Sentences with phrase «abstractions explore space»

Thornton Willis is a painter whose masterful painterly abstractions explore space using geometric themes and variations.

Thorton Willis, Triple Play, 2008 Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches March 9 — April 18, 2010 Thornton Willis is a painter whose masterful painterly abstractions explore space using geometric themes and variations.

On loan from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Pereira's 1940 abstraction explores space with overlapping geometric shapes — some transparent, some colorful, and some filled with convoluted black - and - white designs.

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Terms such as space, perspective, creativity, movement, and abstraction itself are being explored and illustrated by the artist via his own popular vernacular.

Known for her monumental approach to abstraction, Mehretu's mark making and mapping structure explore time and space and issues of identity and globalization.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

Dunham has long resisted prevailing stylistic trends and consequently carved out a space for American painters to explore the possibilities of blending both abstraction and figuration.

Sarah Cain's practice is founded upon exploring new territories for abstraction and her 40 - foot - long painting, titled Now I'm going to tell you everything, is created from a call - and - response method of working with the space, both unpredictable and impromptu.

A Los Angeles - based artist, Pearl C. Hsiung explores the space between representation and abstraction, often a site for humorous commentary.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

The new photographic works explore these dynamics of motion and space inside the genre of abstraction and within filmic, almost mythic landscapes.

This lecture will explore works in a variety of media by artists such as Carmen Herrera, Frank Stella, Anthony McCall, and Hito Steyerl, which all engage with modernist abstraction and disrupt habitual ways of perceiving space and form.

Blending the philosophies of architecture with abstraction, architecture becomes both a visual and physical bridge between inside and out, a passageway of self - reflection, while abstraction is a way to move through, interpret and explore a space.

Gerard Mullin explores how abstraction can be a tool for opening up space, rather than reducing it.

James Dean Erickson, an artist whose paintings explore the space between realism and abstraction to elicit the ephemeral and enduring qualities of nature, will lead the Painting -LSB-...]

His paintings explore the space between realism and abstraction bringing to mind the ephemeral and enduring qualities of nature.

She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, values, math, gravity, protein, memory.

Yusuke Sugiyama uses the concept of boundaries to explore the spaces in between; somewhere between abstraction and embodiment, reality and memory.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.

Curated by Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes, the exhibition explored four themes in her work — the Move to Abstraction, and her Earth, Space and Mosaic paintings — and showcased a few dozen smaller watercolors and studies.

Using modernist aesthetics and ideals elucidated by the Russian constructivists and the Bauhaus school — both of which are movements known for their utopian aspirations — Cerrillo makes steel frames that outline empty gallery space, exploring the failure of Modernist abstraction to connote real meaning.

An exhibition at the former, «Matisse and American Art,» (through June 18) explores Matisse's influence on American modern art from 1907 to the present, while one at the latter «Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction,» (through August 13) displays female abstract artists» accomplishments between 1945 and 1968.

The first lecture will explore works in a variety of media that engage with modernist abstraction and disrupt habitual ways of perceiving space and form.

Artist Statement «In my recent work I explore the linear language of drawing in three - dimensional space using the lexicon of gestural abstraction.

In this exhibition, Morris creates a site - specific wall painting that explores the structures and boundaries of abstraction, considering the possibilities of paint within an architectural space.

Connecting geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, her work explores how the performing subject (e. g., speaker, dancer, designer, factory worker, musician, filmmaker) is constructed in spaces in which material objects outline action and engagement.

Probably best known for her paintings of lines and grids using understated colors, Martin's work has been hailed as «pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics, and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.»

Recent series explore contemporary geometric abstraction with painted paper blocks juxtaposed within a gridded space.

James Dean Erickson, an artist whose paintings explore the space between realism and abstraction to elicit the ephemeral and enduring qualities of nature, will lead the Painting Traditional Subjects with Modern Material workshop and Simplicity and Synthesis lecture in February.

Currently featured in MoMAs Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and in a solo show at Gagosian, Paris, two sides of the artist's formidable output are further explored in exhibitions opening this weekend at The Clark Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

In her first New York solo exhibition, Acha introduces us to a language of abstraction that explores structures of space and perception.

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

With material as departure point, Lang's recent works explore the tensions between abstraction and figuration, and investigate space beyond the limitations of the human body through sculpture, reliefs, assemblage, paintings and collages.

Lina Alattar's solo exhibition, Embracing Abstraction, is part of Hillyer's Art Space Typecast, an all media exhibition that will showcase artists whose work expresses, explores and questions ideas about identity.

Haitian - born, Miami - based artist Tomm El - Saieh inaugurates ICA Miami's signature project space with a series of new painting exploring the connections between abstraction and the Haitian tradition of narrative icon painting.

Drawn from personal snapshots, popular films, art history and advertising, Doig's urban - pastoral landscapes, explore the psychological and physical spaces between fiction and truth, depiction and invention, representation and abstraction.

These sculptures, tapestries and works on paper mine a space between figuration and abstraction, exploring the human figure as a metaphor for transformation.

In 2010 My Lonely Days Are Gone brought together ten contemporary artists to explore the potential of a given physical space to generate wall works that commented on the role of abstraction.

One of the most important artists of SoCal's postwar period, McLaughlin is known for quiet, minimalist works that explore total abstraction: geometries and lines that explore ideas of shape and space, but not representation.

Letting go of figurative icons and utilizing the language of abstraction to explore emotional and psychological space, Val Britton's new series, Cosmology maps thefeatures of a theoretical universe.

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.

Exploring concepts of space and various aspects of nature by means of abstraction, Lamia has long employed a language of opposites.

His works explore the psychological and physical spaces between description and invention, representation end abstraction.

Scott continued to explore the space between abstraction and figuration, exploring primitive forms and motifs inspired by everyday life.

Connecting geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, her work explores how the performing subject (e. g., speaker, dancer, designer, factory worker, musician, filmmaker) is constructed in spaces in which material objects outline...

Engaged with photography, film and painting for the past three decades, Liu Xiaodong has described his style as an «open» one that explores the spaces between realism and abstraction.

The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank space,.

Her process results in abstract paintings, sometimes called constructions, which utilize geometric abstraction and lush, dramatic color patterns to explore relationships between color, material and space.

From there, he launched into his Coogi sweater paintings series, exploring the in - between spaces of high - art versus craft, intentional versus found abstraction, and, most significantly, the notion of ownership of African - American popular culture.

I try to be extremely sparing in my use of the L - word, but here goes: the work in this group show curated by Julie McKim — including works by Sonya Blesofsky, Angeles Cossio, and Erik Hougen — explores liminal spaces between abstraction and figuration, the familiar and the bizarre.