This is a link to all of the readings I have done and research sources to refer back to as needed, I will update this post regularly with any new useful online sources I find:

Masters of Abstract Expressionism Awaken in a New Era of Critical Importance

Robert Motherwell And Contemporary Collage – I found the information about Motherwell’s use of colour and symbolism very insightful

‘Robert Motherwell: Early Collages’ at the Guggenheim – “And in this work, more obviously than any other, Motherwell relinquished his role as sole creator, which is Abstract Expressionism’s defining feature. Gravity, chemistry and light deserve equal billing as collaborators in a piece of art that has almost certainly changed colour, texture and form since it was new.”

‘Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s Paintings of Queer Ecstasy Are a Must-See in Miami‘ – Chase started working on a much larger scale after his paintings called for “more presence and power”, so he began working as large as 10-10.5 feet. “He paints fragmented forms—usually queer, androgynous, curvaceous male bodies with elastic limbs and glowing red anuses, locked in moments of tenderness or sensual ecstasy.”

Jonathan Lyndon Chase “Quiet Storm” at Company Gallery, New York – “Storms are a destructive phenomenon. A destruction that is needed to cleanse to provide a residue that something can benefit from. A storm processes things, to put them back as they should be, without compromise. They are inherently selfish and unyielding. Chase’s paintings are just as selfish… When a storm is over, you are placed in a reset, in a new place to navigate from. I feel the same quiet pleasant disorientation from looking at Chase’s paintings.”

Queer Abstraction at Des Moines Art Centre