At the Phillips Collection, Maggie Michael goes one-on-one with Dove’s modernist masterpieces.
“Water Table ” is a 2018 work, in ink, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, from painter Maggie Michael’s “Transfer” series.
One immediate difference between the two artists is scale. Most of Dove’s paintings are modest in size — small enough that the show can fit a cluster of 13 of them, plus one of Michael’s, on its most crowded wall. The epic expanses give Michael a playground for diverse media, techniques and focal points. Even at his most innovative, Dove tended toward traditional, neatly centered compositions. Michael’s painterly gestures — poured, brushed, smeared or dripped — compel the eye in various directions at once. Emulating pop artists, especially Robert Rauschenberg, Michael adds found objects and stenciled patterns.
Like Georgia O’Keeffe, whose style his work influenced, Dove found his way to abstraction through nature, streamlining and distilling organic forms until they were no longer representational. The natural world plays a role in Michael’s paintings, too, but in a different way.
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