Sentences with phrase «few pioneering artists»

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Throughout his career, Samaras has been a pioneer, consistently defying conventions by turning to materials and processes, including Photoshop and Polaroid film, that few artists had employed before him.

It also will present a short history of Art Projects International, established in 1993 as one of the few pioneering galleries in New York dedicated to providing a platform for contemporary artists from Asia.

We are considered to be a pioneering arts organisation having worked with notable and now influential academics, artists, curators and writers including Professor Stuart Hall (Iniva's founding Chair), Professor Kobena Mercer, Okwui Enwezor, Professor Sonia Boyce, Judith Butler, Keith Piper, Sarat Maharaj, Chris Dercon, Isaac Julien and Baroness Lola Young to name but a few.

It also means that the few quotes that have been gleaned over a career spanning five decades — first as a young artist making his way in LA, where he was influenced by West Coast conceptualists Bruce Nauman and Chris Burden, then in New York, where he became involved in the avant - garde black art scene centered around the pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown — tend to get quite a bit of recycling.

In recent years, few artists have been rethought so fully, and so deservedly, as this American pioneer.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Nancy Holt (5/4/1938 -8 / 2/2014), she is a pioneer and one of the few women artists involved in Land Art and Public Art.

As a pioneer video artist in Hong Kong, she has continuously involved elements of video and new media into her theatre work, for example, Heart to Heart, Face to Face I (1992) and the latest production Very Ghostly Grey, just to name a few.

Some Turkish superstars at the fair: The booth of ArtSümer, presenting three local artists — Gözde Ilkin, Onur Gülifdan and Serkan Demir, the magic of it being that each artist is shown each day in a solo presentation; a large painting of Yağiz Özgen at Sanatorium, one of Turkey's few truly contemporary painters; the paper works of Devran Murasoğlu selling like hotcakes at PG Art Gallery, and a drawing of Seza Paker, a pioneering figure in conceptual art, showing at Galerist.

(10) It would be better for Britain to support living artists than raise millions to save Old Master paintings from going abroad; (11) In general, buy art for pleasure, not as an investment; (12) Few video artists have improved on works by the great pioneers of video art, namely: Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas etc; (13) Blue Electric Chair is Any Warhol's best painting; (14) His favourite non-blockbuster art show was Clyfford Still's retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, NY, (Nov 1979 - Feb 1980); (15) The fact that only 5 of the last 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters, says more about curators than about the state of painting today.