Sentences with phrase «made as a young artist»

Jenny Holzer Describes the First Works She Made as a Young Artist ---- and They're Not How You'd Imagine

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But in addition to making me laugh, hard, at a time when cathartic laughter is all but a medical necessity, this portrait of the artist as a not - so - young weirdo struck me as peculiarly moving.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

Life Lessons features a young Steve Buscemi in one of his first big movie roles as performance artist Gregory Stark, who performs comic monologues (written by Buscemi himself) on abandoned subway tracks, falling far short of Dobie's definition of art, which is «you make art because you have to,»cause you got no choice.»

There are consummate appearances from Joshua McGuire as young Ruskin — inauthentic, perhaps, but making for good comedy drama; Lesley Manville as a delightful Scots scientist; and Paul Jesson, touchingly real as «daddy» Turner, barber and wig - maker turned artist's factotum.

Dua Lipa has made Youtube history as the youngest female artist to hit one billion views on a music video.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

Jena Malone (The Rusted), as the makeup artist who takes young Jesse under her wing, manages to make the combination of passion and lethargy feel compelling.

Desdemona Hart used to be a promising young artist who even made it so far as to study in Paris.

As a young artist, he made his name alongside friends and close collaborators Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow in a milieu marked by abundant drink and drugs.

Much has been made of the fact that the young Israeli artist Guy Yanai uses painting — an ancient, laborious technique — as his medium, even as he embraces the digital and new media norms of today (even going so far as to reference pixelation in his technique, with short, deliberate bands of color).

Sylvester countered remarks by various critics that the artist's work was closer to sculpture than to painting: «in spite of the heaped - up paint, these are painterly images, not sculptural ones, have to be read as paintings, not as polychrome reliefs, and make their point just because their physical structure is virtually that of sculpture but their psychological impact is that of painting» (Sylvester, «Young English Painting», The Listener, 12 January 1956).

As figurative painting made a comeback in the late»80s and»90s, a younger generation of artists began to see Katz with new appreciation.

The paintings by this great Color Field innovator, now 80, looked as every bit as fresh as they did when they were first made in the»60s and»70s — prompting some fair goers to ask the gallery, «who is this young artist you are showing?»

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.

Best known for her «plastic portraits» of dolls and dollhouses, the photographer Laurie Simmons has been making psychologically probing tableaux since moving to New York as a young artist in the late 1970s.

When I was young and making a lot of that work, I was having a terrible time as a woman artist on the LA art scene, which was very inhospitable to women.

That makes him a model for younger artists documenting the edge of suburban sprawl, and the banality of his compositions, for better or worse, is contemporary as well.

The boys the girls and the political, this year's summer show at the Lisson Gallery, reinforces the gallery's position as an influential and pioneering contemporary art space, which advocates new thinking and approaches to art - making, and shows a commitment to younger artists.

An older generation — Cage, Cunningham, Johns, and Rauschenberg — was clearing a path, and a younger generation with great ambition — Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Meredith Monk, Joan Jonas, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, and Phil Glass among them — was making art and supporting one another, as faithful audiences, as Glass reminds us, in a real artist community.

A key moment came when Walker discovered Adrian Piper, the conceptual artist and philosopher who, in the 1970s, made a series of performance works featuring herself as an androgynous, racially indeterminate young man.

As a group of young artists who were interested in actually making things, these dry theorists didn't seem to serve us at all.

... Perhaps an overfamiliarity with Conceptual Art and especially the theories it inspired can leave young artists with no sense of how to make an artwork that holds together as an experience.

The exhibition will showcase the mixed - media art of Thornton Dial (1928 - 2016); quilts made by artists such as Lucy Mingo, Annie Mae Young (1928 - 2004) and Loretta Pettway; and other work from artists such as Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett (1965 - 1988) and Nellie Mae Rowe (1900 - 1982).

In a postscript, I ask how their work has made me see gallery exhibitions by younger artists differently as well.

As someone who has worked with so many young aspiring artists, what do you make of the Whitney Biennial as an institutioAs someone who has worked with so many young aspiring artists, what do you make of the Whitney Biennial as an institutioas an institution?

It also means that the few quotes that have been gleaned over a career spanning five decades — first as a young artist making his way in LA, where he was influenced by West Coast conceptualists Bruce Nauman and Chris Burden, then in New York, where he became involved in the avant - garde black art scene centered around the pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown — tend to get quite a bit of recycling.

