She states in her bio that she has been influenced by Diebenkorn, German Expressionism and the Bay
Area figurative artists that include David Park and Elmer Bischoff.
Bay
Area figurative artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Wayne Thiebaud adopted the vibrancy of the abstract style paired with representational imagery.
I was trying to figure it out through reproductions, all the while still looking closely at Bay
Area figurative artists like Diebenkorn, Park, Bischoff, Brown, and Neri.
With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay
Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.
Often identified together as Bay
Area Figurative Artists, they applied Abstract Expressionist methods to representational subjects.
Very soon, he became equally well known and successful as a Bay
Area Figurative artist.
Frohsin, third generation Bay
Area Figurative artist — from the...
Nathan Oliveira was a celebrated member of the San Francisco Bay
Area Figurative artist community.
Fall Exhibitions at the Richmond Art Center Three new exhibitions featuring works by Bay
Area figurative artist Joan Brown, an environmentally themed group show, and a celebration of Richmond's acclaimed Pogo Park will open to the public on September 12, 2017.
Not exact matches
As a Bay
Area Figurative Abstract
artist I'm represented in numerous collections in the US, Mexico and Canada.
Richard Diebenkorn, the versatile
artist best known for his association with the Bay
Area Figurative Movement and later for his «Ocean Park» series of paintings, will have his catalogue raisonnĂ© published this fall by Yale University Press in conjunction with... Read More
A lighthearted
figurative abstract by Bay
Area artist Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963).
Originally a landscape
artist influenced by the Bay
Area Figurative Art movement, Holdsworth began painting plein air cityscapes near his Oakland studio.
Staprans began working in the Bay
Area in the 1950s at a time when other
artists in that region were rediscovering
figurative painting.
Diebenkorn, however, preferred California to the competitive New York art scene, and became a leading
artist among the Bay
Area Figurative painters.
Size: 29 «H x 29 «W. Bay
Area Figurative / Bay
Area Feminist Art Movement
artist, Patricia Gren - Hayes, studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950.
A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by
artists working in the
area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from
figurative to abstract art.
A California abstract expressionist
artist, Kristin studied at Humbolt State University and with Micheal Dee Cookinham a bay
area figurative and abstract expressionist painter.
Dynamic
figurative abstract by San Jose, California
area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th century).
Like many others of her generation in the Bay
Area, the
artist also worked in a
figurative style in the 1950s and later.
Figurative abstract painting by San Jose, California
area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century).
This group exhibition investigates the genesis of the Bay
Area Figurative movement and features several generations of
artists, including contemporary
artists working locally and internationally
A
figurative abstract painting on masonite by San Francisco, California
area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, b - 20th C. - d - 2017).
A
figurative abstract painting on each side of the masonite by San Jose, California
area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century).
«Embrace»
figurative abstract painting by San Jose, California
area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century).
The genre is now referred to as the Bay
Area Figurative School and is marked by bright blocks of color in which
artists portray the planes and the shores of their California surroundings.
In the Bay
Area,
artists Joan Brown (MATRIX 24) and William Wiley among many others carry on a
figurative tradition established in the fifties by David Park, Richard Diebenkorn (MATRIX 40) and Elmer Bischoff (MATRIX 55).
Well - established in the
area of Bay Area Figurative art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened in 2001, broadening the focus to incorporate contemporary painting and sculpture by artists across the coun
area of Bay
Area Figurative art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened in 2001, broadening the focus to incorporate contemporary painting and sculpture by artists across the coun
Area Figurative art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened in 2001, broadening the focus to incorporate contemporary painting and sculpture by
artists across the country.
In the long run, the work of these
artists may well supersede the attention given to the Bay
Area abstract
figurative painters of the era, for they not only leave us with equally superlative works, but in the process upended the notion of craft.
Paul Wonner was an American
artist who became famous during the 50s as an abstract expressionist connected to the Bay
Area Figurative Movement.
The intense color and sunlight of the west coast, along with the influence of the Society of Six, Bay
Area Figurative painters, and other contemporary northern California
artists, gives her art its singular character.
