Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism Into the Abstract runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
By Jorge S. Arango
Kerry Ryan McFate/Courtesy of Dowling Walsh Gallery
With the exception of Kenneth Noland, Dowling Walsh’s current show, “In the Abstract” (through Feb. 27), concentrates on Abstract Expressionists who might not be household names. Yet the territory their work inhabits is, by turns, electrifying and sublime.
IF YOU GO
WHEN: Through Feb. 27
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: (207) 596-0084, dowlingwalsh.com
Mention American Abstract Expressionism, and most people immediately think of the 1940s and ’50s, first-generation Ab Ex artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, or the co-emergent Color Field painters who included Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. The next generation overlapped with the first, emerging in earnest in the 1960s and spawning talents such as Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan M