His works from 1983-1989 included non traditional materials like cardboard, wire, masking tape, and were fashioned into shaped three dimensional paintings and environments.

They are best approached as freestanding shaped paintings made of stained wood inlay.

"That Girl" is a shaped painting in the form of a black, 60's-style hairdo (Johnson).

He called these sculptural, performance-oriented works "misshaped paintings" in response to the shaped paintings that had preoccupied abstract painters in the early 1960's.

(The landscape shapes are reiterated on their own in a shaped painting with the same title that hangs underneath the canvas.)

In her new, variously shaped Neo-Pointillist paintings, she has found just the right balance between work and play.

Next come shaped paintings contradicted by delicately tinted surfaces that seem soft as a summer sky.

Parrino called his mauled canvases "misshaped paintings," in response to the shaped paintings of the sixties.

They can be read as architectural details, reliefs or shaped paintings with assemblage, but all have the flavor of a theater set.

Here she presents irregularly shaped paintings made from stitched-together skins of salmon, cod and other big fish.