This, the first New York exhibition of John Hoyland’s work in 25 years, brings together seven of his monumental stain paintings along with works on paper. Don’t miss it Pace Gallery, New York 15 September – 21 October 2017 by PAUL CORIO The artistic pilgrimage, in which the young artist …
Read more >John Hoyland, “7.11.66” (1966), acrylic on canvas, 84 x 120 inches (© The John Hoyland Estate. All rights reserved, DACS 2017. Photograph by Colin Mills, courtesy of Pace Gallery) John Hoyland (1934–2011) was an important English abstract painter whom the English are still trying to get a handle …
Read more >THE SHOW ITSELF Mostly broader than they are tall, these lovely, rectangular paintings, all done within a three-year span in the mid-60s, range up to 13 feet in width or 10 feet in height. They contain ultra-simple compositions, with a ground most memorably in a violent red (though sometimes in …
Read more >People saying, “you can’t be an artist and a curator, you can’t be both,’ made me think, I’ll show you something, I’ll show you a different way.’” Damien Hirst told Nicholas Serota in a 2012 interview. Now, decades after curating the seminal Freeze exhibition, Hirst shows us again. He marks …
Read more >I bought my first John Hoyland in 1994. It was a predominantly red abstract with a rectangle of acid green at the bottom, painted in 1964. It was at auction – Christie’s – and, as it turned out, I was the sole bidder. Auction houses are a very useful indicator …
Read more >It’s difficult to believe that John Hoyland is dead. He was a man so full of life, with such appetite for living, that his absence from our midst makes no sense. Even when grievously ill in the past months, he was more likely to engage in anecdote and tell jokes …
Read more >Prodigiously creative abstract artist whose ultra-vivid work went to painting’s extremes. A painter and printmaker of prodigious creative energy and imagination, John Hoyland, who has died aged 76 of complications following heart surgery in 2008, was widely recognised as one of the greatest abstract artists of his time. From the …
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