he curated at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1964.
Beata Taschner, whose luminous oils on canvas were recently exhibited at Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, Soho, would appear to be direct descendent of Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, and ... |
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