Sentences with phrase «area figurative painter»

Paying attention to not - quite - household names - abstract expressionists such as Theodoros Stamos and Grace Hartigan, Bay Area figurative painter Paul Wonner and Stephen Greene, who didn't fit into a particular movement but fused color - field painting with biomorphism to intriguing effect - is another way the McNay sheds «new light» on postwar art.

A second - generation Bay Area figurative painter based since 1977 in Pacifica, California, she is originally from Omaha and studied at Colorado State.

As is typical, many galleries are bringing out the big guns for the new season — from Agnes Martin at The Pace Gallery in New York to a well structured survey of Bay Area figurative painter, Nathan Oliveira, at John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.

Particularly significant are the collection of Bay Area figurative painters, including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff, and works by American Realist painters Philip Pearlstein, Jack Levine, and Jerome Witkin.

Diebenkorn, however, preferred California to the competitive New York art scene, and became a leading artist among the Bay Area Figurative painters.

Early in her career, Crossman was influenced by Bay Area figurative painters; figures — be they shoppers or swimmers — have been the primary focus of her compositions.

Influenced by the Bay Area figurative painters, she paints abstract figures informed by motion, water and emotion.

The intense color and sunlight of the west coast, along with the influence of the Society of Six, Bay Area Figurative painters, and other contemporary northern California artists, gives her art its singular character.

Nash writes, «There is no more fabled chapter in the history of California Art than the audacious stand made by Bay Area Figurative painters against Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.»

Post Bay Area Figurative painters, Robert Bechtle, Robert Hudson, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley, continue anchoring their portion of regional cultural legacy.

Parasnis, whose vivid new «Serenity» paintings are on view at Caldwell Snyder Gallery, cites Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area figurative painters — namely Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira and Willem de Kooning — among his influences for their expressive marks and «spirituality and color.»

Putt also positions herself collegially by direct references to Bay Area figurative painters past and present

Virtually any artist using the human figure as a vehicle for commentary and self - examination... Gillian Peterson - Krag, Michael Andrews, Robert Bauer, the Bay Area Figurative painters (especially Elmer Bischoff), Eric Fischl, Will Cotton, Cecily Brown — not as a colorist or even as a painter but as a bawdy narrator of sexual experience.

Not exact matches

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

SL: But meantime the Bay Area painters were doing something on their own, forming a so - called figurative, Bay Area figuration, at this point.

David Park (March 17, 1911 — September 20, 1960)[1] was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.

A California abstract expressionist artist, Kristin studied at Humbolt State University and with Micheal Dee Cookinham a bay area figurative and abstract expressionist painter.

(David Park; born March 17, 1911 in Boston; died September 20, 1960 in Berkeley, Calif.; painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.)

In the long run, the work of these artists may well supersede the attention given to the Bay Area abstract figurative painters of the era, for they not only leave us with equally superlative works, but in the process upended the notion of craft.

Frank Lobdell, born in 1921 in Kansas City, was an American painter, often associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism.

Ruby Neri Born in the 1970s into the collegial environment of artists in San Francisco, Ruby Neri's initial influences were the painters and ceramicists closely associated with her father, the Bay Area Figurative sculptor Manuel Neri.

But turning from Moses» show to the figurative work of Bay Area painter Chester Arnold, one sees in them different styles of artistic self - consciousness.

David Park (1911 - 1960) was arguably the most important painter of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

This circa 1960s graphite on paper nude drawing in the Bay Area Figurative style is by San Francisco painter Jack Freeman (1938 - 2014).

Lee Plato Smith, a gifted painter and textile artist who studied with David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and other masters of the Bay Area Figurative School, has died.

His followers also admire his absolute independence: When all the art world was abuzz about Abstract Expressionism in the»50s, Bischoff instead turned to painting recognizable (albeit loose and bold) figures, thereby — along with painters Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — launching the Bay Area's Figurative Movement.

In the master bedroom on the second floor, which is dominated by a fine 19th century Chinese coromandel screen, designer Cecilie Starin shows off a selection of Bay Area School figurative painter Elmer Bischoff's drawings as well as a striking Martin Puryear etching from John Berggruen Gallery.

Smith first gained notice as a representational painter in the 1940s: his works from that period have an energy and graphic insistence that predicts some of the qualities of the Bay Area Figurative style that his friend David Park would pioneer a few years later.

[1][4] At California College, his mentors included the painters Nathan Oliveira and Richard Diebenkorn [2][4]-- founding members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement — and the calligrapher Sabro Hasegawa.

Francis studied under David Park (1911 - 1960), pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting, completed a Masters in Fine Art at the University of California (1950), then moved to Paris where he studied under the legendary Cubist painter Fernand Leger (1881 — 1955).

It includes works by painters such as George Abend and Felix Ruvolo — key figures in the The San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism movement, as well as works by Bay Area Figurative School artists, including Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Roland Petersen and Joan Savo.

In 1957, Mr. Mills put together a now - historic exhibition featuring the works of the expressionist painters who would gain fame as leaders of the Bay Area Figurative movement, among them David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn.

Associated with both the Bay Area Figurative Art movement and abstract expressionism, California painter Richard Diebenkorn developed a distinct vocabulary of intersecting lines and geometric forms augmented by chromatic undercurrents.

Elmer Bischoff: «Figurative Paintings» (closes on Saturday) During the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, a number of painters in San Francisco turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, thereby founding what came to be known as Bay Area Figuration.

The Times story stressed that the works are primarily Abstract Expressionist, but the last three, of course, are figurative painters from the Bay Area.

The first is a solo show from Bay Area painter Terry Powers, whose exhibit features figurative paintings of his wife, child, and home.