Sentences with phrase «american artists»

They are protesting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and their shortfalls in showing the work of African American artists and hiring African Americans in the same way that the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition that Benny Andrews was one of the co-founders of is protesting the Whitney, is protesting the Met.

TAM has been criticized for its recent «Art AIDS America» exhibit, which included only five African - American artists of 107 in the show, even though the African - American community accounts for more than 40 percent of AIDS - related deaths.

Emigrating to the United States in 1913 from Russia aged ten, Rothko is regarded as one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century.

Established by William S. Arnett, the foundation collects and promotes the work of self - taught African American artists, including the late Thornton Dial and the Gee's Bend quilters.

This unique collection of objects and distinctly immersive installation provides insight into the mind of one of the most influential and visionary living American artists.

The BMA is also hosting a Wikipedia Edit - a-Thon for entries about African - American artists represented in the BMA's collection, and offering a new self - guided tour of works by African - American artists whose works are currently on view in the galleries.

ESTABLISHED BY WILLIAM S. ARNETT in 2010, Souls Grown Deep describes itself as «the only nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, exhibiting and promoting the work of contemporary African American artists from the American South.»

Choi has also assisted with the Fund for African American Art, which focuses on expanding the museum's collection with works by important African American artists through gifts and purchases.

El eje del mal features works by emerging Latin American artists Radamés «Juni» Figueroa, Adriana Lara, Adriana Martínez, Mariana Murcia, Diego Salvador Ríos, SANGREE, and Cristina Tufiño.

Very very informative of information about artist of color particularly African American artists!

Young American artists in New York City - Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Clifford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell - had learned about European modernism chiefly through the influential teaching of Hans Hofmann, and from lectures by John Graham.

The Wyeths and American Artists in Maine» will be on view through April 23.

The MAK Center presents at these two locations «an exhibition of over 150 works by 48 Latin American artists who investigate and challenge nearly one hundred years of cultural influence between Latin America and Disney.

«South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s,» by Kellie Jones (Duke University Press, 416 pages).

Despite being one of the most significant Latin American artists of the twentieth century, Tarsila do Amaral (1886 — 1973) is not well known in the United States.

TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS are receiving the College Art Association's top Awards of Distinction.

The exhibition presents works of art by important Native American artists from the 1950s to today, enriching our understanding of American art.

This show of three African - American artists creates a solid counternarrative on general history, art history, black identity and gender identity.

Funhouse (part 1) displays work by a dozen American artists: ART CLUB2000, Patterson Beckwith, Louise Bonnet, Josh Callaghan, Mark Chiat, Wendy Edwards, Steve Ellis, Danny McDonald, Jack Pierson, Rob Reynolds, Haim Steinbach, and Thomas Zummer.

Major works were brought together for this exhibition from both the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection and the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection, the latter comprised of more than 75 works by modern Latin American artists pledged by the couple to the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter adds to the growing literature of how women American artists struggled to find their place — not as a homogenous group but as vibrant individuals.

Montclair Art Museum Adds Kara Walker Silhouette to List of Contemporary Art Acquisitions by African American Artists

The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is helping museums integrate art by self - taught African American artists from the South into their collections.

THIS SPRING MARKS THE OPENING of a number of notable exhibitions featuring work by African and African American artists.

«Revelations: Art from the African American South» celebrates the debut of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco major acquisition from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta of 62 works by contemporary African American artists from the Southern United States.

The multigenerational aspect of «Greater New York» is represented in the slate of African American artists — several are mid-career; Beasley is barely 30; and Hammons and Pindell are both 72.

In describing her distinguished practice, the gallery said she has «emerged as a central voice in a generation of American artists questioning constructed societal historical narratives and the performative crafting of identity.

Nonetheless, interest in African American art continues to gain traction and increasing values in their markets may indicate collectors and museums are recognizing a wider slate of African American artists long familiar to scholars and many curators.

The collection also includes works by early African American artists Robert Duncanson and Edmonia Lewis, and contemporary figures such as Alvin Loving, Kerry James Marshall, and Julie Mehretu.

«The exhibition brings the public's attention to African American artists whose works have long been omitted from the study and appreciation of American art,» the Smithsonian said in a statement last week.

