Sentences with phrase «compelling contemporary works»

Yet the most compelling contemporary works reveal complicated relations to historical African art.

This year plenty of good paintings are on view, though some of the figurative work seems out of synch with the most compelling contemporary work in that vein.

NEW YORK — The Armory Show features compelling contemporary work in a range of mediums from around the world.

Not exact matches

This 13 minute long video presents a compelling historical and contemporary portrait of the Great Marsh through the voices of those who have worked to protect it for future generations.

A compelling story about an unraveling marriage, the complexities of contemporary Iran, and the damage wrought by divorce, writer - director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a stunning film that is equally intimate, moving, and free of affectation.

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiences).

A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show - casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.

The most compelling event among the group is also off the beaten path, the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Thornton Dial's highly original works provide compelling commentary on the most pervasive challenges of our time — from reflections on race and class struggle in America to haunting meditations on events of contemporary global concern.

The art and soul of sculpture is explored in this exhibition, with compelling works ranging from traditional to contemporary.

Performance artist, MLu Zondi lights up the Highways Performance Space with his performance art work that seamlessly weaves together the various art forms of visual art, contemporary dance, acting and poetry that audiences will find both emotionally inspiring and intellectually compelling.

will be accompanied by a fully - illustrated catalogue that features original texts from renowned scholars and contemporary artists, all considering what compels artists to draw through close study of specific works in the exhibition.

Jeffrey Gibson solo exhibition «Love Song» opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston «Gibson has located in his work a compelling paradigm: that the categories between abstract painting histories and Native American visual histories and materials are not so very far apart, and that Gibson's own heritage and training might productively bridge the two.»

The Serpentine displays a selection of her most compelling works — each created in just one day — in celebration of her innovative approach to contemporary figurative painting (to 13 September).

Sarah Howgate, Senior Curator, Contemporary Collections, National Portrait Gallery, and Curator of Lucian Freud Portraits, the last exhibition of his works exhibited at the gallery in 2012, says: «This compelling self - portrait is one of the most intriguing of Freud's unfinished oil studies.»

This group exhibition features work by eight compelling local artists who participated in the The Contemporary Austin's Crit Group — a seven - month - long program that supports a strong artistic practice through monthly critiques and professional development workshops.

Recognising that technology has become an architect of emotion in the hybrid space of contemporary life, Deja's work compels the viewer to consider him or herself through this self - reflective intertwining of humans and machines.

It also illuminates lesser - known periods within Rauschenberg's career, including his work of the early 1950s and that from the late 1960s onward, now compelling and prescient to contemporary eyes.

«Widely celebrated for his compelling contributions to contemporary art, Rashid is a dynamic and accomplished practitioner whose work is represented in the Guggenheim collection,» said chairman William L. Mack and president Jennifer Blei Stockman in a statement.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is currently presenting New Photography 2009, this year's installment of a series that began in 1985 with the aim of exhibiting the most compelling recent work in the field of contemporary photography.

The most conceptually compelling work of art in the Guggenheim's But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa is also its least visible.

Artist, curator and writer, Matthew Deleget has described Hill as being «on the leading edge of a group of contemporary artists who are working with new abstraction, issues of painting, and pushing those in really compelling and interesting new directions, particularly through the filter and through the lens of photography and digital media.»

• The publication of the first - ever catalogue raisonné on Kjærholm's oeuvre, researched and written by the leading Kjærholm scholar, Michael Sheridan, designed by award winning graphic artist Takaaki Matsumoto and published by premier art publisher Gregory R. Miller & Co. • Simultaneous exhibitions at Sean Kelly Gallery and R Gallery of the most important collection of Kjærholm works ever assembled, alongside significant modern and contemporary art works that, together, showcase a compelling dialogue between furniture, art and installation.

For «Los Angeles - Istanbul Connection» Kasap selected works by five contemporary Turkish artists currently emerging in the ever more compelling contemporary art scene in Istanbul.

Highlighting a diverse range of media and styles from more than 20 artists, this special exhibition offers viewers a glimpse at compelling, contemporary work being created in Tulsa.

At the same time, the exhibition explores lesser - known periods within his career, including his work of the early «50s and the late «60s, which is increasingly compelling and prescient to contemporary eyes.

