Conflict
Alfonso Ossorio American, born Philippines
Not on view
Born in Manila, Ossorio was an artist and collector who, in the late 1940s, entered the orbits of many artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock. In response to Pollock’s early "drip" compositions, Ossorio developed a direct and gestural manner of experimental painting filled with dense thickets of lines and splatters. Conflict suggests a relative loosening of his style, which would later incorporate a wide range of found objects, both organic and manmade. A menacing dark form composed of an accumulation of short, assertive marks dominates the composition and calls to mind a disruptive or cataclysmic force.
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