Sentences with phrase «american figurative art»

Gallery artist Alex Kanevsky's work A.S. (2005) is included in the group exhibition We the People: Contemporary American Figurative Art at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ..

Curated by Michael Duncan and part of the Getty Foundation's initiative «Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 - 1980,» L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945 - 1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy is accompanied by a 208 page catalogue, a much - needed reference for the study of post-war American figurative art.

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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

, curated by Anne Umland, Museum of Modern Art, New York Someone else with my fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Overtake: The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, curated by René Zechlin and Matt Parker, Lewis Gluckman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork Degree Zero, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Introvert, extrovert, Makes no Difference, curated by John Armleder, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint Paul de Vence The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, (Guyton \ Walker), curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran, Le Musée du Serignan, Serignan; Herning Art Museum, Herning / Copenhagen; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Zanek, Ujazdowski, Warsaw DUMP: Postmodern Sculture in the Dissolved Field, curated by Andrea Kroksnes, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Deisg, Oslo Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Seth Price / Kelley Walker / Continuous Project, (Continuous Project), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford En Foco: El CoLeccionismo en Puerto Rico - Parte 1: Apropiacion, Autoria y Autenticidad - Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Aaron Young, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane (c / o Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot), Paris À Moitié Carré, À Moitié Fou / Half Square, Half Crazy, curated by Vincent Pécoil, Lily Reynaud, Dewar and Elisabeth Wetterwald, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice Hard Hat Dispatch, curated by Fabrice Stroun and Balthazar Lovay, Dispatch, New York Tbilisi 4: Every Day is Saturday, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Tbilisi String Show, curated by Josh Smith, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.

Three generations of American and European artists illustrate the history of this fascinating, figurative art movement.

The book, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher, brilliantly presents a masterful look at the figurative painting, a selection of which can be seen in the next iteration of Soul of a Nation, which opened earlier this month at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as in the exhibition catalogue, available from the Tate, which features Hendricks» painting «What's Going On» (1974) on the cover.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

The winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's award for best young figurative painter a few years back, she was recently curated into a show by the artist Alex Katz and now has growing market buzz.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

America 1976 traveling exhibition United States Department of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling exhibition The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 30 Years of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA

In a 1956 notebook entry (published in Marika Herskovic's 2009 survey, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism), Müller writes, «Art is first and foremost content.»

2001 Jazz and Visual Improvisation, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX Out of the Fifties — Into the Sixties: Six Figurative Expressionists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Russian art was confined by communism, locked in figurative, unadventurous conservatism, but American art?

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

His early paintings, his figurative still - lifes, particularly - not the late, softly fluid, lyrical abstractions that would profoundly influence the course of American art - are often so densely built up, so airtight with paint, that they've more or less had the life choked out of them; in the course of trying to keep them alive, they have in fact become dead things.

Kasmin's preference was actually for American abstract art, hence his dubbing Hockney — whose work has always been figurative — his «odd man out».

Be sure not to miss an intricate and fantastical woodblock and lithograph edition entitled Monkey Biz by Duke Riley at Graphicstuide / USF; seminal prints by prominent American Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol at Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art; a visually hypnotic nine - color screen print by Jason Middlebrook at Flying Horse Editions; an impressive suite of etchings entitled The Caprichos by Emily Lombardo at Childs Gallery; striking figurative lithographs by American artist Robert Longo at Hamilton - Selway Fine Art; a bold woodcut by Royal Academy artist Eileen Copper at Rabley Contemporary Gallery UK; three - dimensional print sculptures by Lesley Dill and mixed media prints by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos at Tandem Press; a series of haunting portraits by the American artist Monica Lundy at Stoney Road Press / Ireland; colorful mixed media work by Stanley William Hayder at Susan Teller Gallery; subtle and contemplative photolithographic prints by Linda Schwarz at Wildwood Press LLC; and bold and colorful works by Alexander Calder and Chuck Close at Thomas French Fine Art.

Limpert's figurative sculptures have been featured in The Village Voice, ARTnews, American Contemporary Art, New York Arts, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Elle.

She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for best young figurative painter in 2012.

For instance, in the chapter «Art and the Body,» one might find performance discussed alongside figurative painting, sculpture and photography alongside video, and North American artists alongside Asian artists.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

Written by Daniel Maidman I am an American figurative painter, and I write about art, so D / RAILED asked me to write about where American figurative...

