Sentences with phrase «as a sculptor whose»

Though recognised as one of the central figures pioneering conceptual art in the 1960s, he identifies himself not as a conceptualist but as a sculptor whose medium is «language + the materials referred to».

It reveals Smith (1906 — 65) as a sculptor whose identification with the working class motivated him to adopt the geometric forms of the constructivist avant - garde from the very first years of his career in the 1930s until his untimely death.

Often known first as a sculptor whose transgressive early works confronted mortality and bodily decay, Smith is an innovative printmaker whose more recent work on paper explores nature, portraiture, and fairy tales.

Not exact matches

It published pieces by officials of Chicago's Art Institute, as well as by and on local sculptor Lorado Taft, in whose work Morrison saw portrayed «lofty ideas» and «the supremacy of the ethical.»

The only real standouts are Bill Nighy, who appears during the film's second act as Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and sculptors, and Pike, whose cuteness makes up for the lack of chemistry with her male co-stars.

Typically what is referred to as the Second Generation included painters and sculptors of the late fifties, during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, whose work seemed to be directly influenced and inspired by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, or Clyfford Still, or influenced indirectly by Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.

Unlikely as it seems, this artist, known for many decades as a Pop painter whose canvases throng with violent, sensual imagery amid bright fields of color, began her career working exclusively as a sculptor.

Pam Rogers is a painter / sculptor whose work explores the territory between the nature and the role of the artist as they engage with nature.

The Italian Pavilion curated by Cecilia Alemani», she says, as well as the Japanese - born Italian resident, sculptor Kan Yasuda, whose show Between Water and Sky is at the discreet Aman Canal Grande hotel.

Timed to coincide with the centenary of his passing and international recognition as the greatest sculptor of modernism, this exhibition features seventeen contemporary sculptors whose work is in dialogue with and perhaps even indebted to the great French master.

AK: I see myself as a sculptor and painter whose large - scale sculptural installations always incorporate the architecture of a given space as well.

Besides the painters and sculptors of the period the New York School of Abstract expressionism also generated a number of supportive poets, including Frank O'Hara and photographers such as Aaron Siskind and Fred McDarrah, (whose book The Artist's World in Pictures documented the New York School during the 1950s), and filmmakers — notably Robert Frank — as well.

As stated for a recent exhibition at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Finland, «Mueck has since shown himself to be a major sculptor whose work elicits an immediate emotional response....

They are described as «the gallery world's power couple», handling artists including Turner Prize - winner Martin Creed, hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck, the late Louise Bourgeois (whose dramatic spider sculpture appears on artists» impressions, see below, of the Somerset gallery's entrance), Paul McCarthy — one of H&W's most successful LA artists — and Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist.

A French - American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work has been associated with Dadaism and many other avant - garde movements, Marcel Duchamp is commonly considered as one of the artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in plastic arts in the begining of the twentieth century.

Curator Arturo Infante Almeida presents stone carvings by Browning, a sculptor whose training as a geologist informs her practice.

Sculptor and photographer Lilia Ziamou (in residence at MAD on Saturdays through the run of the exhibition), whose art investigates the perception of the female body, has adopted 3D printing as an integral aspect of her work.

This intellectual relationship shifted into a personal one following Krauss's enrollment in Harvard's department of fine arts as a PhD student, where she met and befriended Greenberg as she prepared her dissertation on the recently deceased AbEx sculptor David Smith, whose estate the elder critic helped to manage.

Even now it could be too late for some of the artists on its wish list, such as contemporary figures like painter Mark Bradford and painter - sculptor Kerry James Marshall, whose prices are now topping seven figures, or Harlem Renaissance hero Aaron Douglas, whose works are both expensive and scarce.

The sculptor Lee Bontecou, whose career enjoyed a major revival after two exhibitions at the gallery in 2004 and 2007, left, as did the Jules Olitski estate, which canceled a major show of the artist's paintings from the 1960s and»70s that had been scheduled for mid-November.

I am against gentrification, and this has left me constantly conflicted in my position as a gallery owner»; meanwhile, Los Angeles's Marc Foxx Gallery has closed after 23 years in operation, with a statement on their website from founder Marc Foxx and partner Rodney Nonaka - Hill expressing «deep gratitude to all the artists, institutions, curators, writers, publications, colleagues and collectors who have supported the gallery over the years»; and New York's James Cohan Gallery now represents the sculptor Josiah McElheny, whose installation Island Universe, inspired by Lobmeyr chandeliers, is currently on view at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston.

Only four artists are listed as being from Europe: French artist Henrot, who now lives and works mostly in New York; Piero Golia, born in Naples but based in Los Angeles; Hew Locke, son of a Guyanese sculptor and raised in Guyana, but now based in south London; and Paul Gauguin, whose best - known paintings portray a land far, far away from his native France.

Adjaye's design is inspired by the work of Olówè of Isè (1873 — 1938), the highly regarded Yoruba sculptor whose signature corona forms adorned the heads of standing sculptures that served as veranda posts.

Rebecca Warren is a sculptor whose often highly sexualised work takes on artists such as Rodin and Giacometti.

