Kent's Greenland paintings are new discoveries, thanks to Steve Martin's art-world yarn, An Object of Beauty. 1932-35, oil on canvas mounted on panel, 28 1/8 x 48 inches, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, below. They instead harness structure in the service of materials deckled or cut edges, surfaces of cascading paint and ferocious graphite markings, contained in discrete areas, vacillate rhythmically together, delighting and enrapturing the eye.Īnother version of schema re-emerges in Rockwell Kent's Greenland paintings: Greenland People, Dogs and Mountains, c. Their color and placement of material, texture and edge is extremely specific in a way that anticipates image, but the works abstain from recognizable form. Many of the works portray an image-pattern one might associate with a rounded cruciform, insect head or African textile. MAC-TR 83, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1971. Correspondences and cross-reference circulate the show. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Unique relationships emerge between works: a tiny reddish-purple study parked at the bottom corner of a large, predominantly green painting holds both paintings in mutual abeyance, through the vibration of its intense darks. It's like entering a 3-d version of the artist's brain. Four large paintings anchor the whole, orbited by collages and drawings. Enter identifying text in the Search box to locate the appropriate reference.

From the EndNote 20 tab in Word, select Citations>Insert citation (s). Position your cursor in the paper where you want to insert the citation. Lewczuk's paintings are pure buoyancy, saturating the light-filled gallery with sonorous, resonant hues barely contained in deceptively simple demarcations of space. Open a document in Word (it is important to do it in this order the first time you use Word with EndNote). Even better, head to Janet Kurnatowski in Greenpoint to see the paintings live! Check the gallery's website here: They alchemize graphite, gouache and paint into mysterious patterns that juggle allusions to figure and landscape while merging a map's reductive topologies with the colorful brevity of signage.Ĭlick the header above to visit Lewczuk's website, and peruse the Brooklyn Rail interview to read about her experiences as a painter. Her works re-interpret non-western sources as abstract systems similar to maps or signs. I think about schemas after seeing Margrit Lewczuk's exhibition, Drawing Into Paint. Schema may refer to: Model (abstract), Diagram, or Schematic, a diagram that represents the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols.' The distancing layer of stylization help us navigate unfamiliar space visually, it presages digital screens. Wikipedia defines shema: 'The word schema comes from the Greek word 'σχήμα' (skhēma), which means shape, or more generally, plan. Maps, or signs, conflate landscape with diagram, transforming geography into hybrid schemas.

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