Action Painting

 
 
This series, titled “Urban Action Abstractions”, was
done as a response to a 2008 exhibition at 
Jewish Museum in New York’s entitled “Action / 
Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art 
1940-1976.” The differing views of renown art critics, 
Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg, were the catalyst for the show. Rosenberg believed an artist personal signature should be seen in physical characteristics, such as the idiosyncratic brushstrokes that express “action” in painting, while Greenberg believed in ostensibly “impersonal” abstraction, devoid of any figurative suggestions.  My “Action Abstraction” series takes advantage of the benefit of historical perspective on these earlier abstract artists. My work builds on what those artists established, incorporating Greenberg’s and Rosenberg’s criteria, but in my own unique style. The series is a reminder of how generations of artists have the ability to reconsider the rules, principles and standards by which a work of art is proclaimed important. Pollack, de Kooning, Franz Kline and others were the muse for my series, which combines, reinterprets, and pushes abstraction in new directions. Double click the images to enlarge them.

Action Abstractions