Frank Stella

Frank Stella

One of the leading exponents of abstract art for the past half-century, Stella died on 4 May 2024, aged 87. The landmark "Black Paintings" series marked him out as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured works on shaped canvas, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and architecture

Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation

The American artist married complex with simple, from Minimalist canvases to “maximalist” sculptures

Matthew Holman19 June 2024

Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87

His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects

Louis Jebb5 May 2024

From the archive | A 2009 studio visit with the king of the one-liner Frank Stella in the fallout from the global financial crash

The artist reveals that his cavernous upstate New York studio includes a Formula 1 racing car that had "drifted in", and is packed with art following the recent cancellation of two exhibitions in Europe: "It's not good"

Brook Mason1 March 2009

From the archive: Frank Stella in 1999 — 'I started, and I think I am going to finish, as a committed abstractionist'

The American artist talked about working to commission, exploring the creative tension between figurative and abstract art, his debt to artists of the past and his views on artists of today

Norbert Lynton30 June 1999

From the archive: When Frank Stella made an NFT in 2022

Stella’s motivations for minting a non-fungible token could be the solidification of his legacy as a painter’s painter

Gretchen Andrew2 September 2022
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