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Featured Artist

József Bullás
Refractions
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4411 Montrose
Houston, Texas 77006
713.524.2299

www.anyatishgallery.com

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10:30am - 6:00pm
Saturday 10:30am - 5:00pm
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The Hungarian artist, József Bullás, is considered to be one of the most
important living practitioners  of painting in his native country.
Refractions marks his second exhibition at the Anya Tish Gallery.  
Bullás has consistently been an award-winning artist since 1984, when he
was given the prestigious Herman Lipót Prize in Budapest.
Although he has often been
classed as a member of the
school of geometric
abstraction developed in
Russia in the early 20th
Century by Kazimir Malevich
and his disciples Vassily
Kandinsky and Alexander
Rodchenko, he has turned
the original tenets of geometric
abstraction on
its head. While some American
artists – Frank Stella comes
to mind – have taken
geometric abstraction, with
its concern with the purity
of the two-dimensional
picture plane, out into the third
dimension by employing
shaped canvases, Bullás has
pursued a very different
strategy. Perhaps the simplest
way to describe his creations is
Geometric Trompe l’Oeil; in his
works basic forms and even
pure colors appear to exist in
an illusionistic space.
Bullás states that he has developed a style of painting that
transcends traditional forms. In his own words, “ My painting has
two bases, one is the Western (European) traditional form. The
other involves Oriental ornament.” In other words, his works are
a reflection of Asiatic or Moslem decorative strategies, such as
are found in Bukharan ikat silk weavings or Moroccan tiled
surfaces. He goes on to say, “At first I paint on the canvas a
Constructivist  ‘ornament’ or ‘repetitive construction’ with a
paint knife or brush….” “Then I roll across this many times…The
process is such as when the ocean’s waves round off sharp
stone fragments…This work process includes the narrowing
down of time and exempts my works from the paradoxes of art
history.”
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