The first room creates a physical experience, pushing the view to the periphery with an imposing bulbous sculpture, while the second creates safe places for
the artist as a young boy, evoking Bradford's mother's hair salon in large paintings created from purple - black end papers used for permanent waves and a paper sculpture representing Medusa's head as a hiding place.
Inspired by the impression the painting made on
the artist as a young boy, this provocative new work is on display alongside the original from our collection.
Not exact matches
Only her second feature after her little - seen but pretty decent John Lennon biopic «Nowhere
Boy,» Taylor - Johnson was best known
as part of the same «
Young British
Artists» grouping that also includes Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst.
Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films
as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave,
as well
as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort
as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach
Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an
artist as a
young and older man.
1916: Portrait of the
Artist as a
Young Man, by James Joyce «Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down the road and this moocow that was coming down the road met a nicens little
boy named baby tuckoo...»
As the legend goes, the publisher repurposed some unpopular arcade cabinets to house a game created by a
young artist named Shigeru Miyamoto who was overseen by the man that would eventually build the Game
Boy, Gumpei Yokoi.
The
boys the girls and the political, this year's summer show at the Lisson Gallery, reinforces the gallery's position
as an influential and pioneering contemporary art space, which advocates new thinking and approaches to art - making, and shows a commitment to
younger artists.
Dozens of 6 through 18 - year - olds will exhibit their fine art at Tacoma Art Museum this month
as TAM hosts
Young Artists Shine:
Boys & Girls Clubs of America, featuring works created by students who participate in Puget Sound area
Boys & Girls Clubs (BGCA).
Together, The Lost
Boys (Collection of Rick and Jolanda Hunting) and De Style (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) telegraph the
artist's simultaneous attentions to structural racism —
young African American men cyclically lost to drugs, incarceration, violence — and spaces such
as the barbershop, a site of community and cultural empowerment.
Keisha Scarville, a New York City - based
artist born to Guyanese immigrants, reinterprets her father's passport photo
as a
young boy in British Guiana in the mixed - media Passport series.
His work, which incorporates romantic and classical imagery, finds inspiration in youth and Goth culture, fashion layouts, and books, among them the Hardy
Boys series,
as well
as the work of Wilde, Huysmans, and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period of literature reimagined from the perspective of a
young gay
artist.