Sentences with phrase «balancing figuration and abstraction»

Hartigan continued to refer to Old Masters such as El Greco and Jean - Baptiste Greuze and to experiment with balancing figuration and abstraction, but her later work, from the 1980s through the 2000s, tended toward the representational.

Each piece carefully balances figuration and abstraction, as if stuck between reality and a feverish hallucination, so that the scenes feel both familiar and strange.

Not exact matches

Presented with an interesting balance levitating between abstraction and figuration, Hooray We Are All Broken was Jim's way of tackling what he calls as «the so - called reality.»

His work, from early minimal objects to increasingly expansive and complex forms, has always dealt with such central issues of the sculptural tradition as size and scale, balance and imbalance, figuration and abstraction.

The title of the exhibition aptly summarizes Ay Tjoe's search for the balance between abstraction and figuration, and between control and free flow.

Scott Anderson process - based paintings search for balances between romanticism and skepticism, history and the contemporary, abstraction and figuration, and the recognizable and the subconscious.

Anderson's process - based paintings search for balances between romanticism and skepticism, history and the contemporary, abstraction and figuration, and the recognizable and the subconscious.

This talk will be about Francis Bacon's complex figuration that involved a balance between figuration and abstraction.

Through the work of five artists, the show explores the tension between figuration and abstraction, delicately balanced through the use of different mediums and often humorous expression of personal sensibilities.

27) strikes a careful balance between abstraction and figuration, using the realistically - painted character as a compositional element in equilibrium with his design elements.

Splitting the difference between these two approaches is a third, employed by Sue Williams, D'metrius John Rice, and Tschabalala Self, in which an even balance is found between figuration and abstraction, neither quite getting the upper hand.

It helps me... because most of my trouble begins when I think too much about the balance between abstraction and figuration... and feel too conscious about resolving the problem rather than let the work be itself.

This first volume to feature all of Oehlen's early self portraits reveals his balancing of figuration with abstraction, and his simultaneous questioning of the practice and history of art.

Commenting on the works he brought to the fair, Centeno added, «I wanted to find a balance between figuration, gesture and abstraction, and also a feeling of human presence on the stand.»

Constantly somewhere between letting go and control, figuration and abstraction, Jamie formulates a precarious balance between the sublimation of an interiority and the serial processes of conceptual art.

A few booths down, in the Art Positions section, another New York dealer, Miguel Abreu, was displaying a suite of recent paintings by Pieter Schoolwerth, complex compositions that also seemed to revel in oblique art historical quotations, and that effected a delicate balancing act between abstraction and figuration.

Each enigmatic work balances between humor and horror, seduction and repulsion, abstraction and figuration.

In the meditative balance of figuration and abstraction, John Mills engages mark making with new visual playing fields, an agile order of painted space and the ground it roots itself in.

Collage and Oil of 1951 conveys an ambivalent balance between flatness and shallow space, figuration and abstraction.