The category of
biomorphic art is large and diverse, drawing connections between nature - inspired objects across time periods and geographies.
He moved on to C ¿ zanne - like sketches (a 1932 drawing) and
biomorphic art; a 1932 drawing shows his notations on light, shade, texture, scale and color above an image of interconnected bones.
In anticipation of
the biomorphic art installation by Paul Henry Ramirez in Kemper Museum's atrium — and architecture both in Kansas City and around the world — campers will create artwork inspired by organic shapes and forms.
Not exact matches
Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture,» Kunsthaus Graz, September 27, 2008 — January 11, 2009 «AURUM Gold in Contemporary
Art,» curated by Dolores Denaro, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland, September 13 — November 30, 2008 «Red Wind,» Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, June 28 — August 23, 2008 «Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles,» Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, February 9 — May 19 2007 «Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001 - 2006,» Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2007 — June 22, 2008 «Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic,» Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 8 — October 13, 2007 «Blood Meridan,» curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, April 27 — May 26, 2007 «From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles
Art,» Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, April 1 — July 2 «eight sculptors from los angeles,» sabine knust, Münich, Germany, March 22 — April 17, 2007 «Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980 - 2006,» curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA, February 25 — April 15, 2007 «Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of
Art,» Dallas Museum of
Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 — May 20, 2007; cat.
When dealing with an artist as subtle as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract paintings,
biomorphic abstractions, hybrid paintings, photography, sculpture, mail
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Through works that can be touched, inhaled, bathed in, played with and which enfold the visitor in
biomorphic forms built of translucent fabrics, Neto defends an experiential
art that combines physical experience with an intellectually rigorous examination of our environment.
A new focus on ceramics is lifting them from the craft world to
art (Patrick Jackson's thickly glazed mugs, Norbert Prangenberg's
biomorphic shafts, Bettina Samson's scientific explorations of natural phenomena).
Her vividly colored and textured
biomorphic forms reference Color Field, Social Realist and Surrealist paintings, 1960s and»70s counterculture graphics, 1970s feminist
art, and bodily forms and fluids.
Early paintings reflect his interest in Cubism,
biomorphic Surrealism, Jungian and Freudian theories of the unconscious, and African and Native American
art.
Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned
art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of
biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.
A 2014 video uploaded to Vimeo by Australian gallery Beam Contemporary
Art shows Rosen in her studio surrounded by innumerable
biomorphic, twisted, tubular, or just plain eccentric forms — some already fired, some not.
Standout pieces at SP - Arte include Vik Muniz's Op
Art abstraction from his «Handmade» photographic series at São Paulo's Carbono Galeria, Haegue Yang's wooly beast sculpture at Mexico City's kurimanzutto, Saint Clair Cemin's surreal ballerina cast in copper at Porto Alegre's Bolsa de Arte, the Campana Brothers» stool made with toy stuffed animals at São Paulo's Firma Casa, Wolgang Tillmans» photographic still - life of a big peach with other fresh fruits, and Lynda Benglis»
biomorphic gold - leafed sculpture at Cheim & Read.
1991 The Nude: Drawings of the Figure by New York School Artists, Twining Gallery, New York, NY Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY On Paper, Of Paper, Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY Black and White, Renee Fotouhi Fine
Arts East, East Hampton, NY
Biomorphic and Surreal: 1930 - 1960.
Chicago moved through the testosterone jungle that was the
art world in the mid-twentieth century by incorporating into her work her own
biomorphic and ephemeral forms.
Gross» smoothly painted
biomorphic shapes of quirky bubbles and droplets have an abstract relationship to Japanese pop
art and anime.
Excelling in foreign languages, journalism,
art history, and psychoanalysis, she eventually settled in Greenwich Village, where she pursued a dual career as a journalist and a painter of
biomorphic abstractions — a popular transatlantic style of the late 1930s.
Often pigeonholed simply as the inventor of the mobile, Calder in fact participated in many of the vital artistic movements of his time, but it was Surrealism that rooted his
art in a
biomorphic universe.
There is no easy way to define Franz West's
art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the
biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash
art.
Dora Budor in «Mutations» @ High Line
Art, New York From April 2017 to March 2018, in Various locations on the High Line «The Forecast (New York Situation)» is a weather - responsive sculpture based on Archigram's
biomorphic projects for living spaces of the future.
In 2013, the late Ken Price was the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art and LACMA; the Met referred to his works as «sculptures», which of course they are, but they are also ceramics, uniquely painted
biomorphic ceramics.
