Sentences with phrase «artist leigh»

Artist Leigh Ledare presents an artist talk exploring his on - going interest in social structures and their underlying structures.

At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder of the city's Museum of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream of the building burning.

Zoë Lescaze, «Unknown Pleasures: In Recent Photographs, Artist Leigh Ledare Moves Beyond His Mother», NY Observer, 19 March 2013

Office Baroque is pleased to present an exhibition of works by New York - based artist Leigh Ledare.

Three projects exploring human behaviour and pathologies intertwine in this exhibition of works by the American artist Leigh Ledare at Office Baroque, Brussels.

Out of the monumental paintings Freud made in the 1990s of two outsized characters, the performance artist Leigh Bowery and benefits supervisor Sue Tilley, the curators have astutely chosen two in which the subject is asleep.

NEW YORK, March 5, 2014 — Mitchell - Innes & Nash is pleased to present an exhibition of works by New York - based artist Leigh Ledare.

In the 1990s, disease, death, and bodies became one of the most potent themes and Damien Hirst created A Thousand Years, depicting live flies as they feed on a cow's head, and Lucian Freud painted portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery.

About Leigh Ledare: The work of artist Leigh Ledare maps psychosocial relations inscribed within the various orders of photography, language, and public and private social constructions.

Coinciding with the final day of the exhibition Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play, and co-presented with A.R.T. Press, this event marks the launch of the publication Double Bind (A.R.T. Press, 2015) by art historian Rhea Anastas and artist Leigh Ledare.

From Damien Hirst's work A Thousand Years, in which live flies feed on a cow's head, to Lucian Freud's portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, art rediscovered the flesh, the stuff of life.

About the artist Leigh Ruple was born in 1984 in Ohio.

Seattle — born artist Leigh Ledare's methodology is both conceptual and highly performative, utilizing photography, text, film and media to construct visual narratives that address language, relationships, eroticism and social convention.

Her most recent publication, Double Bind, is a book - length dialogue co-written with artist Leigh Ledare.

The work of artist Leigh Ledare maps psychosocial relations inscribed within the various orders of photography, language, and public and private social constructions.

October 22, 2014 --(Altadena, CA) Piece by Piece instructor and mosaic artist Leigh Adams and her colleague Bea Jones, a retired psychiatric social worker, worked with our children through a special grant from the Marion Brucker Legacy Trust via Piece by Piece, which helped bring mosaic artistry to inner - city youth.

Among the admirers: artist Theaster Gates; Turrell and his wife, Kyung - Lim Lee; Margrit Mondavi; Cherise and Christian Moueix; Kay and Sandy Walker; Carl Doumani; Anita and Ron Wornick; Cincinnati Art Museum Director Aaron Betsky; Pam and Dick Kramlich; Alexis and Trevor Traina; Amy Stone; Madeleine Fitzpatrick; Wendy and Frank Jordan; SFAI President Charles Desmarais and his wife, Kitty; Stanlee Gatti; as well as artists Leigh Ledare, Keith Tyson, Josephine Pryde, Aubrey Mayer and Jimmy Raskin, who doubled as the Stones» late - night DJ.

Saturated color palettes and tedious techniques impart an intense optic energy to the work of artists Leigh Suggs and Garry Noland.

Not exact matches

«That led to a greater awareness of the refugee crisis among the wider church... and so we asked an artist called Mark Stein Adamson if we could exhibit some of his art work around the refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan, which raised awareness across the town of Leigh.

In Illusions in Art for Young Eyes at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, contemporary master Eric Conklin borrows tools such as conical mirrors from 17th - century Dutch artists and mathematical principles from ancient Egyptian architecture to create a sense of depth when there is none or to imply volume when only area exists.

When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.

The writer - director Mike Leigh has made period pieces before, most notably Topsy - Turvy in 1999, but even by his own exalted standards this cinematic profile of one artist by another stands a league apart.

Leigh, who wrote and directed, is savvy enough to avoid trying to cover Turner's entire biography, and instead settles on the last third of Turner's life, years that found the artist both enjoying, and running from, his success.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Mike Leigh Actors: Tom Wlaschiha, Timothy Spall, Roger Ashton - Griffiths Plot: Explores the last half - century in the life of British artist J.M.W. Turner - a brilliant, if somewhat eccentric, painter.

Timothy Spall won top actor for his role as British artist J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner.»

19th Century landscape painter JMW Turner, himself the subject of a fine biopic directed by Mike Leigh starring Timothy Spall, is one of the featured artists.

