Not exact matches
It also leaves perfectly decent painting, including abstractions by William Bradley with Unix, schematic
landscapes by Tessa Perutz with Pablo's Birthday, string crossing an
imaginary city by Kim Schoenstadt with Chimento, and jagged colors emerging
from concrete by Troy Simmons with Jan Kossen — but decency can take one only so far.
The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed
from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the
imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.
Emerging
from the window in the North Gallery, Denizens represents a flock of
imaginary beings descending on Wave Hill's
landscape.
Fantasyland Mary Anne Kluth Clare Szydlowski Shannon Taylor March 5 — 30, 2016 Opening Reception Saturday, March 5, 7 - 9 pm Kluth's collages of
imaginary landscapes are pieced together
from actual snapshot photographs...
In the series The Book of Changes Kha produces
imaginary landscapes that trace aspects of her own cultural heritage using sourced material
from the collections of Chinese porcelains at the British Museum.
Archer (1951), a work which shows the transition
from the pictographs to the
imaginary landscapes, keeps residual regulations of the formerly divisive lines, but these are now placed randomly on the canvas.
With more than 250 works on show, the exhibition explores the tireless experimental spirit that drives Raysse's entire artistic output,
from his small, playful sculptures to the self - discipline of drawing;
from films expressing the libertarian trends of the 1970s to Raysse's use of neon as colour; and
from installations celebrating consumer society to his paintings, which represent the most complete aspect of his work — among them, transcriptions of great Renaissance masterpieces, female portraits, large group paintings, and
imaginary landscapes.
Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in influential American
landscape paintings of the 19th century, she uses materials collected
from her everyday life, including holiday - themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to craft
imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique.
On the one hand, international artists —
from Naum Gabo to Mark Rothko — came here; on the other, the
landscape, light and ocean have held a singular grip on the artistic
imaginary.
Kamiya's paintings shift
from an abstractly painted image to a field of miniature sculptures that forms an
imaginary landscape.
This
imaginary, it seems, does not stem
from your own imagination; rather, it exists as a factual system of references that fosters your belonging to distinct cultural
landscapes and collective styles.
Recent group exhibitions include Jenny
from the Color Block, curated by Eric Ruschman, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH (2016);
Imaginary Landscapes, curated by Allison Glenn, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago, IL (2015); Ghost Nature, curated by Caroline Picard, at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL and La Box, Bourges, France (2014); and The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2014).
Exhibition of Sculpture by Mary Callery, January 8 — 30 * Paintings by Camille Pissarro, January 8 — 30 * Sculpture by Charles Howard, January 8 — 30 Mark Tobey, February 7 — 27 * Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, February 2 — 27 * Kurt Seligmann, March 5 — 30 Variety in Abstraction, March 5 — 30 * Thirtieth Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, April 7 — 27 * Albert Pinkham Ryder / Arthur Bowen Davies: Exhibition, May 7 — 31 * Corrado Cagli
from Cherbourg to Leipzig: Documents and Memories, May 7 — 31 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings
from the Josef von Sternberg Collection, November 1 — 27 * Jean Hugo: Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, and Theater, December 3 — 26
Landscapes: Real and
Imaginary, December 3 — 26 *
New York, NY: 7 April 2012 - Sperone Westwater is pleased to present Artists Including Me, a solo exhibition by William Wegman of recent postcard paintings that feature imagery
from secondhand souvenirs,
imaginary landscapes, and art about art.
In 1956, the lower part of the
Imaginary Landscapes detached itself
from the picture edges to become an independent floating form in vertical compositions known as the Bursts, Gottlieb's best known works.
In a 1989 statement, Ghirri said his images, «become our impossible
landscape, without scale, without a geographic order to orient us; a tangle of monuments, lights, thoughts, objects, moments, analogies
from our
landscape of the mind, which we seek out, even unconsciously, every time we look out a window, into the openness of the outside world, as if they were the points of an
imaginary compass that indicates a possible direction.»
Gottlieb created «Burst» and «
Imaginary Landscape» type paintings for the remainder of his career but, unlike some of his colleagues, he did not limit himself to one or two images.Discussion of Gottlieb's art is usually limited to mentions of «Bursts» or «
Imaginary Landscapes», which detracts
from the broad range of ideas this artist examined.
The exhibition includes examples
from the primary series of Gottlieb's mature work — Labyrinths, Bursts, and
Imaginary Landscapes — highlighting the dialogue between the three bodies of work as he made subtle but significant variations to a few familiar formats over three decades.
traces the continual and deliberate evolution in the artist's work
from his early to late career and reveals Gottlieb's constant willingness to reevaluate his paintings throughout his lifetime.The eleven works on view, created between 1948 and 1972, focus on three specific series: the Pictographs, the
Imaginary Landscapes and the Burst paintings.As Lilly Wei writes, «All three serve as deeply meaningful touchstones, sometimes serious in intent, other times playful, to which he returned to time and again, in one formulation or another, all his life.»
Sandy Litchfield creates
imaginary worlds
from fragments of memory — emotional terrain combined with realistic shards of actual
landscape.
Using photographic images
from newspapers or snapshots as a starting point, Peter Doig recasts everyday imagery to make
imaginary landscapes and figure scenes.
«I go out and draw on the spot, as I sit and draw
from my car, a particular grouping of buildings upon a
landscape or an odd embellishment suggests an unarticulated
imaginary narrative of the occupants and passers - by.
Using materials collected
from her everyday life, including holiday - themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags, and paint, Hoffman crafts
imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative, and historical critique.
During these early years (1820s),
landscape painting was divided into two schools or styles: the Italianate Neoclassical school of Southern Europe which promoted idealized
imaginary views often populated with mythological, or biblical figures; and a more realistic school derived
from the Dutch Realist tradition - more popular in England and Northern Europe - which remained faithful to the real nature rather than the idyllic version.