Artist Alice Aycock — described as «a sculptor whose imagery is encyclopedic» in a 1990 New York Times article — will speak with The East Hampton Star culture writer Mark Segal at 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 1, 2016 in the final installation of the Amagansett Free Library's «Art / History / Amagansett» conversation series.

This curatorial validation was matched by market indicators such as the first auction prices surpassing $ 1 million for El Anatsui, the Ghanian sculptor whose retrospective drew crowds to the Brooklyn Museum this spring.

Be influenced by Phyllida Barlow whose work incorporates sculptural leftovers and fragments from her studio and her skip as you take part in breaking and making to create your own monstrous sculptures with sculptor Murray O'Grady.

Trained as a sculptor and an urban planner, Gates is an artist, urbanist, and curator whose work aims to catalyze social and economic change through direct artistic agency.

Kiki Smith, whose dumb - beyond - belief Whitney show was full of the sort of neo-hippie baubles I wouldn't buy at Target for $ 14.95, has built a career out of the fact that her father was the sculptor Tony Smith, a friend of Pollock's whose hard - edged vision is now seen as critical in the move from the «hot» 1950s to the «cool» 1960s.

This three - day institute takes inspiration from MCA exhibition, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, which pairs the work of Alexander Calder with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder's legacy as a modern sculptor.

Unlikely as it seems, this artist, known for many decades as a Pop painter whose canvases throng with violent, sensual imagery amid bright field of color, began her career working exclusively as a sculptor.

By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience.

A photographer, a film - maker, a sculptor who works in neon, and an installation artist whose work was described as «creepy» by the judge who championed him, made up a vintage Turner prize shortlist announced this morning.

She's of the same species as wacky - hybrid - object - sculptors like Virginia Overton and Dave Hardy whose creations seem wholly wacky, but wonderfully thoughtful.

Describing themselves as performance artists and sculptors whose audience is the video camera, Wood and Harrison are heirs to silent film comics Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and to uniquely British comedy troupes like Monty Python.

Instead, the gallery is focusing on figures that remain largely unknown in the U.S., such as metalworker Franz Weissmann — «probably the most famous sculptor in Brazil,» according to Renaud - Clement — and painter Joao Jose Costa, whose work Latin American art advisor Anna Di Stasi says she has «never seen in New York.»

She beat competition from the other shortlisted artists: Dexter Dalwood, whose contemporary take on traditional history painting saw him an early bookies» favourite; Angela de la Cruz, whose mangled, dishevelled canvases place her somewhere between painter and sculptor; and the Otolith Group, whose work, often in film, encompasses curating as well as creating.

There are very few contemporary sculptors who could be called household names, but this is about as close as it gets: Mathew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Subodh Gupta, Anish Kapoor, Jim Lambie (whose piece is the show's only work at Laguna Gloria), Ron Mueck, Kiki Smith, among others with similar gravitas.

Phyllida Barlow, whose distinctive work as a sculptor has often involved making large scale installations using cheap, everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, timber and polystyrene, has been made a CBE for services to art.

It served as a national launching pad for several young artists, among them sculptor Kathryn Spence, whose work is now in the permanent collections of SFMOMA and the de Young, and installation artist Stephen Hendee.

Experimental filmmaker, kinetic sculptor, painter and poet, New Zealand - born Len Lye (1901 — 1980) was an intensely creative figure whose innovative «direct» films are increasingly recognised as pioneering contributions to the development of the moving image.

Featuring the work of ten artists whose work partakes in aspects of Bourriaud's relational aesthetics, including Tiravanija, the exhibition space - altering Jorge Pardo, provocateur sculptor Maurizio Cattelan and Philippe Parreno, who created a movie theater - style marquee for the Guggenheim that gave no hint as to the spectacle going on inside.

His research at the Institute looked at overlaps between sculpture and photography - locating sculptors who have used photography as part of their artistic practice and photographers whose work has sculptural characteristics.

Sadly, Van Doesburg passed away a year after issuing his manifesto, but his ideas were continued and developed by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960)- whose members included the cream of European abstract sculptors, such as Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941), Antoine Pevsner (1886 - 1962), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982).

Herb Alpert has spent more than half his life as a respected abstract expressionist painter and sculptor, whose work has been widely exhibited in the States and Europe.

Kiefer, Anselm (b. 1945) Highly respected German painter, sculptor and lens - based artist whose works tackle historical taboos involving issues such as Nazi rule and German responsibility for the Holocaust.

His cultural circle also included the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 - 2009) and the composer John Cage (1912 - 92)- later to become influential in the Neo-Dada and Fluxus movements - as well as the Belgian sculptor Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965), the great Romanian modernist Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957)(whose simplification of natural forms had a lasting influence on Kelly), and the American inventor of mobiles and stabiles Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976).

In Serota's era came exhibitions whose influence can still be felt: Gilbert and George, the post-minimalist American sculptor Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman, not to mention key shows of 1980s painters such as Julian Schnabel, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer.

Herb Alpert has spent more than half his life as a respected abstract expressionist painter and sculptor, whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe.

Butterly was selected by an independent panel of jurors who recognized Butterly as «an inventive and independent sculptor whose work reflects the fading boundary between craft and contemporary art.»