2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, NYC 2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibit 2010 Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Painting, Drawing, Sculpture Crowell's Fine At Gallery Bedford, MA Recent Work 2008 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY 2007 Verdigris Art Hudson, NY Figurative 2006 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY War is Over 2004 The Painting Center NYC Recent Works on Paper 2003 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2002 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2001 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC AFA Gallery, Scranton PA Five Figure Painters Hudosn Opera House Hudson, NY Recent Works 1999 New York tudio School NYC 100 Drawings 1998 The Painting Center NYC Paulson / Eisenbeis Recent Paintings 1997 The Painting Center NYC Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie Rising Tide Gallery Provincetown, MA Invitational 1996 Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY Solo Show 1995 County College of Susssx Newton, NJ Solo Show 1994 Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, MA 1993 The Bill Race Gallery NYC Three Emerging Artists Education:

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.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.

Recent group exhibitions include Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007/08); The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2007); A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX (2007); Remix - The Collection, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2007) and Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2007).

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited the first career retrospective for this American figurative painter of African descent, born and educated in Philadelphia.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.

1987 The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, Contemporary Cut - Outs (catalogue) Monte Carlo, Monaco, Monte Carlo Sculpture ’87 Port of History Museum at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, National Sculpture Society 54th Annual Exhibition Kent Fine Art, New York, Assemblage Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo, U.S.A. — U.K. Pop Art, exhibition traveled to Daimuru Museum of Art, Osaka; Sogo Museum, Yokohama) Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT, Contemporary Cut - Outs: Figurative Sculpture in Two Dimensions laneni Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity Herter Art Gallery.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

If only one figurative artist could be immortalized in contemporary American art history, Rebecca Morgan would be a top contender.

Utilizing the exterior architectural niches and arches of the building, her work featured graphic folk art - inspired figurative narratives and vivid geometric patterns reminiscent of traditional American quilt work and Pennsylvania Dutch hexes.

She was the recipient of the Thomas B. Clarke Award for figurative painting at the National Academy of Design (now, National Academy Museum) in New York in 1986 and the Second Place Award at the Butler Institute of American Art Midyear in 2002.

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.

In collections including the Smithsonian / National Portrait Gallery, the City Museum of New York, Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powArt Museum, and the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powArt in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powart language with commitment and power.

Barneys New York has collaborated with American figurative painter Alex Katz and the Art Production Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public...

Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).

Barneys New York has collaborated with American figurative painter Alex Katz and the Art Production Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projecArt Production Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projecart projec...

Her figurative work has been featured in many art magazines and eighteen book publications on multiple media, including American Artist magazine; Watercolor Magic; Painting Lessons from the Art Students League of NY; Pure Color, The Best of Pastel; and 100 Mid-Atlantic Artisart magazines and eighteen book publications on multiple media, including American Artist magazine; Watercolor Magic; Painting Lessons from the Art Students League of NY; Pure Color, The Best of Pastel; and 100 Mid-Atlantic ArtisArt Students League of NY; Pure Color, The Best of Pastel; and 100 Mid-Atlantic Artists.

Opening: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee Ryan Lee in this show surveys the art of Emma Amos, an artist and educator known for her vivid figurative works that explore issues of African American identity and narrative, often through the lens of both art history and popular culture.

Elsie Driggs (1898 — July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern - art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils.

He is one of the seven painters included in the book Selected Contemporary Figurative Painters, published in 2010 by the Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House and edited by Qimin Liu, which introduces contemporary American realist painting to the Chinese audience.

They range from ceramic sculptor Robert Arneson to conceptualist Bruce Nauman, whose work was featured in an acclaimed retrospective Benezra co - organized in 1994; Iranian - born videomaker Shirin Neshat; American abstract painter Brice Marden; British sculptor Rachel Whiteread; photographer Cindy Sherman; and Spanish figurative sculptor Juan Munoz (the Munoz retrospective Benezra organized in Chicago comes to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles this month).

She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters coveted John Koch Award for Best Young Figurative Painter in 2012.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

A prominent figure within the pop art movement, most noted for figurative art which included sculpture, paintings, and print is American artist and Brooklyn native Alex Katz, born on July 24th, 1927.

Viewpoint: the Artist as Photographer, Summit Art Center, New Jersey, November 4 — December 30, 1984 (Catalogue) Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, September 26 — November 4, 1984 Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, June 22 — August 26, 1984 (Catalogue) The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 5 — July 16, 1984.