Two major
exhibitions of figurative art will coincide with the symposium, for which a catalog will be published and available.
Peres Projects is pleased to present Wild Style:
Exhibition of Figurative Art, a group exhibition exploring depictions of the human figure by contemporary artists and unidentified African artists active from 200 BC to the present.
28 Jul 1997 Figuration: A New Exhibition of Works from IMMA's collection
An exhibition of figurative art from the Irish Museum of Modern Art's own Collection is now open to the public at IMMA.
Inspired by Life is an exciting
exhibition of figurative art and portraits by Colne Valley artists Abi Anderson and Kevin Threlfall.
Not exact matches
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Exhibitions including Human Figure, Anatomy, Skull, Portrait, Realism, Clay Sculpting.
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Exhibition Manager, Drawing Room Gallery), Siska Lyssens (Freelance
Arts Writer), Mark Roscoe (Portrait Artist and Winner
of the Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2017) and Karl Bielik (Abstract Painter).
2018 —
Figurative Diaspora: The Migration
of Academic Training from Russia to China in the Service
of Progressive
Art, Co-curated by Mark Tansey 2017 — Piss & Vinegar: Nina Chanel Abney, Robert Arneson, Sue Coe, Robert Colescott, R. Crumb, Nicole Eisenman, Natalie Frank, Hilary Harkness, Peter Saul, Robert Williams 2016 — Now and Then: Drawings from the 19th Century to the Present 2015 — Beautiful Beast: Ball, Cook, de Jong, Demetz, Dill, Dupont, Fischl, Fox, Mennin, King, Penny, Piccinini, Pondick, Silverthorne, Smith, Taplin, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2014 — The Big Picture, Desiderio, Fischl, Rauch, Saville, Tansey, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — Iconomancy, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — I've Got a Secret, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY 2011 — Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths 2010 — Just Off, Sloan Fine
Art, New York, NY 2007 — Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 — Uprising, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space, New York, NY 2005 — Primed, Parsons School
of Design, New York, NY 2003 — The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — Space Invaders, FishTank Gallery, New York, NY 1985 - 89 — The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Artist Curator, Responsible for interviewing artists, portfolio reviews and initial selections for group
exhibitions.
ABOUT THE
EXHIBITION Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and dean of the Yale University School of Art and former senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition and an accompanying catalogue will bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the figurative impulses that con
EXHIBITION Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and dean
of the Yale University School
of Art and former senior curator
of painting and sculpture at the Museum
of Modern
Art, the
exhibition and an accompanying catalogue will bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the figurative impulses that con
exhibition and an accompanying catalogue will bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the
figurative impulses that connect them.
Diebenkorn speaks
of his family background and early life; his education and his service in the Marine Corps; his introduction to modernism; his early abstract work; the formation
of the Bay Area
figurative school and the relationship between
art in New York and in the Bay Area; teaching; critical and public reaction to his work; important
exhibitions of his work; vacillating between the
figurative and the abstract in his painting; his working methods.
The Untitled Space gallery is pleased to present «SECRET GARDEN: The Female Gaze on Erotica» a group
exhibition of female identifying artists exploring
figurative works
of nudes and erotic
art.
DHC /
ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo
exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international
figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters
of their respective disciplines.
Selected Group
Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty
Exhibition», Evanston
Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural
Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty
Exhibition», Evanston
Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University
of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried
Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried
Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago
Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer
Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy
of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago
Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude»
Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer
Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy
of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy,
Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago
Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum
of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night
of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy
of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA
Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty:
Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude»
Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night
of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points
of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works
Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works
Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National
Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National
Arts Club, New York, NY
Curatorial projects include
Figurative Diaspora: The Migration
of Academic Training from Russia to China in the Service
of Progressive
Art, Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations
of Provocateurs, Beautiful Beast, a contemporary representational sculpture
exhibition, The Big Picture, and Now and Then: Drawings from the 19th Century to the Present, in partnership with the Dahesh Museum
of Art.
Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient
of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried
exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale
Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative a
Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and
figurative artart.
DHC /
ART is delighted to present a solo
exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a leading international
figurative artist working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters
of their discipline.
The book, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator
of Contemporary
Art at the Nasher, brilliantly presents a masterful look at the
figurative painting, a selection
of which can be seen in the next iteration
of Soul
of a Nation, which opened earlier this month at the Crystal Bridges Museum
of American
Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as in the
exhibition catalogue, available from the Tate, which features Hendricks» painting «What's Going On» (1974) on the cover.
While this
exhibition began somewhere between the vague boundaries
of figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a representation
of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course
of my own experience and personal development.
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine
Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy
exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a
figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]
More generally, the chapters
of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number
of those seminal
exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American
art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation
of the post-minimalism
of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival
of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.
Midwest Painters Demonstrate Realism and Its Discontents By Jud Yalkut Taking its cue from Sigmund Freud's treatise on psychology and civilization, the current
exhibition by the Midwest Paint Group tackles the place
of realism and
figurative art in contemporary times.
