Employing inexpensive materials, such
as enamel paint, papier - mâché, or acrylic on canvas, to reconstruct lacquered mahogany, gilded ornaments, and marble surfaces, Lowe transforms the once intimidating status symbols of wealth into easily accessible and disarmingly cartoonish props.
Not exact matches
The Book Of Hours has an
enamelled gold metal cover studded with gems such
as rubies, turquoise and tourmaline and contains parchment
painted with 20 religious images and prayers to be said throughout the day.
This active ingredient is found in engine coolants and antifreeze, airplane de-icers, tire sealants, rubber cleaners, polyurethane cushions,
paints, adhesives,
enamels, and varnishes, and in many products
as a solvent or surfactant.
Enamel paints are also my favorite
paints for furniture, so if you'd like to use a quart of one of those instead of the
AS Chalk Paint, try either Sherwin Williams «Dignity Blue» or Benjamin Moore's «Down Pour Blue» — both are very close color matches.
After putzing around on the internet I'm thinking to peel the
paint away
as best I can, spray the rusty spots with a rust converter (like this one), then spray the whole roof down with a basic
enamel spray
paint (like this one).
Its Super Diamond Lustre
Enamel exterior
paint in Frost Turquoise still presents in its original beauty,
as do its 14» deluxe wheel covers.
Industrial grade PG is used
as an active ingredient in engine coolants and antifreeze; airplane de-icers; polyurethane cushions;
paints,
enamels and varnishes; and in many products
as a solvent or surfactant.
For all the materiality of their surfaces — Reginato works in
enamel — the
paintings are,
as the exhibition's title underscores, fictions.
Rail: Was there a specific reason for using
enamel paint and for using wood panel
as surface support?
These are block print
paintings, using
enamel house
paint and rigid insulation board
as the printing blocks.
He then used
paint pouring
as one of several techniques on canvases, such
as «Male and Female» and «Composition with Pouring I.» After his move to Springs, he began
painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he developed what was later called his «drip» technique, turning to synthetic resin - based
paints called alkyd
enamels, which, at that time, was a novel medium.
Done in
enamel on identically sized aluminum panels, the highly concentrated compositions are the result of a visual algorithm in which the forms increased incrementally in height and width
as they moved outward from the central, vertical axis — a narrow, empty space — toward the
painting's physical edges.
A forceful portraitist of black women who often composes her pieces with
paint,
enamel and rhinestones, Ms. Thomas, who has lived and worked in Brooklyn for 17 years, conceded that she was «scared
as hell.»
Merging a wide array of different materials, such
as oil,
enamel, and spray
paint, his color sensibility is resolutely experimental and oscillates between close - value, nearly monochromatic works to luminous, retinally - charged
paintings that appear to vibrate off their surfaces.
She is best known for her complex collages and
paintings, made from a range of media, such
as acrylic, rhinestones and
enamel.
It may mean something that almost all the abstract
painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric
enamel - on - steel pictures,
as precious
as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.
First he resorted to the industrial look and feel of Ripolin
enamel paint to «return» to neoclassical forms in
paintings such
as The Spanish Night (1922) and Animal Trainer (1923).
As with Jackson Pollock's
enamel tracery and Janet Sobel's drip
paintings of roughly the same time, Gorky blows up the intimacy of drawing to the epic scale of
painting.
For more than a year he worked on what became known
as his Black
Paintings: large, aggressive canvases covered with stripes of black
enamel paint that formed repetitive, rippling patterns.
Her House
Paintings (also known
as the Addresses series) were
painted from 1976 - 1978 and represented her own house and the houses of her friends that she
painted in an archetypal yet unique style, using the grid of
enameled steel plates that she often uses.
Her works in oil are
as evocative
as those in acrylic / ink /
enamel spray
paint and the juxtaposition of light washes and heavily layered
paint reinforces contrast in many of her works.
(He started using
enamel paint as he couldn't afford artist's pigments.)
Using both traditional techniques such
as cloisonné, and many exciting modern methods, we create
enamel paintings, sculpture, jewelry, bowls, and boxes.
Athol Whitmore's playful
paintings incorporate numerous found objects,
enamel paint and assorted other materials such
as gaffer tape, and imagery inspired by children's books of the mid-twentieth century.
Bartlett is acclaimed for her analytical and systematic approaches to
painting, particularly through her self - fashioned medium of gridded
enameled - steel tiles, which she has employed
as a type of modular canvas since the late 1960s.
Just
as the artist Natalie Frank has begun to attract widespread attention for her expert
paintings that collide art history, theater, and dread - inducing violence, she has deked into a new direction with her latest works, which trade her customary canvases for wooden board that she
paints with
enamel and then overlays with patches of cut - out canvas that she
paints with oil.
