Episode 61
Dilemmas in Abstract Art
Saul Ostrow, Dennis Hollingsworth, Gwenael Kerlidou and Kim Uchiyama discuss dilemmas in Abstract Art.
Rather than asking whether abstract painting remains viable, let’s begin with a question of the continued capacity of the abstract: What can the abstract do—perceptually, materially, cognitively and culturally—that other image forms do not?
Abstract painting: category or problem?
Is “abstract painting” a category or a solution to a problem? Is the term still useful when it includes such divergent approaches—gestural, geometric, architectural, structural, biomorphic, diagrammatic, and process-based? What do you retain, reject, or complicate when you call yourself an “abstract painter”?