America 1976 traveling
exhibition United States Department
of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling
exhibition The Museum
of Modern
Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum
of Fine
Arts Boston, MA 30 Years
of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The
Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum
of Art Williamstown, MA
1972 Development
of Postwar Japanese
Art:
Figurative Art, The National Museum
of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan Japan
Art Festival, Museo de Ciencias y Arte de la UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico Birds Eye View
of Japanese Contemporary
Art, The National Museum
of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Japan
Exhibition of Parts, Shinanobashi Gallery Apron, Osaka, Japan Vesuvius Project, Japan Version, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galleria II Centro, Napoli, Italy Catastrophe, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan La Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy The 1st Contemporary Print
Exhibition, Institute
of Contemporary
Arts (ICA), London, England Gohyo - kai (with «Juku» members), Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Also, previously, the major retrospectives at the Whitney had showcased only recent developments in abstraction; in the case
of the New Image show,
figurative art made its way into the
exhibition.
Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the
exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early
figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political
art that emerged in the aftermath
of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.
Although all
of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development
of the
art school, this
exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a
figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.
The
exhibition's theme is closely tied to the Academy's mission
of promoting and preserving the tradition
of figurative art within the contemporary
art world.
2007 Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon Some kind
of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine
Art, Los Angeles, CA Size Matters: XS, Recent Small - Scale Paintings, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary
Art, Peekskill, NY Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow - Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Very Abstract and Hyper
Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary
Art, Athens In The Fullness
of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary
Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number
of new and never - before - seen pieces, the
exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling
of the hierarchy between design and fine
art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.
In a diverse, exciting
exhibition each
of these artists explores a range
of themes within
figurative art; from personal histories to the influences
of fashion and media.
Drawing from the
art - historical lineage
of cubism, graffiti, cartoons,
figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey
exhibition at CAPC musée d'
art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown
of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils
of human evolution.
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine
Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy
exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a
figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's immediate perception
of what he is looking at.
A selection
of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring
exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from
figurative to abstract
art.
Vivid and colorful
exhibition explores the iconic 20th century artist's signature blend
of figurative and pop
art influences
The Columbus Museum
of Art and Denver
Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major
exhibition tracing the evolution
of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced,
figurative compositions
of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.
Her achievements include First Place Abstract Painting, Second Place
Figurative Painting and Students Choice awards at the Academy
of Art Annual
Exhibition in 2010.
The artists included in this
exhibition will present a diverse selection
of works that are linked by a shared engagement with
figurative representation in contemporary
art.
2014 American Academy
of Arts and Letters: 2014 Invitational
Exhibition of Visual
Arts, NYC 2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibit 2010 Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Painting, Drawing, Sculpture Crowell's Fine At Gallery Bedford, MA Recent Work 2008 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY 2007 Verdigris
Art Hudson, NY
Figurative 2006 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY War is Over 2004 The Painting Center NYC Recent Works on Paper 2003 Morris Arlos Fine
Arts Gallery, NYC 2002 Morris Arlos Fine
Arts Gallery, NYC 2001 Morris Arlos Fine
Arts Gallery, NYC AFA Gallery, Scranton PA Five Figure Painters Hudosn Opera House Hudson, NY Recent Works 1999 New York tudio School NYC 100 Drawings 1998 The Painting Center NYC Paulson / Eisenbeis Recent Paintings 1997 The Painting Center NYC Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie Rising Tide Gallery Provincetown, MA Invitational 1996 Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY Solo Show 1995 County College
of Susssx Newton, NJ Solo Show 1994 Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, MA 1993 The Bill Race Gallery NYC Three Emerging Artists Education:
Veils
of Color, an
exhibition of unique career - spanning pairings and groupings
of both
figurative and abstract works is on view at the Michener
Art Museum through November 15th.
Through the
exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation
of the view that African American
art of the period was predominantly
figurative or representational.
Ranging from painterly abstraction to
figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson's solo
exhibition at New
Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long - standing motifs
of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his
Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black?
William Villango A»99 Has a Chelsea Solo
Exhibition The Assistant Professor and 1999 School
of Art graduate's collection
of figurative works is titled, «Keep on Pushing»
Ben Brown Fine
Arts is pleased to present an
exhibition of new paintings by Tony Bevan, one
of Britain's leading
figurative painters.
With solo
exhibitions worldwide, including a retrospective at The Museum
of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon has become renowned as one one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative a
Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon has become renowned as one one
of the world's most significant innovators
of figurative artart.
Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years
of your
art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range
of genres, modes
of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both
figurative and abstract images, and that all
of these approaches still find their place in your recent
exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).
The
exhibition also connects thematically with the NYAA's mission to promote and preserve the tradition
of figurative art within the context
of the contemporary
art world.
He curated an
exhibition for the
Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled «The Human Clay» (an allusion to a line by W. H. Auden), including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause
of figurative art at a time when abstract was dominant.
Recent group
exhibitions include Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007/08); The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2007); A Roll
of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX (2007); Remix - The Collection, Albright - Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum
of American
Art, New York, NY (2007) and Very Abstract and Hyper
Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2007).
Strange and poetic
figurative art of the Trinidad - based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in
exhibition of 120 works
Taking its cue from the resurgence
of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the
exhibition brings together mannequin - related
art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense
of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.
In so doing, this
exhibition explores the lineage
of figurative art across generations and media.