Mehretu creates each painting by adding consecutive thin layers of acrylic paint on canvas and then finishing it off with delicate superimposed marks and patterns using pencil, pen, ink and streams of paint.
Dunham's work belongs to a broad stream of recent painting that attempts to reconcile the competing claims of abstraction and representation.
Media artist ::vtol::, a.k.a., Dimitry Morozov, riffs on this with electropollock, an electro-mechanical drawing machine that basically looks like a robotic printer unfurling a stream of abstract painted images.
Gobs of paint stream across the canvas, squeezed from the tube and spread with a fast brush, a palette knife, or the fingers.
In the opening movement, instead of striving for coherence, Mr. Jurowski stressed the episodic quality of the writing, offering the music as a stream of fevered reminiscences painted on a vast canvas.
I see it as a giant global canvas showing a connected network, rivers of different colored paints representing data streams, and a range of paint brushes and paint strokes representing software and hardware.
In one painting a stream of urine ends in a Pollock-like splatter of blue and white paint; in the next, a ghostly Barnett Newman zip bisects a bright blue sky.
As the hours passed, a steady stream of passers-by watched as paint slowly filled in chalk outlines on the 150-foot-long concrete wall.
Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert both declared how much they loved the Etretat seaside, and a stream of Impressionists came here to paint, among them Monet, Gustave Courbet, Eugéne Delacroix and Edgar Degas.
"When I paint, a stream of questions like these runs through my mind," she adds.
