'Storyboards: Constructed Paintings on Wood' The Art Gallery at Finders Keepers, 171 Main Street, Beacon, (845 838-1300.
Ms. Satin said in a program note that she had been inspired by Agnes Martin, an abstract artist whose meticulously constructed paintings are often based on grids.
Struggling to unseat traditional notions of art and explore new visual language, these artists produced a wide variety of avant-garde works: geometric and constructed paintings; textured wall reliefs; sculptures composed of modules, planes, arcs and angles; free-form hangings; and assemblages of painted wood.
The late paintings of Willem de Kooning, for example, look like marvels of effortless spontaneity, yet de Kooning constructed his paintings slowly and methodically, and he contrived a variety of crafty techniques to achieve that illusion of unpredictable, all-natural grace.
The way Mr. Ross constructs his paintings remains as important as his imagery.
Unlike the meticulously constructed matte paintings and movable flats of the Hollywood soundstage, which so often read as stagy and wooden, this New York was incandescent, raw, dynamic.
Before taking the photographs from which he constructs his paintings, artist Toby Brown asks his subjects to describe how they feel when they are depressed.
Repton and his peers shaped estates as if they were constructing landscape paintings, with an eye to foreground, middle ground and background.
Reliefs featuring emperors engaged in religious and civic rituals against architectural backdrops, coins celebrating newly constructed buildings, paintings emphasizing the spatial settings of everyday activities the range of ancient media and genres reproducing edifices is vast.
Cave holds on to one piece from his art's every shift in direction: constructed, abstract paintings in the living room; rough planks hammered with metal scraps in the hall; a vintage blackface lawn jockey beside his bed.
