Not exact matches
His latest carved plaster tablets and graphite
drawings arrive at similar aesthetic states but from opposite directions: the painted tablets respond to surface texture and chance operations, excavating compositions through deconstructive sgraffito techniques, while the
drawings depart from landscape imagery and are built up into complex, almost -
recognizable images created through a process of repetitive mark - making, erasure, and re-drawing.
Drawing from
images found in newspaper, magazines, and some he has taken himself, he erases what is
recognizable about them by reproducing them with crayon onto dark cotton canvases.
Though working on a diminutive scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele
draws on rigorous observations of the real world to create fragmented
images that waver between
recognizable form and nonobjective abstraction.
In another example from the exhibition, artist Geoff McFetridge has developed an immediately
recognizable cartoon style and vocabulary of
images that he deploys in fine art, commercial ad work, and hand -
drawn, stop - motion animation.
Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Drawing on the East End, 1940 - 1988, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
Recognizable Images, 1969 - 1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Fifty - Second National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Employing
recognizable objects,
images of celebrities and symbols from popular culture, this updated form of Pop - Art also
drew inspiration from Dada (in their use of readymades and found objects), and from modern conceptualism.
Some of Joan Jonas» most
recognizable and recent works on paper feature
images of animals (winged bugs, fishes, the nude human) with obvious bilateral lines of symmetry
drawn in wet media, often times ink.
Drawing from such wide - ranging cultural areas as film, fashion photography, literature, mythology, news
images, sports, and individuals she meets in her day - to - day life, Wylie paints colorful and exuberant compositions that are uniquely
recognizable.