Frank Stella's "Grey Scrambled Double Square"

On view at the Museum of Modern Art's Atrium is American artist FRANK STELLA's work called "Grey Scrambled Double Square." Made in 1964, the work is synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Stella's earlier abstract paintings, including this one contain concentric lines, some in gray tones and some in color.

Abstract Expressionist New York At The Museum of Modern Art: MARK ROTHKO's No.1 (Untitled)

Video from the MoMA Multimedia

Currently on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art is MoMA's largest and most comprehensive presentation of Abstract Expressionist art. Included in the exhibit is the beautiful work of American painter MARK ROTHKO (born Latvia, 1903-1970) called "No. 1 (Untitled)" 1948, oil on canvas. 

MoMA Exhibit caption:

Eliminating the figures and organic imagery that dominate earlier paintings in the late 1940s, Rothko began to focus on the relationship between space, color and scale in paintings that later became known as Multiforms. In this work, Rothko applied thin washes of paint to canvas to create a multitude of irregular forms that ebb and flow across the picture plane. Its large size and abstract style point toward the artist's signature Color Field paintings, which he began a year after completing this work.

Abstract Paintings by GERHARD RICHTER at the Marian Goodman Gallery

These are some of the beautiful paintings by GERHARD RICHTER currently on exhibit at the Marian Goodman Gallery until January 9, 2010.  Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in the former German Democratic Republic in 1932, where he lived until 1961, studying first at the Kunstakademie, Dresden from 1951-1956, and then, after leaving for the West (in 1961), at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, from 1961-1963. He has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Staatspreis of the State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, in 2000; the Wexner Prize, 1998; the Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan, 1997; the Golden Lion of the 47th Biennale, Venice, 1997; the Wolf Prize in Israel in 1994/5; the Kaiserring Prize der Stadt Goslar, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 1988; the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna, 1985; the Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, 1981; and the Junger Western Art Prize, Germany, 1961. 

"Richter's deployment of texture, structure, and gesture in painting deliberately suspends itself between scientific and expressive conceptions of painterly process. It is oscillating with the same deliberation, between painting as an act and painting as an accident, between composition as a result of mere chance encounters of materials and structures, and composition as the tracing of a subject's residual intentionality." (B. Buchloh, in Gerhard Richter: Large Abstracts, Hatje Cantz, 2008). 

The Marian Goodman Gallery is located at 24 West 57th Street.