Pratt Manhattan Gallery is presenting «Pratt Alumni Painters,» an exhibition of work by 14 emerging and
established painters who graduated from Pratt within the last three decades, now through September 8, 2012, at 144 West...
Not exact matches
David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French
painters who chose to go outside the
established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.
Dakota Fanning plays Gray — the woman
who left critic John Ruskin for
painter John Everett Millais after
establishing her husband was «disgusted with my person» — while Thompson plays her friend and confidante Lady Eastlake.
And given UCLA's rank as the No. 2 graduate fine art program in the country, it's a compelling list, which includes Woman's Building pioneer Judy Chicago, conceptual artist Barbara Kruger,
painters Lari Pittman and Toba Khedoori (the latter of whom recently had a one - woman show at LACMA), installationist Rodney McMillian, photographer James Welling and groundbreaking photo collagist Robert Heinecken (
who established the photography program at UCLA in the 1960s and was the subject of a retrospective at the Hammer Museum in 2014).
Johnston, the heart of the exhibition, was a geographically sequestered yet ambitious
painter whose renderings of life on the homestead embody aspects of the Canadian canon and the peculiar sensitivity of women artists
who practiced outside of
established norms.
While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant - garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists
who have become household names today had their well -
established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field
painters like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann; Harold Rosenberg seemed to prefer the action
painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as the seminal paintings of Arshile Gorky; Thomas B. Hess, the managing editor of ARTnews, championed Willem de Kooning.
Catherine Murphy is an
established American realist
painter who has been creating depictions of objects, people and spaces for over 40 years.
«That's what's so great about this place: They manage to mix artists
who are still in the academy with
established painters like Sirbiladze.»
A handful of
established painters set the tone, including unusually compact but dense translucent swirls by David Reed,
who curated a survey of the 1970s in the same rooms just a year before.
The gallery's program includes: Estates of historically significant Canadian artists, most notably many of the
Painters 11 group
who established Canada's international reputation for modern abstraction in the 1950s including many of the
Painters 11's immediate post-contemporaries
who emerged predominantly in Toronto during the 1960s and 1970s, especially those hailing from the legendary Isaacs and Carmen Lamanna galleries;
established senior artists working in a wide range of media; recognized mid-career artists from Canada and Europe; and emerging international talents, particularly those exploring the boundaries of media, representation and interpretation within contemporary art making.
It was wonderful to be exposed to
established and active
painters, to have a chance to study with experienced
painters, to have friends
who were also exploring and involved.»
The
painters chosen for this exhibition are «icons» of contemporary art, artists
who have
established reputations and histories.
Established in 1976, Walter Phillips Gallery bears the name of a distinguished printmaker and
painter who, from the 1930s to the 1950s, played a seminal role in the development of the visual arts program in the Banff School of Fine Arts.
James Stroud is a
painter and master printer
who is the Founder / Director of Center Street Studio, a professional printmaking workshop that prints and publishes contemporary prints with emerging and
established artists.
The exhibition focuses on a number of American
painters who, disillusioned with the rapid modernization of U.S. cities and towns,
established art communities in six small, pre-industrial societies in the Netherlands between 1880 and the beginning of World War I.
Best known for his Abstract Expressionist - style Graffiti, JonOne represents a new generation of contemporary artists
who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to
establish themselves as
painters.
The exhibition features the work of three artists
who met in Los Angeles in the 1970s and moved to New York in the 1980s where they
established careers as influential
painters at a time when painting was thought to have passed it's prime.
A nonprofit membership organization, the AWS has expanded from a small group of 11 artists to what it is today — a collection of hundreds of
painters (known as «signature members»)
who have an
established style and considerable skill in this medium of the visual arts.
We will draw particular focus to contemporary
painters - such as Ellen Altfest, Eric Fischl, Josephine Halvorson, Catherine Murphy, and Lisa Yuskavage -
who have
established realism's relevance today.
We are delighted to present
established painter, Wosene Worke Kosrof (b. 1950),
who's stunning paintings use the script forms — fiedel — of his native language as a core point of abstraction, and Girma Berta (b. 1990), an award winning young artist whose work fuses street photography with fine art.
Look out for up - and - coming Chinese artist Ren Ri,
who makes geometric sculptures out of beeswax by manipulating bees; Su Dong Ping,
who is an older Chinese abstract
painter just starting to break out onto the international art scene; and Gatot Pujiarto, an
established Indonesian artist working in mixed media
who is also exhibiting more internationally now.
This trend among British
painters (one could also cite St Ives artists such as Roger Hilton or William Scott, as well as those from the next generation, including Gillian Ayres) was echoed in the conscious efforts of critics
who tried to
establish gestural landscape abstractions as an international movement.
«At Miami Project, visitors are met with an impressive survey of work by Modernist masters, providing fairgoers with the unique opportunity to acquire works or engage with exhibitions by
established painters, sculptors and photographers
who have shaped major artistic movements.»
At Miami Project, visitors are met with an impressive survey of work by Modernist masters, providing fairgoers with the unique opportunity to acquire work by truly
established painters, sculptors, and photographers
who have shaped major artistic movements.
Edward Clark's abstract expressionist tondo The Big Egg (1968)
establishes the artist among the earliest American
painters to experiment with oval forms (later explored by artists like Jasper Johns), while works by the 1970s black artist collective AfriCOBRA —
who operated loosely as the visual arts arm of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominence.
John Zinsser and Ruth Root are
established, mid-career
painters who have both arrived at just such a juncture of experimentation and branding.
An excellent show that
establishes 108 as a emerging contemporary
painter who is able to create intense images with the subtlest of images.
Named for English Romantic
painter J.M.W. Turner, the prize was
established in 1984 by the Patrons of New Art, a group of donors associated with the Tate Gallery
who sought to promote new developments in contemporary art.
William Merritt Chase,
painter and teacher,
who helped
establish the fresh colour and bravura technique of much early 20th - century American painting.
William Merritt Chase, (born Nov. 1, 1849, Williamsburg [now Nineveh], Ind., U.S. — died Oct. 25, 1916, New York, N.Y.),
painter and teacher,
who helped
establish the fresh colour and bravura technique of much early 20th - century American painting.
The Eight, group of American
painters who exhibited together only once, in New York City in 1908, but
who established one of the main currents in 20th - century American painting.
In 1855, a bequest by the Basel art dealer Samuel Birrmann (1793 - 1843)
established a significant fund to purchase contemporary Swiss art, an early acquisition of which was a large group of paintings by the Basel artist Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901)-
who was, along with Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), the greatest Swiss
painter of the 19th century.
Among these individuals were Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann
who escaped Hitler's Reich and
established themselves as influential art teachers and theorists in New York; Erwin Panofsky, a founding father of the academic discipline of Art History in its modern form,
who taught at New York and Princeton Universities; prominent German Surrealist
painter Max Ernst and the primary theorist of Surrealist movement André Breton,
who fled the occupied city of Paris; and Piet Mondrian and Ferdinand Léger,
who brought their unique pictorial modes as their only luggage.
Knutson's conviction may not convince an
established guard of critics
who have long rejected the
painter.
Jacquette is a journeyman
painter who, along with a dedicated cadre of artists like Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz and Chuck Close, has
established a type of realist rebuttal to the trends of abstraction that have dominated the cutting edge of discourse in New York painting since the early «40s.