After fifteen years of acclaimed abstract painting, he began creating large - scale nudes and other
figural images, often in grisaille or a severely restricted color palette.
Not exact matches
These contri - butions remind us that in our digital era — marked by a satu - ration of
images — contemporary practices are perhaps more
figural than figurative, and that expressiveness is to be thought as a critical tool rather than the testimony of an ever uncertain subjectivity.
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.
Roth also made more
figural and
image - based mixed - media assemblages in shadow - box frames, and included collage elements in some of his paintings.
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.
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.
Varied subjects, such as
figural fragments, drapery, and architectural relief appear on a typical single Baroque study sheet for the sake of economy and for the rehearsal of an
image.
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.
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.»
Also, Laura Owens» evocative
figural painting and Franz West's expressive abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series of works that preserve the presence of the present with
images of his own physicality.