Sentences with phrase «black abstract artists who»

He elucidated, in his poetic style, a distinction between the generation of black abstract artists who preceded him, and who significantly influenced his art, including Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams, Alvin Loving, David Hammons, Jack Whitten, and Martin Puryear.

Not exact matches

The great American artist, Alexander Calder, who is known for his playful abstract organic works inspired Nohke's optic blue and black T - shirts while R Collective lapped up on the colour palette of Sonia Delauney for subtly patterned knitwear.

When he landed in New York, in 1976, Little was taken under the wing of the older artist Al Loving, who drew him into the circle of such black abstract artists as William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, Mel Edwards, Fred Eversley, and Bill Hutson.

While certainly all of the leading artists who were part of the abstract expressionist movement were involved with color at various points in their career, many of the important masterworks of the movement — such as those by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and key series by Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman — are notable for their lack of strong color in favor of black and white.

Geometric Vistas: Landscapes by Artists of Black Mountain College provides visitors with the opportunity to explore abstract landscapes and cityscapes created by artists who studied and taught at Black Mountain College between 1933 anArtists of Black Mountain College provides visitors with the opportunity to explore abstract landscapes and cityscapes created by artists who studied and taught at Black Mountain College between 1933 anartists who studied and taught at Black Mountain College between 1933 and 1957.

MB: Here's what I thought about it: «Why not have the first show be a Conceptual artist who is black, that completely abstracts the stereotype paradigm of what black art should look like?»

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

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Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

Furthermore, to routinely omit artists such as Norman Lewis, who participated in the famous closed - door Studio 35 sessions defining abstract expressionism, is to disregard abstraction's debt not only to black culture, but to the artists who shaped its contours and analyzed its place in art history and theory.

Invisible Man, the inaugural exhibition in the new downtown Manhattan gallery, mounts painting, installation, and sculpture by Torkwase Dyson, Kayode Ojo, Pope.L, and Jessica Vaughn, four black artists who address aspects of blackness in abstract and conceptual forms that imply bodies unseen.

By resisting being labeled as a black woman artist, Thomas received criticism for «her abstract style as opposed to other Black Americans who worked with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.&rblack woman artist, Thomas received criticism for «her abstract style as opposed to other Black Americans who worked with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.&rBlack Americans who worked with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.»

Hinkle's abstract «un-portraits» of elusive figures — the artist draws them with handmade brushes while improvising dances to blues, hip - hop, and Baltimore Club music — pivot between real and imagined narratives representing thousands of black women who have disappeared due to colonialism, human trafficking, homicides, and other forms of erasure.

In addition to those Vorticist members mentioned above, certain other artists were closely associated with the movement including the much underrated painter David Bomberg (1890 - 1957), the US - born sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), who settled in Londin in 1905, and the American - born British photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966) noted for his avant - garde black - and - white abstract photographs, known as Vortographs.

Edward Clark's abstract expressionist tondo The Big Egg (1968) establishes the artist among the earliest American painters to experiment with oval forms (later explored by artists like Jasper Johns), while works by the 1970s black artist collective AfriCOBRA — who operated loosely as the visual arts arm of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominblack artist collective AfriCOBRA — who operated loosely as the visual arts arm of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominBlack Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominence.

Karla Black is a Scottish artist who creates abstract, immersive sculptures that explore physical experience as a way of communicating and understanding the world around us.

Important precedents for Happenings included Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus experiments in abstract theatre, Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and the Theatre of the Absurd, and the simultaneous actions coordinated by John Cage at Black Mountain College in 1952, which included the poet Charles Olson, the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who went on to create a number of Happenings throughout the 1960s.

With volume five, and a cover by Los Angeles artist John Altoon, a friend of Creeley's who had been introduced by Black Mountain student Fielding Dawson, the magazine moves toward a more abstract expressionist type of graphic design.

But even abstract artists like Lewis, who resisted pressure from within the black art world to be more overtly political, were eclipsed — in part, paradoxically, because when curators did seek out black artists» work, figuration helped them check off a box.

The first two lots that opened the sale were by black artists — «Bright Moments: For R.R. Kirk» by American experimental abstract painter Jack Whitten (1939 - 2018); and «Politics» by British painter Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, who is known for her imaginative, moody portraits.