Not exact matches
In conjunction with her solo exhibitions
at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, and
at the Hammer Museum, Catherine Opie:
Portraits, photographer Catherine Opie joins MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth and Hammer Chief Curator Connie Butler for a conversation about the concepts of portraiture, gender,
celebrity, and creativity
at play in the artist's photographs of Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air home and in her images of visual artists, fashion designers, and writers drawn from her own circle of friends.
He has had numerous solo shows
at White Cube, including his most recent exhibition Most Wanted, a series of
portraits culled from red carpet photographs of contemporary
celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Justin Timberlake, and Miley Cyrus.
Carefully staged
celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display
at the National
Portrait Gallery
«Grant Wood (1891 — 1942) became an overnight
celebrity following the debut of American Gothic, his now - iconic
portrait of a Midwestern farm couple,
at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.
Elizabeth Peyton's upcoming retrospective
at the Whitechapel Gallery in London features
portraits of friends,
celebrities and rock stars
Painters like Karen Kilimnik made work stemming from the influence of popular culture, creating cursory
celebrity portraits, while Elizabeth Peyton took the practice a step further by painting
portraits of celebs, musicians, and European monarchs alongside her significant others and members of her social circle, entrenching mass culture's idolization of
celebrity in the realm of fine art while
at the same time elevating her friends to
celebrity status.
Alex Kitnick, part of the team of faculty and staff who organized the exhibition wrote: «We look
at these unidentified images differently than
celebrity portraits.
She managed to make 43 9 x 12 inch pictures of young white male
celebrities look
at once like
portraits, and also on the verge of being indistinguishable from each other.
His recent exhibition, Most Wanted
at White Cube in London, for example, featured 10 larger than life
celebrity portraits set against red carpet step - and - repeat backdrops.
Richard Prince has again been raiding the Instagram accounts of the largely female rich and famous with a series of «New
Portraits,» from
celebrities, models, and other individuals of visual note with a current show of works by the artist
at one of Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue spaces — and Prince's presence in the gallery's -LSB-...]
Indeed, his virtuoso
portrait art,
at times on a par with other 19th - century greats like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins, helped him to become one of the first «rock - star»
celebrities of English figurative painting.
But we soon return to
celebrity friends such as Ingrid Bergman and Muhammad Ali, reminding the viewer of the artist's fascination and obsession with fame, and of Warhol's commissioned
portraits spanning the 1970s right up to the year before his death — with the artist's wish for his «society
portraits» to all hang together in a huge display
at New York's Museum of Modern Art.