Sentences with phrase «celebrating conceptual art»

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His most celebrated paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, with their bold colors, popular imagery, and sculptural elements, had an enormous impact on the development of Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

The movement was formed by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to celebrate and promote figurative painting in a reaction to the proliferation of conceptual art.

Or head to Manhattan's Red Bull Studios for an event celebrating Grand Arts, the Kansas City project space that launched dozens of conceptual art projects and, now, a catalogue.

Notable names associated with the Kansas City Art Institute include Walt Disney, who took Saturday classes here as a child; painter Thomas Hart Benton, who taught here from 1935 to 1941; multimedia artist Robert Rauschenberg, who studied fashion design at KCAI; sculptor, conceptual artist and writer Robert Morris; celebrated, present - day performance artist, noted fabric sculptor and more recent KCAI graduate, Nick Cave, and the list goes on.

In addition to Pace's presentation, the artists celebrated the launch of the eighth edition of their conceptual installation, The Ship of Tolerance, as part of The Dumbo Arts Festival earlier this fall.

Around 800 guests gathered in a party tent outside the Geffen Contemporary in Downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the 83 - year - old California conceptual art legend for, in Vergne's words, his pivotal role in the formation of body art, word art, post-structuralist, postmodernist, and proto - appropriation art; the rise of Los Angeles as an art center; over 377 solo exhibitions, 1,500 group shows, and 4,000 works of art — not to mention Baldessari's position as an artist trustee, newly resumed this past year (see Jeffrey Deitch Defends Klaus Biesenbach and Helen Molesworth Hired as Chief Curator of LA MOCA).

This exhibition presents portraits of designer, muse, collector, and icon Diane von Furstenberg by some of the most celebrated artists of the past four decades, along with a retrospective of DVF fashion spanning the last forty years.Diane von Fustenberg: Journey of a Dress features works by artists including Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Helmut Newton, Julian Opie, and Andy Warhol, as well as new portraits of von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary art: conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou.

It was the beginning of a yearlong process, which will culminate in an exhibition and catalog to celebrate BAM / PFA's conceptual art holdings in 2016.

This groundbreaking exhibition looks at the arc of this African American artist's career through the presentation of paintings, video art and works on paper that celebrate her singular vision and its imprint upon abstract painting and conceptual art since the 1960s.

A pioneer in the Los Angeles 1960s Pop and Conceptual Art scenes, Ruscha has become one of the most respected and influential artists in the world, recognized and celebrated by international museums and collections.

Then, in later years, the artist moved back to conceptual art and created the lyrical planes of color in what now is his most celebrated work, his Ocean Park series.

In Long's first show in Bristol since 2000, Arnolfini is bringing together a significant body of sculpture, drawing, photography and text works from 1967 to the present, celebrating the city's year as European Green Capital and Long's important contribution to conceptual art and Minimalism.

Like many of his radical 1960's contemporaries, Douglas Huebler's conceptual art practice celebrated the dematerialization of form in favor of ideas and concepts.

If figurative work has been unstylish in recent years within the micro-trending art world in favour of more lazy conceptual and minimal works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy work; thoughtful and intense and odd works, rendering and likeness and oil paint, works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.

In the 1980s, Dine was championed as a forerunner in the Neo-Expressionist movement, which celebrated a return to individualized, gestural, and expressive painting after several decades of more ephemeral media, such as performance and Conceptual art.

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