Sentences with phrase «abstraction and figuration»

This «push - pull» of contrasting color and contiguous form lies at the very heart of his work and succinctly epitomizes the conflict between abstraction and figuration with which many artists of his generation struggled.

These tablets with their elements of abstraction and figuration speak of our world but Gordín turns things around with his capacity to observe and innovate.

Other works play with abstraction and figuration in inventive ways.

Since the 1970s Merz has explored and expanded upon the threshold between abstraction and figuration in her mixed media works on paper, expressionistic clay heads and larger sculptural installations.

These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to convey his own personal and particular view of the world with «extreme clarity.»

Chuck Webster's images blend abstraction and figuration in novel ways (you get the sense he is isolating details).

Matthew Chambers is a Los Angeles - based painter whose colourful and bold works explore the boundary between abstraction and figuration as well as the act of painting itself.

Meaning «step», the title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration.

Chris Ofili creates intricate, kaleidoscopic paintings and works on paper that deftly merge abstraction and figuration.

Recent exhibitions include The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, Jerwood Space, London, UK 2015; This Panel is That Painting, The Approach, London, UK 2014 (solo); Inside Arrangement, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK 2014; Intersection - Contemporary Abstraction And Figuration, Online Exhibition curated by Steve Gibson, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA 2013; Pale Ontology, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles 2012; and The Approach, London UK 2011 (solo).

These shapes are locked together in a way that reminded me of the «marriage of contours» pioneered by Le Corbusier in his Purist still lifes, except that these skirt the issue of abstraction and figuration by functioning as both.

De Kooning's paintings, which bridge abstraction and figuration, are built on an underlying, unseen, implied grid that always keeps a lid on his dangerously free lines and brush strokes.

Wackers paintings are universal, yet clearly recognizable by his signature style which melds abstraction and figuration.

This exhibition traces the myriad ways artists have harnessed red's force across abstraction and figuration, painting and sculpture, to achieve remarkable proof of the color's universal resonance.

Charles Mayton is New York - based contemporary artist, whose paintings combine the abstract and the schematic, exploring the questions of time, language and performance in painting, straddling abstraction and figuration.

The show will explore the increasingly blurred lines between abstraction and figuration within the contemporary discourse.

Critical response, trending art movements and definitions of abstraction and figuration did not limit him.

«Khanna has been tenaciously loyal to a particular discipline — making art out of childhood memories and everyday events, representing emotion in a way which curiously embraces abstraction and figuration in equal measure»

Her paintings include abstraction and figuration.

Single visceral brush strokes resolve into minute details and subtle narratives, creating compositions of remarkable complexity in which abstraction and figuration co-mingle.

Abstraction and figuration alike hardly intrude.

Abstraction and figuration rub shoulders and often interchange.

However, for the six artists included in this exhibition the figure was still an evocative form or symbol to explore and they believed that abstraction and figuration need not be mutually exclusive.

It was a diverse scene that held out a hint of utopian promise at a time when Abstract Expressionism was waning and new categories had not yet hardened: It included many more women than the uptown art world; it was not completely white; abstraction and figuration jostled side by side (if not always comfortably), along with genre - bending sculpture; and the gloriously messy birth of modern performance art took place in the midst of it all.

This interplay of abstraction and figuration places Eriksson's work alongside that of other painters such as Per Kirkeby, Peter Doig and Albert Oehlen.

Its chapters are loosely chronological, starting with the rupture of the end of World War II and coming right up to date - they are also telling parallel histories of abstraction and figuration throughout this period.

In a work such as Complex, 2009, above, we can see the tensions between flatness and depth, expressionism and formalism, abstraction and figuration come to life.

The story of Italian abstraction and figuration continues uptown, at Luxembourg & Dayan, with an artist of the following generation.

Rather than approaching abstraction and figuration separately, the exhibition will integrate these genres to explore the continuous slippage between the two.

It was through this intense study of the relationship between image and reality that Richter became increasingly fascinated with the idea that abstraction and figuration represent two sides of the same coin.

The practice of Jules de Balincourt ranges between abstraction and figuration on one hand, and the collective imagination and personal perception on the other.

The universal resonance of red is applied in both abstractions and figurations whether the works evoke specific narratives of violence, agony and love, or they function more as tools for contemplation and meditation.

GRAFFITI THERAPY with recent works TILT Smash137, Yaze and PRO176, 4 talents from the graffiti, 4 styles defined between abstraction and figuration explosive lettering.

Just as her early work played abstraction and figuration off one another, in her diagram works the classic antinomies of picture making — color and line, figure and ground, painting and drawing — rub up against one another, with neither ever being able to dominate the other.

Abstraction and figuration engage in brutal combat.

His works explore an other - worldly space that spans abstraction and figuration.

The multimedia work of Brazilian artist Valdirlei Dias Nunes navigates the space between geometric abstraction and figuration, using found and created objects, forms, lines and shapes to create a dialogue between all parts of his compositions.

«In the Age of Ambiguity» The title of the exhibition, which includes 17 high caliber artworks, refers to the increasingly blurred lines between abstraction and figuration inside the contemporary dialogue.

In The Age of Ambiguity, the cultural icon explores abstraction and figuration within contemporary discourse.

Moving across all manners of subjects and techniques, this exhibition sways between the movements towards abstraction and figuration which marked 100 years of expression on paper.

A group show that treads the line between abstraction and figuration features works by Amy Sillman, Henry Taylor, Sadie Benning and a host of other interesting names.

His evolution as an artist is also somewhat paradoxical, making the debate between abstraction and figuration meaningless: during the time he spent in Paris with his wife, the artist Nancy Spero, in the late fifties and early sixties, he adhered to the ideas of abstract informalism of Michel Tapié or Jean Dubuffet, later moving towards spaces in which his art could explore the most traumatic realism.

Mixing elements of Pop art, Surrealism, Neo-Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism through a stylistically rich career joining abstraction and figuration, Dunham's paintings and works on paper variously reference Arshile Gorky, Paul Gauguin, Philip Guston, and the comics of R. Crumb.

His exploration of the line between abstraction and figuration connected him to Georgia O'Keeffe, perhaps his closest colleague among the artists who exhibited with Alfred Stieglitz.

Abstraction and figuration informed and influenced each other.

Lundeberg's distinctive blend of abstraction and figuration made its first appearance at Louis Stern Fine Arts in 2004, in «Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting.»

He crossed many of art's boundaries, spilling between abstraction and figuration over a period of 50 years — expressing a wide variety of moods — with no concern for the conventions of either conservative or radical taste.

It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender's mutability and multiplicity.

They were the result of his continuing exploration of the competing tenets of abstraction and figuration during which time he produced an abundant vocabulary of shapes and images derived from the contemplation of the figure.

Employing a process in which erosion and layering simultaneously conceal and reveal his subjects, Stewen's rich compositions conflate abstraction and figuration, anonymity and biography, chance and intuition — inherent material and conceptual contradictions which bely the work's rich poetic and psychologically - charged effects on its viewer.