American figurative artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has produced a remarkable and impressive body of work but is best known for his large - scale, flat, yet realistic portraits of friends and family notable for their relaxed attitudes and uncomplicated bearing.
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is
an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Alex Katz is
an American figurative artist whose works have been shown worldwide.
Alex Katz (b. 1927) is
an American figurative artist.
I had a great conversation with
American figurative artist Bo Bartlett.
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.
Not exact matches
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
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.
A lighthearted
figurative abstract by Bay Area
artist Kristin Cohen (
American, b. 1963).
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.
In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African -
American artists of the period focused predominantly on
figurative expression.
Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into
figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born
American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.
In addition to several spectacular abstract and neo-modernist works by
artists including Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson, the exhibition will feature Selvaag's outstanding collection of pioneer works within
American and Japanese
figurative photography which seldom or never have been shown in Norway, by
American Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, and Japanese Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki.
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
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to
figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted
artists in the
American non-objective field».
Matisse stands as the
artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few
artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly
American panorama, both in his
figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.
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..
With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of
American painting, these
artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area
Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.
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.
Highlights include works by the installation
artist Rebecca Horn presented by Sean Kelly Gallery, paintings by the
American Modernist Beauford Delaney presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and
figurative works by the renowned British
artist Lucian Freud presented by Acquavella Galleries.
A dynamic
figurative abstract painting titled «Promise of Spring» by California expressionist
artist Kristin Cohen (
American, b. 1963).
Currently, the Evans Center features an exhibition called Pose / Re-Pose:
Figurative Works Then and Now, which showcases works by acclaimed African
American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary
artists who utilize the body as a primary focus.
Dynamic
figurative abstract by San Jose, California area
artist Daniel David Fuentes (
American, 20th century).
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.
Figurative abstract painting by San Jose, California area
artist Daniel David Fuentes (
American, 20th Century).
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.
A
figurative abstract painting on masonite by San Francisco, California area
artist Daniel David Fuentes (
American, b - 20th C. - d - 2017).
A
figurative abstract painting on each side of the masonite by San Jose, California area
artist Daniel David Fuentes (
American, 20th Century).
«Embrace»
figurative abstract painting by San Jose, California area
artist Daniel David Fuentes (
American, 20th Century).
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:
Over the course of nearly half a century, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff acquired works by some of the most influential
American artists in the postwar era, building a collection that bridges the divide between abstract and
figurative painting.
Accompanying Dumas» first major mid-career survey in the U.S., with stops in three major
American cities, (one yet to be announced) this substantial, fully - illustrated publication features a newly commissioned essay by renowned scholar Richard Shiff, placing the
artist's work in relation to both
American figurative painting since the 1980s and Abstract Expressionism.
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 representa
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 representa
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.
As the show's title expresses, the predominance of abstract expressionism in midcentury
American modernism eclipsed the work of Porter and other
artists like him who chose to work in a
figurative vein.
Napoleone cites two little - known
artists whose work has recently been added to the collection: Claudette Johnson, a Black British
figurative artist in her sixties who has been «totally ignored», and the
American graphic designer and
artist Elaine Lustig Cohen who is now in her eighties.
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.
«Pose / Re-Pose:
Figurative Works Then and Now» showcases works from the Walter O. Evans Collection by acclaimed African
American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary
artists who utilize the body as a...
Wonderful mid-century Wilhem de Kooning style abstract
figurative by New York City
artist David Chapin (
American, b. 1919 - D --RRB-.
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.
Nude
figurative abstract painting by California abstract expressionist
artist Kristin Cohen (
American, b. 1963).
If only one
figurative artist could be immortalized in contemporary
American art history, Rebecca Morgan would be a top contender.
Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into
figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born
American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and...
A major figure in both the Abstract Expressionist and
American Figurative Expressionist movements of the 1940s and 1950s, Elaine de Kooning was a prominent
American painter who can easily be classified as one of the most important female
artists of the 20th...
Paul Wonner was an
American artist who became famous during the 50s as an abstract expressionist connected to the Bay Area
Figurative Movement.
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.
A big shout out to NYSS Alums and Faculty for the Award winners from the
American Academy: Clintel Steed got the prestigious John Koch Award given to Young
Figurative Artist.
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).
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
Artists.