: of or relating to abstract painting characterized by geometric forms with clearly defined boundaries
an artist known for hard-edge paintings
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For The Mandarin, Gagliardi and Booth wanted to reference two things; the earth art at the Hopewell Culture in Circleville, Ohio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the abstract painting of hard-edge modernist painter, Ellsworth Kelly, whose artwork is on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Image Her early New York work was similar to Mr. Wesley’s — hard-edge and minimal, but representational, and funny, with allusions to gender politics.
—Will Heinrich, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2025
What Team Northeast's saying: Philly's too hard-edge to be anything but Northeast.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Constructed of flat, hard-edge but usually curving slabs of color, the compositions evoke mysterious interiors or extreme close-ups.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Image Her early New York work was similar to Mr. Wesley’s — hard-edge and minimal, but representational, and funny, with allusions to gender politics.
—Will Heinrich, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2025
What Team Northeast's saying: Philly's too hard-edge to be anything but Northeast.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Constructed of flat, hard-edge but usually curving slabs of color, the compositions evoke mysterious interiors or extreme close-ups.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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“Hard-edge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-edge. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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