Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern

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flows of matter and energy around us—between intuition and analysis, randomness and order, the quotidian and the cosmic. The large-format, abstract paintings of Tomm El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince; lives and works in Miami) teem with dense and dynamic marks that evoke ornament, language, and architecture. By variously layering and erasing his linework and using vibrant color to optically push or pull his pictures, El-Saieh creates rhythmic, all-over compositions from which larger forms appear to emerge—testing both the limits of perception and expectations about abstraction. more divergent Haitian artistic Free.