Basswood, pigments, sterling silver leaf and concrete 93» x 13» x 10» Joël is an artist creating
abstract figurative sculptures.
The 14 piece show featured Curry's trademark brightly colored
abstract figurative sculptures.
Not exact matches
I think it does, and I think this issue is very related to the sort of three - dimensional freedom that
abstract sculpture might attain, of a kind that
figurative sculpture could never attempt.
Many of her motifs are human figures and birds so
figurative, yet their gender - neutral, profound expressions remind us religious
sculptures with
abstract and enigmatic quality.
In media, he was all over the map: painting (
abstract and
figurative), drawing, photography, collage,
sculpture, film, installation, performance, sound art; he did them all, often messy, counterintuitive combinations.
Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both
figurative and
abstract,
sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.
Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his
figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes
abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.
Peter Shelton's
sculptures incorporate both
abstracted and
figurative forms along with anatomical as well as architectural motifs.
Highlights of the North Carolina collection include George Bireline's
abstract painting Matisse Window (1964), Maud Gatewood's expressively painted landscape Jungle Camp (2000), Bob Trotman's
figurative sculpture Girl (2002), Beverly McIver's triptych self - portrait Reminiscing (2005), Anne Lemanski's portrait of a gorilla Senkwekwe (2009), and Damian Stamer's
abstracted landscape South Lowell 18 (2014).
London - based artist Gabriel Hartley's
abstract figurative oil paintings and
sculptures have a time worn appearance.
Modernist sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable with Modernist
sculpture and large public commissions both
abstract and
figurative became common.
Artist: Gabriel Hartley Date: Thursday, September 9th 2010 — Saturday, October 16th 2010 Venue: Foxy Production, 623 West 27th Street London - based artist Gabriel Hartley's
abstract figurative oil paintings and
sculptures have a time worn appearance.
A selection of
sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from
figurative to
abstract art.
I would like to show my fashion stuff and a couple of pieces of
sculpture, and that big piece that we have in the back — some
abstract and some
figurative, the same stuff I've always been doing
(My hope would be that this is happening in
abstract sculpture too — though with sculptural, rather than pictorial, spatiality — but there is not really any comparable or relevant activity in how one moves through a
figurative sculpture, since it rarely has any spatiality.)
Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in
abstract painting or
sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly
figurative or representational.
Overall, the exhibition included
figurative,
abstract, text - based and
figurative sculptures installed throughout Collins Park.
It doesn't matter whether they're
abstract or
figurative, we transfer the deformation of painting into
sculptures.
The stylistic origin is in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927), with figures that are neither
abstract nor
figurative, referencing art deco to Memphis, midcentury machinery diagrams to Cycladic
sculpture.
Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive work that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the
abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.
Joel Shapiro's work bridges the gap between
abstract and
figurative sculpture in a keenly post-minimalist manner.
Inventing Downtown presents works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists» efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works of art — ranging from
abstract and
figurative painting, assemblage,
sculpture, and works -LSB-...]
The idealized,
abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including
sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that
figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.
As you spend more time looking at his full range of shapes and forms, you'll soon begin to recognize clear connections between his
figurative and
abstract sculptures.
Here the focus is on
figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and
abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.
British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow
sculptures, which transform seemingly
abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into
figurative shadow portraits.
Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive works that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the
abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal new meanings on contemporary existence.
Celebrating his life as an artist, this expansive exhibition (organized by Douglas Fogle, former chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) presents a selection of Mr. Melotti's work, featuring his early, somewhat - surreal
figurative ceramics and his later
abstract, brass
sculptures, which portray political and theatrical subjects.
In New York, at the opening of his recent show at Sean Kelly's new space, Antony Gormley explained that several of his
abstract sculptures have
figurative ancestors.
That puts Koons in good company, as other prized Minskoff holdings include Jackson Pollock's Wounded Animal (1943), a group of Willem de Kooning
figurative and
abstract works, and 19 pieces by Pablo Picasso, including his bronze
sculpture La guenon et son petit (1951).
Having first met with some success as a
figurative sculptor, by the end of the 1960s he was making a new sort of utterly
abstract sculpture.
D'Alvia's post-pop resin, bronze and marble
sculptures range from the
abstract and geometric to the
figurative and anthropomorphic.
Several galleries are offering two - and three - person booths, with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presenting expressive,
figurative paintings and
sculptures by Erik Olson and and process oriented abstractions by Andre Hemer; New York's Albertz Benda featuring dynamic
abstract ceramics by Brie Ruais and John Mason; NYC's Magenta Plains displaying mythically minded canvases by Bill Saylor and Zach Bruder; and Nathalie Karg Gallery, another New York venue, presenting minimalist paintings by Nathlie Provosty and Nancy Haynes and classical realism with a twist by Jesse Mockrin.
The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of
sculpture grows more flexible and
abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the
figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.
figurative to
abstract sculpture, his position on public art and his dream of working «until I drop».
Media range from painting, drawing and collage to photography, video and
sculpture, and content ranges from
abstract to
figurative, but all share a sensibility that merges concept, image and mark - making.
He is known for
figurative and minimalist
sculpture, as well as
abstract painting.
I was visually confused by his work as it encompassed so many different styles from
abstract to
figurative, collage to
sculpture, and many small surrealistic installations.
With both an indoor gallery space and an impressive
sculpture garden, visitors can enjoy
abstract, landscape and
figurative paintings amongst contemporary fine art
sculptures as they roam around A Gallery.
Over a long career, she has worked in various media and genres, and may be best known for her paintings and
sculptures, in which
abstract and
figurative elements with allusions to history and myth come together to mine psychic depths.
The ceramic
sculptures are vessels,
figurative and
abstract objects.
Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge
abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18
figurative and
abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist
sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).
Didoardo's current body of work also marries the past and present drawing upon her years of working in
sculpture and
figurative painting to create intuitive manipulation of
abstract space grounded in line.
It is the non-specificity of his figures and their
abstract qualities that make his sculptors part of the Bay Area
Figurative Movement and not just any contemporary figurative sculpture i
Figurative Movement and not just any contemporary
figurative sculpture i
figurative sculpture in America.
Julian Schnabel: Art and Film surveys Schnabel's work as a painter from the mid-1970s to the present and features more than 50 key works, each revealing how Schnabel's
abstract and
figurative paintings, photographs and
sculptures articulate his fascination with cinema.
The first major 20th century British
sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British
sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists»
figurative and
abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.
In this modus,
abstract sculpture would seem to be operating within the shadows of
figurative art, which by stark comparison has an endless «library» of forms to work with.
Incorporating
figurative, botanical, and
abstract forms in his
sculpture, Tony Matelli creates uncanny objects that are both unsettling and comical.
Absurd and elegant,
figurative and
abstract, Handforth's Dallas Snake animates the space, conversing with and taking on the large «formal»
sculptures nearby, such as Tony Smith's Willy (destroyed in 1962; fabricated in 1978), which is comprised of black geometric forms.
While historic works reference the original
sculpture, highlighting interest in the Laocoon's drama, narrative, expression and status, the more recent pieces take the Laocoon's more formal characteristics, turning a
figurative story into an
abstract one.