Sentences with phrase «imagist artist»

At Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago, a retrospective paired Roger Brown: Estate Paintings, a selection of paintings and sculptures by the seminal Imagist artist, with Collecting came quite natural for me, a series of recreated assemblages of objects in Brown's personal collections...

Expressing issues that defined the political, social, environmental, and economic crises of the era, the Chicago Imagist artist used luminous color, silhouetted figures, stylized natural forms, and dramatic shifts of scale and perspective to create provocative works of art.

In 2012, she curated the exhibition «Roger Brown: This Boy's Own Story» of Chicago Imagist artist Roger Brown, which unearthed previously censored artworks and archival materials from Brown's career and resulted in Brown's induction into the Visual AIDS Artist Registry.

Biggs» enticing cover is an homage to Chicago Imagist artist Roger Brown, whose distinctive painting style often depicts nocturnal cityscapes with black silhouettes of people glimpsed through windows of apartment buildings.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (March 28, 2018)-- Exploring the warm, personal, and humorous strain of Pop art born in Chicago, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present the first in - depth exploration of the Imagist artists» affinity for the object with the exhibition 3 - D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964 1980.

One of the original Imagist artists, Philip Hanson has been a signal Chicago painter since he first came on the scene in the late»60s.

Not exact matches

Opening: «The Chicago Show» at the Chicago Show House Curated by Madeleine Mermall, this group exhibition pairs up - and - coming artists based in the Windy City with works by the Chicago Imagists, a group active during the late 1960s that was inspired by both Surrealist art and pop culture.

Like the Imagists and Funk Artists, Saul chose to work outside of the confines of the New York art scene, instead embracing humor in a time of stark seriousness.

The work of Roger Brown — a nationally celebrated artist, innovator of the Chicago «Imagist» movement, and an Alabama native — has been exhibited many times and is held in numerous collections, public and private.

At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago from a group of artists whom I now love, the figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.

The exhibition will showcase the renowned Chicago artist collective Chicago Imagist, featuring works by Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum.

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Baartists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco BaArtists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

«I think of the work in terms of imagist poetry; disparate elements juxtaposed... alchemy,» Jonas stated in a 2013 interview with Amy Budd for the Afterall article «Artist at Work: Joan Jonas».

She's from Chicago and people think of her as a Chicago - based gallerist — the primary artists on her roster were the Chicago Imagists, so she showed Christina Ramberg, Ray Yoshida, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, and Ed Paschke — but when I went to work for her she had a space on Greene Street, where she showed contemporary art on the ground floor and outsider artists simultaneously in a basement gallery.

As the Chicago Imagists continue to gain renewed traction, younger artists like Orion Martin and Mathew Cerletty are exploring the inexplicable realities of our hyper mediated consumer - driven world.

Galerie Lelong presents Chicago Invites Chicago, a group exhibition highlighting the richness of contemporary artistic practices within a city that has fostered significant artist groups such as Monster Roster and the Chicago Imagists.

Their extravagantly installed exhibitions, the artists» free - wheeling individual approaches, and their varied and compelling work have all had a wide - ranging and profound influence on several generations of their students and on many younger artists since then, including such well - known figures as Chris Ware (SAIC 1991 — 93), Sue Williams, Gary Panter, and Amy Sillman — as has been documented in the recent film Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists.

I was really tuned in to Chicago, the Chicago Imagists, and artists like Peter Saul and H.C. Westermann.

This is an important new body of work by one of the most highly personal Chicago artists to emerge as part of the Imagist movement in the 1960s; Hanson continues to push his ideas in their investigation of color vibration, allusive connotation, and compositional density.

Admired by Vincent Fecteau, Sadie Benning, and many others, he was «discovered» and supported by a group of Chicago artists (also known as the Chicago Imagists).

It examines not only the complex aesthetics and personal styles of Golub and his compatriots — including Cosmo Campoli, June Leaf, Dominick Di Meo, Seymour Rosofsky, and Nancy Spero, among others — but also uncovers the Monster Roster's relationships with preceding generations of Chicago artists and differences from the well - known Chicago Imagists who followed.

Part of a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists who emerged in the 1960s, Paschke (1939 — 2004) was strongly influenced by media imagery and popular culture — newspapers, magazines, advertisements, film and television.

