Sentences with phrase «diaphanous paintings»

But there's never been a more compatible venue for Riley's signature work than the giant MASS MoCA hall that housed Izhar Patkin's installation of diaphanous paintings on wall - size lengths of mesh, «The Wandering Veil.»

These painters used large areas, or fields, of flat colour and thin, diaphanous paint to achieve quiet, subtle, almost meditative effects.

Not exact matches

Produced on her return to New York from a trip to Nova Scotia, the painting is a light - struck, diaphanous evocation of hills, rocks and water.

Jenkins controlled the paint flow across the canvas with an ivory knife, producing diaphanous and intensely colored multi-layered works.

The heavy materiality of Mountains of the Moon had enabled a diaphanous chromatic lightness, but around this time he began to explore much subtler interfusions of hue in paintings like Snow Morning (1959) and Golden Day (1960), which seem to anticipate color - field paintings such as Jules Olitski's works of the mid -»60s.11

With layer on top of paint layer, Bluhm created jewel - toned diaphanous and energetic abstractions.

Frequently executed whilst the underlying paint is still wet, the resulting skips, schisms and apertures rupture the diaphanous skeins of colour above in incalculable patterns.

But the experience still leaves me strangely detached towards the macaque monkeys posing with chalices amongst painted patterned veils; they still evoke those exquisite, sophisticated designs incorporated into diaphanous Indian and Balinese fabrics.

This technique of flattened paint distinguishes itself from the layering of diaphanous and airy pigments that characterize much of his work, yet finds precedent in his earlier billboard paintings.

The viewer's awareness is simultaneously drawn to the diaphanous, imaginative world inside the painting and the palpably physical one that surrounds it.

«Viscous,» «diaphanous,» «efflorescent,» «biomorphic,» and «vaporous» are applicable to the works of all three — these adjectives refer as readily to material states of paint and pigment as they do to certain states of metaphor and allusion.

Joining these are many important works shown in the galleries for the first time including new works made specially for this exhibition, including a diaphanous cellophane window sculpture by Karla Black, a new text work from the series pretty much every world written, spoken, heard, overheard from 1989... by Douglas Gordon, a newspaper collage by Tony Swain, a sculptural work on paper by Andrew Kerr, Jim Lambie's colourful pop poster stack (free to take away) and Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins painted chairs that can be found distributed throughout the galleries.

In her latest paintings, Houshiary's organic gestures manifest in diaphanous, sweeping marks that appear to undulate and vibrate across the surface of the canvas.

Presented on separate floors of Tew Gallery through June 1, Minton's multivalent and playfully complex woodcut paintings, together with Ludwig's fecund layering of diaphanous veils of color and lush natural imagery, create a conceptual playground and a sensory feast.

Her expert and sometimes surprising treatment of paint — alternately diaphanous and goopy — complements a keen sense of color that glories in the hues and light that emanate from her laptop, and finds inspiration in the saturated colors of TV cartoons.

My paintings emerge from an anonymous narrative in the studio; the pigment and binder are layered at a diaphanous thickness in a labour intensive process that denies the authorial brush of the artist and is in contrast to the immediacy expected of image making in this digital era.

An ethereal blue painting with waterfalls of diaphanous white and pale pink has as its central character a little bear tumbling through space.

Actually, the phone, smoke, and sunlight are good analogs for what is in Greene's paintings: weighty, curving shapes, dissolving outlines, and diaphanous layers of colors.

Often quite «formless», especially compared to her earlier geometric paintings, Denyer's recent paintings are like gaseous non-substances, diaphanous veils, pure illusion, immaterial yet at the same time exulting in materiality.