Sentences with phrase «drawn graphite lines»

He renders the surface of each canvas with subtle color modulations and sinewy, hand - drawn graphite lines.

They are constrained only by the thin, freely drawn graphite lines rendered in pencil atop the white surfaces.

Beginning by hand drawing graphite lines on gessoed surfaces using strings stretched tautly across the canvas, she enacted each line as a balancing act, requiring intense concentration and halting progress, evident in the visible tremors of the obviously hand - made final product.

Not exact matches

When you write or draw with a pencil, the graphite (the «lead» of the pencil) slides off in thin layers to leave a trail — the line on the paper.

The average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words.

Motifs glide in and out; graphite lines trace the contours of unknown plants and body parts, accented by strokes of green, yellow, orange, and red crayon drifting like blossom petals across the surface... the drawings in this show suggest that Gorky's aesthetic is invested in the cultivation of visual ideas that transcend the individual artwork, a process that is occasionally frozen in paint.»

The relief panels, depicting the rise and fall of the tide and shifting horizon lines, are densely arranged on graphite - colored walls where Fernández has extended the blue - hued images by drawing directly on the wall surface.

Finally, Adam Fowler's work consists of layers of graphite line drawings from which he physically removes the negative space between strokes before carefully stacking them together.

Enigmatic and organic, the drawings are delicately realised in graphite and ink: Osiris is shown sitting on a watery black throne; a blindfolded figure with multiple top hats takes spectral shape against a network of fine lines in a reference to the late performance artist James Lee Byars and his trademark costume.

In each work — a cut sheet from an artist's drawing pad mounted on its cardboard backing — he employs gestures with paint, graphite, line, or the shadow of the paper on its cardboard ground that resonate with his expanded notion of drawing.

Two series of large graphite drawings also highlight similar themes, building line and composition within framed areas.

Agnes Martin's delicate graphite drawing Untitled from 1965 is a meditation on the intersection of lines, and the primacy of the grid.

In the Monument Drawings of 1996 --- 97, Chase - Riboud reused an etching as the starting point for unique compositions that she enhanced and obscured by delicate charcoal, graphite, and ink lines.

Using screws and graphite - dipped rubber bands, Lewis and his collaborators generated a large line drawing in the form of a Gregg shorthand notation, the stenographic script similar to abbreviated cursive.

The uncovered imagery is then reinterpreted through the lines, smudges, drawings, and drips of ink, pencil, and graphite that Daborn applies.

What surprises many curators is that while many of her 20th - century contemporaries in South Asia were making brightly colored, figurative paintings, Mohamedi was intensely focused on abstract, monochrome line drawings rendered in combinations of ink, graphite, gouache, and / or watercolor.

Drawn with bold and courageous lines, his graphite portraits transcend their subjects, revealing a broader human experience.

Truitt's «Arundel IX» relates to the important series started in 1973 where subtle graphite lines are drawn onto expanses of bright white paint in a striking blanket of luminosity.

Sometimes drawing on a precise backgrounds, such as grid paper, she weaves graphite into its framework with rough shadings and lines.

Darboven's calculated methodology gives way to ethereality in the simplicity of her graphite and ink line drawings, which subtly unfold through formal variation.

In these works, Porter merges photography and drawing, extrapolating the limits of the first through graphite lines that begin as interventions on photographic paper and continue on the wall, inserting what is photographically represented in the three - dimensional architectonic field.

Colette's familiar graphite on paper drawings achieved through repetitive mark making, micro and macro wavelengths of pencil lines, and Klappert's hand cut designs, make the most minimalist statement, the controlled hand of both the artists achieving something deliberate and obscured.

Her large - scale graphite drawings also on view in the gallery invited close inspection, the subtle shift in hand - drawn lines creating a palpable sense of movement within the confines of two dimensions.