Ruby Neri Born in the 1970s into the collegial environment of
artists in San Francisco, Ruby Neri's initial influences were the painters and ceramicists closely associated with her father, the Bay
Area Figurative sculptor Manuel Neri.
Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery is proud to announce the first posthumous exhibition of painting and drawing from the Estates of Paul Wonner (1920 - 2008) and William Theophilus Brown (1919 - 2012), two important
artists of the original BAY
AREA FIGURATIVE MOVEMENT.
Hackett Mill / Booth # 740 Since EXPO's inception, Hackett Mill has brought a fine selection of
artists comprising the core members of the Bay
Area Figurative movement.
The tide turned when in the late 1950s the «Bay
Area Figurative Movement» began to form in San Francisco from the ranks of the Abstract Expressionists: an increasing number of
artists now criticized the non-
figurative nature of Abstract Expressionism and revisited figuration.
As a result, she has the shortest period of mature Bay
Area Figurative work out of all the important
artists.
Among these First Generation Bay
Area Figurative School
artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud, and James Weeks.
Bruce McGaw was born in 1935 and was the only
artist from the second generation to be included in the 1957 Contemporary Bay
Area Figurative Painting exhibition.
Lee Plato Smith, a gifted painter and textile
artist who studied with David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and other masters of the Bay
Area Figurative School, has died.
The installation ends with three galleries devoted to California art: one for Diebenkorn and his generation; one for Bruce Conner and the funk and conceptual
artists who provide Northern California with the necessary edge to counteract the sometimes too lax aesthetics of the Bay
Area Figurative School; and one for the Pop - influenced work that blossomed in the»60s and»70s, work that accepts, albeit ironically, the fact that the car culture displaced the orange groves.
The Bay
Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay
Area Figurative School, Bay
Area Figurative Art, Bay
Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of
artists in the San Francisco Bay
Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s.
Diebenkorn's Bay
Area figurative years from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s marked a shift from the
artist's early abstractions and set him apart from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of abstraction was thought to be in direct conflict with figuration.
Opening: «Richard Diebenkorn: Early Color Abstractions 1949 - 1955» at Van Doren Waxter Richard Diebenkorn is one of the most celebrated
artists to come out of the Bay
Area Figurative Movement — a group of San Francisco Bay area artists that included David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Wayne Thiebaud — who eventually forsook the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the»50s to revisit figurat
Area Figurative Movement — a group of San Francisco Bay
area artists that included David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Wayne Thiebaud — who eventually forsook the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the»50s to revisit figurat
area artists that included David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Wayne Thiebaud — who eventually forsook the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the»50s to revisit figuration.
In her seminal catalogue, Bay
Area Figurative Art: 1950 - 1965, Caroline A. Jones observes «The new figurative «pictures» created by the Bay Area artists were neither reactionary nor merely illus
Figurative Art: 1950 - 1965, Caroline A. Jones observes «The new
figurative «pictures» created by the Bay Area artists were neither reactionary nor merely illus
figurative «pictures» created by the Bay
Area artists were neither reactionary nor merely illustrational.
His work was certainly on the radar of the
figurative Bay
Area artists in the 1950s.
Considered part of the second generation of the Bay
Area Figurative movement, influential
artist Joan Brown obsessively painted everyday imagery from her own life: domestic scenes, swimming excursions in the San Francisco bay, or outings to the opera with her husband.
Diebenkorn and David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, and other Bay
area artists became recognized as a California school of
figurative painting.
It includes works by painters such as George Abend and Felix Ruvolo — key figures in the The San Francisco Bay
Area abstract expressionism movement, as well as works by Bay
Area Figurative School
artists, including Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Roland Petersen and Joan Savo.
An important member of the San Francisco Bay
Area group of
figurative artists, Oliveira's oeuvre resists strict categorization.
They focus on Modernism, Bay
Area Figurative, The Post War Abstract Expressionism, and Berkeley Schools, and they also emphasize significant works by
artists who have contributed significantly to the Modern - Abstract Expressionist Art.