Medalla, born in the Philippines in 1942, is one of the four shortlisted artists in the inaugural Hepworth sculpture prize exhibition, held every two years and open to British or UK -
based artists of any age.
That is why the Hepworth Wakefield, of which I am director, has launched a # 30,000 biennial award, the Hepworth prize for sculpture, that will recognise a British or UK -
based artist of any age, at any stage in their career, who has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture.
The prize is open to British or UK -
based artists of any age who have made «a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture».
Not exact matches
Gerwig's warmth as an
artist becomes important, because in «Lady Bird» she is dealing in what is often the most self - centered
of forms, the coming -
of -
age story; particularly, the coming -
of -
age story
based on the filmmaker's own life.
He is,
of course, a white middle -
aged man, but he's also one working hard to champion (and financially support) African
artists, and practitioners
based outside Africa whose roots lie in the continent.
It was teased with a rather cryptic image — a screenshot
of the mobile version
of the New York Times homepage — suggesting that the New York —
based artist is far from down experimenting with pictures in the
age of the JPEG.
For an edition with Parkett 99, the Jerusalem - born, New York -
based artist reproduced a series
of selfies, questioning white male representation in the
age of social media.
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In an ambitious exhibition featuring two new installation -
based commissions,
artist Taryn Simon activates the rituals
of applause and the cold water plunge, examining individuals» campaigns for public admiration, the status
of physical community spaces in the digital
age, and our persistent desire for a quick fix.
COVER ART April 7: Work by Chicago -
based artist Hebru Brantley appears on cover
of «The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the
Age of Hip - Hop,» which the publisher describes as «the first poetry anthology by and for the hip - hop generation.»
A locally
based artist will be the Center's focus with Nina Surel: Sailing to Byzantium, an allegory
of aging loosely
based around William Butler Yeats» poem, involving sculpture, installation, sound and video.
The latest iteration
of Bloom Projects, which will go on view the same day, debuts a newly commissioned site - specific installation by Brooklyn -
based artist Michael DeLucia, whose work addresses the condition
of sculpture and spatial relationships in the technological
age.
The gallery brings together a group
of London -
based contemporary
artists who seek to address the dilemmas, realities and consequences
of living in a post-sci-fi digital
age.
The Harlem -
based artist - who grew up in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States at the
age of 12 and now teaches at Hunter College - set up a «reading room» in the small, dingy basement
of Deitch Projects» sprawling Wooster Street gallery; a rectangular wooden table sprinkled with salt, upon which he arranged bits
of dried, malodorous fish in a decorative pattern.
Brooklyn -
based artist Paul Anthony Smith similarly makes work informed by his experience
of coming to this country from Jamaica at the
age of nine.
The Los Angeles -
based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the
age of 16, draws on art historical,...
Billed as «the most comprehensive survey to date»
of the work
of Frances Stark (herself billed as «the visual poet laureate
of the Internet
age» by the Los Angeles Times), MFA Boston's upcoming show brings together pieces from the past 25 years
of the Los Angeles -
based artist's varied and occasionally shocking career.
Los Angeles -
based artist and writer Maya Gurantz talks about: Getting out
of the staid confines
of where she grew up, and what it was (and is) like being an angry feminist from an early
age; her «accountability group,» a group
of women
artists...
The Van Lier Fellowship is a one - year fellowship that will be awarded to two (2) New York City -
based artists, who are 30 years
of age or younger (born in 1989 or after) and are not currently enrolled in a degree - granting program.
BlackRock will present a free «Community Art Day: Watercolor» event for all
ages on Saturday, June 16 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm featuring hands - on art making activities using water -
based media, painting demonstrations by professional
artist members
of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, and interactive gallery tours
of the exhibit.
In celebration
of the Spring Equinox, Los Angeles —
based artist Lisa Anne Auerbach presents an evening that asks «what does it mean to make art in the
Age of Aquarius?»
In the decades up until his death in 2015 at the
age of 92, the East End -
based artist continued to paint huge ebullient abstracts with ever more vigour, the results a fixture on the walls
of the RA's Summer Exhibition.
Graphics and propaganda from secret societies, evangelical and fundamentalist movements, new -
age spiritualists, Scientologists, Freemasons, ultraconservatives and all kinds
of conspirators; encyclopedias for children and even Dr. Netter's famous medical illustrations — with The Hidden World, Los Angeles —
based artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) exhibits the incredible collection
of didactic graphic art that is the main source
of inspiration for his diversely informed art.
Marysia Lewandowska is a Polish born
artist based in London who, through her collaborative projects, has explored the public function
of archives, collections and exhibitions in an
age characterized by relentless privatization.
Subject-wise, it goes from charming animals, including a horse that barely fits inside the painting's rectangle and a friendly - looking monkey, to text -
based works, which include a sketch
of a sailboat done by the
artist's grandfather, and a drawing and story written by her middle - school -
aged son when he was bored, arranged across five freestanding panels and only readable when the viewer stands in the right place.
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary
of the 1963 bombing
of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which killed four young girls, the Chicago -
based artist photographed black children in Alabama, who are the same
age as the victims were.
Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature
of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual
artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row
of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique
of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings
of photographs
of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings
based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami
artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique
of the use
of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept
of aesthetics in the digital
age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history
of photography.
Artists like Hicks and Stuart, the latter an American
artist who began creating environmental earth -
based and minimalist works in the 1970s — and a recent addition to Jacques's roster — are «getting up there in
age, leaving less time to talk to them first hand about the scope
of their practices,» Jacques said, which is key to putting them on par on the marketplace and in history with their male peers.
The London
based artist Stanza was over looked in the
age of the Young British
Artists when he too was educated at Goldsmiths Art College in the 1980's.