If so, Philbrook Downtown is opening Friday a new exhibit built around its most recent acquisition: an gigantic graphite drawing of Minnesota Viking running back and former Oklahoma Sooner Adrian Peterson breaking through the Cleveland Browns» defensive line during the first game of the 2009 NFL season.

Spencer Finch's continuous - line drawings of vulture flight patterns, like Trubkovich's work, reflect on the limits of visual perception and the fallibility of recollection, while Adam McEwen's machined graphite facsimiles of ordinary objects underscore the schism between memory and reality.

Agnes Martin might be the ultimate example of the kind of «order without monotony» you're talking about, given the crucial variations and flaws that result from her having drawn all those ordered graphite grid - lines by hand.

The pages of the graphite drawings are heavily worked with dense crosshatched pencil lines resulting in a near - reflective, active surface.

Her large - scale graphite drawings also on view in the gallery invited close inspection, the subtle shift in hand drawn lines creating a palpable sense of movement within the confines of two - dimensions.

In line with his large - scale sculptures of screens partly crushed and his ghostly graphite drawings of crashed cars, the outdoor sculpture, while abstract, resonates as a roadside barrier destroyed in a critical collision.

Graphite lines drawn directly on the wall define the shadows cast by the constructions to emphasize the actual, non-illusory space they occupy.

Characterised by subtle graphite lines drawn onto expanses of bright white paint, this work became a central aspect of the artist's practice throughout her career, as she describes below:

Executed in ink and graphite and often incorporating collage elements, the drawings are comprised of squares, ovals, rectangles, and meandering lines.

The artists graphite drawings highlight her signature flowing lines, while paintings feature Cooper's technique of gradually layering washes of acrylic or gouache over India ink.

From Lee Ufan's delicate repetitive graphite strokes (in the «From Line» series, 1964 — 82) to Brice Marden's gestural gouache contours (The muses drawing, 1991 — 93) to Julije Knifer's hard - edged bands of thickly applied graphite (untitled [Méandre], 1993 — 99) to Vera Molnár's zigzagging black thread installation, the predominantly black - and - white show is delightfully diverse.

For the past four decades, Sharon Brant has produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous hard - edged paintings and drawings that commonly blur the lines between media — paintings are frequently drawn with graphite or pastel, extend outward from the wall into sculptural relief, or are mounted into complex, layered works on paper.

4 For Hambling, this expressive and sensual concept of «touch» derives from a deep connection with the subject being drawn, through fluid graphite lines, forceful strokes of charcoal or delicate ink wash.

The plant drawings are, for the most part, deceptively simple line drawings made in graphite or ink.

Contemporary ink drawing on tan paper with small vivid action lines in graphite.

Line drawings of plants in graphite and ink on paper, made between 1960 and 1992, are the subject of this catalogue, published to accompany Kelly's first solo exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, Plant Drawings, at 1018 Madison Avenue drawings of plants in graphite and ink on paper, made between 1960 and 1992, are the subject of this catalogue, published to accompany Kelly's first solo exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, Plant Drawings, at 1018 Madison Avenue Drawings, at 1018 Madison Avenue in 1992.

Like lines extracted from the wall and placed into real space, the monofilament lines connect with the graphite lines drawn on the wall.

This volume features 35 abstract drawings in ink and graphite derived from nature and executed with Kelly's characteristic elegant line.

Statement: The process of peeling and assembling skin is a meditative process for me, the same as assembling the lines of graphite drawing on paper.

In the late 1970s, he began his «excavations» — a series of drawings using gesso, graphite, brushed paint, and a tjanting tool, which allowed him to apply hot wax to his works in a fine, controlled line.

Smith builds on his drawings with thousands of intricate fine lines that make for hypnotizing shapes while Sheinkman, on the other hand, takes advantage of the agile eraser on graphite covered paper to create a moody, moving image through the process of removal.

Since the beginning of his career in the mid - «60s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) has combined the classic elements of composition — shape, line, and color — to create abstract works of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on subtly modulated planes of color.