Sentences with phrase «fictional portraits»

In her exhibition The Firmament, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

Bestselling author Melanie Benjamin's passion for history and biography animates the lives of the iconic women she depicts in fictional portraits that explore their inner lives and unknown stories.

In 2015 Kagami presented an «intimate portrait session» performance as part of the Live section of Frieze London; the performance drew an audience of more than 2000 visitors over the course of four days and involved the artist creating fictional portraits of each visitor's penis or breasts.

Ojih Odutola's fictional portraits chronicles the lives of the two Nigerian families set against backdrops of domesticity and leisure.

She was first noticed in the»70s thanks to her «Untitled Film Stills,» fictional portraits inspired by movies and girlie magazines.

For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Ojih Odutola has created a series of fictional portraits depicting two well - to - do Nigerian families.

The side effect was that it led to divisive fictional portraits — like THE MASTER and INHERENT VICE.

The early paintings of Chicago - based artist Jim Nutt place figures in a theatrical setting, while in his later fictional portraits, characters seem to exist in a different space — that of the portrait studio.

Instead, these memorial slave castles are presented alongside works ranging from 16th - century European paintings of patrons and saints to Lynette Yiadom - Boakye's moody fictional portraits.

«Fictional Portraits painted in a style verging on magic realism create a haunting impression in Odutola's NYC museum debut.»

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye is represented by two of her distinctive fictional portraits, while Cecily Brown pays homage in her complex painterly canvases that merge abstraction and figuration, to her many art historical influences.

Drawing on the various histories of her artistic heroines, the paintings are fictional portraits inspired by everyone from spooky poet Emily Dickinson to abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner and theorist Susan Sontag — though the models she uses bear no physical resemblance to these icon references.

Organized by Assistant Curator Rujeko Hockley and curatorial assistant Melissa Lang, Odutola's exhibition entitled To Wander Determined features a series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

Though Tóibín has reservations about some scholarly speculations regarding the master's private life, he exploits these interpretations in his fictional portrait.

Because the fictional portraits seem so real, it is impossible not to become caught up in Dan and Claudette's lives and read eagerly — and anxiously - to see how their story will be resolved.

In his six previous narratives of the American empire - Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C. - he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding that is unmatched in our literature for its scope, intimacy, political intelligence, and eloquence.

To Wander Determined by Toyin Ojih Odutola, Whitney Museum, New York, NY For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

A few years ago, Kroeger shifted again from graphic design and public murals to canvas and contemporary art, creating «fictional portraits» composed of data fragments and machine parts, exploring what it means to be human in a digital world.

His fictional portraits amalgamate a range of sources, from classical sculpture to observed individuals in London's British Caribbean communities.

Since the British - Ghanaian artist Lynette Yiadom - Boakye (b. 1977) completed her studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2003, her reputation as a talented painter of fictional portraits (she does not use models) has steadily grown.

The exhibition features an interconnected series of fictional portraits that chronicle the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

In her exhibition To Wander Determined, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.