One of the strategies used
by artists in the exhibition is a self - conscious engagement with the past, and with forms of imagery that evoke period styles.
Moving beyond traditional ways of representing the world,
artists in these exhibitions use novel approaches such as abstraction, performance, and manipulation of the senses.
Works by the three
artists in the exhibition utilize materials traditionally associated with crafting rather than the traditionally recognized artistic fields of painting, sculpture etc..
The $ 25,000 award will be given to one
artist in the exhibition who has demonstrated significant contributions to contemporary art throughout his or her career.
Recently, critics have called on institutions to include more
female artists in their exhibitions and permanent galleries, altering the male - dominated narratives of American art.
From the art world to the real world,
artists in the exhibition express a multitude of messages that collectively illustrate what happens when culture is used as will to power.
Artists in this exhibition refresh the fluid painting techniques associated with postwar abstraction, while reflecting the influence of digital culture through the process of pouring paint.
The other
artists in this exhibition work in a variety of media, including photography, performance, painting, sculpture, installation and video, and address diverse issues relating to the socio - political and cultural landscape of their respective environments.
The selected
artists in this exhibition share Kahlo's spirit of rebellion and similarly assert themselves against the patriarchy as they insert their voices into dominant artistic discourses.
An international group of
artists in the exhibition engage in practices that challenge and upend our expectations for the continuity of performative compositions, lines of movement, and thought.
Featured artists in the exhibitions include Na Buqi (b. 1984), Wu Chao (b. 1977), Ye Funa (b. 1986), Yang Guangnan (b. 1980), Ma Qiusha (b. 1982), Li Shurui (b. 1981), Luo Wei (b. 1989), Hu Xiaoyuan (b. 1977) Shen Xin (b. 1990) Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963) and Geng Xue (b. 1983).
Through drawings and paintings of the figure, still lifes, and landscapes, the 20
artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from the art historical canon — Renaissance painting, the Hudson River School, American Modernism — and advance realism as a critical mode of painting in the 21st century.
Eric Firestone Gallery, located on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, will continue to present emerging and established
contemporary artists in exhibitions contextualized with historically - significant artist counterparts.
Artists in the exhibition also include Art & Language, Robert Barry, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Jay Chung, Song Dong, Carsten Höller, Tehching Hsieh, Bruno Jakob, Yves Klein, Lai Chih - Sheng, Glenn Ligon, Teresa Margolles, Gianni Motti, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
Artists in the exhibition not only explore the diversity in modes of representation, but also the vastness of issues and topics that have risen in the larger social / historical conversation.
Havell's work, (who also created many of the landscapes for Audubon's famous birds) includes panoramic publications and paintings of the Hudson River and the Thames like other
artists in this exhibition such as Thomas Cole (Father of the Hudson River School), and noted artists Jasper Cropsey and John Kensett, who favored the chain of cities, suburbs, and countryside along these two rivers, where horizontal planes and historical associations gave form to both artistic and cultural expression.