I do vow to see more art in 2017, starting with the African American Artists on View show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which closes February 28th.

Easy to forget that it was in the 60s that staircases first climbed to nowhere; that posters blown up to avatars took on the mantle of art; that subversions as diverse as the optics of Jo Baer and the combines of Joseph Beuys coincided; that Latin American artists from three nations had nailed disruption by mid-century; that the satirist Robert Crumb was already his fully irreverent self, and that Henri Cartier - Bresson's street photography, consigned in memory to an earlier time, was even more actively influential at the decade's closing.

IN 1988 — Certificate of Excellence, New York ’88 International Art Competition, Art Horizons Exhibition, Larchmont, NY 1986 — Certificate of Excellence, North Coast Collage Society Exhibition, Hudson, OH 1986 — Honorable Mention, Nepenthe Mundi Society Exhibition, Kansas City, MO 1986 — Certificate of Excellence, Metro Art International Exhibition, Greene Street Gallery, Scarsdale, NY 1986 — Favorable Review by art historian & New York Times critic Mr. Hilton Kramer, Ultrasound, R.H. Love Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 — New Jersey Chapter Award, 2nd Place, American Artists Professional League Exhibition New York, NY 1985 — Personal invitation by internationally known modern master, Kenneth Nolan, to work on the installation of his show 1984 — MWS Letters Award, Midwest Watercolor Society, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI 1983 — Internorth Foundation Award, Midwest Watercolor Society, Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, IA 1982 — Daniel Smith Award, Midwest Watercolor Society, West Bend Museum of Art, West Bend, WI

Although she was born two years before Joan Mitchell, and knew her, along with many of the American artists who lived in Paris in the first decade after the end of World War II — including Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis and Al Held — Jaffe went in a very different direction, pictorially speaking, from her peers.

This one, told from the perspective of the mid-Pacific, draws the greater part of its energy and appeal from its Asian - American artists, many of whom eventually returned to Hawaii.

One of Forty - four Contemporary African American Artists, to create an interpretive rendition bust of President Barack Obama for «Visions of Our 44th President» Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and Our World.

Framed by Gill & Lagodich for the Metropolitan Museum; c. 1890s American painting frame, gilded hand - carved wood, molding width 4-7/8» MMA Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015 «The largely Connecticut - based, New York - and Paris - trained Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally.

Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, the exhibition highlights paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by a loosely associated group of mid-twentieth century European and American artists centered around New York.

Routinely showing some of the biggest Latin American artists around, like Mariana Castillo Deball, Adrián Villar Rojas and Dr. Lakra — as well as international artists such as Danh Vo and Rirkrit Tiravanija — the gallery was instrumental in transforming the Mexican capital city into one of the richest art scenes of the new millennium.

By way of 16 mm films, Dean features five influential American artists spanning several generations: Julie Mehretu, Cy Twombly, Leo Steinberg, Claes Oldenburg and Merce Cunningham.

The museum is recognizing Saar «as one of the most profound living American artists» at its Afropolitan Ball on Oct. 28.

The climate is reflected in the subjects African American artists are addressing in their work and is also paralleled...

In one direction, American artists struggled with convention, materials, and process to articulate a more personal expressivity, addressing aesthetics, political and social issues both metaphorically and literally through their work.

The publication also explores the significant network of friendships and collaborations made across racial lines, while underscoring the influence that African American artists had on the era's larger movements and trends.

The dreadfulness of this period for American artists is beyond description.

African American curators pursued new opportunities and African American artists joined major galleries.

This exhibition of selected American artists in the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection explores the diverse approaches to abstraction developed since 1950.

Beginning today, an online exhibition of 18 artworks by African - American artists in the BMA's collection can be viewed by people around the world thanks to a new partnership between the Google Cultural Institute and more than 40 other organizations with African - American artworks and historical artifacts.

1987 Black & White: Visual Sonatas, Aion Fine Art, Dallas, TX Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY Succinctly Stated, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Avant Garde In The 80's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Made in New York, NY, Gianfranco Zani Gallery, Turino, Italy Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA On Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

MOVING TARGETS looks anew at relationships, influences, and two - way exchanges, between historic and contemporary American Artists.