Link to Post:
http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/british-abstract-painting-in-the-seventies-stagnation-or-new-possibilities/
Andy Parkinson blogs about the exhibition New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the Seventies at The Piper Gallery, on view through December 21, 2012.
Parkinson writes: "In the seventies abstract painting in Britain was in crisis. At least that’s how it seemed to some. If during the sixties it had become hegemonic that privileged position was on the wane. Peter Fuller would shortly declare American abstraction to be not much more than a CIA plot, within the discipline of painting figuration was in resurgence, whilst outside it performance art and conceptualism were fast becoming the dominant art forms, leading to the stagnation of abstract painting. The exhibition... of fourteen painters from the period (all still painting today)... counters this viewpoint, demonstrating that instead abstraction in this decade was vibrant and varied."
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http://abstractcritical.com/2012/04/in-the-studio-with-albert-irvin/
Sam Cornish visits the London studio of painter Albert Irvin.
Cornish notes that "Instead of describing objects (even abstract objects) the elements of [Irvin's] paintings often suggest, to me at any rate, an arrival or a bringing to attention... There is perhaps something theatrical about the way in which Irvin's marks address the viewer, their sheer drama, and the way in which the force of their making carries over into a suggestion that they have been created or revealed just as we look at them, and perhaps specifically for us."
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http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/2010/12/23/tateshots-albert-irvin-at-tate-stores/
Painter Albert Irvin "talked to TateShots about three of his paintings; Flodden, St Germain and Empress, pieces that he hadn’t seen since they were last on show at the Tate. Albert explain[s] ... how and why he made the trio, as well as offering up his thoughts on his career as an artist."
