Sentences with phrase «explored figuration»

While many artists during this time explored figuration and order, as depicted in the Guggenheim's 2011 exhibition «Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918 - 1936,» others veered in the opposite direction.

Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculinity and homosexuality through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

Even though I have a whole history of exploring figuration, I'm equally interested in abstraction.

Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculini

In his major four - panel postcard painting I Kandinsky (2012), the artist explores figuration and abstraction through vivid colors, lines, curves, and a planar composition, as if in an homage to Kandinsky.

With current institutional exhibitions exploring figuration presenting few of those contributions, «Part of the discussion was looking at art, particularly [that of] Kara Walker, who is in the show, and making [our] exhibition about that form of expression,» Villalongo says.

Not exact matches

Through exuberant works that sometimes engage the heroic gesture or make use of pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history paintings and offered new interpretations of abstraction.

As Victoria L. Valentine writes in an extended preview for Culture Type, «The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is organizing a major exhibition of three critically recognized African American artists... The exhibition will explore how their distinct approaches to figuration and history painting have recast the Western canon and challenged perceptions of race and representation in a contemporary context.»

The exhibition was a miniature retrospective, beginning with works from the late 1960s, when Dodd, like a number of her artist friends and coevals, including Alex Katz, reacted against the dominance of abstraction by beginning to explore a plainspoken, forthright brand of figuration.

Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation, Dan Colen's oeuvre explores the tensions between figuration and abstraction, the abject and the sublime, the timely and the timeless.

«RASHID JOHNSON: Anxious Men» @ The Drawing Center New York, N.Y. Over the past 15 years or so, Rashid Johnson «s practice has explored a range of themes, including «the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity.»

Under their influence, Kline began to move away from the figuration, exploring the new abstract gestural technique on the large scale paintings.

Matthew Chambers is a Los Angeles - based painter whose colourful and bold works explore the boundary between abstraction and figuration as well as the act of painting itself.

This catalog, another first, documents the Nasher show, a 10 - year survey exploring the arc of her practice which has evolved from a more painterly style to decidedly emphatic approach, mixing figuration and abstraction with a riot of bold color, symbols, and meaning.

Drawing from its collection, the museum is featuring works spanning the late 19th century to the present that «explore the practice of portraiture and figuration as a means of celebrating personal and collective histories, ideas and identities.»

Dunham has long resisted prevailing stylistic trends and consequently carved out a space for American painters to explore the possibilities of blending both abstraction and figuration.

Merz is concerned, rather, with the opposition, or the adjacency, of figuration and abstraction, and with the parallel practice of exploring diverse media.

Explore Lee Krasner's journey from figuration to abstraction through close looking at two of her works: Self - Portrait (1930) and Untitled, from the Little Images series (1948) in this gallery talk by Jenna Weiss, Manager of Public Programs.

Rezi van Lankveld (b1973, Almelo, The Netherlands) is known for exploring the tensions between figuration and abstraction in her fluid, painterly paintings.

The exhibition is the first to explore Still's striking figurative work created before World War II, which points to the significance of figuration throughout the artist's oeuvre, even in his most apparently non-representational compositions.

This was a monumental painting that incorporated many of the themes she would continue to explore during her career and which brilliantly integrated painterly figuration and mathematical abstraction, something Bartlett has continued to do throughout her career, moving back and forth effortlessly between the two.

However, for the six artists included in this exhibition the figure was still an evocative form or symbol to explore and they believed that abstraction and figuration need not be mutually exclusive.

Matthew Chambers is a Los Angeles - based painter whose colourful and bold works explore the shifting boundary between abstraction and figuration as well as the act of painting itself.

Baselitz and his German peers — including Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, and Neo Rauch — used figuration to explore the material, political, and sexual bases of humanity.

Further evolution of these Inpaintings led to the creation of pieces, specifically designed to explore the borders between abstraction and figuration, like Two Women at Table.

As the Rorschach paintings transform from beautiful abstracts to loose figurations of our own imaginations, we are simultaneously exploring the inner psyche of the artist's mind during the time of their creation — Warhol psychological self - portrait.

He boarded a bus to New York, where he enrolled at Cooper Union, and explored an oil - based expressionism and loose figuration, reminiscent of apparitions in glass.

Mr. Cox explores the possibilities of the linear stripe through horizontal and vertical repetition of color pattern, and layering, while Ms. Peters subverts ancient and classical figuration and their permutations over different styles and periods.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

She experiments with figuration and abstraction, exploring themes around pop culture, technology, and traditional painting.

Since the 1970s Merz has explored and expanded upon the threshold between abstraction and figuration in her mixed media works on paper, expressionistic clay heads and larger sculptural installations.

Often through exuberant work that engaged with heroic gesture or pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting and offered a new interpretation of abstraction.

«While his contemporaries in Leipzig are using paint to explore the various forms of figuration that characterise their «school», over in Berlin, Anselm Reyle has been doing the opposite: revisiting the pioneering abstract work of people like Otto Freundlich, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland, and giving it a disco treatment of neon, tin foil and glitter.

The exhibition closes by exploring Paolozzi's work in the late 1980s to 90s with key sculptures that demonstrate the artist's returning interest in figuration, as well as his subversive approach to conventional notions of the multiple art object.

Rather than approaching abstraction and figuration separately, the exhibition will integrate these genres to explore the continuous slippage between the two.

«Mondrian and Colour» explores Mondrian's (1872 — 1944) practice, tracing his use of colour from figuration to early abstraction.

At a time when African American artists were expected to explore the African American experience through representation, figuration, and narration, the practices of Bearden and Lawrence — their mastery and ownership of that realm — freed Whitten to chart his own path.

Charles Mayton is New York - based contemporary artist, whose paintings combine the abstract and the schematic, exploring the questions of time, language and performance in painting, straddling abstraction and figuration.

Showcasing the outstanding art graduates of 2016, selected from across the country by members of the Federation of British Artists, the exhibition will be a mix of degree shows and newly made paintings, sculptures and original prints, all exploring contemporary figuration and ideas of representation and draughtsmanship.

Figuration is consistently explored through each of Tyler's paintings, clearly referencing formal qualities utilized art historical giants Phillip Guston and Willian De Kooning.

In her often large - scale works, Alejandra Seeber (* 1968, Buenos Aires, BR, lives in New York, US) explores the diverse possibilities of painting in between figuration and abstraction.

Dare You To Look highlighted a collection of works by a diverse range of artists who embrace portraiture and figuration to explore expansive representations of identity.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.

He has often oscillated between abstraction and figuration, always with a conceptual base, and increasingly is exploring the differences between representation in western and non-western cultures.

It also prompts us to explore how it is these artists could produce significant works without recourse to identifiable subjects or figuration.

Ted Gahl's paintings ambitiously explore the territory between the extremes of figuration and abstraction.

Bristol - based fine artist Carl Melegari has just released a new body of work, which continues to explore the sensuous realm of paint, skin and figuration.

Moving between figuration and abstraction, Gorky's paintings explore the possibilities of line and geometry, slicing up drippy, thinly painted color fields with amorphous forms.

Without putting their finger on any one style, each artist explores the depths of the differences between referentiality and materiality, figuration and abstraction, addition and negation.

Through the work of five artists, the show explores the tension between figuration and abstraction, delicately balanced through the use of different mediums and often humorous expression of personal sensibilities.