Abstraction Is Dead Long Live Abstraction
San Francisco, CA
November 2005
For a new generation of artists, abstraction is no
longer about manipulating materials, but about
manipulating meanings. Blue Tangerine Art reveals
the crucial transition from industrial age to
information age in an exhibition of eleven California
artists, both established and emerging, working in
media ranging from oil on canvas to video.
Artists: Ed Moses, James Hayward, Jonathon
Keats, Sarah Coleman, Andy Moses, Mel Davis, Josh
Feldman, Rebecca Szeto, Sieglinde Van Damme,
Maria Vasconcelos, Nicola Wood.
Catalog essay by Jonathon Keats, conceptual artist and writer for Art News and San Francisco Magazine.
“Top shelf abstracts here. We got the thick frosting
luxury of James Hayward, Mel Davis halcyon
meditative color fields, Ed Moses’ magic with paint,
Andy Moses streamlined lines (making Dad
proud)... [Blue Tangerine] is unquestionably
cognoscenti central tonight, crammed to the
rafters with luminaries too numerous to mention.”
- Art Business.com, November 2005
