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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Geometric abstraction, the almost mathematical deployment of color and form, boasts a rich history that dates back to such early 20th-century masters as ...

The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...

Lisa Corinne Davis, "Convulsive Calculation" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; image by JSP Art Photography) Five years ago, I reviewed ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Although not traditionally considered a Maine strong point, two of the best ...

Piet Mondrian died in 1944, aged seventy-one, and by the time of his death he had pushed the concept of abstraction in painting on into the field of the non-objective and beyond it, into areas where ...

Since the 1960s, artists throughout Northeast Ohio have experimented with geometric abstraction and Op Art. Many local contemporary artists continue to advance the genre in new and unexpected ...

Davide Balliano’s “Abacus” is at Tina Kim Gallery through March 7, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni. If a formal rhythm—both mathematical and symbolic—can be ...

While going through our stash of fabrics, we were this week inspired to focus on prints; both abstract and geometric, in both cotton and knit. We worked with simple silhouettes that played up the ...