Plz help ID this painting (colorful and abstract!)

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/iwanttoknow.jpg

someone get on this!!

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/08/10/new-artmatch-app-will-identify-that-artwork-for-you

n/m, just tried it and didn't get any matches :/

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I hate this mystery painting. It haunts my dreams.

1. The design is made out of a rhythmic pattern of vertical lines rendered in geometric, hard-edged style. This is some New York painter that you only see in old catalogues for some small gallery show where clement greenberg was involved somehow in curating that has like William Perehudoff in it or someone.

2. The design has irregular horizontals but regular verticals. The relationship between warp and weft suggests a design that could be spun on a loom or knitted. On the other hand, the surface could be read to be composed of patches of patter (the stripes are arranged into repeating patterns at sharp intervals) These elements of the formal design suggest traditional craft patterns, particularly crafts performed by women. This is by a feminist painter from the early 70s whose earlier work was quilts based on mourning coats made by civil war era widows.

3. Its hard edged but the colours are buzzy tertiaries. sortof reminiscent of commercial art, something that might be on the cover of a collection of contemporary poetry or a be-bop album circa 1968. The artist is a californian painter who was in a group show with lorser feitelson once.

4. The interaction between the consistent verticals and the inconsistent verticals creates a jarring optical effect. Some 60s op-art guy trying to paint himself out of a hole in 1984

5. The fading retro colours. The cool elegant verticals disrupted by the ungainly lopsided horizontals. The cheeky trickyness of the composition in relation to certain modernist cliches. Theres and overly hip reffing of different eras and a detatchedly archival attitude towards abstraction, this is a german painter who used to be part of the dusseldorf post-punk scene in the early eighties.

no im still not sure who this is.

i had a sneaking suspicion it might be ben jones but the colors are a little muted for him

also the miami basel online catalog appears to be down now :/

Theres something about the colouring that reminds me of childrens books and prints from the 70s of the kind we had in our house.

We need to email these people.

if nothing else, this mystery has seriously filled in a ton of my 20th-c. art historical knowledge gaps

we need to send it to Unsolved Mysteries.

I found this thing by Charles Biederman; what do you guys think?

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/12102d3b.jpg

i like it

it's upside down! (j/k)

(that was a maybe too obscure reference to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bateau btw)

Do you guys think it's Karl Benjamin?

my only other close guess is tim bavington

ragh this painting!

After Forks found his rap song and Tuomas found his black & white movie, I'm kinda happy we still have this baffling painting.

not one of us has thought to actually check the basel 2010 printed catalog, huh

*hangs head*

not even the modern miracle of google's 'visually similar' search helps. pretty sure it's not, for example, this guy:

https://img-s.foursquare.com/userpix/UDJHBVBZX0TJRFPQ.jpg

but do we know for sure

also: loooooool

Stumbled across this guy today, mentioned before but def similar and Stevie would loves it: Carlos Cruz Diez

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBBJQ3_z9uM/Ta3B87WdLKI/AAAAAAAADf0/XgsFXXc6gm0/s1600/Carlos-cruz-diez_2.jpg

Aaand how cool is this image?

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/programs/image_1_608.jpg

Stumbled across this guy today, mentioned before but def similar and Stevie would loves it: Carlos Cruz Diez

Saw an exhibit of this dude's work when I was in Buenos Aires last year. It's pretty awesome in person.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390896_557621819867_62600376_31391309_1229389329_n.jpg

(^in person)

Brought this one into photoshop to check: the rgb in the stripe was the same as outside of it! You down with OP?

http://artbasel.insideguidance.com/miamibeach/2011/images_large/Product1328711.jpg

^^^ your image has since disappeared for me but that looked rad!

Oh, probably b/c I copied it directly from FB... But yeah, there's some cool optical tricks in his work that are enhanced when you're actually in the presence of the art. Like paintings that change color as you walk from one side to the other.

ross bleckner?

http://www.arcanabooks.com/bookimages/014521.jpg

maybe not bright enough

Some 60s op-art guy trying to paint himself out of a hole in 1984

there is a lot of writing in the hal foster school about this very approach, comparing bleckner to, say, dan flavin ... i don't actually think it's bleckner, it doesn't have that gauzy, painterly look that bleckner has

my best guess is that it's someone from that milieu though there is also something chillwave-y and "zoomed in too far on a fuzzy VHS image" that screams recent work, too

there are so many people doing this type of art though, it's crazy

xp omg LOVES IT!!

there's an awesome exhibit at the Hirshhorn right now, Suprasensorial, that showcases Carlos Cruz-Diez, along with Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Jesus Rafael Soto and Helio Oiticica. I was at the opening day of it and got to watch a panel with Le Parc and Cruz-Diez which was AMAZING.

Fuuuuck!

lol this painting, i did my part and i emailed a friend abt it once, she did not know

It's still at the Hirshhorn til May 13th! Come and see it! I really liked Soto's stuff (I posted the video below in waht is awesome - it's not from the Hirshhorn but will give you a feel), but Cruz-DIez's Chromosaturation was jut phenomenal. Three rooms interconnected by hallways, each bathed in intense red, green, or blue light, and in addition to the wonderful blending of the colors at their soft edges, and the contrast with the lights on the ceiling, there was also this mindfuck that would happen when you stayed in one room for a few minutes and then quickly walked into another room. Just totally unreal, and very inspiring. Come see it!!

Soto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLMYbr8btQ

wish i was better at describing art (and music and writing and film and poetry and theater and everything else that is good on earth) because i feel like i often do a disservice to the artists, but for the love of god check it out

Suprasensorial DC meetup!

I would love to go back and spend more time with it. We arrived late, just 30 minutes before the panel, so we kinda rushed through everything. There was also a cool room with this in it by Dan Flavin:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m01alfRUZm1qbnyzno1_500.jpg

my new favorite person in the entire world took that picture but it's hard to see the overwhelming nature of what's going on with that piece from that image. first of all, it's huge - a room probably 40 feet long, 20 feet wide. the light, again, is overwhelming, so that whoever or whatever enters the room becomes immersed in blue. but what's totally fucked up is that after spending some time in there, everything else becomes desaturated. you look at your friend, and your friend is in black and white. it's disturbing and addicting.

aw man that is a rad-looking show

on that same tip, i sadly missed this show when it was up

http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/phenomenal-california-light-space-surface-0

Me and my boof are for real def gonna come down to see it.

I loooved that flavin last time I was there but they were p militant abt NO PICTURES

awesome! let me know when you do, if you don't mind! i'd love to see you again and meet yr boof, and you can probably meet my...er...goof, too!