2018年7月26日 · On the other were paintings resembling degraded Minimalist monochromes or Color Field paintings, as if someone had left, say, a Barnett Newman out in the rain. Unfailingly, these paintings came with alluring creation myths.

2022年10月3日 · Zombie Formalism may well have been the most important art movement of the new century. Driven by the economy, it transformed the art market with a familiar and fast adaption of minimalist abstract expressionism. But what on earth is Zombie Formalism? And how did it sleepwalk from overnight success into near oblivion?

2018年7月30日 · By now, the churn of boom-and-bust trend cycles has spurred the market onto greener pastures, leaving Zombie Formalism in the dust. Predictably, this has meant a pendulum swing back toward figuration, as collectors flee the taint of abstraction like a …

2014年4月3日 · Two notable examples of Zombie Formalism would be the electroplated silver monochromes of Jacob Kassay (b. 1984) and the “Rain Paintings” of Lucien Smith (b. 1989), both recent favorites of the art flippers.

2019年7月31日 · “Zombie formalism” refers to a type of art designed specifically to cater to the demands of the market. In 2014, the art critic Walter Robinson invented the lovely term to label paintings that possess “certain qualities—a chic strangeness, a mysterious drama, a meditative calm—that function well in the realm of high-end, hyper ...

2019年3月5日 · In the text below, we discuss the presence of market as critic in reference to Zombie Formalism and its place in contemporary history, as well as the potential for evolving critical practice in relation to supporting emerging artists and engaging works of contemporary art.

2018年10月31日 · For roughly four years beginning in 2011, the art market’s insatiable appetite for a particular kind of painting—immortalized by critic Walter Robinson under the rubric of Zombie Formalism—paralleled the onset-of-outbreak version of undead cinema.

2014年8月25日 · Thus, Zombie Formalism gives us a series of artificial milestones, such as the first-ever painting made with the electroplating process (Kassay), and the first-ever painting done using paint applied in a fire extinguisher (Smith). The term caught on and has been in discussion for the last few months.

2015年4月15日 · Zombie Formalism is the name coined by New York critic Walter Robinson to a recent trend in abstract painting. The trend has been eagerly embraced by the market since around 2010 but is notably lacking in critical approval; a curious reversal for abstraction.

2024年8月22日 · As early as 2006 Melanie Gilligan warned “Beware the zombies” long before “zombie formalism” was coined by Walter Robinson. Now that the transformation has taken place in the conflation of art and market, art and world, without a radical remainder, becoming zombie is what we can look forward to or look back upon becoming.