Sentences with phrase «curator figure and ground»

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«Whether drawing and collaging on individual paper panels or creating a mural on the floor - to - ceiling wall, Schliebener combines the additive qualities of drawing, reductive acts of cutting, and nuances of figure and ground to explore the ambiguities of gender,» notes curator John Chaich.

Terrain Exhibitions founder, Sabina Ott says the Public Art Residency allows emerging Chicago curators to find site - specific work that challenges the space between public and private, decoration and function, figure and ground.

Organized by Chief Curator Emeritus Douglas Dreishpoon, this exhibition will flesh out the full spectrum of Feeley's creative output: early Abstract Expressionist - inspired paintings from the mid-1950s, organic figure - ground compositions from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the diagrammatical compositions that preoccupied him from 1962 until 1966.

In contemporary reviews of that exhibition, the curator and art historian Andrew Wilson claimed that Rae's paintings upset «the traditional figure - ground relationship» (Wilson 1996 — 7, p. 9), while the critic Andrew Graham - Dixon described Untitled (emergency room) as «a picture of something about to take shape before it has actually done so» (Andrew Graham - Dixon, «On the Surface», Independent, 19 November 2006, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/on-the-surface-1353083.html, accessed 15 June 2015).