Seldom, however, does one get the opportunity to view the work of those abstract painters on the West Coast whose work was every bit as strong, and every bit as compelling as their East Coast contemporaries.

Robert Henry Contemporary presents the compelling work of emerging and established local and national artists.

Works in the Whitechapel Gallery display Terrains of the Body, drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., show that images of the body by contemporary artists are increasingly performative, filmic and incisive in their ability to tell compelling stories.

At its best, this psychological and spatial tension provides creative fodder for some of contemporary art's most compelling works.

These and other compelling works by Leona Christie, Richard Garrison, Katie Lewis, John Peña, Madelyn Roehrig, Renato Umali and Jorinde Voigt explore the many ways lifelogging has entered contemporary art practice.

«With this collaboration, we're thrilled to present a compelling platform for artists to make new work and for the community in Los Altos and the surrounding areas to engage with contemporary art in an unexpected way.»

«It has been a privilege to lead this venerable contemporary arts institution the last 10 years and to support the work of some of the most compelling and adventurous international artists working today across disciplinary boundaries.

Celebrating a pioneer in the history of contemporary African - American art and spanning five decades, the exhibition brings together a compelling body of work including large and small - scale sculptures, drawings and a site - specific installation.

The Gallery also initiated the ongoing VIEW series of exhibitions, in which an invited curator is free to present the work of compelling young artists alongside contemporary masters.

The criteria for inclusion in the gallery program is an artist's rigorous commitment to contributing compelling work that is pertinent and critical in today's contemporary art arena.

Cerebral and deeply psychological, Capote's work displays a compelling individual vocabulary of materials and themes that is as distinctively situated in a contemporary Cuban vernacular as it is universally evocative.

In her work, Kilomba approaches «the colonial wound,» as she says, and intentionally creates a hybrid space between the academic and the artistic languages, to explore new formats to decolonise knowledge and narrative, «bringing a new, experimental, and compelling voice into contemporary art and discourse.»

The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time.

Alongside Turner's compelling, atmospheric works and the beautiful and emotive art of Monet, Twombly's original contemporary style adds a fresh and exciting dimension to the exhibition.

Thus From Minimalism into Algorithm, while adumbrating a compelling expansion of Minimalism as a historical launch point for much contemporary work, falters with its second key term, at times illuminating and at other times mystifying the relevance of the algorithm to contemporary artistic practice and discourse.

The appetite for visual stimulation in our contemporary culture — precipitated by internet technology and globalization that has produced infinite numbers of artists of all sorts in the last decade or two, while disempowering the monopoly of the few in mainstream media by giving rise to endless writers and critics who feel an urgent need to respond to such vast production — has paid greater attention to its temporal condition than any art of the past; I would argue that in the end it's the great work of art and thoughtful writing that compels multiple viewings and readings, hence rendering both immortal.

Anchoring dialogues to the current social landscape of contemporary times is reflected onto the work with both compelling and possibly humorous tones.

This exhibition brings together a number of the most compelling abstract artists currently working with painting as a language by which to explore the contemporary relevance of materials and simulated spaces.

Joseph Becker, the museum's curator of architecture and design, has gathered an expansive selection of works by contemporary visual artists and conceptual architects that explore Allen's compelling ideas.

The following is a selection of 11 compelling works, a great majority of them suspended in air like «NGC 5457,» 2014 (metal, iridescent acrylic, polyester, nylon monofilament, stainless steel thread, adhesive) by Tomas Saraceno (shown above) at Andersen's Contemporary of Denmark.

Using an autobiographical text and images from Levi - Strauss» published work overlaid with her own images, she has created a compelling narrative that questions the roles of anthropology, museums and contemporary travel rituals.

«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new modes of contemporary painting can produce artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional methods.»

It is perhaps not surprising, then, that at this time of political and social unease, the most engaging exhibitions of contemporary art to launch the new year are major retrospectives of two of the most compelling — and yet, for many people, unfamiliar — contemporary artists working today.

An exhibition of both iconic and lesser - known works from some of the most significant and compelling artists of the last 50 years, Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne traced a number of intertwined narratives in the history of recent art.