{"id":12412,"date":"2025-06-02T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:42:03","slug":"tomma-abts-at-david-zwirner-gallery-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/tomma-abts-at-david-zwirner-gallery-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomma Abts at David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomma Abts\u2019 small abstract paintings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/2025\/tomma-abts\">David Zwirner Gallery<\/a> defy language, their dynamic forms and rich colors existing to provide stimulation to the eye.\u00a0 Recurring spiraling shapes evoke wheels with uneven spokes or a curving staircase.\u00a0 Other canvases feature angular forms emanating from a central point.\u00a0 All suggest centrifugal force, including the less geometric composition \u2018Saske,\u2019 pictured here.\u00a0 A profusion of soft feathery forms in yellow, turquoise and pink tones recall Edgar Degas\u2019 paintings of 19<sup>th<\/sup> century stage performers and provocatively contrast the hard, light-catching metallic surface of a cast-bronze segment to the left. (On view in Chelsea through June 14<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2715px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/86514b38-c48a-b2ff-fe52-9907e8627626.jpg\" width=\"2715\" height=\"3333\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomma Abts, Saske, acrylic on canvas and cast bronze in two (2) parts, 18 7\/8 x 15 inches, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomma Abts\u2019 small abstract paintings at David Zwirner Gallery defy language, their dynamic forms and rich colors existing to provide stimulation to the eye.\u00a0 Recurring spiraling shapes evoke wheels with uneven spokes or a curving staircase.\u00a0 Other canvases feature angular forms emanating from a central point.\u00a0 All suggest centrifugal force, including the less geometric composition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/tomma-abts-at-david-zwirner-gallery-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tomma Abts at David Zwirner Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[693,11356,117,100,13,33,11355,3700],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract-painting","tag-cast-bronze","tag-chelsea","tag-david-zwirner","tag-gallery","tag-painting","tag-sake","tag-tomma-abts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ec","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}