Sentences with phrase «childhood photograph of the artist»

It presents a Xeroxed childhood photograph of the artist in boxer shorts or swim trunks overdrawn with intestines that stretch out to form an angular superstructure surrounding the artist's head and shoulders, like the truss work of a Byzantine halo.

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Photographs of Bradford from childhood through the years animate a wide - ranging interview with the artist conducted by curator Christopher Bedford.

More personal than before, the photographed objects from the artist's childhood and youth put together form a reminder of the lost past and the artist's parents.

It details the artist's attempt to re-stage a lost photograph remembered from childhood of his bikini - clad British mother held in the arms of a former Lebanese boyfriend and taken on a beach close to the famous Casino du Liban outside of Beirut where she worked as a cabaret dancer in the late 1960s.

Photographs of the artist's childhood home can be seen in fragments between gridlines, evoking the process of how memories are reconstructed and how multiple viewpoints can inform a singular experience.

Boers works with several artists who are beginning to experience an upsurge in their market, including Qiu Xiaofei, who makes mural - size expressionistic oil paintings based on photographs and memories of his childhood (prices are between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000); Chen Yujun, whose collages reflect the culture of his hometown in Fujian Province (prices range from $ 30,000 to $ 60,000); and Lu Yang, a young woman who conveys science - fiction fantasies in videos and digital prints (selling for $ 4,000 to $ 20,000).

Finding their way into the artist's paintings and drawings are vintage family photographs, magazine images, and childhood relics that enhance the familiarity and nostalgia of the compositions.

Thomas» installation, which includes several photographs and paintings, is a recreation of the backdrops she uses for her models, evoking the vibrancy of pop culture in the Soul Train era and replicating the artist's own childhood memories.

The 20 photographs creating the grid are primarily framed drawings inspired by candid photographs of the artist's family and moments captured during her childhood in Iran, featuring outdoor scenes of leisure by the sea amongst leafy backdrops.

Tam Tran, a Vietnam - born artist who lives and works in Memphis, is showing photographs dealing with ideas of childhood and self - discovery.

Living between different continents — Doig in London, New York and the Trinidad of his childhood; Armitage in London and Kenya, where he was born in 1984 — both artists make lush, seductive figurative paintings derived from fused sources of memories, photographs, film and art history, hinting at enchanted, disquieting narratives.

In an accompanying video, the artist meshes old family photographs, shaky VHS footage, and amateur - looking cartoons of extraterrestrials to convey an enigmatic story about her childhood and a galactic conspiracy: a cross between

Shown alongside the paintings and drawings are three items which are designed to re-orientate the reading of the work: an early 19th century Indian miniature (Rhodes spent her childhood in Bengal and has an affinity with Indian court painting); an aerial photograph from 1926 of the site of Woodhenge in Wiltshire — drawing attention to the artist's interest in what becomes visible though distance; and a photograph by Luigi Ghirri of an avenue of trees disappearing into the mist.

Deep hues of charcoal and blue allude to the colors of the official story; newspapers, photographs, and the small televisions of the artist's childhood in a tumultuous Chile.»