Sentences with phrase «combine figuration»

South Korea native Jiha Moon fuses her Eastern origins and Western life in art works that combine figuration with abstraction.

The parting of the Red Sea, the Crucifixion, the hanging of the American abolitionist John Brown, and the American Civil War, for example, are depicted by Furnas in dramatic scenes that combine figuration with abstraction.

Often referred to as «post-apocalyptic» in their aesthetic, these works combine figuration with abstract architectural elements and a sense of landscape.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

The artist has created an installation concentrating on Hispanic culture and language within the perimeter of the gallery, combining figuration and abstracted symbols with a deep bow to his heritage and city the of Los Angeles.

David Salle helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language.

Conjuring references as diverse as Velasquez and Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, Ensor and Brueghel, Liu Wei expertly depicts the human condition, combining figuration and abstraction in a manner reminiscent of Bacon and Freud.

With this exhibition, which boldly combines figuration with abstraction, the gallery is stepping into the realm of abstract art.

The artist skillfully combines figuration and abstraction, which is reminiscent to the work of Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and other representatives of The London School.

Recognized for her political, pro-Black images combining figuration with energetic, graphic lettering, Jones - Hogu is closely identified with a 1969/1971 print titled, «Unite.»

Sultan's series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration and abstraction, and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography.

Combining figuration with writing she uses the plain as a process of automatic drawing where many things occur on.

While Jack Whitten's early work combined figuration and abstraction, he became known for his conceptual advancements, focusing on the materiality of paint.

Often combining figuration and landscape, she offers a state of ruin that is neither past, present, or future.

While Whitten's early work combined figuration and abstraction, he later made a significant conceptual and stylistic shift, moving from oil paint to acrylic to focus on the process and materiality of painting.

The artist has constructed his own style by combining figuration and eschewing abstraction with peculiar composing which somehow contributed to the overall surreal and dreamy atmosphere.

Not exact matches

This began my serious interest in combining abstraction and figuration.

Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

For her P.S. 1 project, Molly Larkey presents The Believers, a new series of sculptures that combine abstraction and figuration to comment on political and social ideologies.

Shara Hughes is an Atlanta - based artist whose paintings combine elements of landscape, still life, and figuration to dizzying effect.

This work enhances the museum's growing collection of paintings that combine abstraction and figuration by such artists as Marlene Dumas and Amy Sillman.

Combining her formal background in illustration, abstraction, landscape, figuration, and her interest in mysticism, spirituality and Kabbalah - Appel creates a uniquely original interpretation of the ages old Tarot deck, and is probably one of the only contemporary fine artists to undertake such an ambitious project.

Cecily Brown draws inspiration from sources as diverse as Goya, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, and her paintings combine aspects of both figuration and abstraction.

He also developed a hybrid style combining abstraction with figuration.

An artist currently having a major market moment, Huma Bhabha is known for her rough sculptures and equally raw works on paper that combine «primitive» figuration — of the sort Picasso was so enamored of in his early Cubist days — with futuristic, post-apocalyptic themes and imagery.

In this work from 1960 Lewis again combines abstraction with figuration, and the tension is palpable.

Concurrently, the work's traditional themes of family, figuration, and architecture, combined with its expressive Baroque sensibility, impart both clarity of artistic vision and resistance to the broad thematic and stylistic mash - ups endemic in today's younger generations of artists.

These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to convey his own personal and particular view of the world with «extreme clarity.»

The exhibition will also feature a group of paintings that combine portraiture, abstraction and figuration.

In her paintings of the 70s, Steir often combined realistically painted flowers with a grid or color field, on one hand paying homage to admired Minimal artists Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and on the other, questioning the dichotomy between abstraction and figuration.

Dimas combines pre-Columbian Taíno symbols with contemporary modes of abstraction and figuration.

As always, line and geometry combined with colour create textures and moods that evoke emotions more strongly than traditional figuration could.

Combining traditional figuration with Pop Art's obsession for disparate images, he rejuvenated postmodernism and Neo-expressionism by adding humor and theatricality.

Kanevsky's multilayered works combine abstraction and figuration to present ambiguous connotations.

Charles Mayton is New York - based contemporary artist, whose paintings combine the abstract and the schematic, exploring the questions of time, language and performance in painting, straddling abstraction and figuration.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

The artist skillfully combines abstraction and figuration in order to create distinctly contemporary art.

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

Combining classical influences with Neo-Expressionist features and processing themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, death and belief, Schnabel plays with both abstraction and figuration with the use of found materials, fragments of language, paint, and digital reproduction.

The works often combine spontaneous and deliberated gestures and procedures, fusing organic and geometric as well as abstraction and figuration.

In light of the Civil Rights Movement of its time, Garden in Bessemer combines abstraction with figuration and landscape, with ghosted images of a contested landscape occupied by ghosts and voices from the past.

Taking stylistic elements from abstract expressionism and classical figuration, and combining them with the pop cultural and the illustrative, Caldwell amalgamates distinct and seemingly adverse vocabularies to invoke contemporary conflicts.

In this sense his works combine European and American painting in equal parts and are anchored in the still heatedly disputed dichotomy between figuration and abstraction.

Geometrical forms and simplicity combined with neon light gave him the possibility to analyze shapes and textures, together with flatness and dimensionality, figuration and abstraction.

Voulkos combined wheel throwing with slab building, traditional glazes with epoxy paint, figuration with abstraction, and made huge ceramic structures with complex internal engineering.

He combined wheel throwing with slab building, traditional glazes with epoxy paint, figuration with abstraction, and made huge ceramic structures with complex internal engineering.

I loved Amy Silman's last show in New York, I think she has found an exciting way to address the question of how to combine abstract painting and figuration.

The drawings mark a return to an expressionistic mode of depiction of fantasmal faces; for them Huma Bhabha is again seeking inspiration from two very different sources, tribal art and science - fiction, combining them to arrive at a new kind of figuration.

Combining emulsion with spray painting and blending paint with chance, the piece oscillates between abstraction and figuration, its fluid form conveying feelings and traces.

Colourful and expressive compositions that give shape to a jungle where abstracted vegetation meet figuration combining contemporary painting and urban art in a very specific way.