For the current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Israel has collaborated with the celebrated author to
create text paintings — fragmented narrative combined with lush stock imagery — that mine their native landscape.
Not exact matches
In this lovely biography, poetic
text and gorgeous
paintings come together to
create a portrait of Cousteau and the magic of oceanography.
One of the main ideas when
creating a
painting or calligraphy
text is that it shouldn't be too busy and should leave some space.
With vivid
paintings and clear, accessible
text, Roy
creates a heart - stopping look at what great white sharks do best — hunt for their next meal.
About 65 objects
created from 2011 to the present will be featured including figurative works,
text - based wall hangings, a significant selection of beaded punching bags,
painted works on rawhide and canvas, and video.
Hybrids of poetry,
painting, and sculpture, Jablon's works are crafted from found materials and
texts,
created from vibrant swathes of
paint, sequins, mirrors, and tiles.
While its iterated cuts conjure a dynamism that has an undeniable debt to Italian Futurist
painting, the elongated, serial composition and slick objecthood of Concetto spaziale, Attese can also be seen in relation to such Minimalist formats as the boxes and «stacks»
created by Donald Judd, whose groundbreaking
text «Specific Objects» had been published in 1965.
More than many of White's contemporaries, the artist enjoys the spatial illusion of
paint,
creating areas of color that read completely flat while other passages extrude and recede, impressions often complicated by the introduction of objects and her recent experiments with
text.
Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963
text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who
creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative
paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured
paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.
Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours,
text, the blank canvas and smudges of
paint to
create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.
Although Wool pretty much shut down his franchise in
text paintings after 1992, there are a pair of late stragglers in the show, one from 1997 and the other from 2000; but the artist keeps changing his tactics, trying new ways of
creating «false fronts and psychological stances.»
EPIC TALES FROM INDIA:
PAINTINGS FROM THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART A selection of paintings from the 12th to the 19th century, created to illustrate literary texts, comes to P
PAINTINGS FROM THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART A selection of
paintings from the 12th to the 19th century, created to illustrate literary texts, comes to P
paintings from the 12th to the 19th century,
created to illustrate literary
texts, comes to Princeton.
Murphy
creates a new sublime - a form of art that refers to a profound unknowing - by incorporating elements of chance in the form of lines, data, and
text in his
paintings, drawings, digital works, and LED matrix work.
Hans Op de Beeck (b. 1969)
creates large - scale installations, sculptures, films, drawings,
paintings, photographs and
texts.
Collage, documentary photography, poetic
text,
painting, needlepoint, crochet, textile work and animation are all methods enlisted by these artists to
create works that deal with various social issues.
At 18th Street, Wood
created a series of inkjet print, which combined digital photographs with
text and her own
painted images.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to
creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the
text redacted.
SANDOW BIRK: AMERICAN QUR» AN The artist has
created more than 300 gouache
paintings in which every verse in the Islamic holy
text is transcribed in script based on Los Angeles graffiti.
Dahlia Elsayed combines
text and imagery to
create narrative
paintings that document internal and external geographies.
Also in the booth are several of Ms. Mishima's collage -
paintings from the 1960s, which include
texts and images in both Japanese and English,
creating a cross-cultural, East - West mash - up.
The author notes, «Johanson eschews in this set of
paintings the strategy of inserting
text directly into the worlds he
creates.
Other collages are
created out of torn images and
texts from magazines, which are then
painted or drawn over.
His exquisitely rendered drawings and
paintings draw on dream imagery, where the surface of his work relates to both the mind and the body, and becomes a skin on which to
create layers of marks, volumes of
text, leading the viewer into another world.
Bob and Roberta Smith
creates brightly coloured
text - based
paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to
create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb,
creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.
Building on the performance at Performa 15 in New York, at ICA Miami Artist Theater Program will fuse elements of each participating artist's practice — including
painting, sculpture,
text, sound, and light — to
create a new, unified, and site - specific work bridging visual and performing art.
The artist often combines film,
text, sound and
paintings to
create a dream - like environment and existential experience for viewers.
More recently, Lancaster has
created paintings based on the handwritten
texts found on the borders or reverse sides of photographs.
