Invented by the critic Jules Langsner in 1959, the term “hard-edge painting” represented a kind of geometric or Classical painting in which the shapes within the painterly format were clearly defined ...

WHY YOU SHOULD SEE THIS SHOW: Jack Beal only painted in the flat, bright, Hard Edge style seen on view in George Adams Gallery’s current show for four years. Between 1968 and 1972 the New York Realist ...

What’s the deal with hard-edge painting, anyway? As Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile notes, “Some people take it for granted. They look at it and say, ‘How hard can that be? Where is the relationship to life ...

Abstract painter June Harwood, who was part of the so-called hard edge movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, has died at her home in Studio City where she lived alone. She was 81. Her body was found Sunday ...

The “little sister” of Los Angeles hard-edge painting, June Harwood has evolved from hard to soft edges since the 1960s. Now she is fusing the two supposedly opposite tendencies, and making it work.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Crown Point Press announces Hard Edges for Hard Times, an exhibition featuring five new etchings by Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni. In reference to the new prints, Marioni ...