Sentences with phrase «imagist work»

There was a lot Chicago Imagist work shown, like Roger Brown, Ed Paschke, and Karl Wirsum.

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One of Marks's summer 2015 exhibitions examined the Hairy Who, a faction of Chicago Imagists whose work drew directly from vernacular art, comics, and ecstatic pop culture, and who, in the 1960s, helped introduce Darger, Martín Ramírez, whose drawings appeared this year on a series of U.S. postage stamps, and Joseph Yoakum, a creator of fantastical landscapes, to the mainstream art world.

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.

Lanyon's work embodies a unique combination of the surreal and fantastic imagery characteristic of the Chicago - based Monster Roster of the 1950s, and the eccentric figuration and meticulous detail favored by the Chicago Imagists, whose work dominated the Chicago art scene in the later 1960s and 70s.

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.

The Hessel Collection is international in scope, with paintings, photographs, and works on paper, sculptures, videos and video installations from the 1960s to the present including notable representations from many of the foremost movements in contemporary art; Minimalism, Arte Povera, Transavantgarde, Neo-expressionism, Pattern and Decoration, The Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists, Post-minimalists, and New Media, among others.

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.

Zachary Leener (b. 1981, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles and contributes two recent pieces in glazed ceramic that mine the freewheeling sprit of the Memphis Group and the Chicago Imagists to create his own compelling vocabulary of forms and finishes.

In a series of graphite drawings from the late 1960s and reverse Plexiglas paintings from the early 1970s, Rossi's works are some of the more enigmatic examples of the Chicago Imagists.

«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&raqwork 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&raqWork: Joan Jonas».

The Chicago Imagists style is broadly characterized by representational work influenced by Surrealism and Art Brut.

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.

Work perceived as trending that sold out the first day included pop comments on Pop (Sylvie Fleury's life - size crushed car that she painted with pink nail polish and posed against a wall caked with makeup; impeccable fabrication (Anish Kapoor's shiny discs that danced down every aisle); mannequin sculptures (Chicago imagist Karl Wirsum's robotic stick figures); body fetish (Guillaume Leblon's truncated ceramic legs and Jonathan Monk's kicking ones, Naotaka Hiro's body casts of himself made with his right hand).

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.

The exhibition includes works by Calvin Burnett, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Miriam Schapiro, Victor Vasarely, and the Chicago Imagists.

She began her career as one of the so - called «new imagist» painters of the mid-1970s, working to find a new space between abstraction and representation.

This screening of Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists contextualizes Barbara Rossi's work by profiling the dynamic scene in which her practice took shape.

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.

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.

This month, New York also has the opportunity to consider the work of Chicago Imagist Roger Brown, whose stature has continued to rise since his death in 1997, in a well - curated exhibition at DC Moore.

Though they reacted against the gestural wing of Abstract Expressionism, Noland and Louis felt an affinity with non-gestural, «imagist» branch (e.g., Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and, later, Barnett Newman), who all worked on a heroic scale with large fields of color and simple, often unitary, imagery.

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.

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.

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 exhibition includes work by members of the original Imagist groups, as well as Don Baum, the chief curator of the Imagist moment; Ray Yoshida, the teacher with whom many Imagists studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and H.C. Westermann, an indelible influence on the Imagists and this exhibition, amongst others.

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.

As a founding member of Chicago's famed Hairy Who (a group of figurative painters often subsumed under the banner of the Chicago Imagists whose ranks also include Karl Wirsum and Suellen Rocca among others), Nilsson is hardly unknown, but these 12 «monumentally - scaled» paintings made between 1984 and ’87 represent a selection of her later work that often goes unremarked upon in favor of focusing on her output from the 1960s.

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.

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.

Three Chicago imagists are on view: Gladys Nilsson, Robert Lostutter, and Roger Brown, whose show of major work at Zolla / Lieberman is a true must see.

Drawing on influences such as Chicago Imagist Jim Nutt and the early work of David Hockney, his painting call attention to the interplay of narratives, both historical and artistic.

The Hessel Collection is international in scope, encompassing a wide range of media from the 1960s to the present, with representative works of major contemporary art movements including Minimalism, Arte Povera, Transavantgarde, Neo-expressionism, Pattern and Decoration, The Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists, Post-minimalists, and New Media, among others.

Her skill with fragmenting figures and love of double entendre coupled her with the likes of the Chicago Imagists and the Hairy Who, along with whom her work was often displayed.

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

The survey also includes works by the Chicago Imagists» mentor, Ray Yoshida, and Robert Lostutter, a close friend of Paschke who did not show with the groups but is closely affiliated with the Imagists in his eccentric style and expression.

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.

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

It brings to life the milieu of Chicago in the 1960s, and also showcases the legacy of the Imagists» work in contemporary art production today, from Jeff Koons to Chris Ware.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

Also, such a pleasure to see the work of the slightly forgotten Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg on two occasions, first at Glasgow International in April then at the Liverpool Biennial in September.

2003 Roger Brown, Chicago Imagist: Selected Works from the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mid-west Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN, April — June 1

Extreme distortions of the human (and animal) figure are found throughout, as are the insouciant humor and reckless disregard for good taste that have fueled his work for decades, and that prompted early associations between Saul's paintings and the work of the Chicago Imagists and Bay Area Funk artists.

Works by a group of artists loosely known as the Chicago Imagists — Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, H. C. Westermann, and Karl Wirsumand — use funky, sometimes grotesque or surreal imagery leavened with humor.

This quality has made it a touchstone not only for her fellow Chicago Imagists but also for a new generation of artists now discovering her work.

Action painting is distinguished from the carefully preconceived work of the «abstract imagists» and «colour - field» painters, which constitutes the other major direction implicit in Abstract Expressionism and resembles Action painting only in its absolute devotion to unfettered personal expression free of all traditional aesthetic and social values.

Nassos Daphnis» work is decidedly intellectually based in the fundament of spirit and while he is complicit as an abstract imagist in the hard edge, geometric abstraction and neoplasticism schools, his methods and intent lie in a spiritual and philosophical realm beyond that of his contemporaries.