As a result, each bold line and cross-hatch the artist used to construct the image is vividly communicated, revealing White's signature style, which blends gestures of
painting, printmaking, and drawing with
text to
create new visual content.
The work utilizes
paint,
text, and a range of materials to
create a space between what is read and simply seen.
Text from Scott's recent exhibition at the Danforth Museum (MA) describes her work as «Influenced by the aesthetics of contemporary
painting, as well as the thrifty and improvised nature of folk art, Susan Scott manipulates traditional painters» materials such as canvas, wood, staples and
paint to
create an elegant and quirky hybrid of
painting and sculpture.»
Nathanson uses gels, decorative paper, and adhesives in combination with poured acrylic
paint to
create the support structure of her pieces — a formal play that points to the creation of the earth in the
text.»
The artist's densely layered works incorporate
text, drawing, collaged paper, plastic, felt, fur and
paint to
create a collision of symbols and visual tropes that evidence Hancock's singular vision and distinctive means of storytelling.
Sam Gilliam's takes a more immersive Rothkoesque approach in April 4, a tribute to Martin Luther King
created a year after his assassination, staining and knotting the canvas to
create wash - like veils of muted colour dotted with clots of crimson, which «may suggest bloodstains» the
texts argue — though the
painting doesn't hit quite the note of transcendence it aspires to.
Paul Stephen Benjamin is a multidisciplinary artist who employs
painting, sculpture, installation and video to
create multi-layered works that incorporate history,
text, and popular culture.
In
creating his closely observed and patterned
paintings, Di Fabio works in tandem with his reading of
texts of chemistry, physics, and biology.
In the process he not only isolated specific details of the Städel
paintings but also partially overpainted those details and combined them with
texts formally reminiscent of excerpts from Hollywood film scripts to
create large horizontally or vertically divided diptychs.
Rochelle Feinstein explores the history of
painting, including
text - based work, Neo-Expressionism, and collage, to
create her distinctive if varied oeuvre.
In the process, he not only isolates specific details of the Städel
paintings, but also partially overpaints those details and combines them with
texts formally reminiscent of excerpts from Hollywood film scripts to
create large horizontally or vertically divided diptychs.
Originally referring to the ecstatic verses
created by ancient Greek followers of Dionysus, the term, for him, stands for what the wall
texts call «the primacy of the artist's expressive power over the subject» — that is, the nominal subject that triggered the improvisatory process of picture - making loses its original meaning by being translated into this new state of being, since any
painting is both abstract and a fiction.
Private galleries have their major players out in force: the reliably disturbing Marlene Dumas's latest work takes the crucifixion as its starting point (Frith Street Gallery, W1, Fri to 26 Nov); Tal R's turned to old master techniques to
create paintings that are radiant; and Doug Aitken, the man who turned video art into a Hollywood - standard production, is showing
text works (Victoria Miro, N1, Wed to 12 Nov).
Viewed aesthetically, the composition of the piece — the weight of the letters fluctuating with each line, the spacing between the lines methodically decreasing as the
text progresses, the winding italics
creating rhythmic markers on a background of «ghost
text» from the same selection peering through a thin overcoat of white
paint — encourage appreciation of the textural qualities of the written word.
These trails are at times definable as
text and images, intended to
create a desired tension in the
paintings.
They come both in the form of artworks of an intimate character and large staged installations in which
painting, photography and documents,
text and sound, writing and memory, combine to
create visual tales.
And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach
paintings 1986 First pattern
paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word
paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one
painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two
paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white
paintings 1991
Creates edition of small
paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes
painting and billboard with truncated
text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower
paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray -
paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey»
paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas
Created through an intricate process, the 18 works on paper in this exhibition serve as a foil to the large
painting also on view, the stark shapes of which recall archaic hieroglyphic
text.
Today, Chann's enduring legacy is the unique and fascinating blend that he
created of
text and image, abstract and figurative art, ancient Chinese culture and modern Western
painting.
For his upcoming show at Nicole Klagsbrun, he has
created paintings that contain the
texts of obituaries — of living people in the public eye — funny
paintings with a darkly critical underbelly.
Painter in Residence Tim Gould used
paint layers, stencilled
text and imagery, highlighted with gold leaf, to
create a table inspired by the marks it had gained over the years.