Collaborative mural at 7th Street and Pierce Several artists have
created figurative works reflecting their distinct styles on a north - facing wall behind the building that currently houses Space 55 and Palabra.
Choosing a different direction from his abstract expressionist peers, King has
created figurative works that have resonated for art lovers and critics alike.
At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to
create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.
His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to
create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.
Scale shifts to
create figurative works that meander through space like air conditioning ducts — breathing structures that inhabit and divide a room.
Within the medium of sculpture,
she creates figurative work that is rich in plasticity.
This is the first time Kaapcke has worked from imagination to
create figurative works, she said.
Not exact matches
Working primarily in oil, and in a
figurative style, the artist reflects and expands on his interactions and experiences — his
work aiming to elaborate on moments from the recent past to
create personal and explorative responses.
In her latest series of
work, Michelle
creates figurative narratives with her usual needle and thread.
Although the artist's
figurative abstractions may appear crude at first glance, closer examination reveals
works vibrating with energy and pulse,
creating an all - out assault on the viewer's concept of reality.
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.
Considered one of the leading
figurative artists today, Rego draws inspiration from many sources including literature and fairy tales to
create mysterious and narrative
works.
During this time he
created both abstract and
figurative works, using organic, curvilinear shapes and curvy lines.
Wanting to be free, he made a radical transition to
figurative work,
creating cartoonish paintings that he's arguably most famous for.
In her
works on paper, Bhabha
creates atmospheric images, often
figurative, blending animal and human features.
Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity,
creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well
figurative tile
works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»
Working with
figurative and portrait styled imagery, Lewis
creates sculpted paper photo
works that highlight bodies and the unseen tensions of the past, present and future.
Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his
work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to
create a distinctly American panorama, both in his
figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.
The exhibition is the first to explore Still's striking
figurative work created before World War II, which points to the significance of figuration throughout the artist's oeuvre, even in his most apparently non-representational compositions.
Nathan Sawaya
works with the popular toy to
create large - scale
figurative sculpture.
Featuring more than 100
works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings,
creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.
The Serpentine displays a selection of her most compelling
works — each
created in just one day — in celebration of her innovative approach to contemporary
figurative painting (to 13 September).
Joffe introduces an element of abstraction into her
figurative works, evincing a distinct style of painting that draws on bold lines and geometric forms to
create powerful human portraits.
Adding and obscuring in rotation, she builds a surface of thickly textured impasto from alternating layers of black and white,
creating a body of
work that engages both with the
figurative tradition of Pop illustration and the action and materiality of Abstract Expressionist gesture.
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.
By looking at a selection of thirty
figurative paintings and sculptural
works created between 1930 and 1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery attempts to answer this question in its group exhibition American Identity.
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.
In a concurrent show of recent
work at Accola Griefen Gallery, she still mixes
figurative and abstract elements to
create controversial compositions fraught with drama, sexuality and politics.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from
figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, L
figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War
Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, L
Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make
figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, L
figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which
figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, L
figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to
create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily
figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, L
figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
Figurative works are placed in relation to machines as apparatuses or instruments of power
created by human beings.
Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N.
creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive
work that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.
His
work hovers enigmatically between the abstract and the
figurative,
creating a window onto the outside world, which is simultaneously familiar and mysterious.
Inventing Downtown presents
works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists» efforts to
create new exhibition venues for innovative
works of art — ranging from abstract and
figurative painting, assemblage, sculpture, and
works -LSB-...]
Burr's various
working forms - large scale platforms and installations, mirrored folding screens, found object arrangements, hinged
figurative forms, pinned collages, and blanket paintings, for example - are sometimes
created for particular situations and bear the marks of that context.
She
creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her
works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional
figurative painting: «My
work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the
figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of
figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the
figurative tradition is refashioned.»
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 around the world.
The human component has the most notable impact in the
work Convergence # 3 (2011), which uses geometry to
create a sense of posture in the
work, thereby imparting a memorable sense of
figurative portrayal.
The precision with which Ali
creates her small,
figurative, gouache paintings on paper is such that it takes her many months to complete a single
work.
Christina A. West
Working in ceramic and resin, Christina A. West
creates arresting, skin - crawling
figurative sculptures.
Vanessa Garwood,
working and residing in London,
creates paintings which are focused on landscapes and on the
figurative.
Among her better known, Henry Moore - inspired shapes, she has
created a new strain of
figurative works.
While on the West Coast, she
created a new body of
work that was shown this past summer at L.A. gallery, The Cabin; «Tropicana» continued Self's investigation of the black female body through
figurative collages composed of paint, fabric, and dry leaf.
Known for pushing the boundaries of the paint medium, Wheat presents two new sculptural
works along with new «tapestries» —
figurative works in which the artist pushes paint through wire mesh,
creating rich, fiber - like surfaces.
Employing multiple mediums at once to
create forms both abstract and
figurative, she presents an array of clues and many layers of meaning in her
work.
In Kohler's aesthetic deviation into the abstraction in his Pareidolia series of geometric cardboard constructions, we see him continuing the conceptual threads
created in his
figurative work which speaks to hope and hopelessness.
For nearly fifty years, De Keyser has
created subtly evocative paintings and
works on paper which appear at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and
figurative.
In his previous
work, the 29 - year - old artist
created figurative and highly personal paintings and sculptures, often using tropes from the Spanish Baroque style.
The artist has appropriated her own photography of landscapes she has encountered and uses the prints to
create new
figurative works.
em16 / emily north (July 27 — August 14) is an artist
creating immersive
work on bodies and paper to bring forth a queer analysis of
figurative representation.
Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N.
creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive
works that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal new meanings on contemporary existence.