Warren Isensee

Using a precise free-hand technique, Warren Isensee creates geometric abstractions that appear mechanical in nature. Forming the composition of his works with a process similar to automatism, Isensee’s work focuses on investigations of color and reductivist abstraction. Inspired by his early studies of architecture, and reminiscent of hardedge painting, Isensee’s dizzying structures of line and color illuminate, what the artist describes as, the electric “space between two solids.”

His work may be found in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and The Penn Art Collection, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, among others.

In 1999, he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and, in 2007, received the Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters after participating in the annual Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts.

The artist lives and works in New York, NY