Sentences with phrase «african figurative sculpture»

The works in her ongoing Anatomy of Architecture series are ceramic busts that recall the aesthetics of African figurative sculpture.

«Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture.»

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Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly figurative or representational.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

Quilts, masks and figurative sculptures are central to the art of the African diaspora.

This figurative sculpture made from frozen fabric is the first work I saw on entering the fair and it's a perfect representation of the fair in taking a typically European sculpture pose and infusing it with African influence.

Harlem - based artist Sanford Biggers takes African wooden figurative sculptures, dips them in wax to erase the facial features, shoots them repeatedly at close range, and then recasts them in bronze.

2003 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY American Identity: Figurative Painting and Sculpture, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY