New Language: Contemporary Abstraction is a national survey of abstract art. This group exhibition is juried by artist and educator Daniela Rivera. In New Language: Contemporary Abstraction, the featured artists consider abstract expressionism as a springboard for a contemporary approach to translating the world into a non-objective language or one that is removed from representation.
Many of the artists incorporate digital processes and the influence of technology as a point of departure to translate observations and perceptual illusions. In the video Movement Experiments, Yukyung Chung explores how physical movements can be interpreted and translated in digital environments. Others—like Tielin Ding, who uses his applications of mapping and walking to reflect on invisible systems within urban and natural spaces—and Julia McGehean, who illustrates the circular way she tracks linear text by making abstractions from a moving tennis player—also work with performative actions. Some artists, such as Arden Cone, create abstract art with found objects; in The Mileage, Cone presents a tractor tire tube from her family’s farm as a drawing substrate to interpret the socio-political culture of the American South.
In New Language: Contemporary Abstraction, the featured artists use the freedom of abstraction to navigate through and reflect on contemporary topics. Utilizing a variety of mediums—such as painting, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, fiber, mixed media, printmaking, and collage—the artists with work on view provide unique perspectives on a range of themes, including the impact of technology, social-political culture, the human experience, history, climate change, and more.
Featured artists
Patrick Brennan, Michelle Carter, Yukyung Chung, Thomas Clarkson, Arden Cone, Tielin Ding, Dean Ebben, Gavin Fahey, Adam Farcus, Colleen Fitzgerald, Gregory Gómez, Lynette Haggard, Katie Lane, Catherine LeComte, Julia McGehean, Dara Morgenstern, Laura Nugent, Gavin Robb, Martha Schnee, Calder Sell, Anvi Stevens, Susan Still Scott, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Elizabeth Ulanova, Audrey Wang, Yolanda Yang