Now she is working on paintings shaped like gigantic three-dimensional open books.
He did a series of paintings that referenced de Kooning's noirish portraits of Marilyn Monroe, silk-screens punctured by bullet holes, and paintings shaped like Arbre Magique air fresheners.
The doors opened on a loft, two thousand square feet filled with bright-colored "organic chaotic" paintings shaped like amoebas and "hard-edge" paintings of rakishly angled black geometric shapes on raw linen.
Gestural and color-field abstraction, digital imaging, American folk art, Japanese landscape, children's-book illustration, dropped shadows, greeting-card whimsy, clip art, wallpaper design, silk screen, tapestry, typography, stencils, recorded-sound elements, and mechanical moving parts (in one series of paintings, shapes with hidden motors function like clock hands) take turns or combine.
Mr. Eckart's contribution to the exhibition is an elegant trio of luminous monochrome paintings on shaped aluminum.
In her narrative paintings she shapes them into trees, figures, houses and domestic rites by manipulating their colors.
Among painters, only early Stella seems echt minimalist, because the work is so desolatingly objectlike, though Mangold's dry, shaped paintings, infused with denatured color, feel peculiarly at ease in both shows.
Paintings, watercolors and prints by the late New York artist who was best known for her exuberantly colored, shaped canvas paintings evoking human characteristics make up this much-anticipated exhibition.
Modigliani and Léger are part of the same story the earlier paintings tell: both were shaped by cubism, both turned it into something more decorative and gorgeous than Picasso ever intended.
At the same time he expanded one of his Precisionist geometries outward to the edges of a stepped panel, making one of the earliest shaped abstract paintings in this country, although it also resembles a Sienese altarpiece.
Location One, 26 Greene Street, (212) 334-3347, through Feb. 4. (Johnson) Richard Tuttle: 'Constructed Relief Paintings' Among the most appealing works in Mr. Tuttle's current retrospective at the Whitney are the eccentrically shaped, single-color paintings from the 1960's.
