Sentences with phrase «leigh bowery»

The video artist Charles Atlas filmed famous London nightlife star Leigh Bowery; photographer Nan Goldin captured drag queens in her hometown of Boston as a teenager, and New York's drag communities in the 1980s and early»90s; and later, Mario Montez collaborated with the photographer Conrad Ventur.

Chuck Close; Pierce Brosnan; Lucian Freud; Leigh Bowery; Günter Grass; Ed Harris; Gerhard Richter; James Woods; the Pissarro clan; Keith Haring; Bill Gates; Adam Sheffer; Gwyneth Paltrow; Glenn Lowry and Glenn Loury

He has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working intimately with such artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramović, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima / New Humans, Antony and the Johnsons, and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he was in - house videographer from the early 1970s through 1983.

And Charles Atlas: his work with Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery informs the ways I compose shots of the body, without a doubt.

Other artists in Role Exchange include: Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Samuel Fosso, Robert Gober, Anthony Goicolea, Douglas Gordon, Fergus Greer / Leigh Bowery, Johan Grimonprez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michel Journiac, Nikki S. Lee, Kalup Linzy, Urs L √ ºthi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Yasumasa Morimura, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol, and Gillian Wearing.

At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder of the city's Museum of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream of the building burning.

The Leigh Bowery pictures were, I think, the peak of Lucian Freud's later years.

His portraits of Leigh Bowery and Lucian Freud (about whom he produced an excellent, image - based monograph), Francis Bacon in the studio doorway, Euan Uglow trapped by the string sight - lines which measure the space of his studio, are incredibly powerful.

He has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working with such artists as Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramović, Yvonne Rainer, Antony and the Johnsons, and Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as in - house videographer from the early 1970s through 1983.

Many of Atlas's works have been collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly, and Leigh Bowery.

Left to right: Lucian Freud, Nude with Leg Up (Leigh Bowery), 1992; Ron Mueck, Untitled (Big Man), 2000.

Over on the other side of the space, Lucian Freud's Parts of Leigh Bowery, 1992, focuses on the sitter's, ahem, mid-section, and forces the viewer to register how the angle at which Bowery's «part» lying across his thigh echoes the position of his right arm, just as his left arm and the curve of his wrist unconsciously mimic the sagging edge of the model's couch.

With Leigh Bowery, Trojan.

Maybury's The Union Jacking Up is a rhapsodic, fractured portrait of partner Trojan and close friend Leigh Bowery that resonates in light of the AIDS crisis.

The Lucian Freud gallery, from left to right: Man with a Thistle (Self - Portrait), 1946; Girl with a Kitten, 1947; Girl with a White Dog, 1950 - 51, © Tate, London; Girl in a Striped Nightshirt, 1983 - 85; Naked Portrait, 1972 - 73; Leigh under the skylight, 1994, Private Collection; Leigh Bowery, 1991.

Out of the monumental paintings Freud made in the 1990s of two outsized characters, the performance artist Leigh Bowery and benefits supervisor Sue Tilley, the curators have astutely chosen two in which the subject is asleep.

Leigh Bowery (photographed by Fergus Greer) and Lynn Hershman Leeson actually inhabit these fictional characters in real time, blurring the line between the real and the imaginary.

In the 1990s, disease, death, and bodies became one of the most potent themes and Damien Hirst created A Thousand Years, depicting live flies as they feed on a cow's head, and Lucian Freud painted portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery.

Throughout his production, Atlas has consistently been deeply involved in fostering collaborative relationships, working intimately with such significant artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima and the New Humans, Antony and the Johnsons, and most notably Merce Cunningham, with whom he worked closely for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983.

Collaboration with British choreographer Michael Clark starring Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, and others.

From Damien Hirst's work A Thousand Years, in which live flies feed on a cow's head, to Lucian Freud's portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, art rediscovered the flesh, the stuff of life.

Collaboration with choreographer Douglas Dunn & poet Anne Waldman Mrs. Peanut Visits NYC, 1999, 6:06 video with Leigh Bowery Son of Sam & Delilah, 1991, 26:59.

2003Take a Bowery: The Art and (larger than) Life of Leigh Bowery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair..., Team Gallery, New York Phantom Of Desire, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

2012Effects & Affects: The Alphabet, curated by Tobias Madison and Martin Jaeggi, Fumetto Festival, Luzern, Switzerland The Piano Lesson, Vilma Gold, London Leigh Bowery, Kunsthalle, Vienna John Cage and... The visual Artist John Cage, Museum der Moderne, Monchsberg, Salzburg The Third Sculpture, Straat van Sculpturen, Amsterdam Dance Your Life, Pompidou, Paris Ocean, screening, Whitney Biennale, New York Michael Clark, screening, Whitney Biennale

2008Looking at Music, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York Leigh Bowery, Kunstverein Hannover Bailando Sin Salir de la Casa, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City Storytelling, CRG Gallery New York The Skat Players, Vilma Gold Gallery, London panorámica - ciclo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

Freud famously stated that «I want the paint to work as flesh does», and the large gallery lined with the fleshy reality of his sitters such as the late Leigh Bowery or the magnificently abundant form of a slumbering Sue Tilley is worth the visit alone.

