Sentences with phrase «complex layered paintings»

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The paintings feature a heightened chromatic palette, complex figure / ground reversals, and interlocking forms, as well as a variety of surface textures modified by successive layers of resins, oils, and waxes.

Systems of marks traverse intensely layered surfaces, coalescing into an image of the bust as passages of thick paint are scraped, layered, blocked out, and worked up into a complex viewing experience.

He used dense layering of paint, pigment, and form to create complex light infused compositions, a hallmark of his work that remained constant throughout his career.

In his 2012 exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook, 11 large - scale, richly hued, and layered paintings create complex patterns and grids.

This process is repeated, leaving one half of the painting covered in layered, complex color whilst the other half of the painting is cleansed as much as possible back to the original gesso.

Conversely, I once saw a very small painting by Jake Berthot, a pocket - book - size picture that was a complex layering of different greys with some wonderful reds breaking through the field and also at the edges of the canvas — it seemed like I was looking at something almost infinite in its dimensions.

Rich, layered, complex, sometimes dense with motion, each painting is a virtuoso event, a landmark, go - for - broke performance.

But these paintings aren't, of course, just instant pleasers — Diebenkorn is bold and big - gestured as a painter, but these are also paintings that are layered, textured, subtle, nuanced, complex.

With deft spraycan control, the two carefully layered urban scrawl with a classic marble bust, leading to a beautifully textured and complex wall painting.

Although seemingly effortless, upon a double - take the painting becomes complex; some of the original canvas being exposed and other parts layered so innumerably the paint protrudes from the cloth.

Building up multiple layers of oil paint as he works, Richter mobilizes paintbrush, squeegee, scraper and palette knife in his signature process, his wealth of experience meeting his careful deployment of chance in highly detailed and extremely complex pictures.

Over the years, Bozic has developed a complex process of masking and staining so the natural grain can collaborate with each composition using multiple layers of watered down acrylic paint on maple panels of wood.

This print translates Abts's characteristically precise, meditative, and abstract painting style into a new medium, employing multiple printmaking techniques to create a complex, layered composition that balances linear, geometric elements with fluid, sinuous strokes.

So beautifully complex and multi — layered were her paintings that at some point a crowd gathered in front of the installation at the David Nolan gallery booth.

Complex and seductive, her paintings layer overlapping, biomorphic forms, vibrant colors, and a diversity of textures.

In a process that mimics the push and pull of water currents, the artist builds complex textures from layers of paper, paint, ink, and thread.

There is no need to pre-define their characteristics because these reveal themselves innately.The layering of painterly thought is an art form that attracts artists who start with an idea and accept that it will not be carried out as planned because unforeseen changes — some radical, some subtle — will smuggle themselves into the making.Overall, Kahn's paintings became much more complex.

Physically moving around a black - on - black painting of a cubic grid will reveal layers of optical illusions, while simply blinking when standing in front of a canvas covered in a complex navy - and - white pattern tricks the eye into seeing an oscillating, three - dimensional piece of art.

For this exhibition, Fisher continues to intrigue his audience through complex paintings of layered imagery that come together in twelve different works, creating a thought provoking psychological landscape.

While his paintings involve complex layering and the deliberately distorted treatment of light — suggesting three - dimensional space — the subjects are flat.

A thought - provoking and unconventional survey, including work from the past thirty years, Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle reflects Oehlen's complex layering of methods, subject matter, and viewpoints, while also celebrating an artist who continues to radically question the limits of painting.

Her paintings and drawings are complex meditations on pictorial surfaces, the multivalent layering of images, and societal constructions of gender.

Her paintings are layered geographies, in which these fragments of cultural objects are chromatically twisted and blended into complex wholes.

I like to make complex, layered paintings with lots of elements.

The drawings and paintings emerge from a gradual yet progressive layering that leads to a complex network of shifting...

But Doig wanted to make «homely paintings» — of houses and train stations, fallow fields and frozen ponds, explorations of weather and light that used thickly layered surfaces, complex reflections, and the imperfections of his source materials.

Layering her simple forms over and over in a circus of color, these new paintings are intensely complex and sophisticated.

But under those layers of bright colour and slashes of paint, Wylie's work is hugely complex, covering all manner of subjects from Nicole Kidman's paparazzi photos to Wylie eating a chocolate biscuit.

I chose them because they are, in many ways, the polar opposite of traditional mediums — a way to take very complex, age - old master's techniques like reverse painting and the glazing and layering of oil paints, exploding them onto modern mediums that speak more to current times.

This print translates Abts's characteristically precise, meditative, and abstract painting style into a new medium, employing multiple printmaking techniques to create a complex, layered composition that balances dynamic linear elements with loose, jagged forms.

The plank paintings, begun in 2008, are complex, layered geometric patterns done atop indigenous hardwood that has been roughly shaped into organic looking forms.

One painting, owned by the Tate, is shown alongside close - up photographs of details seen under ultraviolet light, revealing the complex layerings and reworkings the artist subjected his work to.

The resulting combinations of their concentrated techniques add yet another layer to the already complex levels of association to be found in these paintings which reference among other things the colorful clothing and bangles of Indian women, devotional garlands, and the cosmic diagrams of Tantric art.

She is known for her densely layered and mesmerizing abstract paintings, which often gesture to the language of architecture and geography as inspiration for abstract compositions, as well as commentary on the complex social worlds we inhabit.

Using a mix of bright colors and more muted tones, as well as thin washes and thick layers of paint, Youngblood builds up complex, spatially ambiguous surfaces that in her words «mimic objects, materials, and things from the real world.»

The multi-year series of nearly all - black paintings, titled 100 Layers of Ink, embodies a complex deliberation of -LSB-...]

They are delicate, complex compositions whose layers of paint can hide written words or any of many art - historical references, from the Impressionists to Jasper Johns.

Mernet Larsen makes complex paintings that are multivalent in their layers and perspectives.

Her paintings and prints are layered, colorful and complex.

Unlike Frieburghaus» videos which lead us to reflect on a given moment, Steven Charles» complex, dense and vibrant paintings form a color cacophony comprised of layered and intricate paint, evoking a sense of a nonlinear time and speed.

So all of a sudden, the wall itself, as a painted object, becomes a site to think through, as part of an overall history of painting, and this very basic and fundamental relationship between a painting and its wall can emerge as a much more complex and layered one, which I guess is what led to some aspects of the Wattis show, in terms of it being a show of wallpaper — or walls merged with painted paper.

In a press release announcing the news, Gagosian Gallery said, «While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context, his formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

Thus, art was created immediately, deliberated by the complex process of layered painting and meaning so the results were canvases painted and readable from all directions.

Mishka Henner has looked to abstract expressionist painting for the complex, layered series on show here.

The artist employs thick layers of acrylic paint and pumice to create colorful, spatially complex paintings with a distinctive tactile quality.

Her acrylic paintings exude a multitude of layers, building to vibrant, complex, textural surfaces.

Presented on separate floors of Tew Gallery through June 1, Minton's multivalent and playfully complex woodcut paintings, together with Ludwig's fecund layering of diaphanous veils of color and lush natural imagery, create a conceptual playground and a sensory feast.

Stanczak, who created abstract geometric paintings and prints, made his work through the complex process of tape masks upon which colors were systematically added and unveiled in layers.

As an example, she pointed out a brilliant small painting by Theil Morgan, «Terns,» that shows birds and oranges in a complex, layered abstract space.

Initially he used PCBs purely as a background canvas for his figures, before switching to backing boards upon which he now layers materials (PCBs and other media) and paint, to create more complex works displaying greater contrasts of texture and shape.