ART IN THE
AGE OF THE INTERNET, 1989 TO TODAY Paintings and sculptures as well as web - based projects by artists including Josh Kline, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik and Anicka Yi explore the profound and evolving effects on art, economic as well as formal and conceptual, of the interne
OF THE INTERNET, 1989 TO TODAY Paintings and sculptures as well as web -
based projects by
artists including Josh Kline, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik and Anicka Yi explore the profound and evolving effects on art, economic as well as formal and conceptual,
of the interne
of the internet.
For her Frieze Film commission, California -
based artist Shana Moulton will continue the series «Whispering Pines» (2002 ---RRB-, performing her alter ego «Cynthia» — a bored, hypochondriac housewife — to investigate the West's fascination with esotericism and New
Age philosophy in the form
of a TV mini-series.
The other two
artists featured in the exhibition include Marco Braunschweiler, who together with Syms is the co-director
of the Chicago -
based concept shop Golden
Age, as well as photographer, videographer and performance
artists Jibade - Khalil Huffman.
Istanbul -
based artist Hale Tunger's first outdoor work in nearly a decade is inspired by an
age - old hunting cheat move, in which hunters would place nets in the treetops ahead
of time to accustom game to flying lower, thus making it easier to shoot them.
At the
age of thirty, the London -
based artist has been a market phenom for several years, but he may feel that he still has something to prove.
Alexandra Domanovic An unlikely blend
of archaic Greek sculpture and the mutant imagery
of the techno
age from this Berlin -
based artist.
The exhibition Machine Learning examines the relationship between abstraction and the information
age, and presents four
artists making new forms
of pattern -
based painting.
The other
artists in the running for the # 25,000 award, presented to a British -
based artist under the
age of 50, are Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley and Mike Nelson.
And, surprisingly enough, many
of these
artists were connected to the Abstract Expressionist movement (the most sought - after segment in the art market) to one extent or another: a Washington D.C. -
based artist Sam Gilliam was brought by David Kordansky Gallery to Frieze Art Fair in New York this year, an active member
of the famous New York School Edward Dugmore was exhibited at Loretta Howard gallery just recently, and now it is Raymond Spillenger, an Abstract Expressionist who is gaining attention with an upcoming retrospective scheduled for early 2016 at the Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C. Spillenger, who died in November at the
age of 89, abruptly left the art scene in the late 6os, and while his fellow AbEx
artists were going through mounting recognition and success at the Stable Annual, Spillenger plunged into family life and didn't show his art even to the family members.
Among the exhibitors are influential nonagenarian Indian
artist Krishna Reddy, who shows drawings from the 1950s articulating various experiments with form, and (at the other end
of the
age scale) Dhaka -
based Ayesha Sultana, whose hypnotic watercolours follow her interest in material, movement and distance (and, fundamentally, form).
The 7th International Arte Laguna Prize,
based in Venice, Italy and dedicated to contemporary visual art, is open to
artists with no limits
of age or nationality, offering a finalists collective exhibition at Venice Arsenale,
artist - in - residence programs, personal and collective exhibitions, participation in international festivals, publication in the official catalogue and a network
of opportunities.
Toronto -
based illustrator Teddy Kang has recently been handpicked by Adobe Photoshop as one
of the 25 most creative
artists in the world
aged under 25 and has been given the opportunity to create an artwork to celebrate the software tool's 25th anniversary.
Internationally acclaimed
artist Mike Dargas will be debuting at Opera Gallery with his first solo exhibition in London Painting since the
age of three, the Cologne -
based artist has carved an
Just three
of the «exhibits» submitted over the 29 - year history
of the Turner Prize, the annual competition from Tate Britain to find the cream
of British -
based visual
artists under the
age of 50.
A prequel
of sorts to Art in the
Age of the Internet, this show presents
artists who were concerned with the medium
of television and created monitor -
based sculptural works.
Exhibition Checklist Main Gallery (Clockwise from entrance) Robert Arneson Splatt, 1983 bronze with unique ceramic
base 71 x 21 x 21 inches RAs 130.01 Robert Arneson Elvis II, 1978 conte, pastel on paper 41 5/8 x 29 7/8» RAd 04 Joan Brown Self - Portrait at
Age 42, 1980 enamel on canvas 71 3/4» x 60» JBRp 19 Steven Campbell Men Insulting Nature and the Notion
of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard, artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09 Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd
of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard,
artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09 Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill
Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd
Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd 52
The NYC -
based artist addresses «issues
of branded identity;
age and body estimation; catastrophe culture; and online agency via static, dynamic and interactive «selfie» imagery», through self - portraiture inspired by women
artists who turn the camera away from the male gaze and onto their own image.
The Frankfurt and Paris -
based artist will show a new work, «Forever Rage», as part
of the exhibition accompanying the Preis der Nationalgalerie award, an award given «to international
artists under the
age of 40 who live and work in Germany and who have opened new perspectives
of art with innovative artistic approaches and impressive works.»
When Los Angeles -
based artist Jason Rhoades (1965 — 2006) died unexpectedly at the
age of 41, he left behind a body
of work comprised
of massive installations that are as physically complex as they are intellectually challenging.
The prize,
based in the city
of Porto, has a monetary value
of 25,000 $ and is aimed at international
artists aged under 40 who have had no more than one solo exhibition in art venues with an «international reputation».
The final word
of the day came from London -
based artist Barby Asante, who presented her video Noise Summit (2015), co-produced with Jack James, which documents the culmination
of her yearlong collaboration with children
aged 3 - 14 and musicians as part
of the South London Gallery's «Play Local» programme.
Bringing together a group
of London -
based contemporary
artists, who seek to address the dilemmas, realities and consequences
of living in a digital
age.