Joshua Abelow

American, 1976

Joshua Abelow makes paintings and drawings that look satirically at his own career and practice. Abelow is known for using simple-though-loaded imagery: his two most common motifs are geometric forms and stick figures, which are references to Modernist abstraction. His paintings, typically executed on linen or stretch burlap, also demonstrate Abelow’s deft understanding of color. In contrast to the rigid forms in his paintings, Abelow’s drawings are compised of loosely rendered images. Abelow sometimes considers them a foil to and a release from his paintings.

Joshua Abelow’s works can be found in museum collections such as The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in New York and David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University in Rhode Island.

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