Sentences with phrase «as an abstract painter with»

He trained as an abstract painter with the influential Al Held at Yale University in the early 1960s, but says he left school after getting his MFA and «wanted a world without heroes and with transitions — not juxtapositions.»

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Twentieth - century painters have experimented not only with abstract forms but with abstract substances as well.

After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia, Britt opened up shop as an abstract painter — a talent she discovered with less than a year and a half left at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Pennsylvania, United States About Blog Taryn Day's style of painterly realism is inspired by the work of modern painters who combine realism with a strong emphasis on abstract design, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson and Edward Hopper.

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinAs a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinas a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.

Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

Perrotin recently signed, along with emerging talents such as Argote, two defiantly noncommercial éminences grises — Claude Rutault and Pierre Soulages, both French abstract painters — prompting some to speculate that he's making a transparent play for gravitas.

Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

As with other abstract movements, these painters emphasized color and how the work corresponds with their own inner emotions over shape or form.

The influence of abstract expressionism on Eggleston, partly through his friendship with the painter Tom Young, is addressed at points throughout the show, and it is important to recognise that perspectival lines, the balance of colour throughout a composition, and the presence of contextual details such as logos and pavements, are as important as the features, dress and celebrity identity of the subjects.

Now emerging abstract painters play with projections and simulations as one more medium among others.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.

Curator Gary Garrels worked with six abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one of their own recent paintings as well as works by other artists who have influenced their thinking.

Whatever else they may or may not have in common with the work of abstract painters and sculptors from elsewhere, the artworks shown here were made to be exhibited as such.

And yet, this American painter managed to forge his own path and become one of the most famous abstract artists, who stood toe - to - toe with titans such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman.

As part of Joan Mitchell Foundation's ongoing collaboration with Voices of Contemporary Art (VoCA), please join us on Thursday, October 12, when abstract painter and Yaqui Indian Mario Martinez will sit down with Steven O'Banion, Director of Conservation at Glenstone, to discuss his life, work, and personal philosophy.

The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.

As the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearAs the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearas Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 years.

But most of all, he filled the place with images of himself, as stoical lighthouse keeper, 1960s abstract painter, a camera - shop owner, and passer - by on the street.

These are impressively adept paintings with a confident sense of scale, but they do not have a distinctive character compared to contemporary works by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, or Joan Mitchell, to reference only the most noted women abstract painters of Schapiro's generation.

Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.

While the movement is closely associated with painting, and painters such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and others, collagist Anne Ryan and certain sculptors in particular were also integral to abstract expressionism.

As head of the visual arts program at Bennington College, Paul Feeley worked closely with students and faculty — a group of abstract painters and sculptors — such as Pat Adams, Helen Frankenthaler, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Vincent Longo, Ken Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, David Smith, and Tony SmitAs head of the visual arts program at Bennington College, Paul Feeley worked closely with students and faculty — a group of abstract painters and sculptors — such as Pat Adams, Helen Frankenthaler, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Vincent Longo, Ken Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, David Smith, and Tony Smitas Pat Adams, Helen Frankenthaler, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Vincent Longo, Ken Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, David Smith, and Tony Smith.

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas

The exhibition, «I speak now from the aesthetic and artistic point of view when I say that life with Michelle Grabner is dull» brings together the work of four antithetical painters who Michelle Grabner, the Chicago - based artist, heralds as profoundly enabling to her own unvaried and unimaginative abstract investigations.

As with many abstract painters of the 1940's and 1950's, think Rothko and his Subway Series, the path to abstraction for Richard Diebenkorn lay in taking familiar objects and views and finding new ways of interpreting them.

Amid the leaden self - importance of the abstract expressionist generation of painters, Baldessari played the ingenue, seeing what would happen, as he puts it, if he took art at its word: «If it really was all about communication, why not really try to communicate, with things that everyone could understand?

Under new curator Clara M. Kim, a few trends have emerged among the 15 participating galleries: firstly, reappraisals of African - American artists later in life, among them abstract painter Jack Whitten (Alexander Gray Associates); secondly, «Global Pop», a nod to Tate Modern's autumn show «The World Goes Pop» (17 September — 24 January 2016), with Brazilian and Japanese Pop artists, such as Keiichi Tanaami at the stand of Tokyo - based Nanzuka.

In fact, Rauschenberg and Johns belong to abstract expressionism (with Jim Dine a variation on their themes), Rosenquist is a billboard Surrealist who marries Magritte's paint handling to collage space, and Lichtenstein is a hard - edge painter, whose two - dimensional surface patterns and crisp outlines derive as much from Kelly as from comic strips.

He felt he'd exhausted the means that had unlocked him as an abstract painter, and he was bored and disgusted with the skills that had gained him renown.

As a college DJ, I hung out with an abstract painter, and when I met his friends and mentor, my native shyness only grew.

A long - term dialogue with Japanese painter Kenzo Okada also guided her practice and bolstered her interest in Zen Buddhism, as well as her intuitive approach to abstract painting.

At Mitchell - Innes & Nash, meanwhile, Ferris continues to stake out her position as one of today's finest abstract painter with ever larger, ever more exuberantly colored pieces, where shifting blurs compete with crisp, thick pointillist passages.

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He began as an abstract painter, though a visit to an exhibition of Andrew Wyeth's work at Buffalo, New York, in 1962 confirmed his disenchantment with abstraction.

He began his career as a painter, drawing on the work of the abstract Expressionists, but as time went on he became increasingly dissatisfied with painting, a medium that he came to believe was a thing of the past.

William Klein, Gun 1, New York, 1954 Klein had originally studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger, enjoying some early success in Europe as an abstract painter before switching to photography.

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

Freilicher started out as an abstract painter after studying with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s, but turned somewhat abruptly to representational painting, Russeth wrote for ARTnews, after seeing the Museum of Modern Art's 1948 Bonnard retrospective.

LY: I started as an abstract painter, as big as I could make complete with palette knives and buckets of paint from Utrecht.

After beginning as a figurative painter with socio - political themes, he won an international reputation as an abstract artist.

Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same artists, Engender shows how contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a range of abstract and figurative strategies.

He gains a sense of inherent classicism and security from using familiar symbols, yet only with unceasing concentration and focus can a painter's style be used as a tool to give form to abstract reflection, and that still requiring a callous inhibition of ever ‐ present, hovering uncertainty.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

I enjoyed my encounters with Terry Winters, with his dense lines and fields of primary color, and the ever - serious abstract painter Thomas N., as I shall leave the spelling for my own protection.

But among the things they had in common was a rejection of the gestural painting favoured by the abstract expressionists and other abstract painters, and the personal agonising associated with Auerbach, Bacon and what would come to be known as the School of London.

As an abstract painter, he necessarily worked with pre-existing artistic language, one that had been forged in experiment, failure, and self - doubt.

One of the pioneers of the West Coast «Light and Space» movement, Irwin started out as an abstract painter but is now known for his architectural interventions made with translucent scrims, light tubes, and natural light (one of which, Excursus: Homage to the Square ³, is currently on view at Dia: Beacon).