'» She sends up Latin American stereotypes by presenting
brightly painted spaces hung with paintings bursting with tropical fruit.
Not exact matches
Brightly painted classrooms break up the once - expansive retail
space.
Despite her having just closed three concurrent solo shows at the New York and L.A. locales of Venus (formerly Venus Over Manhattan and Venus Over Los Angeles) and Carl Freedman, the long, narrow
space is bursting at the seams with
brightly colored, electric
paintings of watermelons, sharks, and bananas.
The serenity cast upon the
space, however, is interrupted by Mizù's
brightly colored, geometric
paintings.
The backs of a few of the works are
brightly painted, allowing a glow to extend onto the wall behind them, further blending the structures themselves into the studio
space.
The artist transports the viewer to this holistic in - between - stage by reformulating the constituents of
painting as similar quintessential dualities: flat surface versus deep
space, precision versus ambiguity, material versus ethereal, the grid - like composition of
brightly colored dots versus animated, formative fields of homochromatic hues.
Bob and Roberta Smith creates
brightly coloured text - based
paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and
space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ERIK DEN BREEJEN Throwaway Lines Often Ring True PROJECT
SPACE: RUSSELL NACHMAN Deep in the Forest May 16 — June 14, 2008 Reception: Friday, May 16, 6 — 8 pm In Erik den Breejen's first solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, his love affair with music and lyrics manifests itself by way of
brightly colored, abstract, text - based
paintings.
Made up mostly of
brightly hued
paintings drawn from observations of nature and meditations on
space, the exhibition presents Thomas's output in four phases.
-- To inaugurate our new outdoor exhibition
space THE MAUSOLEUM, Kyle Breitenbach presents five
brightly painted steel sculptures.
Working in a variety of media, including works on paper,
paintings, video, collage, crystal
paintings, and digital murals, Alvarez creates dazzling,
brightly - colored works that explore ideas as vast as truth, altered - states, the natural world, outer
space, and the nature of consciousness.
Fontana, whose slash and puncture «spatial concept» canvases made the radical statement that the surface of a canvas could be extended into the surrounding
space, has long been lauded as one of the key figures in post-war European art, while Accardi's
paintings of
brightly colored signs
painted on canvas, and later on «sicofoil», were widely known in Italy but were not exhibited extensively elsewhere until more recently.
This performance extended outside the confines of the structure into the wider gallery
space, containing wall - based neon sculptures of a muscular faun, black and white photographs of a naked couple in choreographed poses, text - based
brightly coloured
paintings, and abstract sculptures reminiscent of limbs, rendered in concrete and highly polished white plaster.
The work in Matt Kleberg's two recent exhibitions —
brightly - colored, striped
paintings that describe interior or architectural
spaces — slowly but surely takes over the viewer's attention.
The art makers long standing occupation with movement, both away from and out toward the viewer in
space has modern examples in Frank Stella's «Exotic Bird» series, wherein arabesque, curly - q drafting tool shapes leap
brightly off the canvas, and in the monochrome, «Spatial»
paintings of Lucio Fontana, wherein slashes through the stretched canvas pull the
space just behind the artwork directly into viewer consideration.
The exhibition features a series of recent,
brightly painted, suspended forms that hover in
space at different heights and angles, along with a series of recent drawings as well as key works by Shapiro from the Nasher's permanent collection.
A wall of prints and fun pieces lends a personal touch to the
space, along with the colourful crockery and
brightly painted seating.