Sentences with phrase «contemporary figurative artists»

Each winter, the New York Academy of Art stages an exhibition of work from important contemporary figurative artists, on a particular curatorial theme.

New York Academy of Art is currently hosting «private (dis) play» — an exhibition of the private sketchbooks, journals and other related works of American contemporary figurative artists.

The visual innovation brought about by his deconstruction of human physiognomy into geometric planes still resonates in the practice of many contemporary figurative artists.

The New Baroque Booth Gallery is pleased to present The New Baroque a group exhibition co-curated by Rob Zeller and Casey Gleghorn featuring an astonishing culmination of works by 21 of the most talented contemporary figurative artists working today.

Booth Gallery is pleased to present The New Baroque a group exhibition co-curated by Rob Zeller and Casey Gleghorn featuring an astonishing culmination of works by 21 of the most talented contemporary figurative artists working today.

Currently showing at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings until April 2015, here, in her own words, highly acclaimed contemporary figurative artist Chantal Joffe, gives us a unique insight into the inspiration and motivation behind her art practice:

Not exact matches

In 1953 Blackman was co — founder of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society and he was also one of seven artists responsible for the Antipodean Manifesto; these artists protested the dominance and rejected the rise of abstract expressionism and non — figurative art.

The contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on younger artists are going back to wonderful figurative painters like Neel.

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

Next to Nothing presents a group exhibition that revisits early Modern figurative painting and Symbolist poetry through the recent work of 12 contemporary artists.

Integrated a multitude of styles and movements into a single canvas, the artist makes compositions that are both figurative and abstract, and a bit erotic and violent, from a perspective that is decidedly feminine and contemporary.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

A former illustrator, Leveille has been attracted to a figurative style of drawing and painting and has influences ranging from Old Masters like Titian and Fragonard to contemporary artists like Walter Robinson and Kara Walker.

Because figurative art has been in existence prior to the Egyptians, there is a deep well of experience for contemporary artists to draw upon.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

Published by The Monacelli Press in April 2017, The Figurative Artist's Handbook, by Robert Zeller, seeks to address the resurgence of the figure in contemporary art.

Zeller, Robert, «The Figurative Artist's Handbook: a contemporary guide to figure drawing painting and composition».

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

Gallery artist Alex Kanevsky's work A.S. (2005) is included in the group exhibition We the People: Contemporary American Figurative Art at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ..

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

WHAT IT IS: $ 627,000 AIM: To foster contemporary figurative art, as in the style of the late Russia master painter Arkady Plastov ELIGIBILITY: Any contemporary artist working in the figurative style.

A new group show looks at the ways in which 17 contemporary artists are approaching the topic of gender through painting, picking apart the idea of the binary in ways that are figurative, expressive and abstract.

The figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

Currently, the Evans Center features an exhibition called Pose / Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, which showcases works by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a primary focus.

We wanted an exhibition of contemporary figurative painting, and the four artists that came to mind just happen to be women.»

Be sure not to miss an intricate and fantastical woodblock and lithograph edition entitled Monkey Biz by Duke Riley at Graphicstuide / USF; seminal prints by prominent American Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol at Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art; a visually hypnotic nine - color screen print by Jason Middlebrook at Flying Horse Editions; an impressive suite of etchings entitled The Caprichos by Emily Lombardo at Childs Gallery; striking figurative lithographs by American artist Robert Longo at Hamilton - Selway Fine Art; a bold woodcut by Royal Academy artist Eileen Copper at Rabley Contemporary Gallery UK; three - dimensional print sculptures by Lesley Dill and mixed media prints by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos at Tandem Press; a series of haunting portraits by the American artist Monica Lundy at Stoney Road Press / Ireland; colorful mixed media work by Stanley William Hayder at Susan Teller Gallery; subtle and contemplative photolithographic prints by Linda Schwarz at Wildwood Press LLC; and bold and colorful works by Alexander Calder and Chuck Close at Thomas French Fine Art.

The artists included in this exhibition will present a diverse selection of works that are linked by a shared engagement with figurative representation in contemporary art.

He is one of the most renowned figurative artists in contemporary art.

This group exhibition investigates the genesis of the Bay Area Figurative movement and features several generations of artists, including contemporary artists working locally and internationally

Their influence has extended to artists as diverse as abstract painter Jack Bush and the Painters Eleven, as well as contemporary Scottish (and former Montréaler) figurative painter Peter Doig.

Much like the Baroque period, the diverse array of artists in this exhibition speak to contemporary political, personal and formal artistic concerns using a common, figurative language in uniquely personal styles.

Best known for creating powerful, immersive, large - scale installations, Nelson selected historic and contemporary figurative works from the V - A-C collection for his presentation, by artists including Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Constantine Brâncusi, Alberto Giacometti, Sherrie Levine, Henry Moore and Willem de Kooning.

One of Australia's foremost contemporary artists working today, Barton's distinctive use of line across painting, illustration, video and collage creates a vibrant figurative dream world, rich with personal references and poignant juxtapositions.

Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same artists, Engender shows how contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a range of abstract and figurative strategies.

The exhibition presents representative survey of contemporary figurative painting in the works of over twenty artists from nine countries.

The exhibition — a collaboration between Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), the country's premier public museum and host venue for this show, and The New Church Museum, a private collection with a contemporary focus — juxtaposes historical and contemporary works by 27 artists (20 men and seven women) to offer various critical insights about patriarchy and gendered tropes within figurative painting.

«Pose / Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now» showcases works from the Walter O. Evans Collection by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a...

Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.

Playful, enigmatic, figurative sculptures from the Cologne - based artist, a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late 1970s.

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

If only one figurative artist could be immortalized in contemporary American art history, Rebecca Morgan would be a top contender.

During 2014's «Prospect.3: Notes for Now» — the third iteration of the city - wide contemporary art triennial in New Orleans — the Contemporary Arts Center was filled with a selection of abstract paintings, figurative works, video installations, and fish tanks full of coral — all pieces created by artists from arouncontemporary art triennial in New Orleans — the Contemporary Arts Center was filled with a selection of abstract paintings, figurative works, video installations, and fish tanks full of coral — all pieces created by artists from arounContemporary Arts Center was filled with a selection of abstract paintings, figurative works, video installations, and fish tanks full of coral — all pieces created by artists from around the world.

Selectively and imaginatively revisiting old master techniques and concepts, artists today are again exploring the figurative tradition as a viable way of approaching contemporary life.

Well - established in the area of Bay Area Figurative art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened in 2001, broadening the focus to incorporate contemporary painting and sculpture by artists across the country.

This contemporary assortment of Fine Artists focus in refreshing Abstraction, Surrealism, and Figurative styles.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.

Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.

His figurative compositions are intimate, psychologically - charged portraits influenced by the artist's own past experiences as well as contemporary imagery.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.