Articles of ‘Thomas Scheibitz’

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery - New York
Paintings Aren’t As They Appear
By Stephen Truax
Thomas Scheibitz appears to be a straightforward Modernist artist resembling the classic painter-sculptor-collage artist model à la Matisse or Picasso. Scheibitz’ presentation is conspicuously simple. The artist’s seventh solo at Tanya Bonakdar consists of modest-sized paintings, (markedly smaller than the oversize work [...]

Since its inception 100 years ago, Abstraction in painting has gone from art world provocateur to art market darling. Today, when much abstract painting seems to want only to please the eye, who are the artists redefining the language of abstraction and from where are they drawing their inspiration? The following essay answers these questions [...]