Projecting the uncanny quality of fairy tales and horror movies, van Meene peoples her images with somnabulent girls, headless bodies,
faceless figures and solitary young women encapsulated in empty, luminous rooms.
They are
faceless figures which grip the spectator with staring body orifices.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared the work that shows two
faceless figures having sex in a car «pornographic» and the exhibition was hotly discussed in local newspapers.
While
these faceless figures serve as stand - ins for the Panthers» underpublicized community work, there's also a looming specter of hidden forces that subverted the organization: COINTELPRO, blackmail, and internal strife.
On view is a series of simple, untitled line drawings from Mr. de León's «Homo - Logo» series showing
faceless figures in a variety of positions, including looking in the mirror and lying on the floor.
At Frieze New York, Jorge de León, who is based in Guatemala, is exhibiting untitled line drawings from his «Homo - Logo» series, which shows
faceless figures in a variety of positions.
These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by
faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.
Not exact matches
Constructed of a small pinewood box turned on its side, the diorama featured five
faceless wooden
figures, huddled together beneath a ring of barbed wire.
The motif of a
faceless, imaginary spaceman following the boy around is overly precious, but what does work is Tipping's focus on sensitive boys hardening in reaction to their father
figures (or lack thereof).
Appropriately, «Rumble» ends at Standing Rock, North Dakota, with the sight of indigenous people protesting the Keystone pipeline, confronted by
faceless authority
figures who look ready to beat them down.
When a
faceless body is found in a garage, it's up to Inspector Meredith (a man) to
figure out where the clues lead, and the result is a meticulous and lively police procedural.
Suspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and
faceless in the media, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility, Love Story reflects on the callousness of a media - saturated culture in which identification with fictional characters and celebrity
figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity.
There are labyrinths of bent oil refinery pipes floating unanchored through space,
faceless elephants dancing with ribbons, birds with tiaras carrying stained
figures of
faceless people, and many more fascinating stories.
Certain key motifs appear over and over: skinny legs that seem to have been de-boned, piles of old shoes, cartoonish and clunky, clocks with one hand, low hanging light bulbs and, again and again, these hooded
figures that may be Klansmen or something more personally emblematic: the masks that artists, like all of us, hide behind; the disguises we don to face or shy away from the world; the evil, banal and
faceless, that lurks within us all.
While the three artists» works in this exhibition have few formal associations, KAWS as the collector, sees commonalities underlying Wirsum's whimsical and brightly colored
figures, Gokita's sleek grayscale
faceless portraits, and his own meticulous, brightly - colored paintings.
KAWS» deep black Michelin - like
figure CHUM (2009) stands determinedly next to graphic paintings by Gokita, offering his protection to the naked and
faceless vulnerables posed in the images, while ACCOMPLICE (2010)-- a matte black toy bunny sculpture with large Xs covering his eyes — stands hunched in defeat across the room, out of sync with the bright canvases that surround him.
The
figures in Fallah's portraits are
faceless, their forms are composed of fabric patterns, objects and details associated with each individual family member.
Faceless female
figures appear to be shameful of their exposed bodies, but at the same time seem oblivious to the viewer's gaze.
Even in her «
faceless» portraits (in which facial features are obscured), the
figure's characteristic stance was immediately identifiable to acquaintances.
Critics have used the word «isolated» to describe the singular, stark, existential
figures, often
faceless and timeless, that Oliveira painted in those early years.
Ominous clouds and landmasses, monks, ears, mysterious female
figures,
faceless busts and other enigmatic characters float over craggy and rolling landscapes.
Firelei Báez's large - scale works on paper visualize mythical feminine creatures, imagining the man - eating Ciguapa and other
figures through oozing,
faceless contortions and dissolving silhouettes.
These new works highlight the generic ways in which the female nude continues to be visualised (each
figure is pointedly
faceless, and one has censorious anonymising black lines across her breasts and eyes).
Whereas at a glance his easily identifiable, vibrant paintings with their dynamic compositions may seem simply aesthetically pleasing, their deliberate beauty is a critique on society's preoccupation with materialism and superficiality, as beneath this façade lies the true meaning of his work: each
figure is depicted as indifferent,
faceless satires defined entirely by the folds of their gowns and the glitter of their jewelry.
VITRINE Gallery is next door to a supermarket, cinema and luxury apartments, which means these CG
figures I'm working with perform this double function, being at once totally readable as models of selling ideas, products even but also as
faceless and unreadable.
The
figures in his larger paintings were
faceless and lonely, mostly in his trademark black and white, although the artist included patches of color for the first time this year.
«So some nameless,
faceless key - punching bureaucrat gets to make up some
figure, add on interest charges and penalties to that arbitrary
figure, and then officially threaten me with all kinds of penalties and legal action just to get my attention, I assume?.»