Sentences with phrase «figural drawings»

Marcel Dzama's work to date has been heavily defined by a prolific series of figural drawings produced in graphite, pen and ink, watercolor, and root beer wash.

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But he does not hesitate to offer figural readings of the Bible, drawing on patristic, medieval, and Reformational patterns of interpretation.

Among all the abstraction, there are some figural pieces and phenomenal drawings on auction in Paris.

While still retaining an interest in architecture and urban landscape, Marca - Relli experimented with abstract collage, integrating figural elements made from textiles, drawings, metals, and plastics: this would become the defining practice of his career.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

Pensato is less interested in the cartoons and comics these figures emerge from than the way these characters are drawn, and her depictions expand and exaggerate the most basic marks of figural form: here, the eyes of Felix the Cat loom large, disembodied and delineated in thick, brushy strokes.

Richard Loftis August 14 - October 15, 2000 This selection of work from Lee's Summit, Missouri, photographer Richard Loftis draws from his diverse essays on Vietnam, classic aircraft, and figural studies.

Jackson's often large - scale paintings blend figural elements of bodies pointing, kneeling, drawing, and playing instruments with colorful abstract compositions and vigorously worked surfaces.

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.

The drawings Study of Aldo I and Study of Aldo II, both 2015, play with inverted value by making routine figural sketches into rich studies in tone and density, electrified by her use of white charcoal.

In her second gallery solo exhibition, Michelle will debut a series of seven acrylic - on - linen paintings that extend her text - based drawings into new figural ground.

The drawing / scraping into the «skinny jeans» paintings with a palette knife reveal the vibrant colors underneath and present a comic (unstable) image — along with the ambiguity of a possible lurking figural presence, the psyche of the painting.

An iterative figural borrowing from one composition to the next emphasizes the body as a form of drawing, cueing the «graphic» in choreography.

As Browne drew attention to the transfer of three - dimensional objects to two - dimensional planes using bright shades of blocked color and the stylized treatment of his figural subjects, he explored his interest in the relationship between art and nature.

Russell Maycumber's work shifts between drawing and sculptural objects that hover between the architectural and figural.

With abstract forms drawn from the female body, Tracy Thomason explores material and figural transformation through collage, drawing, and painting.

Figurative Futures aims to explore the mythology and evolution of figural art realized through a wide - ranging collection of inventive painting, sculpture, installation, jewelry, fiber arts, drawing and mixed media.

Golub, who always painted in a figural style, drew upon diverse representations of the body from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, to photographs of athletic competitions, to gay pornography; often pulled directly from a huge database he assembled of journalistic images from the mass media.

That same loud and voluptuous defiance of time and mortality is broadcast loud and clear by Harriette Joffe in figural works on a bold scale, such as Blue Maya, a secure life drawing rendered in monumental splendor with electric flashes of bright blue and pink to put to rest any sense of the «dying of the light.»

The works bequeathed to the Frick transform the museum's holdings in drawings, enlarging them by nearly a third, while complementing the permanent collection's focus on landscape and figural subjects.

Gilliam's paintings and drawings from graduate school in the late 1950s until his first one man exhibition in Washington in 1963 were primarily figural abstractions employing bold, dark colors of a brooding nature reminiscent of the works of German Expressionist Emil Nolde.

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.

Brand - New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s explores a formative decade of work for the painter, excavating the inspiration Katz drew from art historical predecessors, the early innovations in figural depiction, and the first portraits of his future wife Ada.