Sentences with phrase «friend of the artist»

The veteran curator, organizer of the exhibition, and close friend of both artists can provide a history lesson of such vivid intimacy that no book or documentary film could compare.

In this work, and into the current work, memorial and persona became sources for content, as works paid homage to celebrated figures and close friends of the artist.

That was the fourth annual Friends of Artists Space dinner honoring curator and historian Douglas Crimp.

«David has an uncanny way of capturing someone quite quickly,» says Douglas Roberts, an art dealer and longtime friend of the artist.

Salle then mentioned he is a long - time friend of the artist Frank Stella.

But not the annual Friends of Artists Space dinner, which is sweeter and much more interesting.

It's in the far back of the space that there are images of personal friends of the artist, depicting them on the trip to the swiss countryside.

The Club itself, at its height, never had more than 200 members and a lot of them weren't abstract or avant - garde, they were just friends of artists who were.

Among the participants I chat to are several journalists, students, a designer who worked on the Mouthy imagery, an old school friend of the artist and several women from the student LGBT society.

Robert Motherwell, a dear friend of the artist, used to call Smith's vertical sculpture «sentinels,» and there is a vigilance to the elegant posture of Forging IX, a delicately wrought sculpture in varnished steel.

Along with an essay and interview, New York includes an extraordinary selection of poems from friends of the artist, including some of the most important American poets of the late twentieth century, among them Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery and Robert Creeley.

George Barris - Marilyn Monroe - Ethereal Pleasure: This rare, intimate depiction of Marilyn Monroe is by New York born photographer George Barris, who was a also good friend of the artist.

However, it is not only the number of works that has grown; collector couple Alison and Peter W. Klein are now also friends of artist couple Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko.

A member of the New York avant - garde and a close friend of artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Hartigan was deeply influenced by the ideas of abstract expressionism.

These being friends of the artist on the Lower East Side, they could be dancing or skateboarding, and one sees mostly the back of their heads.

Clement Greenberg, the renowned art critic and a mutual friend of the artists, first introduced Frankenthaler and Smith in 1950.

Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»

In 2003 Kettles Yard gallery in Cambridge staged a retrospective of Reynolds's paintings and drawings; and in 2011 Michael Harrison, its director and a long - standing friend of the artist, wrote an extensive monograph on his work.

William N. Copley (1919 - 96) is among the 20th - century outliers — philanthropist, newspaper reporter, publisher, art dealer, writer, peripatetic lover of women, connoisseur of the high life, generous friend of artists (especially Surrealists) and eccentric folk - Pop painter.

This work is part of a specially commissioned Portfolio comprising nine images, each depicting friends of the artist performing for each other or the camera.

In 1969 Harald Szeemann included his work in his legendary Attitude exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bern; in 1975 Carlo Huber invited him to show his work at the Kunsthalle Basel, where he presented a magnificent installation of his paintings; and in 1980 the first comprehensive retrospective of his work took place at the InK — Halle für internationale neue Kunst — in Zurich, under the stewardship of Urs Raussmüller, a great friend of the artist and champion of his work.

Whitten's Black Monolith V Full Circle: For Leroi Jones AKA Amiri Baraka (2014) serves as a memorial to the late writer and activist, an early friend of the artist.

Howson's partner, the former discus thrower Lorraine King, will accompany him for part of the walk, as well as other high - profile friends of the artist.

Hopps» status as curator and staunch friend of artists was enhanced in the 1970s.

Kenny, a longtime friend of the artist, had mounted an exhibition of her work from among his private collection with partner George Michael through The Goss - Michael Foundation.

Nan Goldin will be honored by Artists Space at their Annual Friends of Artists Space Dinner on May 11, 2015.

Commentaries about the artworks will be written by Jean Lawlor Cohen, consulting curator for the exhibition and long - time friend of the artist.

