She works from clippings of reproduced, usually blackand-white photographs, some of them decrepit or blurry, and builds her labor-intensive paintings with many glazed and sanded layers of alkyd or oil on wood-backed linen.
Organized by Isabelle Dervaux, curator of modern and contemporary art, it gathers more than 60 of Mr. Bloom's slowly executed, labor-intensive paintings and drawings for a modest-size sweep of a career that has extended well over half a century.
Molin's paintings show intensive mechanical strokes and meticulous details, with both texture and layers revealing a sense of industrialism, displaying minimal, abstract aesthetics that transpose an obvious artistic charm.
Labor-intensive and intensely active, Raqib Shaw's paintings look like X-rated, subaquatic hybrids of Hieronymus Bosch, Victorian fairy painting, Persian miniatures and Bollywood films of the Ramayana.
"Painting stripe paintings is a vigorous kind of thing.
But, I've always had a hard time thinking with that kind of vocabulary because my paintings are so labor intensive and I need to sit with them for so long.
The paintings are clearly labor-intensive to make; why shouldn't they be work to look at? the argument might run.
During and after this time, Ms. McCarty also made text paintings, using a labor-intensive heat-transfer method, of single words and phrases, most of them taken from sexual street slang directed at women.
But despite the artist's own claims to change and chance, de Kooning's paintings were the results of intensive labor, long contemplation and continual reworking.
But, for all their evident nonchalance, Mr. Elrod's paintings are also fairly labor-intensive.
