The small to mid-sized works synthesize art historical painting elements from both Cubist and Futurist movements, while also creating a dialogue with
contemporary painting construction.
Not exact matches
Some of the topics which we cover include Art of
Construction, Ancient Architecture, Abstract Expressionism, Islamic Architecture, Abstract Art
Paintings,
Contemporary Architecture, Russian Art, The Medieval Architecture, Oceanic Art, Miniature
Painting, Roman Art, American Architecture, Canadian Art, Modern Architecture, Industrial Architecture and several.
For over a decade, Helen Johnson (b. 1979, Melbourne, Australia) has used
painting as a tool to investigate issues around the legacy of colonialism, the
construction of national identity, personal history, and
contemporary politics in her native Australia.
I have created strategies for making
paintings out of the act of recalling visual observations from everyday experience, from
paintings and three - dimensional
constructions that I have made, as well as from modern /
contemporary paintings that I have seen.
His
paintings, drawings, collages and
constructions convey a vision of harmonies informed simultaneously by
contemporary urban symbology, indigenous traditions, personal narrative, and global perspective.
In 1889 he donated his collection of 65
contemporary paintings to the government, on the condition that they be displayed in a suitable gallery, toward the
construction of which he also donated # 80,000.
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.
2011Out of Focus Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA «Render: New
Construction in Video Art», California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA The Only Rule is Work, Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Holland Painters
Painting, Atlanta
Contemporary Art Center, GA Eslov Wide Shut Part II, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain Movable Facture, Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (catalogue) A Useful Looking Useless Object, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, Scotland Sound + Vision: Crossroads, Plug - In, ICA, Winnipeg, Canada Effects & Affects: The Alphabet, Fumetto Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland You Killed the Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt... bleibt... & The Sisters, (Group show with Bettina Koester, Wilhelm Hein and Jennifer West), Lost Property, Amsterdam Update no. 2, White Columns, New York (catalogue) Another Kind of Vapor, White Flag Project, St. Louis, MO Contour 2011, 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium Adult
Contemporary, Kavi Gupta, Berlin How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalogue) California Dreamin, Arte Portugal Biennial, Lisbon, Portugal Home Show Revisited,
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue) Abstract Moving Image, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan One Person's Materialism is Another Person's Romanticism, Remap 3, Athens Greece
«Value and Viability,» Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, IL, December 10, 2015 «Theaster Gates «Sanctum»,» St. George's, Bristol, UK, October 31, 2015 «The Gail Silver Memorial Lecture: Theaster Gates,» Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, October 14, 2015 «To Build a Bank: Notes from the
Construction Site,» Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 8, 2015 «Panel Discussion: The Art of Architecture — David Adjaye's Collaborations with Artists,» The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 19, 2015 «Theaster Gates: Trustees» and Governors» Speaker,» Skowhegan School of
Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, July 15, 2015 «The Most Inspired Among Us, a conversation with Carrie Mae Weems,» Opening Celebration: Radical Presence, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2015 «San Francisco Art Institute Commencement,» Nourse Theater, San Francisco, CA, May 17, 2015 «Theaster Gates + Lisa Lee on Doris Salcedo,» Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 16, 2015 «Learning from Roofers: Theaster Gates in conversation,» Tate Modern, London, UK, April 27, 2015
Other notable junk artists included the Indiana - born sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), whose works included Untitled (1964,
painted steel with chrome, Nice Museum of Modern Art), Untitled (1968, sheet metal, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) and Koko - Nor II (1967, Tate Collection London); the English photographer and sculptor Joseph Goto (1916 - 94); the American Richard Stankiewicz (1923 - 83), noted for his witty Middle Aged Couple (1954, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago); and the sculptor and film - maker Bruce Conner (1933 - 2008), noted for his spooky
constructions made from broken dolls and old stockings.
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.
Opening Friday 24 May is system ·
painting ·
construction · archive, a group show exploring the roles of Constructivism in
contemporary practice.
Kawai is known for her character - driven sculptures,
paintings, drawings and wall - mounted
constructions that explore the strange minutiae of
contemporary culture.
Wells recalled that moving to the Scilly Isles, where Relief
Construction was made, in 1936 prompted his immersion in
contemporary artistic ideas: «I was very isolated there», he wrote, «and collected and read everything I could about Abstract and Constructive movements as well as
painting and sculpture in general» (letter to Tate Gallery, 18 December 1973).
Her main focus is
contemporary painting in connection to other discourses, and history of the
construction of the art discourse of the 20th and 21st centuries in the region.
Altered States: A Psychedelic Legacy, features
contemporary artists who explore psychedelic art — mostly
painting and some
constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery — against a back drop of 1960s Optical 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, which sets the stage and creates the mood.
The works on view present the breadth of
contemporary practice, from physical
constructions and monumentally - scaled
painting, to minimal gestures and experimental film and video.
Her topics are mainly
contemporary painting and its connection to other media and the
construction of discourse in
contemporary art.
Bowery Nation, 1985 - 2012 Bowery Nation:
construction made with wood, wire, rubber, feathers, oil
paint, acrylic
paint, spray
paint, cloth, string, rope, hair, leather, metal, pencil, bone, clay, and sage Approximately 10 x 24 x 4 feet installed Collection Thyssen - Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna.
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painting, Sam Cornish, Six Fugues, Westminster Library