Curated by the Boetti scholar Luca Massimo Barbera and the infamous art historian and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (who was a personal friend of the artist), the show Minimo / Massimo will examine every single series of Boetti's work spanning his entire career and is set to include the largest and smallest example from each.

Mr Powell, who was an old school friend of the artist, believes the faxed artwork to be unique and one of a series of eight faxes.

Elizabeth Peyton's Gavin on the Phone is a jewel of a painting, a luminous microcosm that sumptuously depicts a key figure in New York's downtown art scene and a dear friend of the artist's, Gavin Brown.

As if to spite Monday night's Met Gala, 260 stylish, if less outrageously dressed, guests who have earned the right to be called bohemian filled the Ukrainian National Home for the annual Friends of Artists Space dinner honoring the founders of Semiotext (e), Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Kraus, and its current editor, Hedi El Kholti.

In 1947, his recovery complete, Childs returned to his artistic practice and education wholeheartedly, studying under Amédée Ozenfant, who would become a good friend of the artist.

Playing in the gallery is a pottily humorous film that imagines the German dada artist and composer Kurt Schwitters and his girlfriend as close friends of the artist's own grandparents.

Work needs to be delivered in person either by artist or friend of artist.

And Simon Moretti (b. 1974), who was also a close friend of the artist, will show a neon work depicting a lightening strike, taken from an 18th century Indian painting.

One might recall that Philip Roth, a friend of the artist, wrote a scathing comic biography of the former president — not to mention novels about himself as a creator and a Jew.

«Confections,» a recent group show at New York's Allan Stone Projects (whose proprietor, Allan Stone, is an old friend of the artist and has shown his works at the gallery since the»60s), gathered a handful of artists — Emily Eveleth, Derrick Guild, Richard Hickam, Don Nice, and Lorraine Shemesh — who have done just this.

Hrag Vartanian, editor - in - chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, talks with exhibition curator Gwen Chanzit, artist Judith Godwin, art historian Linda Nochlin, and curator and critic Karen Wilkin (a friend of the artist Helen Frankenthaler).

A former president of the Rothko Foundation and a friend of the artist, Blinken also served as ambassador to Hungary during the Clinton administration.

This exhibition is supported by the Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault Exhibition Supporters Circle: Philip Aarons & Shelley Fox Aarons, Carolyn Alexander & Ted Bonin, Daniel Buchholz & Christopher Müller, Chantal Crousel & Niklas Svennung, Marian Goodman, Jerry Gorovoy, Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens, Jose Kuri & Monica Manzutto, Galerie Lelong, Penny Pilkington & Wendy Olsoff, Andrea Rosen, Thea Westreich & Ethan Wagner, and the Friends of Artists Space.

The title of the show is a vague memory from a friend of the artist; a phrase that stayed with Margarita Bofiliou for a long time, until she sourced it and found out that it derives from the classic Greek tragedy Perseus by Aeschylus.

Cwynar's new photographs comprise studio portraits of Tracy, a friend of the artist, with superimposed found objects and images; recomposed illustrations of suits of armor; a set of Avon presidential after - shave bottles from the 1970s minus their heads; and a studio photograph of a hot pink peony on a green background.

In 1953, Marca - Relli purchased a house in Springs, East Hampton, near to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, who became close friends of the artist and his wife.

A baffling range of emotions are evoked in Carrie Reichardt's «Tiki Love Truck» film, in which we are told the story of John Joe «Ash» Amador, a friend of the artist, who was executed seven years ago in Texas after being found guilty of murder.

BCMA will also host a series of exhibition - related public programs, including a lecture by art historian Meredith Hoy who discusses Pousette - Dart in the context of the rise of digital aesthetics, in addition to events with family and friends of the artists, student - led tours, concerts, and family programs.

Friends of the artist have put together a weekend only benefit exhibition to help offset medical costs at Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill.

In the Contemporary Austin's Jones Center, Sachs presents a series of working ceramic boomboxes featuring curated playlists developed by pop icons and friends of the artist.