Sentences with phrase «between abstraction and representation»

These images walk the fine line between abstraction and representation, between the fluid and the solid, remaining ambiguous and bold at the same time.

In the 20th century in particular, the development of abstract art set up an extraordinarily fraught but also extraordinarily fruitful tension between abstraction and representation.

Her paintings raise fundamental issues in new ways, among them the depiction of three - dimensional reality on a two - dimensional surface, and the relationship between abstraction and representation.

We're constantly asking the audience to fill in the missing space between abstraction and representation.

His most recent work tends to focus on the creation of a structured space, while investigating the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

Can you talk about the play between abstraction and representation in your work?

As such, the work resides somewhere between abstraction and representation.

And others now are working between abstraction and representation.

When so many painters express an interest in the «terrain between abstraction and representation,» why do so few dare to paint in both modes?

A series of diagram drawings includes scientific imagery poised between abstraction and representation.

The series was not just an epic tale of their adventure but also a journey between abstraction and representation.

Rail: One of the best things about right now in painting is that no one is fighting battles between abstraction and representation.

His works are always between abstraction and representation, between «objective reality» and the «real world behind the work».

For me, they were the two paintings, which I felt was my attempt to solve the problems between abstraction and representation.

His abstract use of language echoes the line between abstraction and representation that he toes in his work — the color of abandoned wind being something we might find in his paintings.

The exhibition comprised paintings and wall - mounted ceramic works that explored the relationship between abstraction and representation.

In painting, that often translates into an exploration of the space between abstraction and representation, or between two and three dimensions.

The artists in this episode investigate the boundaries between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, order and chaos.

In his typical mature work, biomorphic forms described by calligraphic lines hover between abstraction and representation.

With a deep and vivid palette and dynamic interchanges of light and dark, these paintings — always executed in oil on wooden panels — collapse the usual binary distinctions between abstraction and representation, narrative and pure sensation, past and present.

In an effort to balance the familiar and the incomprehensible, her work oscillates between abstraction and representation allowing her to visualize something that might not exist but can only be imagined.

His works question any assumed differences between abstraction and representation, between modes of presentation... Welling's photographs are objects in themselves, beautiful compositions that also gloss and comprise a history of photographic practices.

Their mature post-abstract figurative paintings preserved a sophisticated dialogue between abstraction and representation — the image oscillating between a recognizable subject and a boldly colored, abstract arrangement of thick slabs on paint.»

No matter the scale, Bray explores the ambiguous realm between abstraction and representation, evoking notions of the Western landscape both romantic and unromantic.

In them, he closes the gap between abstraction and representation while handling paint with a delicacy and fluidity that brings every inch of the surface to life.

Using photographs of the trash in his studio, Lefcourt's process - oriented and varied practice blurs the divide between abstraction and representation, often capturing the nuances of both.

They have been as central to the space between abstraction and representation as Hale Woodruff or Beauford Delaney.

In this fifth lecture, originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on May 4, 2003, the distinguished art historian Kirk Varnedoe explores the 1980s, when Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenburg, and others confronted the ironic relationship between abstraction and the representation of man - made objects, thus producing a politicized critique of abstraction.

They also move easily between abstraction and representation, as with Calame's organic structures, but also in representing brushwork with or without a brush.

Exploiting the potential of excavation, Bradford has here created a complex psychological urban portrait that exists at the sharp edge between abstraction and representation.

Curator Ian Cofre brought together 10 artists who externalize the complexity of expanding awareness beyond the self in the Digital Age to evolve a personal language that vacillates between abstraction and representation.

Adrian Buschmann (born Kattowitz, Poland, 1976) creates paintings that alternate between abstraction and representation while conflating styles from different eras with ironic comments on the contemporary art scene.

Cecily Brown's lush gestural oil paintings draw inspiration from old master paintings as well as contemporary, political - based imagery, hovering somewhere between abstraction and representation with her loose, painterly, blurred brushstrokes.

A specific constellation of five key works that has been conceived for the gallery by the artist, and deals with contemporary ideas of time through the use of sound, touch, light and reflectivity; with each work existing in a zone between abstraction and representation.

Murray's most recent paintings, in which individual curvilinear canvas panels slide behind or in front of each other, are not only balanced between abstractions and representation, but contain elements of both painting and sculpture.

At every viewing distance — from scoping the entire room to standing with nose - to - canvas — the tension between abstraction and representation remains in play.

Grace Hartigan, whose work played the range between abstraction and representation once told an interviewer: «Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.»

The figures, forms, architectural elements, and space, which are constituted by layers of overlapping imagery that exist between abstraction and representation, remain active on the picture plane with their seemingly melting colors.

The paintings often shift between abstraction and representation, like his breakthrough series, «terrazzo» paintings, that imitate the visuality of Italian stone floors and at the same time call upon the expressivity and spontaneity of abstract expressionism.

Grabner remarks that»... indexing by way of crude stenciling has always been a way for me to achieve that sweet spot between abstraction and representation — to have something handmade without showing the hand.»

In Brenda Goodman's recent works, completed after her move from Manhattan to the Catskills, she continues to explore powerfully personal narratives animated by a visual language that moves that moves freely between abstraction and representation.

The BMA presents Front Room: Adam Pendleton, a dramatic installation of new and recent work by the New - York based artist that examines the relationship between abstraction and representation through layered and fragmented texts and images sourced from the artist's personal library.

The confusion between abstraction and representation empowers women artists like Sue Coe, Sue Williams, Amy Sillman, Carrie Moyer, Joyce Pensato, and Ethel Lebenkoff — and they can now seem his heirs.

And then there's that thing between abstraction and representation I so often mull over.

Roberta Smith, a famous art critic, placed Guyton with some younger painters that were countering the structures of late Modernism by revisiting the early Modernist cusp between abstraction and representation, entering the area previously populated with Malevich «s robotlike peasants, Jawlensky's masks, Mondrian's flower paintings.