«Livingston doesn't make paintings; she makes «paint objects» — canvases wrapped in
acrylic paint skin that she straps to her body, then drags through the city's streets.
From those microcosms, which originated in her studio space, themes of breakdown, contamination and corruption emerge as well, resulting in a range of abstract and minimalist compositions across plywood and
acrylic paint skins.
Not exact matches
Often integrating mixed media materials into her large - scale
acrylic - on - canvas
paintings, Parsons pushes the formal aspects of her practice just enough to let the luxuriant palette and seemingly, but not simply, whimsical content hold center stage, while proving that she has true
skin in the game.
LEFT: Rhonda Wheatley, «Empath Protector,» 2016, Vintage mannequin hand, wooden beads, natural fluorite crystal tetrahedrons, and
acrylic paint / / RIGHT: Rhonda Wheatley, «Subconscious Translator,» 2016, Vintage headphones, beads, quartz crystals, plant roots, fossilized shark teeth, snake
skin sheddings, collage, and
acrylic paint
Rita Ackermann AFRICAN NURSE 2005 - 2008
Acrylic and oil
paint, gel medium, oil stick, spray
paint, leather, rabbit
skin glue on canvas 67 x 49 x 1 3/4 inches (170.2 x 124.5 x 4.4 cm) ARG # AR2008 - 016 © Rita Ackermann Photo by Christopher Burke
County Floaters 2015 red «Uline» barrel, trash can dolly, screws, «Ohio Bobcats» rain poncho, fake banana tree, fake foliage, leggings, rope, bungee, plastic, foam, epoxy, synthetic hair, baseball cap, birdseed cone in plastic netting, cigarette butt, wood, screws, spray
paint, «Dragon
Skin» platinum silicone, nuts, bolts, washers, casters, tin pig, burl section, towel,
acrylic paint, dog toy, safety glasses case, panty hose, press - on nails, safety cone, saw dust, rope, clamps, hats, t - shirt, run - off barrier, ceramic potter, beaded stickers, ceramic cat, glow in the dark pigment, pigments, decorative paper flowers, decorative fishing net, earrings, wire, blue tape, key chains, key rings, wood chips, needles, scrunchie, fabric measuring tape, star fish, toddler shoes, children's skirt, children's jacket, sock, bandana, decorative balls, wicker lantern, over-the-door hooks, gaff tape, eyelashes Overall dimensions: H 81» x W 39» x D 95» (206 cm x 99 cm x 241 cm) ARG # FLTR2015 - 002
On a formal level, McClelland utilizes charcoal,
acrylic, gels, clay, and rabbit -
skin glue to investigate the conditional relationship between drawing and words, between
painting and writing.
The 1980s saw further experimentation with
paint as a metaphor for
skin, with Whitten «casting» surfaces and textures with
acrylic paints and compounds.
Skin Set
Painting: The Commons Divides Moses and Moses Divides S... 2011 - 2013 Water - based oil,
acrylic on paper Diptych, overall: 60 3/4 by 117 1/2 in.
Skin Set
Painting: Blue People Are My New God Replacing Chartreuse People My Old God 2012 - 2013 Water - based oil,
acrylic, metal clips on paper 84 by 60 in.
A monumental piece formed by thousands of tiny tiles sliced from a thick
skin of
acrylic paint, the work's surface involved more building than
painting.
NANCY GRAVES Inside - Outside 1970 Steel, wax, marble dust,
acrylic, fiberglass, animal
skin and oil
paint 48 by 120 by 120 in.
To produce the stratified surface of these
paintings, Johnson drips layers of
acrylic paint onto freezer paper and allows them to dry and form a
skin — a flexible, plastic - like puck of pigments that she attaches to the
paintings with glazing medium for added texture and embellishment.
Sculptures such as Inside - Outside (1970) appear to be a camel skeleton, but closer examination reveals a formidable construction of steel, wax, marble dust,
acrylic, fiberglass, animal
skin, and oil
paint.
He used
acrylic paint, followed by oil
paint to get the correct
skin tone.
Against backgrounds
painted in broad swaths of
acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the
skin and floor of the central scene depicted.
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Skin Set
Painting: The Commons Divides Moses and Moses Divides S... 2011 - 2013 Water - based oil,
acrylic on paper Diptych, overall: 60 3/4 by 117 1/2 in.
Whitten's poetic and physically compelling compositions reinvent the medium of
painting time and again — from his series of small «ghost»
paintings of the 1960s, his smeared test slabs and dragged canvases of the 1970s, and his collaged
acrylic «
skins» of the 1980s to his more recent tessellated constructions of
paint tiles.
Whatever it is, if drawing presents a certain window into the artist's brain, then the exhibition «Trenton Doyle Hancock:
Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing,» which opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem on Thursday, will serve as a trip inside the mind's eye of an artist whose practice has included everything from multimedia
paintings comprised of
acrylic and collaged felt to site - specific installations and even a ballet — one that explodes off the page and directly onto the gallery walls.
Paint became a metaphor for
skin during the 1980s when Whitten experimented with «casting»
acrylic paints and compounds to create new surfaces and textures.
Andrew Sutherland composes his
acrylic paintings within a large folded trash bag; Angel Otero bunches up
paint - soaked «oil
skins» around an armature to resemble a ruched and rumbled sack of a
painting.