Sean Scully (b. 1945), Untitled, 1985, Charcoal, pastel and graphite on paper, 30 ¼ x 23 1/8 inches (76.8 x 58.7 cm.)

Signed and dated lower right

LYRICS & FORM: Abstraction Expressionism and its Influence on Color Field Painters

Lyrics & Form is Mark Borghi Fine Art’s opening summer exhibition at the Bridgehampton gallery. This year marks our 15^th summer in the Hamptons.

As a reaction away from the gestural action painting of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting emerged focusing on how artists sought to create an authentic experience of pure color and form. In contrast to the body and soul involvement of the Ab-Ex methodology, Color Field painters held in the notion of an artist’s emotional and physical imprint upon the work. “Lyrics & Form” positions works by Abstraction Expressionists such as Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell and Michael West in conversation with Lyrical Abstractionists Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler and Pat Lipksy. As art critic Clement Greenberg deemed “Post Painterly Abstraction,” these artists focused on the formal components of their work rather than those tied to content. Moving away from the poetic and philosophical painting lineage of their predecessors we see painter’s Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam and Sean Scully create their paintings from harmonies and contracts of color and form. Later works included by John Chamberlain, Keith Haring, Alex Katz, Hedda Sterne, Rudolf Stingel and Andy Warhol.

John Chamberlain

Gene Davis

Elaine de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Herbert Ferber

Sam Francis

Helen Frankenthaler

Sam Gilliam

Keith Haring

Hans Hofmann

Alex Katz

Franz Kline

Pat Lipsky

Kenneth Noland

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Sean Scully

Hedda Sterne

Rudolf Stingel

Andy Warhol

Michael West