Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Modern Primitivism, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL The Monty Hall Problem, curated by Slater Bradley, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Dark Matter, White Cube, London, UK The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Delete / How to Make a Perfect Ghost, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Mark Grotjahn, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Gone Formalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Painting in Tongues, curated by Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA [cat.]
Group exhibitions include 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York; the 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Whitney Biennial, New York (2006); «
Painting in Tongues,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2006); «Oranges and Sardines,» the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008).
Darling also served as an assistant curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art beginning in 1998, where he organized Superflat, in collaboration with the artist Takashi Murakami (2001); Seattle artist / architect Roy McMakin's first museum survey (2002); and
Painting in Tongues, a survey of single artists whose practices span many mediums (2006).
Most recently, her work has featured in «
Painting in Tongues» at LA MoCA and «Interested Painting» at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (2008); Philosophy of Time Travel, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2007); Ordinary Culture: Heikes / Helms / McMillian, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2006);
Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2006).
His group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2008); Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On a Porch, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2007); and
Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2006).
2006 The Subversive Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Not exact matches
As if the vampiric dimension weren't obvious enough, these ruthless gals messily smear their mouths with lipstick (speaking of «on the nose,» one brand is called Redrum),
tongue Jesse's hand wound, and crave the attention of a photographer — bald with sunken features, the Nosferatu of Beverly Hills — who sniffs his subjects» throats before slathering them
in body
paint.
The
tongue -
in - cheek appearance with the aggressive red
paint, black trim and sporty wheels made me laugh out loud as I approached the driver's door, but as always this van's driving characteristics make for a comfortable, enjoyable ride whether loaded up with people / crapola or riding solo as I did this time around.
A silky -
tongued CEO's
painted unicorns & castles
in the air, and our reckless plunger's itching to dance the magic rainbow.
She can bow
in three different ways, play basketball, steal a checkbook out of a pocket, wave a flag, play piano,
paint abstract art, count, say «yes» and «no,» smile, stick out her
tongue, honk a horn, fetch a hat from another person and bring it to me and then take it back, square up and stretch out, stand on a pedestal, lie down, etc..
summary: Explore beautifully hand -
painted locations [fpgraphic] and get acquainted with a cast of salty sea dogs as the story [fpgraphic] unfolds with hilarious
tongue -
in - cheek twists and turns.
As you can see these ones were pretty easy to assemble, the sculpture for Carbuncle is a perfect volume translation for the character,
in fact we only needed to
paint the star
tongue.
Per her penchant for razor - sharp wit, she liked to refer to her
tongue -
in - cheek compositions as «underdeveloped
paintings for underdeveloped countries.»
The
paintings in the exhibition, Four Paintings (on view through June 3rd), are the kind of hate - it - or - love - it guilty pleasure that arouses a gut reaction and a tip - of - your - tongue fam
paintings in the exhibition, Four
Paintings (on view through June 3rd), are the kind of hate - it - or - love - it guilty pleasure that arouses a gut reaction and a tip - of - your - tongue fam
Paintings (on view through June 3rd), are the kind of hate - it - or - love - it guilty pleasure that arouses a gut reaction and a tip - of - your -
tongue familiarity.
It resurfaced after many of the successive postmodern movements: the ironic hard edges of pop, the pared - down compositions of Minimalism, the free - for - all expressionism of assemblage and street art, and finally the
tongue -
in - cheek homages of 1980s appropriation — each caused critics to mourn
painting's demise.
This is no doubt why — probably causing great inconvenience to the publishers — Steinberg insisted on an «extra page»
in his book Other Criteria (2007), a foldout that erupts like a
tongue, rupturing the division between inside and outside and showing the eventual series of
paintings that emerged from these drawings as a diagrammatic grid crisscrossed by multiple points of view.
The
paintings are simultaneously unique and reproduced, modernist and postmodernist, nostalgic and futuristic, archly serious and
tongue -
in - cheek.
Starting with his famous
painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, the artist gained immediate attention, even acclaim,
painting historical subjects, often done
tongue and cheek, of events
in popular American history.
The large - size
painted storyquilt Marlon Riggs:
Tongues Untied, also exhibited
in Berlin, was created
in honor of the eponymous filmmaker and author shortly after his death
in 1994.
Saint Skeptic, one of the two largest (48 x 60 inches)
paintings in the show, contains forms that suggest
tongues, buttocks, testicles and arterial networks, as well as an elongated «nose» near the top that may remind you of Poor Richard, Guston's 1971 book - length send - up of Richard Nixon.
Áine McBride Untitled (table)(detail) Found wood, cast concrete, MDF, linoleum, chipboard, emulsion, unfired clay, household gloss
paint, Mother -
in - Law's
Tongue (plant), plaster, faux - stone spray 2017
A gorgeous flood of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the
painting's surround configuration of expressively handled discs of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground of yellow, places it
in a well - established tradition of abstract
paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's drip
paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled,
tongue -
in - cheek, «Portrait of God»).
Long before painters such as Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Davis was
painting soap boxes, billboards and gas pumps with a
tongue -
in - cheek wit that was ahead of his time.
