Sentences with phrase «contemporary folk art»

Alan Kane's previous works including a 6ft walking mechanical elephant and a travelling exhibition of contemporary folk art

His contemporary folk art approach plays with themes of cultural and political critique.

Recycled / Remade: Contemporary Folk Art from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Art Print of Whimsical Landscape Painting, Abstract Art, Lollipop Tree Print, Giclee Print of Oil Painting, Modern Contemporary Folk Art

What's not on every block is a place like La Calaca, which sells an assortment of classic and contemporary folk art.

Not exact matches

We talk to Charlotte from Love Lottie Knits, whose beautiful knits come in candy stripe colours, with a contemporary Scandinavian feel and folk art motifs

It is decorated in a homely, contemporary style, mixing Latin American folk art pieces and floor - to - ceiling windows in the spacious living / dining room with lots of fresh flowers and stacks of magazines.

Cristina's lifelong love of birds, bears and horses is often depicted in a contemporary, yet folk art manner that is truly distinctive.

Rooms are white and airy, with a clean, contemporary design and touches of colour from Latin American folk art and fresh flowers.

LOS ANGELES — The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents Paperworks, an exhibition that examines the range of work by fifteen contemporary artists with strong ties to Los Angeles who use paper as their primary medium.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuart of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuart of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

This year's grantees are the Craft and Folk Art Museum; Fulcrum Arts; the Hammer Museum; JOAN; LA Freewaves; LAXART; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Latin American Art; Self Help Graphics & Art; and the Underground Museum.

In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, the Allan Stone Collection includes tribal and folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.

1993 Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; American Folk Art Museum, New York; American Center, Paris, France

She is currently working on projects for the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York City; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.

Museum exhibition venues include IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Savannah College of Art And Design, GA; Prospect New Orleans, LA; Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA..

2010 Size Does Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA Passion Fruits, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, USA Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, USA From Then to Now: Masterworks Contemporary African American Art, Curated by Margo Ann Crutchfield, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA

What / Why: «Fairy tales, myths, legends, and folk tales, are often the inspiration for contemporary works of literature, film, and art.

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's «Folk Archive» [2000 — 07], a collection of recent and contemporary British vernacular art, would be another.

Celene Ryan is Curatorial Assistant for the Contemporary Center of the American Folk Art Museum.

Wylie's bold, large - scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art, such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as well as art history and film.

He is currently preparing for his solo exhibition, Message to Our Folks, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

The two artists were both included in the Institute of Contemporary Art's exhibition East Meets West: «Folk» and Fantasy from the Coasts six years ago and have remained avid fans of each other's work.

1996 Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA [itinerary: Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA] Dans les Royaumes del «Irréel, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland; Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne, Switzerland Art in Chicago 1945 - 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

In its new home Allan Stone Projects will operate as a private gallery devoted to scholarship in and secondary market sales of its vast collection of modern masterworks, contemporary art, tribal and folk art, Americana, and significant decorative arts and industrial design.

His paintings contain a mash - up of historical and cultural references, combining elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.

The Figure Redefined, Primitivo, San Francisco, CA Art from the African Diaspora, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

These gruffly carved, erotically charged pieces draw from Brancusi, Degas and folk art, and their fusions of forms — human and not — feel vital and contemporary.

New York, NY, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, November 17, 1993 — January 2, 1994 [catalogue] / New York, NY, American Folk Art Museum, Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, November 16, 1993 — January 30, 1994 [catalogue] / Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1993 / Paris, France, American Center, 1993

Her work was exhibited in «City Folks, a show that deals with Folk art references in contemporary art, co-curated by Carlo McCormick and Aaron Rose at the Holly Solomon gallery in 1995.

While stylistic references include turn - of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

Chris Natrop's hand - cut paper forest at the Craft & Folk Art Museum is part of the exhibition «Paperworks,» which features sculptures, collages and large - scale installations by 15 contemporary artists working in unusual ways with paper.

The «Paperworks» exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum features sculptures, collages and large - scale installations by 15 contemporary artists working with paper in unusual ways.

It was founded in 1965 by artists Edith R. Wyle (actor Noah Wyle's grandmother) and Bette Chase as a commercial gallery and cafe called the Egg & the Eye, showcasing contemporary crafts and ethnic folk art.

This exhibition of contemporary art by seven artists serves as the complement to another exhibition of the library's outstanding collection of Fraktur: Pennsylvania German folk artworks from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hancock's work has also been included in a number of significant group exhibitions, including Juxtapoz x Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Pricco, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA (2016 - 17), Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (2016), When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2014), Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2012), The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armory, Kiev, Ukraine (2012), Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2008), Darger - ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY (2008), Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2005), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2002), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2000).

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents The Sun, the Moon, and the Lotus, a new exhibition of contemporary works by Jeon Soo - min that reinterprets traditional Korean landscape and folk paintings to create a modern vision of oriental art.

With more than 15,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a significant collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African - American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a significant collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African - American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aArt has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a significant collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African - American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart; a significant collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African - American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart, and African artart.

Offering a Extraordinary Selection of Antiques, Mid-century Modern, Asian, Silver, Folk Art, African, Garden & Architectural Elements, Americana, Fine Art, Art Deco, Ceramics, Lighting, Jewelry, Contemporary Design & unusual Furniture Decorative Objects from Antiquity to Present Day with a emphasis on quality.

Virginia Overton forges a distinctive hybrid in contemporary art: Her work suggests oblique ties to an iconic Folk Art landmark in Georgia, Howard Finster's Paradise Gardart: Her work suggests oblique ties to an iconic Folk Art landmark in Georgia, Howard Finster's Paradise GardArt landmark in Georgia, Howard Finster's Paradise Garden.

His inspirations include Velázquez, Goya and Picasso, as well as Mexican folk art and contemporary artists Roy de Forest and Jim Nutt.

Jackson's work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and he was later featured in The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, organized by Toby Kamps (the juror for NAP edition # 90), winner of the prestigious award for «Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally» from the U.S. section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA / USA).

Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus» 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and history from the time of European settlement to the 1960s.

In awards news: this year's BP Portrait Award has announced its shortlist, with artists Miriam Escofet, Felicia Forte, Ania Hobson and Zhu Tongyao in the running — the winner will be announced in June; LA's Mike Kelley Foundation has named recipients for its 2018 Artist Project Grants — the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directoArt Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directoArt, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directoArt, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directoArt and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directoart awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directors.

It is a piece of folk art and visual poetry, executed in a highly personal and contemporary manner.

While stylistic references include turn of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

explores the legacy of Mingei, a Japanese folk craft movement led by philosopher and critic Sōetsu Yanagi and questions the presence of craftsmanship in contemporary art.

With more than 15,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a substantial collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a substantial collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aArt has an extensive anthology of 19th - and 20th - century American art; a substantial collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart; a substantial collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart, photography, folk and self - taught art, and African aart, and African artart.

The exhibition explores the legacy of Mingei, a Japanese folk craft movement led by philosopher and critic Sōetsu Yanagi and questions the presence of craftsmanship in contemporary art.

His one big New York showing, in 1993, divided up between the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the American Folk Art Museum, as if in search of a label or a home.