"Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,' Amy Sillman states, 'one way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sublanguage-mumbling.' Amy Sillman's canvases offer glimpses into a subliminal world. Strangely intimate, her abstractions capture the free-flow of ha

Abstract painting, Intense, Whimsical

Much has been made about Fiona Rae and her fellow British New-Wavers. Rae is both celebrated and criticized for her habit of copping the trademarks of American Abstractionists and Pop artists, but at the heart of her second-generation appropriation is an analytical concern for technique. Her canvases

Abstract painting, Citational, Ebullient, Fleeting, Improvised, Young british artists

The spiritual, the sublime, infinity itself: all seem to hover beneath the translucent surfaces of Mark Rothko's blurred and veil-like rectangles. The brilliantly colored blocks of his best-known works, distillations of all that this Lithuanian-born immigrant had learned during his first 15 years of

Abstract expressionism, Abstract painting, Dense, Depressive, Monochromatic, Post-painterly abstraction, Saturated, Silence