He has brought his uniquely playful precision to bear on a staggering range of films, videos, installations and live performances, working along the way with artists including Marina Abramovic, Antony and the Johnsons, Karole Armitage, Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn and Yvonne Rainer.

Leigh Bowery (Seated), 1990 Private Collection © The Lucian Freud Archive.

It would be difficult to describe Leigh Bowery's penis as an abstraction in Lucian Freud's 1992 image of his belly and loins.

They include posters for a Michael Clark performance from the 1990s, for a Bob Flanagan show with the motto «Fight sickness with sickness», for a DANCENOISE performance in the 1980s, for one of my films, The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002), and for my exhibition at Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York, «The Illusion of Democracy» (2012), which features a map of the US in orange.

His work combines the classical ballet of his training with the music of David Bowie, Wire, and The Fall, amongst others, and collaborations with artists and designers such as Sarah Lucas, Peter Doig, Leigh Bowery, and Bodymap have all been part of this ongoing history.

«Experimental film - makers like Isaac Julien and Cerith Wyn Evans showed there, [performance artist] Leigh Bowery, [choreographer] Michael Clark, wicked, witty, totally relevant, those people were in clubs.

In addition to making his own films and video installations, Atlas has also undertaken numerous projects involving performing artists, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramović, Diamanda Galá, John Kelly, and Leigh Bowery, Mika Tajima, and the New Humans.

Screening: «John Maybury's Read Only Memory» at Le Petit Versailles From the maker Francis Bacon biopic «Love is the Devil,» and the famous Sinead O'Conner music video «Nothing Compares 2 U,» comes «Read Only Memory,» documentary of the fabulous life of Australian performance artist and London underground celeb Leigh Bowery, who danced for choreographer Michael Clark, modeled for painter Lucian Freud, and was one of the most photographed, influential, and outrageous fashion icons of the 1980s and «90s.

A central aspect of his artistic practice has been deep collaborative relationships, particularly with performing artists such as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima and the New Humans, and many others.

Atlas, born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949, is one of the foremost interpreters of dance, theatre and performance on video, and has collaborated with such international performers as Marina Abramovic, Antony and the Johnsons, Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly and Yvonne Rainer.

Over time, the network of Mr. Atlas's collaborators expanded to include other choreographers (Douglas Dunn, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark) and the transgender performer Leigh Bowery, with whom he did extraordinary work.

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Lucian Freud's oeuvre is comprised of expressive, realist portraits, most often of female nudes or of himself, but also of various public figures, such as Clint Eastwood, Leigh Bowery, and Queen Elizabeth II.

Charles Atlas, Charles Henri Ford, Christian Holstad, Peter Hujar, Steve Kille, Bruce La Bruce, Kevin Larmon, Tim Lokiec, Nick Mauss, Micheal Meads, Billy Miller, Mark Morrisroe, Chuck Nanney, Walter Pfeiffer, Ryan McGinley, Alex Brown, Black Leotard Front, Leigh Bowery, Matthew Brannon, Jeff Burton, Peter Cain, Larry Clark, Jules de Balincourt, Lucky de Bellevue, Jeff Davis, Brice Dellsperger, Roe Ethridge, Richard Hawkins, Rene Santos, Terry Richardson, Paul P., Jack Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Thek, John Tremblay, T.J. Wilcox, Kelley Walker, Spencer Sweeney, and John Waters

He has built a body of work with some of the most talented and provocative artists in the world, including composers Clams Casino, Atticus Ross, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly, Fischerspooner, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Son Lux, James Lavelle, Michael Nyman, Sheila Chandra, Diamanda Galás, Andy Teirstein, Wire, Peter Gordon, Lenny Pickett, and David Linton; visual artists Janine Antoni, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Donald Baechler, Stephen Hannock, Tal Yarden, Arnaldo Ferrara, and Justin Terzi III; fashion designers Narciso Rodriguez, John Bartlett, Jillian Lewis, Adam Kimmel, Benjamin Cho, Michael Angel, Tony Cohen, Rachel Roy, Tara Subkoff, Tanya Sarne / Ghost, Leigh Bowery, Paul Compitus, Manolo, Yonson Pak, and H. Petal; and Resident Lighting Designer Ken Tabachnick.

Despite pioneering the media - dance art form, and collaborating with dancers and performers like Michael Clark, Marina Abramović and Leigh Bowery, Atlas didn't have his first solo until 1995 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Charles Atlas presents the video installation, Teach (1992 - 98), made in collaboration with the late Australian performer Leigh Bowery.

Limited - edition print featuring Leigh Bowery from a video included in Atlas» current exhibition.