#anonima group

[ambientlightning]

Frank Hewitt - No Title, 1961

[internationalemeteorologie]

Edwin Mieczkowski

Slammer Lens. 1994, acrylic on paper, 110 x 102 cm

[ambientlightning]

Photo of Anonima Group

[garadinervi]

Francis Hewitt (Anonima Group), Apparant Size Change Drawing, 1967-1968

[garadinervi]

Ernst Benkert (Anonima Group), Black and White Plastic, 1964

[lafilleblanc]

Francis Hewitt

Untitled Drawing, Overlap Series, 1966

ink on paper

(via)

[lafilleblanc]

Ed Mieczkowski

Anon, 1961 

ink on paper

(via)

“...The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski. Propelled by their rejection of the cult of the individual ego and automatic style of the Abstract Expressionists, the artists worked collaboratively on grid-based, spatially fluctuating drawings and paintings that were precise investigations of the scientific phenomena and psychology of optical perception. The work was accompanied by writings: proposals, projects and manifestos - socialist in nature - which the artists considered essential to the experience and understanding of their work. Their drawings, paintings and writings, which had much in common with the positions of artist Ad Reinhardt, and with the Russian Constructivists, were included in the 1965 Responsive Eye exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Along with other artists in the exhibit , Anonima's work was incorrectly relegated to what came to be the highly commercialized and publicized category of Op Art...”

[isaacwilloughby]

Optical perception works made for Central Grad Show in 2012.