The Biennial is known for being a career - making event for young, emerging artists, so it's refreshing to see a definitive interest in underrepresented artists of older ages here as well.

Much - buzzed as a young artist to watch, the twentysomething Hugh Scott - Douglas makes work that digs into the various ways visual information gets transferred from one medium to another, and the conceptual hiccups that arise along the way.

The gallery is aimed at being an art space featuring fresh and amazing shows of young emerging as well as established local and international artists and making regular focus on new media or new art forms.

This exhibition highlights Maine's artistic legacies in the making, featuring established artists with strong Maine ties as well as the first major institutional appearance for several young, emerging artists — showcasing the next wave of Maine artists and affording them the opportunity to make initial introductions to national art audiences.

It makes sense for Higgs, who once championed the Young British Artists in all their piss and elephant dung, before deriding those who blindly follow wealthy collectors, hoarders, and art advisors and before coming to America as director of White Columns.

Rashid Johnson made his name as the youngest participant in «Freestyle,» a 2001 show at the Studio Museum in Harlem that put some of today's best - known African - American artists, like Trenton Doyle Hancock and Julie Mehretu, on the map.

Julia: I really see Made in Space as a counterbalance to all of the blockbuster museum shows happening in New York right now featuring heavyweight LA artists by showcasing some younger talent, several with little to no exhibition history in New York.

Isn't the point of the gallerist paying the return shipping to incentivize them to make the sale??? As a young emerging artist, I can't afford to subsidize a gallery on this level.

The young digital artist Tabor Robak has made a real splash in recent years with his large - scale video pieces, which borrow as much from desktop screensavers and smartphone games like Candycrush as they do the storied history of art.

The impact that Swiss video and installation artist Pipilotti Rist has made over the past two decades or more is hard to overestimate, as her influence is felt in the work of a host of younger artists, as well as in videos by mainstream pop stars like Beyoncé.

One of the more difficult tasks for younger artists is to make abstract painting genuinely new — that is, sincerely and intelligently felt instead of performed (as with too much geometric work) or blurted out (as with too much AbEx - redux brushwork) like a rant in a family argument.

Fortunately, young standout artists as diverse and Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Aaron Bobrow are starting to find fruitful psychological avenues within the popular object, making Mr. Goode's oeuvre all the more necessary to revisit.

Slightly younger artists who followed them, such as Richard Serra and Robert Morris, tried to make process explicit as well as form.

The project was inspired by Castellon's own interests and experience navigating the art world as a young artist and arts professional, discovering the many moving pieces that make up the larger art industry.

Yong - Ik, younger than the core Dansaekhwa artists, began his career making abstract work, but moved away from what he saw as a sort of amorality linked with abstraction in the 1980s, after a political awakening, he said.

The collection is made up of pieces by self - taught and contemporary artists including James Castle, Red Grooms, Alison Hall, Stanley Lewis, Catherine Maize, Sangram Majumdar, Nellie Mae Rowe, E.M. Saniga, Beatrice Scaccia, Judith Scott, Leopold Strobl, Sam Szafran, Bill Traylor and Purvis Young, as well as works on loan from the Louis - Dreyfus Family Collection.

My goal as a young artist and still up to last year, is that I'm still trying to make a really good painting.

This really was an object to make the mind boggle: Islington, for example, is described as an area «easily seized on by a pioneering core of young artists.»

The 34 - year old artist also undercuts popular assumptions about young British artists: as her American debut at Jay Gorney Modern Art last fall made evident, Wearing is more interested in disquietude than shock value.

In the spirit of Latham's belief in art as a continuous practice, while the main gallery will show a selection of Latham's one - second drawings (he discovered spray painting in 1954), scarified book sculptures, installations, public art projects and filmed performances, the Sackler will be given over to a generation of younger artists whose work was made with an affinity for Latham's philosophy and practice.

It had a profound impact on artists around the world, from Cy Twombly and Anish Kapoor, to Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, as well as on a younger generation of Italian artists like Maurizio Cattelan, who decided to make art after seeing a mirror self - portrait by the Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Gary Hume made his name as one of the new generation of Young British Artists with his paintings of doors, so it makes complete sense that the artist has extended the courtesy to Tate Britain.

As a young black artist in the early 1990s, Simmons made provocative and polished sculptural installations bluntly addressing «issues» (specifically race and class in urban America).