
In either case it fits under the umbrella of Material Abstraction Medium is not given, but it's felt, so you can call it sculpture or painting. Jon Pylypchuk, Let Me Hold You in the Water For These Last Moments, mixed media on panel, 2007, with detail below not sure of galleryĪndre Butzer, Untitled 12, oil on canvas, 2007, at Hetzler Gallery, Berlinīelow, Arturo Herrero, Orfeo, 2007 (also visible in the image aboe). Roxy Paine, PMU #33, acrylic on canvas, 2007, at James Cohan Gallery, New York

No info on the wall ID, but this painting, which is easel size, maybe 20 x 24, looks to be metallic oil on canvas Tomma Abts at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. Rodney Graham, Inverted Drip Painting #12, liquid acrylic on linen, 2007, with detail below, at Lisson Gallery, London Jacin Giordano, Untitled Quilt Painting (Weave Texture), acrylic on wood, 2007, with detail below, at Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami Jonathan Lasker, The Equality of Apples and Oranges, oil on linen, 2007, at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin Here I'm looking not only at geometry but at a broader kind of abstraction. Herrera's painted felt painting moves us seamlessly from geometric abstraction to what you might call material abstraction, paintings whose image, whose essence, is formed and informed by stuff-thick paint, gobs of medium, collaged fabric, stuffing and whatnot. Rebecca Warren, Yes, Olga, painted clay, 2007 Bridget Riley, Red with and Arturo Herrera, Loma, acrylic on felt, 2007, at Hetzler, Berlin The Santa was conceived by artist Paul McCarthy and presented by the Maccarone Gallery, which apparently has turned some of its West Village space into a chocolate factory. And that appliance? Its proportions made it look more like a lava lamp than a sex toy. Oh, sure, there was the chocolate Santa carrying a giant chocolate butt plug, but the installation of neatly stacked figures on metal shelving, organized by size and placed against the matching Santa wallpaper was so clean and unrelentingly cheery that it could have been Macy’s Cellar. The most shocking thing about BaselMiami this year is that it wasn’t shocking. Big paintings are typically installed on the aisle-facing walls-part billboard, part preening, all fabulous show, like the installation above. If you've been to the Miami Convention Center, home to Basel Miami, you know the place is huge: big booths, high ceilings, long stretches of wall. Yinka Shonibare, Black Gold, wall painting with stretch fabric attachments, at Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londonįirst stop on the FAIR FACTOR tour is ArtBasel/Miami Beach, which is only fitting since this is the event that started the December ritual known as Miamipalooza, The Fairs, or simply Miami.
