Sentences with phrase «century photographic tradition»

We bypass the great mid-twentieth century photographic tradition and look to documentation of performances carried out in the 60's and 70's.

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Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

The Los Angeles artist's «Designer» photographs of shop windows, taken with a cheap hand - held camera and then blown up to a just barely decipherable resolution, at once evoke 20th - century abstract painting and the photographic tradition of shop windows as subject matter that goes back to Eugene Atget and Brassaï.

Generally, Agbodjelou's practice belongs to the tradition of photographic portraiture, which largely expanded in West Africa throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

In her signature painted and photographic portraits of family, friends, lovers, and pop - culture icons, Thomas draws on and deconstructs 19th - and 20th - century traditions of portraiture, replacing the ubiquitous white female nude with voluptuous African American women.

curated by David Hunt 2005 NAPOLI PRESENTE Posizioni e Prospettive dell - Arte Contemporarea, PAN Contemporary Art Museum, Naples Italy (Oct) Wish, COCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle WA (Sept) Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, San Diego Museum of Art and Museum of Photographic Arts, CA, curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) Crossings: 10 artists from Kaohsiung & Chicago Chicago Cultural Center (July), Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Nov), co-curated by Greg Knight & Tseng Fangling International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Prague (May - Sept) In Search of a Continuous Present curated by Lynne Warren, MCA Chicago Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2004 Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum, WA curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) A Perfect Union... More or Less, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago curated by Hamza Walker About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum, NY The Perfect Number, 404contemporanea, Naples, Italy 2003 Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, ICP New York curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center Minneapolis curated by Olukemi Ilesanmi A Century of Collection: African American Art, Art Institute of Chicago curated by Daniel Schulman 2002 Manumission Papers, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV Cut, Pulled, Colored, and Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL curated by Michael Rooks 2001 Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY curated by Thelma Golden Bastard (son of hot sauce), Law Office, Chicago IL Musings: Contemporizing Tradition Gallery 312, Chicago, IL curated by Kathryn Hixson and Nathan Mason 2000 A Decade of Acquisitions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 1999 Seeing In the Dark, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Chicago, IL New Artists, Old Techniques, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL