Sentences with phrase «again as a young artist»

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In my mid-thirties, I spent six years as a youth worker for Melbourne Citymission, where I mentored quite a number of young people, and once again my life experiences and career position afforded me an opportunity to work along side many brilliant mentors, including some top business people and some very successful artists.

There also seems to be a return to figuration among younger artists, perhaps as the body is once again positioned as a site of critical discourse.

We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.

In 1948, the young artist first visited Italy after having received the Prix de Rome; he returned in 1960 when his work was featured at the Biennale di Venezia, and again in 1970 as an artist in residence in Rome, following the harsh criticism surrounding his first exhibition of figurative paintings in New York.

Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom — Ray and Liz, as they have come to be intimately known — were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late -»90s exhibition «Sensation» and drew crowds again this fall at Frieze, which hosted a presentation peering back to the no - longer - Young British Artist's first solo show.

Simply put, if an artist has succeeded in the studio time and again with a combination of form and color, he or she knows where the dash of cobalt goes and how to make it stick with authority, just as an experienced athlete can anticipate the play and outsmart younger players who rush around the field unthinkingly.

It is reflected in the museum's programming, too, and it's hard not to bring up Sensation, when you defended the right of having this extraordinary young black British artist, Chris Ofili, display his work in the show — and again, in a lesser - known incident, where the Catholic diocese tried to force you to remove David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly from the «Hide / Seek» show, as they had at the Smithsonian in D.C., and which you, to your great credit, refused to do.