The heavyweight in the field is Jay DeFeo’s The Rose (1958-66), tipping the scale at 3,000 pounds. DeFeo didn’t intend gargantuan. Over the years, as she added and never took away, it grew. Most painters are content to work with a flat surface, but there are artists for whom flat is a synonym for starting gate. Once they blow through it, they go for volume, volume, volume.
Peter Fox (via)
Margie Livingston
Peter Tollens Untitled
2005
oil on wood
3.75 x 3 inches
Michael Toenges
16-07-32-28
2007
oil on linen
15 x 13 inches
Andrew Dadson To Be Titled, 2010.
Oil on canvas
20 x 15 inches
(detail)
Tomory Dodge Survivalist, 2007. Oil on canvas.13 3/4 x 16 inches
Joan Snyder Life of A Tree, 2007.
Oil, acrylic, cloth, berries, paper mache, glitter, nails, pastel, on linen
48″ x 68″
Alexander Kroll Untitled, 2009
Oil on linen over panel
14″ x 14″
Back to flat. Paint doesn’t need to be thick to be thick.
Angela Fraleigh, in this moment, 2007, oil on panel, 72″ x 96″
Darren Waterston has laid it on thick in some of his recent work:
http://inmangallery.com/artists/waterston_darren/dw_anatomies/waterston_darren_anat_21.html
In fact, his first foray into sculpture consisted of endless layers of oil paint over a small clay armature. Can’t find a jpeg apart from this installation shot, unfortunately.
http://inmangallery.com/artists/waterston_darren/dw_anatomies/waterston_darren_anat_ins2.html
Very nice paintings