Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative -
based figurative sculptures...
Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative -
based figurative sculptures that address power dynamics, war, dislocation and greed.
Not exact matches
Elms includes much strictly formal work such as
figurative drawings and symbol -
based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall
sculptures by Terry Adkins.
This exhibition focuses on two new series:
figurative sculptures and a print edition
based on discarded images of divorcées from newspaper archives, dating from the 1930's -1970's.
The Nashville - born, New York -
based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating
figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.
London -
based artist Gabriel Hartley's abstract
figurative oil paintings and
sculptures have a time worn appearance.
Artist: Gabriel Hartley Date: Thursday, September 9th 2010 — Saturday, October 16th 2010 Venue: Foxy Production, 623 West 27th Street London -
based artist Gabriel Hartley's abstract
figurative oil paintings and
sculptures have a time worn appearance.
Their
sculptures, fusing almost readymade images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism
based on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced
figurative conceptualism.»
On a material
basis, the trio's work couldn't be more different — from digital prints to rough - hewn
figurative sculpture — but connective themes between the shows enrich each in turn, bridging generations, conceptual approaches and subject matter.
He has collaborated with others to realize «event -
based group
figurative sculptures.»
In the 1980s, Smith turned the
figurative tradition in
sculpture inside out, creating objects and drawings
based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system.
Overall, the exhibition included
figurative, abstract, text -
based and
figurative sculptures installed throughout Collins Park.
This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles -
based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant
figurative sculptures.
Playful, enigmatic,
figurative sculptures from the Cologne -
based artist, a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late 1970s.
The now welded, sometimes bolted, steel
sculptures were without
bases or
figurative references.
Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first
figurative sculpture in cast bronze
based on the published image of a ballet dancer.
Outstanding
figurative sculptures by Bremen Germany -
based artist Gregor Gaida.
Using
figurative representation and playful geometric abstraction, Brooklyn -
based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing — with traditional art methods to create organic fine art as well as large - scale
sculptures that explore humanity.
For this exhibition, the Canada -
based Feyld continues to explore the continued abstraction of his
figurative work while Ilizarbe brings Haring-esque patterned wall
sculptures from Peru.
Elizabeth Jaeger is a New York
based sculptor who explores notions of memento mori by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations of everyday objects and
figurative sculptures.
A decade ago, the Los Angeles -
based artist Wendell Gladstone was creating ensembles that paired a freestanding
sculpture with a wall - hung
figurative painting, connecting the two parts with string.
Thomas Houseago, whose work is amongst the best represented in the Saatchi show, is an LA -
based artist whose monolithic
figurative sculptures dwarf the viewer and freshly reinterpret sculptural practices which stretch right back to Classical times.
New Zealand Born however east London
based Francis creates an effective composite of
figurative sculpture and techno - coloured fantasy.
For her newly commissioned work, Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus) and growing a
figurative mycelium -
based sculpture in a laboratory in Upstate New York.
Zeller was the co-curator of The New Baroque, an exhibition at Booth Gallery in NYC from November 2017 - January 2018,
based on The
Figurative Artist's Handbook and featured 21 of the artists included in the book and a couple of others, encompassing contemporary figure painting as well as
sculpture.
With her classically formal clay and bronze
sculptures, London -
based Rebecca Warren positions herself within the predominantly male
figurative tradition, which includes Degas and Rodin, while maintaining the contemporary stance of questioning her predecessors» authority.
Most of Gormley's
sculptures are of a
figurative nature,
based on casts of his own body.
In her
figurative sculptures, Toronto -
based sculptor Gosia expresses human intuition and introspection, crafting her painterly pieces in earthenware, resin, and polymer gypsum.
These works will be placed in context alongside numerous examples of Bradley's engaging and intimate works on paper and his recent experiments with
sculpture, ranging from minimalistic floor -
based works to
figurative bronzes
based on found amateur
sculptures.
Emerging out of the conceptual
basis of Surrealism and Cubism, Alberto Giacometti established his unique aesthetic style with delicate
figurative sculptures and expressive portraits that resulted from intense observations.
Harlem -
based artist Sanford Biggers takes African wooden
figurative sculptures, dips them in wax to erase the facial features, shoots them repeatedly at close range, and then recasts them in bronze.
In 2010, as part of a 3 - year project
based around gender imbalance in India, drawing parallels between the cow — sacred animal and symbol of fertility — and her observance of the undervalued condition of India's women, Nourry created life - like
figurative sculptures, the Holy Daughters, that were part sacred cow, part girl, in resin, placing them in the streets of New Delhi before stepping back to film the reactions of local men.
Riepenhoff, Wisconsin -
based artist, curator and co-owner of the Green Gallery in Milwaukee, presents two bodies of work: a selection of humongous plein air abstractions of Atlanta's night sky painted in ACAC's courtyard, and a series of 11
figurative sculptures, each displaying paintings by contemporary artists including Atlanta painter Kojo Griffin and Amy Pleasant (represented by Whitespace), as well as a few that the Green Gallery represents.
In the 1980s, Kiki Smith literally turned the
figurative tradition in
sculpture inside out, creating objects and drawings
based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system.