Two of Eddie Martinez's silkscreen ink, oil,
enamel and spray
paint works on canvas — including one that contained chewing gum — went for
as much
as $ 75,000 each.
Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time
as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and
enamel paint.
Vitreous
enamel on copper
as a medium for wall work was introduced a few years later and is now central to her practice along with
painting.
As he became more successful, Hawkins began to collage mass media images and eventually found objects into his
paintings, and he developed a technique he called «puffing up» a shape: building it up from the support by mixing cornmeal into the
enamel paint.
Onto these structures Day - Glo
paint and industrial
enamels are applied
as «material on material,» defining areas or zones on the raw plywood surfaces generating layers of information.
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) reproduces her own photographs
as paintings with acrylic,
enamel, collage, and rhinestones.
Long - haired high - heeled budding Asian collectors noted down work by new names such
as the charming light -
as - air butterfly oil
painting at the Grosvenor gallery by Senaka Senanayake and took selfie - souvenirs in front of Love Struck, wrought by D * Face with «
enamel and pigment based
paint on medium grain cotton duck canvas».
«Tiznit,» made with white
enamel house
paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the
painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome,
as well
as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline.
Collage coexisted with
painting - either oils or acrylics — and with
enamels and drawings,
as works began to approach a giant scale he approached advertisers directly to acquire billboards.
These works are a series of black
enamel and oil
paintings, they are presented alongside unique works on paper and prints from the same period, which are regarded
as his most important and productive output
as a draughtsman.
In his algorithmic
enamel on aluminum
paintings, Siena imposes a set of rules on his process, yet he pushes the limits of these rules through his handmade moves, balancing what he refers to
as Dionysian and Apollonian impulses.
Lining the floor of Jablonka Galerie's booth — here seen underneath a new Ross Bleckner
painting — these 70 cans of white radiator
enamel literally grounded the display with a clever installation piece that could be seen
as invoking anyone from Piero Manzoni to Cady Noland to Duchamp to, hey, Darren Bader.
Whereas such labels are usually printed on throwaway cardboard materials, in a scale that is meant to be detected but not too visible, Elmgreen & Dragset's labels are over-sized and made in some of the most art - historically time - honoured materials, such
as marble,
paint on canvas, charcoal on paper and
enamel paint on metal.
Over the years, Francis Alÿs gathered over 370 portraits, done in a variety of media such
as oil
painting, gouache, embroidery, ceramics, and
enamel.
The square is the foundation for James Siena's
enamel on aluminum
paintings from 2009,
as his visual algorithms cascade into dizzying, pulsating patterns.
For his indoor and outdoor works, he uses commercial building materials, such
as plywood, lumber, metal wall studs, cinder blocks, and PVC pipes, which he then carefully sites in response to the environment, arranges into seemingly casual configurations, and
paints with commercial
enamel in DayGlo yellow, fluorescent orange, silver, and other synthetic colors.
Often combining two or more abstract forms into one piece to create a three - dimensional composite wall relief, the surface of the canvas is
painted using industrial materials such
as oil - based
enamel and spray
paint.
The black pourings were first exhibited at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951; a series of black
enamel and oils, they have been described by art historian Michael Fried
as bringing the artist to «the verge of an entirely new and different kind of
painting... of virtually limitless potential.»
Her unprecedented piece Rhapsody (1975 — 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a
painting on 987 gridded,
enameled steel plates, reads
as a lyrical conversation between mathematical abstraction and painterly figuration.
They are now extremely fragile due to Pollock's unconventional use of
enamel paint — essentially an industrial or household material (used to coat gutters, not canvases)-- and techniques, which included thinning down the consistency so that he could use a basting syringe, drawing with it «like a giant fountain pen,»
as described by Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner.
George Negroponte's New Army (
Enamel & latex on cardboard, 14.5» x 5») is now on view at The Curator Gallery
as part of the group exhibition, New New York: Abstract
Painting in the 21st Century.
She also experimented with different
painting techniques, such
as enamel and decalcomania, throughout her life.
Characters such
as Batman, The Simpsons, South Park and Mickey Mouse are situated in troubling psychological states and indeterminate spaces and
painted almost exclusively in black and white
enamel.
For the MACBA, Meyer designed a building shaped
as a large box, clad in white
enamel -
painted steel panels, flanked by a circular pavilion on its west end, which accommodates the visitors» entrance and service spaces, and a semi-detached wing on the east end, housing additional gallery spaces and staff offices.