Sentences with phrase «artist someone admires»

It is an opportunity for us to show work by artists we admire as well as those who have previously shown at the gallery.

«I've been so blessed to learn directly from artists I admire,» he said.

It has also provided new routes for collaboration between designers and the visual artists they admire.

We are excited about this one, as the show has a lot of our friends and artists we admire at the moment.

To make things fun, each of them will show their work alongside a piece of art by a local artist they admire.

Afterall, this was the guy who when invited to hang the work of artists he admired in a museum show, hung his own.

Collaborating with artists he admires from both the fashion and art worlds, Heck explains in the book that, «when I started researching different brands and their designers — from the most mainstream to the most obscure — I began to see fashion as an art form with its own language, aesthetics and creative possibilities.»

Most of the Foundation's collection is housed at Fort D.A. Russell, a former US Army base acquired by the artist, who restored and redesigned the buildings to show permanent exhibitions of his own work and that of other artists he admired, such as Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin, John Chamberlain, and the Russian artist lIya Kabakov.

But so many artists we admire in museums today — and in Maud's time, this would have included Picasso and the Impressionists, Valadon and Cassatt — were panned by critics, scorned by dealers.

He also sees the lines between his work and the work of artists he admires as blurry at best.

He chose Lynda Benglis, a feminist artist he admires for her compelling video works and sensuous amoebic wall and floor pieces that protrude into space.

Although never exposed to contemporary western art, these women produced paintings that are conversant with something I was seeing in the work of Western artists I admired like Jackson Pollock, Brice Marden and Joan Snyder.»

Such an artistic upbringing instilled in Chiara a unique sensibility — reserved and determined, fragile and audacious — which she expresses in her documentary films about artists she admires: the painter Brice Marden; the architect Frank Gehry; and the group of women artists of different generations — Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon — whose lives she chronicled in Our City Dreams (2008), which won her international critical acclaim.

The DDD's stalk the young artists they admire, make scenes at openings, dance too aggressively at parties and exhibit uncouth behaviors while wearing their mothers» designer hand - me - downs.

To his credit, Wu doesn't shy away from listing artists he admires: Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly.

I come from the music industry, and in pursuing a professional career in pop music since I was 14, I grew up wanting to be sexy, because the strong and successful artists I admired (Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna) were that, and seemed to have the world in the palms of their hands.

Since then, he has of course traveled and studied art widely, but when asked which abstract artists he admires, he denies having looked at much abstract art.

McArthur Binion, Samuel Levi Jones, and Tony Lewis, all active members of their creative communities, were invited by Lelong to show their work and also invite a fellow Chicago artist they admire.

There are few living artists I admire as profoundly as D'Ette Nogle.

Believing that they could better learn in a studio environment, they had rented the large loft, hired models and invited artists they admired to come to teach.

Stella described them as «three artists I admire because they help me care less about my own work,» in the sense of fretting over it.

Our logos Nottingham Contemporary has a library of logos, designed by fifteen contemporary artists we admire and whose work relates to our future programme.

It shows the works he purchased for the National Gallery, and the paintings later commissioned when he set up the War Artists Advisory Committee, where he appointed British artists he admired to depict devastation and stoicism on the home front (and perhaps also to save them getting slaughtered in battle).

He works from a building near Bethnal Green, where, since 2006, he has used the ground floor as a small gallery, Between Bridges, where he shows work that interests him, from artists such as the American David Wojnarowicz, or the German artist Isa Genzken, or the photographs from the Center for Land Use Interpretation in California, or the slogans of Jenny Holzer, one of the first artists he admired.

Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance artists he admired, Friedman challenged himself to become a master craftsman in his own right.

The work of Zachary Armstrong can be viewed as homage both to the artist's own personal history and to art history and the many celebrated artists he admires.

Goolsby says he approached artists he admires and worked with them to select artworks that were complimentary both conceptually and aesthetically.

Lippard: Of course Kosuth appropriated the black paintings in his dictionary «paintings» and some young Conceptual artists admired Ad's use of text and images, although he of course kept them totally separate and was certainly uninterested in «dematerialization.»

«It would have meant so much more if I had gotten recognition from the Whitney this year,» he said, speaking of the Whitney Biennial — «this thing that every great artist I admire has had.»

Harvey's fluid line is not something you can be taught, which is why so many tough - minded artists admired her work.

Instead of Picasso, think José Clemente Orozco, the Mexican muralist the New York School artist admired early on and whose massive 1930 wall painting of Prometheus at Pomona College he more than once hitchhiked from Los Angeles to see in Claremont, California, as a teenager.

The artist Sydney Croskery organized this show of works by artists she admires to consider the different ways each individualizes their process.

Joining AbEx painters with other artists he admired, he posited that the modernist strength of their paintings lay in the degree to which they did not reference conditions outside themselves; properly modernist paintings focused on their own essential «medium - specificity,» their two - dimensional uniqueness as a work on canvas.

«If I think about the trajectories of so many artists I admire, from Kehinde Wiley to Mickalene Thomas, a few things are consistent,» Casteel says.

The Hammer Museum's courtyard was transformed this evening for our 14th annual Gala in the Garden, honoring Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes, artists admired for their fearless risk - taking and for their singular yet deeply influential voices.

Being in this show with many talented artists I admire is a thrill.»

Ojih Odutola has talked about artists she admires, and some of those influences are at play here: painters like Kerry James Marshall, Paula Rego, Lynette Yiiadom - Boakye, or the great portraitist John Singer Sargent.

«Cornell was a master appropriator, using the images of artists he admired as his way of engaging them in a meaningful dialogue.

I personally would forego a much - coveted cheeseburger for a great $ 4 video tutorial by an artist I admire and think would improve my work.

I put the word out to some of the artists I admire most, asking them «Knowing what you know now, how would you start selling art?

A number of these artists admire or have been inspired by Alice Neel, and it is for this reason they have been brought together in an expanded homage to the ongoing influence of the late American painter which coincides with the first solo exhibition of Alice Neel's work in a European institution, opening at the Whitechapel Gallery on 8 July.

Over the years the artist has accumulated a vocabulary that ranges from heraldry to cartoony biomorphism, from crisp patterns to sly nods to artists he admires, such as Rene Magritte, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich.

He completed a series of works on his family, and portraits of artists he admired, Balthus, Picasso, Mondrian, among them.

Some collectors see it as an excellent opportunity to obtain at least a minor work by the artist they admire, but whose better works are out of their price range.

In any case, the artists I admired couldn't be governed; truth was their shared aesthetic.