Sentences with phrase «few modern and contemporary artists»

Few modern and contemporary artists are regarded as the first in employing certain techniques or artistic visions.

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While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Enrique Juncosa, former curator of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Miquel Barceló's solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, describes Barceló as «one of the few contemporary artists who feels comfortable working in a rural idiom.

With a prolific career spanning seven decades — starting in the late 1930s in Paris and culminating in New York — Louise Bourgeois (1911 — 2010) is one of the few artists associated with both «modern» and «contemporary» sensibilities.

The Heritage Gallery represents African American artists such as Charles White, Margaret Burroughs, James McMillan, Ernie Barnes, and William Pajaud; Social Realist artists such as William Gropper; Latin American, Hispanic, and Mexican American artists such as Carlos Almaraz and David Alfaro Siqueiros; Californian artists such as Michael Shankman, and additional Modern and Contemporary artists from around the world, to name just a few.

Rosenberg & Co. will show a range of Modern and Contemporary works on paper by artists such as Jules Bissier, Lynn Chadwick, Joseph Csaky, Juan Gris, Henri Hayden, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, and George Valmier, to name but a few.

A few of the artists have had their work featured in galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Deitch Projects, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and several others.

With increasingly fewer dealers of modern art in the fair, more of their contemporary counterparts — dealers identified as primary market leaders — devoted their inventory to lucrative secondary market works by artists or estates they either represent or don't, making their booths into consignment shops and altering the profile of the gallery.

As one of a few institutions worldwide dedicated exclusively to the study and appreciation of modern and contemporary sculpture, the Nasher Sculpture Center established the Nasher Prize to extend that mission and commitment by recognizing artists who have had a significant impact on the understanding of the art form.

With major loans from museums and private collections, it showed prime works by established (and a few emerging) female artists that have been excluded from leading discussions of modern and contemporary sculpture.

Today it includes predominantly Modern and contemporary works, many by notable California artists such as Fletcher Benton, Inez Storer, and Bruce Conner to name a few.

The Gallery has coordinated hundreds of exhibitions on behalf of its artists at an array of prestigious museums including the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany; the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Gallery, London, England; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, to name but a few.