Tomma Abts

$20.00 at Art Institute of Chicago.

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts’s painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensionsWith a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are at once subtle and eccentric. This…