Biomorphic / Organic Abstraction describes a style of
art which employs rounded abstract forms derived from nature.
Making Visible the Invisible reveals abstract
art to have a language of great stylistic breadth that yields ambitious meaning in a series of dialects: geometric,
biomorphic, and gestural.
Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), the great English artist who, along with his contemporary, Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), were the two most important British sculptors in modern
art, both revolutionized sculpture by being the first to pierce the form of their
biomorphic (bio = life, morphic = form) sculptures.
Paper played a major role in Laura Sharp Wilson's layered
biomorphic abstractions in acrylic and graphite on Unryu, mulberry or silk paper, and it was used as a support for many of the pieces in Lori Ellison's copious exhibition of patterned abstractions in ink on notebook paper as well as gouache on wood (both shows were at McKenzie Fine
Art on the Lower East Side).
In line with the rapid evolution of the
art scene in post-war San Francisco, Bischoff's evolution from surrealist imagery and
biomorphic abstraction to the heavy, gestural abstraction reflects the various influences and personalities shaping the Bay Area artistic identity.
Biomorphic, an exhibit of his work opening tonight at the
Art League Houston, honors Grotfeldt as Texas Artist of the Year.
Inspired by Romanesque, Byzantine, Cubist, and Surrealist painting as well as African, Oceanic, and Native American
art, he created a lexicon of
biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.
The dissonant humor and beauty of the sculptor Erwin Wurm's
biomorphic riffs are also present in his home, where blue - chip
art, grand architectural space and his own whimsical work create an odd harmony.
(Note: several of these artists later moved to non-geometric
art forms, such as lyrical or
biomorphic / organic abstraction).
The superb
biomorphic paintings of Flora Crockett (1891 - 1979), a forgotten American abstractionist, surfaced at Meredith Ward Fine
Art.
Two important sources for this type of abstract
art are: Organic Abstraction (also called
Biomorphic abstraction) and Surrealism.
Pulsating with energy and overflowing with visual information, Kenny Scharf's
art infuses sinuous
biomorphic forms with a symbolism reflecting electronic media's insistent grip on our most primal fantasies.
Each with the root title Interior
biomorphic attachment plus numbers or singular parenthetical addendums such as, (Sunset) or (The return), works from this series have appeared at SculptureCenter in New York in the group show Puddle, Pothole, Portal (2014), at High
Art in Paris for the solo Her Curves (2014) and at Kunstvereniging Diepenheim for a collaborative show with Jonathan Baldock, Warm Bodies (2014).
In December of 2016, the work pictured above, a mixed - media piece on wood from the artist's
Biomorphic series, was accepted into the permanent public collection of the Islip
Art Museum in Islip, New York.
Biomorphic (Organic) Abstraction Type of Organic Imagery in Abstract
Art.
From March 24 - April 11, 1947, Daphnis had an eponymous solo exhibition at the Contemporary
Arts Gallery at 106 E 57th St, New York at which his
biomorphic paintings were featured.
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Multimedia installations and realizations related to
biomorphic architecture and site - specific projects are central to his domain, and he commonly engages audiences through active participation in his
art.
Japanese - American artist Isama Noguchi's 1941 design for Contoured Playground in New York has been cited as one of the first examples of land
art, a playground for children composed of undulating,
biomorphic forms.
«White - Tipped Blooming» exemplifies many outstanding characteristics of Surls's oeuvre, which call to mind the artistic traditions on which he builds his practice: the unique oak - and - steel construction consists of expressively carved
biomorphic forms that conjure primitivist aesthetics and mythical imagery of early 20th - century avant - garde sculpture, while the humble, organic materials pay homage to American folk
art.
Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of
biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic
art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.
The first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at London's Royal Academy of
Arts (2009), Kapoor, born in Bombay in 1954, first rose to prominence in the 1980s with his brightly coloured, pigment - coated sculptures, the
biomorphic forms of the seminal 1000 Names series.
Along with her contemporaries Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), and Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Hepworth was a huge influence on the development of modern
art in general and abstract sculpture in particular - especially
biomorphic abstraction.
In her catalog essay, critic and managing
art editor for the Brooklyn Rail, Kara L. Rooney, perceptively describes this world as one concerned with «figure / ground relationships, color versus gesture, geometric shape versus
biomorphic fluidity.»
All in all, between 1934 and 1942, he created fifty - five large paintings, many under wartime conditions and a deprivation of
art materials, without repeating himself, rounding up a prophetic curve from Post-Impressionism and Fauvism to Expressionism, Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, and
Biomorphic - Surrealism.