This survey of twenty abstract artists looks at how abstraction has become a speculative practice in the wake of postmodernism. At the level of form many of the painters included in this show mix different mediums, have varied styles, participate with site-specific concerns and embrace an aesthetic that doesn't view the architectonic and the organic as mutually exclusive. Outside of these formal similarities each of the painters included in this survey is invested in negotiating a distinct set of conceptual problems that range from kitsch to technology to entropy and beyond. While there seems to be no defining ethos for twenty-first century abstraction these nonrepresentational painters continue to provide a relevant set of conditions for continuing to speculate about the nature of the abstract.
works by Brandon Anschultz, Seann Brackin, Hollis Cooper, David French, Richard Galling, Kent Familton, Steve Hampton, Michael Kindred Knight, Chris Kuhn, Ashley Landrum, David Michael Lee, Melanie Moore, Marcus Perez, Alison Rash, Nano Rubio, Eric Schott, Samantha Thomas, Chris Trueman, Grant Vetter, Stephan Walters.
