Sentences with phrase «figural artist»

An emphasis on materials and process is evident today in the wildly different methods of figural artist Dana Schutz and abstractionist Mark Grotjahn.

Davis» pictorial storytelling and artistic family tree are the subject of two new exhibitions at the Meadows Museum of Art, revealing how Davis shaped 21st - century American art, from comic books to animation and puppetry, through the figural artists he inspired.

Not exact matches

Selected by curator Lauren Cornell and artist Ryan Trecartin, the 150 works by 51 artists and collectives include paintings of humanoid heads warping amid patterned fields (Sascha Braunig); a 3 - D - printed figural sculpture of artist Juliana Huxtable (Frank Benson); and an aquarium housing two coral - encrusted letters E (Antoine Catala), obliquely referencing an emotional relic from our analog past - empathy.

These works are less widely recognizable than his women, presenting a significant shift in the career of the artist with his move away from more evocative (and often figural) paintings of the 1950s.

Ron Mueck, an Australian artist known for his hyperrealistic figural sculptures, has created his largest work to date.

Focusing on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

• A superb bronze figural inkwell by the Nuremberg artist Peter Vischer the Younger, on loan from the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, whose decoration evokes the carpe diem theme with an inscription urging its viewers to «reflect on life, not death.»

Number 7 represents a shift in Pollock's style: rather than dripping, the artist used turkey basters to apply black paint in both abstract and figural forms.

Entitled Tworkov Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke to express a subject, much like in figural representation.

The thirty - nine artists participating in this year's NAP broadly span the spectrum of varying themes in contemporary painting, including figural representation, material studies, optical abstraction and spatial depictions, while continually redefining the limits of formal categorization.

Like her husband, Gwendolyn Knight preferred creating figural compositions rather than the Abstract Expressionist paintings that other artists of her generation embraced.

And as Basquiat sped towards international acclaim, the skull took its place among a number of figural forms — crowned kings and athletic champions, to name but two — through which the artist channelled his new identity.

The 13 works on view highlight the formal similarities between the artists» work and illustrate a parallel shift in their conception of pictorial space — from a figural abstraction to a new sense of openness and expansiveness.

The Time Is Now features artists who represent a variety of positions on the spectrum from figural representation to abstraction, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Hannelore Baron, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Deborah Butterfield, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Gertrude Greene, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Alice Trumbull Mason, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, Irene Rice Pereira, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Kaye Sage, Janet Sobel, Nancy Spero, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, Charmion von Wiegand, and Claire Zeisler.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

This show presents work by more than a dozen artists (all of whom are also curators, and / or have run or currently run spaces of their own) in a range of media that covers several bases: conceptual and abstract art, figural painting and drawings, and political pieces.

But the acclaim faded, done in by a combination of Senator Joseph McCarthy's wave of repression, by Sharrer's adherence to figural art in the face of the dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and «60s, and by the fact that the artist was a woman.

Through multidisciplinary approaches sculptor Abdulrazaq Awofeso, mixed media artist Vivien Kohler and photographer Ralph Ziman, have visually orated and challenged the continent's socio - political, socio - economic and humanistic dynamics through the figural depictions in their work.

These artists, as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.

The works in Beyond the Spectrum attest to the array of approaches and styles within American abstraction, and they challenge two persistent tendencies: to conceive of abstraction as the purview of white artists and to limit notions of authenticity to figural representations of African American culture where black artists are concerned.

Marginalization within a male - dominated art world was a shared experience among women artists, but Neel's dedication to figural representation in the era of abstraction compounded her invisibility.

Martin, whose work is currently on view at the Whitney's figural - painting show «Flatlands,» has become a buzzy emerging artist for these perplexing images, and now, at Bodega, he'll show more of them in a show titled «Eczema Song,» which, if its loopy press release is any proof, will be as weird and hypnotic as anything else he's done.

The Time Is N ♀ w features artists who represent a variety of positions on the spectrum from figural representation to abstraction, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Hannelore Baron, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Deborah Butterfield, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Gertrude Greene, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Alice Trumbull Mason, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, Irene Rice Pereira, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Kaye Sage, Janet Sobel, Nancy Spero, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, Charmion von Wiegand, and Claire Zeisler.

Whether the subject is love, color, unusual figural poses, life issues or personal content, viewers will recognize the core of each artist's work in this expansive exhibit.

The influence of post-war figural painters such as Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon is evident in the artist's fleshy, abstracted figures.

When these far - flung artists came of age, in the early 1980s, the work they are known for today — pointedly figural, quotidian in reference, resolutely sculptural — was all but unrecognizable as the shape of serious art to come.

A show currently running at MoMa Ps1 focuses on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

There, in high - powered galleries like Leo Castelli and, especially, Mary Boone, the artists Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Eric Fischl, and others created a cultural sensation with outsize, often - figural paintings that embraced the messy, the raw, and the psychologically - fraught.

In this epically titled solo show, «The Birth of Stockholm,» an antechamber of the artist's projected handwritten meditations on art and on the Swedish capital and an array of Beninese - made figural sculptures will lead into a room - size — or rather, house - like — installation.

Wheat — who cites Sue Williams, Caroll Dunham, and Willem de Kooning as her favorite artists — makes figural depictions of anonymous individuals, using a selection of vividly clashing colors and thick impasto.

While Chicago art making has historically been strongly figural and representational, the Minimalism and conceptual art movements of the 1960s had a definite impact on many Chicago - based artists who emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Kim Howells Turner Prize Row: I Love Art - the Artists Who Pass the Dr Kim Howells Taste Test Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 1, 2002; 545 words... a major influence on contemporary figural sculpture.

Referencing political and social awareness in this age of police violence and Black Lives Matter, works by the artists «traverse the psychic and spiritual landscape of Black erasure through narrative - figural styles; often negotiating high and low forms of image making.»

José Mariano de Creeft (November 27, 1884 - September 11, 1982) was a Spanish - born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women.

Whether through figural works that draw one into frame - encapsulated universes, or harnessing multimedia propositions that imprison robust tactility and light and space, the artists draw attention to the discrete life worlds of captured forms.

With the summer presentation of Koi No Yokan each selected artist will have the opportunity to present conceptual deviations in compliment to the figural program.

On view at Ferrin Contemporary is «EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes,» an exhibition of figural ceramic sculpture from 1970 to the present, which features masterworks from estates and private collections, alongside recent work direct from artist studios.

Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in figural sculpture, painting, and animation.

Opening: Anna Glantz at 11R Anna Glantz's quaint - looking paintings take the figural impulse of many young artists right now and move it toward an emotional end.