1961 Exhibition of Art by the Faculty and Visiting Artists of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

John Ollman (Fleisher / Ollman Gallery) highlighted the importance of ICA's 1969 exhibition, The Spirit of Comics, which included work by many Chicago Imagists — Barbara Rossi, Christina Ramberg, Jim Nutt, Ray Yoshida, and others — for Philadelphia artists.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

A Shape That Stands Upfocuses on works made over the last 15 years that follow a historical lineage of artists — from Philip Guston and Willem DeKooning's dissolution of the body into line, color, and near violent gesture, to later artists, such as the Chicago Imagists, or those associated with the California Funk movement.

Other topics included an influential 1983 article by Sid Sachs (University of the Arts)-- who was in the audience — on whether there was such a thing as a Philadelphia Imagist tradition; a College Art Association conference chaired by curator Judith Stein (also in the audience); the number of artists who taught and lived in both Chicago and Philadelphia (particularly Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer); and the equal representation of men and women among the Chicago Imagists.

In their dislike of being categorized and labeled, they join the ranks of many other artists, including the German Expressionists, Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upoartists, including the German Expressionists, Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upoArtists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upon them.

While the Los Angeles - based artist has achieved renown for his Modernist - inspired sculptures made using materials ranging from cardboard and wood to steel and concrete — and often rendered in neon colors that would fit right in at an EDM festival — painting has been a central reference point to his work ever since he left his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, to learn under the Chicago Imagists at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.

An early member of the Chicago - based 1960s collective the Hairy Who (which later morphed into the Chicago Imagist Group), Wirsum's works speak widely to the canon of modern artists who privilege experimentation and transgression over cohesive style, and who used popular culture as if the boundaries between high and low had never existed.

The closest thing to a formal group within the latterly identified Imagists camp was a party of six artists known as The Hairy Who, featuring Jim Nutt, Karl Wirsum and Art Green among others.

Instructed by artists including Ray Yoshida and Karl Wirsum and shown early in her career at the momentous Phyllis Kind Gallery, painter Mary Lou Zelazny is often grouped with the Chicago Imagists.

This catalogue documents the total production of Chicago Imagist prints, related posters, and printed ephemera for the first time, and establishes a catalogue raisonné of ten artists» printmaking.

After World War II, Petlin moved away from the bold aesthetic sensibilities of the Chicago Imagists and the Monster Roster, which included an older generation of Chicago artists such as Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, towards a more surrealist approach.

These artists — Roger Brown, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum — are considered part of the post-World War II Chicago Imagist movement centered around a series of 1960s exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.

The Next Generation: Chicago Imagists from the Smart's Collection February 11 — June 12, 2016 In the late 1960s and early 70s, after the dispersal of the Monster Roster, a new group of artists emerged that came to be known as the Chicago Imagists.

Though she was sometimes lumped with the Chicago Imagists — artists like Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Roger Brown, who were her friends and fans — Ito was always working against the grain.

Added to the traveling exhibition exclusively for its Chicago presentation will be works by a variety of other artists, among them major works by famed Chicago Imagist Roger Brown.

Roger Brown was a prominent member of the Chicago Imagist group, a cohort of artists working in the late 1960s onward who embraced figurative subject matter, unconventional and often «low brow» source material, and personal biography in their artistic practice.

In a gallery adjoining State of Mind, the Smart presents a selection of the Museum's rich holdings of Chicago Imagist, self - taught, and California funk artists from this same time period.

The Smart Museum mounted an exhibition of lithographs, linoleum cuts, woodblock prints, and related drawings and ephemera by this artist who was highly influential in Figurative and Pop Art trends, as well as in the locally based Chicago Imagist movement.

Drawing from the museum's permanent collection, the exhibition presents works by artists who influenced the Imagists or were influenced by them.

The Chicago Imagists, the loose group of figurative artists that included Nilsson and Nutt, «admired these «undiscovered» artists for the aesthetic qualities of their work and, above all, as role models for their independent pursuit of an inwardly - driven creative expression», Cooke says.

The exhibition offers a broad cultural framework in which to consider the work of the artists who became known as Chicago Imagists.

LESLIE BUCHBINDER While many American artists struggled to diverge from European predecessors, the Chicago Imagists were free from that Oedipal crisis and far from the klieg lights that shone on New York artists.

Recognizing a renewed interest in the Imagists among contemporary artists who, rather than obscure or reject their connection to them, prized it, she isolated a certain look or feel that many of those artists shared with the Imagists.

Nutt's history as an important artist dates to the mid-1960s where in Chicago he was a chief instigator of the irreverent «Hairy Who» group, now better known as the Chicago Imagists.

This beautifully animated documentary highlights a potent yet oft - overlooked group of artists working in the»60s and»70s who called themselves the Chicago Imagists.

The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists» Works, 1958 - 1987, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL