Ms. Cheng's radiantly colored, radially composed paintings combine the polished riffs of post-abstract abstraction with bits of decorative patterns or schematized lotus designs.
Mr. Arikha called this twinned style "post-abstract naturalism".
What follows is a sampling of the post-abstract representational painters who have emerged since 2000.
Highlights include Byrdie's Gallery and Coffeshop and The Barrister's Gallery, currently showing Sylvain Sancton's gorgeous post-abstract expressionist explorations.
Mr. Kelly was the Chet Baker of the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation.
Popular culture, so amusingly appropriated in post-abstract painting, flavored the writer's vision; images filtered in from the glamorous, trendy realms of film, television, and photography.
Of all the members of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation that included Agnes Martin, Jack Youngerman, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, no one made paintings so sweet and pure and easy to like.
I can only think of Hughes (when I think about him at all) as a bear of a man, one of those massive intellectuals you wouldn't want to get into a brawl with over his views on post-abstract expressionism.
He explained that he had made it when he was very young, under the influence of Soutine, before he discovered the work of Jasper Johns and other post-Abstract-Expressionist artists and radically changed course.
Jasper Johns has his "Flag" and Robert Rauschenberg has his signature "Combines," but Cy Twombly — the third of the great post-Abstract Expressionists — has always been far more elusive.
MANY of the most delightful pieces in the Tate show of art by Cy Twombly, an elusive American artist commonly described as a post-Abstract Expressionist, are among his least familiar works.