Interviewed in the Daily Telegraph in support of his role in Sally Potter «s «Ginger & Rosa,» Spall announces that he's playing the British artist J.M.W Turner in Leigh's next.

Margot at the Wedding (R for sexuality and profanity) Nicole Kidman handles the titular role in this family skeletons dramedy about a narcissistic writer who causes quite a stir after showing up unexpectedly with her adolescent (Zane Pais) for the impending wedding of her freewheeling sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to an unemployed artist (Jack Black).

Any clear connection between point A in the artist's emotional life and point B on the canvas is largely avoided, and in this way Mike Leigh's film shifts the sublime aspects of Turner's paintings on to the artist himself.

Awards favourites Birdman, The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game all scored highly, but Mr Turner, Mike Leigh's biopic of the British artist, would have expected to do much better on home turf.

Mike Leigh rustles up a glorious portrait of the artist as harrumphing old dog with his labour - of - love biopic of JMW Turner.

Don't be fooled the period setting: Mike Leigh's biopic of iconic English artist JMW Turner is energetic, engaging and often hilarious.

Leigh, together with his actors, cinematographer Dick Pope and composer Gary Yershon, takes us on a journey into the very ether of an artist's soul, who (much like most artists) is a deeply troubled human being.

Spall fulfils the promise of his King Lear moment in Secrets and Lies as the artist described by Leigh as a «complex, curmudgeonly, convoluted character».

When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web — and has sinister plans for both of them.

Turner, who cares not a jot for his fellow artists, worrying about where they've been displayed in the National Gallery, is as blasé about his life as anyone: it's only fitting that Leigh take the same approach.

Timothy Spall's all of them and more in Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh's biopic of the artist.

Mike Leigh's biopic of the later years of iconic English artist JMW Turner is a colourful, moving and hilarious period piece featuring a brave and torturous performance by Spall.

Mr. Turner Mike Leigh's biopic about the English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner further proves why critics love the director — at least for Edelstein, who writes: «The artist biopic is the most laughably overexplanatory of subgenres, but Leigh would rather glide over details than be caught spoon - feeding.

It's surely symptomatic that the catch - all Special Presentation category is now the largest section of all, containing a ridiculous 59 films this year, all of them «special,» and maybe half of them made by artists like Clint Eastwood, Benoît Jacquot, and Mike Leigh who evidently still haven't achieved the mastery of a Gitai or a Leth — keep trying, guys!

Instead, «Mr Turner,» though not without flaws, is something of a twilight culmination of Leigh's work, and very much one in which the filmmaker turns his lens on himself, as is so often the case when directors make movies about artists.

Timothy Spall talks about playing artist JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's award - winning biopic.

He and his friends spy the frumpy, environmentally conscious artist Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), and a deal is struck.

Leigh's sprawling «Mr. Turner» centers on the 19th century artist J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall), an irascible talent whose unconventional landscape paintings heralded an era of Abstract art, though not before he dealt with pretty concrete personal problems.

But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.

On Sunday, Dec. 16, makeup artist Julie Hewett, who created Scarlett Johansson's Janet Leigh look in «Hitchcock» and draws from film noir in her product line, is scheduled to give 30 - minute private consultations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Blushington, a makeup studio at 8591 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 90069.

Mr. Turner hits the traditional biopic beats more routinely than the latter, but at least it refuses to truck with that most irksome generic sawhorse, the emotionally tidy rise - and - fall arc, by a simple expedient: opening at the height of its subject's popularity, and then dwelling with Leigh's characteristically misanthropic relish on the artist's latter - day sufferings and setbacks.

Houdini is a George Pal - produced 1953 biography of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, starring Tony Curtis in the title role with fine support from Janet Leigh as Houdini's wife.

Working with Oscar - nominated cinematographer Dick Pope («The Illusionist»), Leigh — the great director of such films as «Topsy Turvy» and «Vera Drake» — illuminates the landscapes and seascapes that so inspired the artist.

Past presenters include Leigh Cunningham - Executive Director of the Association of Independent Authors (AiA), Dete Meserve - president of Wind Dancer films (Home Improvement, What Women Want with Mel Gibson), Steven Spatz - President of BookBaby (industry leader in author services), Burke Allen - CEO of Allen Media Strategies (industry leading P.R. and media firm for authors), Eddie Price - marketing expert and successful self - published author, Darlene Chan - Hollywood publicist that specilizes in promoting independent authors, and Mark Wayne Adams - multiple award - winning illustrator, Readers» Favorite Illustration Award Judge, former Disney artist, and former president of the Florida Authors and Publishers Association.