Sentences with phrase «abstraction and representation»

And so the figures in these pictures are represented in a space where they are sort of between abstraction and representation.

Can you talk about the play between abstraction and representation in your work?

Do all of the works from this era move blend abstraction and representation?

To put abstraction and representation together was part of the 1980s aesthetic.

Abstraction and representation walk hand in hand and share the same body.

In the 21st century, I find it hard to hold abstraction and representation in distinct categories.

Her subtle synthesis of abstraction and representation transformed images of flowers, trees and animal bones into beautiful erotic imagery.

The exhibition features paintings created between the period of 2014 and 2016, whose intimate language refers to the past and the present with a constant disregard to the classical abstraction and representation.

These images walk the fine line between abstraction and representation, between the fluid and the solid, remaining ambiguous and bold at the same time.

His work is a balance of abstraction and representation, figure and ground, organic yet stylized - opposing processes that allow for a multitude of associations.

They have been as central to the space between abstraction and representation as Hale Woodruff or Beauford Delaney.

After working together for many years in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mitchell and Riener developed a keen interest in the way abstraction and representation coincide in the body.

«What is remarkable about the book cover paintings is that Burckhardt infuses the tension between abstraction and representation with freshness, enthusiasm, and humor.

She merges abstraction and representation into a dense weave.

The BMA presents Front Room: Adam Pendleton, a dramatic installation of new and recent work by the New - York based artist that examines the relationship between abstraction and representation through layered and fragmented texts and images sourced from the artist's personal library.

After working together for years in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mitchell and Riener developed a keen interest in the way abstraction and representation coincide in the body.

Content and Discontent in Today's Photography examines strategies of abstraction within recent photography, focusing on artists who seek to express the problematic relationship between abstraction and representation within art as a whole.

Always pushing a concept to its most deliriously unexpected realms, Tal R continues his associative investigations of colour, form, and meaning in armes de chine by transforming each work into a kind of «long lost slang» of it's own, honing his characteristically playful marriage of abstraction and representation into a new vocabulary for artistic production.

Working since the late 1970s in painting, drawing and printmaking, Dunham has fruitfully mixed abstraction and representation.

Measuring 10 feet high and 20 feet long, this mural - size painting nimbly balances abstraction and representation.

Angel Otero is quickly becoming well known for his textured canvases that weave between abstraction and representation taking their subject matter from an ongoing personal and often autobiographical narrative from his childhood in Puerto Rico.

They confuse media, like photographs and paintings or photography and trompe l'oeil, and genres, like abstraction and representation.

Raoul De Keyser's painterly, imagistic artworks reflect concerns in painting that arose in 1970s: how to keep painting vital as Conceptualism, video, and performance art rose in prominence, and how to navigate the relationship between abstraction and representation after Minimalism and Pop.

Like the work of Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, and Asger Jorn, pure abstraction and representation coexist on the canvas, continuously giving way to each other and contributing to the overall power that is inherent in these paintings.

In them, he closes the gap between abstraction and representation while handling paint with a delicacy and fluidity that brings every inch of the surface to life.

The deconstructive nature of his work gives contrast between abstraction and representation pushing the viewer to slow down and analyze his work.

In a large painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster figures cast from elaborately folded wooden models as well as one large painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.

At every viewing distance — from scoping the entire room to standing with nose - to - canvas — the tension between abstraction and representation remains in play.

In Perilous Night, Johns shows a complex take on abstraction and representation in the way that he brings together many manners of painting.

Employing a mostly muted palette and expressionist gestures, Mathieu melds abstraction and representation in compositions that can be as haunting as Picasso's or Francis Bacon's darker works.

Robert McNellis combines light, industrial materials, film, video, and photography to create sculpture that bridges abstraction and representation.

In the mid 20th century abstraction and representation were seen as opposites, with artists forced to take sides.

The confusion between abstraction and representation empowers women artists like Sue Coe, Sue Williams, Amy Sillman, Carrie Moyer, Joyce Pensato, and Ethel Lebenkoff — and they can now seem his heirs.

In particular, these large, vertical cardboard - on - canvas works appear to feast on the painting and sculpture of early Modernism, when abstraction and representation were not seen as mutually exclusive.

In an effort to balance the familiar and the incomprehensible, her work oscillates between abstraction and representation allowing her to visualize something that might not exist but can only be imagined.

Leslie Wayne is known for her highly dimensional surfaces of oil paint that create intersections where painting, sculpture, abstraction and representation collide.

Like the work of Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, and Asger Jorn, pure abstraction and representation co - exist on the canvas, continuously giving way to each other and contributing to the overall power that is inherent in these paintings.

«Cecily is a painter who has consistently looked at how to approach abstraction and representation in new distinctive ways.»

In two large wall drawings, the artist deals with ideas of abstraction and representation using natural and cultural patterns he appropriates.

Abstraction and representation vie for primacy, each ultimately failing and succeeding in turns.

Instead of muddying or challenging abstraction and representation, he can embrace both.

He explains, «I wanted to include abstraction and representation, I wanted a variety of materials.

While much contemporary work is devoted to reinventing abstraction and representation, the artists in this exhibition chose to subvert both medium and gesture to conceptualize and identify notions of what is and what is not in unlikely forms.

Like DeKooning's Woman I moving away from representation, Wahlstrom advances, intentionally fusing abstraction and representation, always with methodology skimming the biomorphic, returning not to the whole figure but particularly the human face.

This is a good opportunity to see the work of an artist who achieves what many post-war painters have tried, coaxing abstraction and representation into uneasy but perpetual balance.

Grace Hartigan, whose work played the range between abstraction and representation once told an interviewer: «Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.»