In his large - scale oil
painting Mother
Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).
Dengler is currently showing canvases adorned with both
paint and needlepoint at the Thomas Duncan Gallery
in Los Angeles,
in a show with the
tongue -
in - cheek title «American
Painting» (through June 20).
The result is a 7 - minute long video of just that, oozing
in color, glitter, and various substances being smeared with the
tongue like
paint with a paintbrush.
Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found
in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the
painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and
tongue -
in - cheek humor.
He went on to produce an amazing output of jazz - like improvisational drawings and
paintings which were both wild and ingeniously sophisticated and inventive, a visual speaking
in tongues [and very fast].
The bewitching set of
paintings that make up Allison Katz's first solo exhibition at the Approach vary
in size, media, style and tone, but are united by an communal energy that gets close to a
tongue -
in - cheek spiritualism.
Heaven and Hell @ Espacio Gallery Artists take a
tongue in cheek approach to the afterlife, with
paintings, video, comics and even a board game.
The artist's first exhibition with Feuer / Mesler on the other hand celebrates her uncompromisingly humorous, sex - positive approach to
painting, from titles such as Lick Lick
in Brown and Green and Pink
Tongues to hinted depictions of various sexual acts.
Everything: drawing,
painting, language from vulgate to Olympian, mathematics, pictographs, architecture, writing
in tongues, the body, the war between the sexes, myth and history, and nature, especially the sea.
It would seem that way from the videos of Guy Richards Smit, an American up - and - comer who,
in 1999, created the character Jonathan Grossmalerman (or Big
Painting Guy), an ego - bloated, alcoholic schlemiel with a rapier
tongue trying to get a break
in the art world.
It sets a
tongue in cheek mood
in evoking the history of Dutch landscape
painting.
For the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy
in 1997,
in among the still lifes and daubs of favourite pets, he submitted a large
painting entitled The Killer - Critic Assassinated By His Widower, Even, a composition indebted to Manet's Execution of Maximilian,
in which two figures fire bullets into the engorged faces of a hydra - headed monster, whose
tongue extends across the picture with the words «yellow press, yellow press, kill, kill, kill» written upon it.
In 2010, it was Dexter Dalwood's for his tongue - in - cheek history painting
In 2010, it was Dexter Dalwood's for his
tongue -
in - cheek history painting
in - cheek history
paintings.
Gulgee continued to
paint both Pakistani and foreign dignitaries including US presidents Jimmy Carter and George HW Bush, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, King Hussein of Jordan and Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, earning him the
tongue -
in - cheek sobriquet, «the court painter of Pakistan.»
Tongue -
in - cheek investigations of Herstory and Judy Chicago's «central core» imagery are playfully tweaked
in large
paintings that place abstracted fertility symbols within flat, poster - like landscapes worthy of a 1960s Supergraphic.
«
Painting Can Speak
in Many
Tongues.»
With
tongue in cheek, the resulting exhibition presents the
painting and then explores Blunt's actions with letters, films and other paraphernalia.
The
tongue - wagging panels meet the vaudevillian
in Smith's «Stage
Paintings,» 2011, where rough - hewn platforms showcase a draped piece of canvas on which the artist's name is rendered, akin to his earlier works.
Thus, that big,
tongue -
in - cheek «wall text»
painting by the front door.
It might be as simple as flipping a picture upside down — Georg Baselitz's
paintings, which you'll find at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac's booth, can strike as immensely funny
in that simple gesture — or it could come through repetition, parody, deadpan delivery, ironic detachment, messy execution or
tongue -
in - cheek titles.
We talked about Kuo's early exposure to Fort Thunder as a student at RISD, how wild and elegant color is, My Chemical Romance making good on their promises as a band, the lineage of emo, the best time of day to
paint, getting into self - publishing, the new Obama portrait, anxiety and jokes, literally biting your
tongue, how Peter Halley has made the same
painting for decades and why that's the one of the most audacious radical
painting moves out there, Kuo's band HEX MESSAGE, why Bart Simpson is still on every single thing
in the zine tent at the New York Art Book Fair, Jeremy Lin and bootleg merch beef, Kuo's two - person exhibition «It Gets Beta» with Scott Reeder
in 2015, avoiding knuckleheads so you can enjoy watching sports, being the last generation who for some reason is still afraid of selling out, his own roundball podcast Cookies, and embracing the simulation.
For «Scan 1», Smith sat one group of white - robed performers
in front of television commercials that asked them, according to pre-determined signals embedded
in the skit, to blow bubblegum, smoke or stick out color -
painted tongues.
These loaded statements grab our attention, and like Barbara Kruger's
tongue -
in - cheek phrases and Richard Prince's «Joke»
paintings they allow for a very different way of seeing art that oddly does not have to be purely aesthetic.
But, not really, since his
paintings reference and pay homage — some
tongue -
in - cheek — to visionary modern artists and abstract painters.
The overlapping
tongues of color
in Carey's Polaroids recall the lozenges and plumes of
paint in color - field abstractions by Morris Louis and Larry Poons, minus their
paintings» claim to descent from high - art tradition.