Sentences with phrase «abstraction in a contemporary context»

The Shape of Things» is the second group exhibition at the Dot Project and examines the artistic practice of geometric abstraction in a contemporary context.

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But the family is hugely important in giving me a foundation on which I can start to think through what abstraction has been in relation to its history — a complicated issue — and what abstract painting can be in a contemporary context.

On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.

Group exhibitions include Prospect.4, the US Biennial in New Orleans (2017 - 2018); In Context: Africans in America, at the Goodman Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016); Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015); The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2011); The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010); and Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009in New Orleans (2017 - 2018); In Context: Africans in America, at the Goodman Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016); Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015); The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2011); The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010); and Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009In Context: Africans in America, at the Goodman Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016); Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015); The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2011); The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010); and Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009in America, at the Goodman Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016); Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015); The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2011); The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010); and Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009).

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These artists were making new work that proffered critique of both expressionism and non-objective abstraction, in a context informed by contemporary ideas about social control, mediation, and simulation.

The publication is a study of Abts» paintings and drawings in the context of contemporary art and the history of abstraction.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Through a forthright juxtaposition of the rational / irrational, controlled / uncontrolled / static / dynamic visual elements of typography and visual abstraction, THIS raises important questions about context and meaning in contemporary art practice.

If Anderson's paintings have contemporary affinities in practices (especially with that of Peter Doig, his former teacher), the theoretical contexts they summon are well - rooted — in particular those teleological forecasts about the relationship between his chosen genres as articulated by critics including Kenneth Clark and Clement Greenberg; the latter wrote, in 1949, of the evolutionary conundrum whereby French painting «was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual experience with ever greater fidelity.»

At the combined ADAA booth of Van Doren Waxter and 11R, Sterne will be shown in a more contemporary context; works from her series of spray - painted abstractions will be exhibited alongside new paintings on Plexiglas by Mika Tajima, who uses a similar technique to very different effect.

One of the central subjects in Bick's artistic practice is the role of abstraction in contemporary art context.