Sentences with word «figuration»

Ida Applebroog's multi-paneled narratives herald the resurgence of figuration out of the austerity of minimalism in «Broken Stories.»

Observing the world through women's eyes and utilizing the no - man's - land land between figuration with abstraction, Brown is creating an oeuvre that's unique and easily recognizable.

Over the past fifteen years Havekost has established himself as one of the most exciting young painters to explore the limits and implications of figuration in contemporary art.

We will conclude our offsite exhibition program with Figuration in American Art: Selections from the Danforth Art Permanent Collection at North Hill, through March 2018.

Pared - down aesthetics and the desire to move away from figuration in a manner reminiscent of minimalism, as well as spontaneous acts of expression and working with the physical limitations of materials as in abstract expressionism, coexist in Korean Monochrome.

Bell's quirky style of figuration as well as her devout Catholicism inspired Grant's lively and poignant suite Easter's Best (2013), five medium - size, acrylic, ink and colored pencil drawings on watercolor paper.

It may come as a surprise that Rashid Johnson's show «Anxious Men,» on view through December 20th at the Drawing Center, features some of the artist's first forays into figuration outside of his photographs and films.

«Her View: The Bay Area Figuration of Gail Chadell Nanao.»

Bowman's exhibitions for the Milwaukee Art Museum included New Figuration in America (1982); Philip Pearlstein: A Retrospective (1983); Warhol / Beuys / Polke (1987); Word as Image: American Art, 1960 - 1990 (1990); and Jim Nutt (1994), all of which traveled nationally, and O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection which traveled to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Sante Fe and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2001 - 2002.

Often referred to as «post-apocalyptic» in their aesthetic, these works combine figuration with abstract architectural elements and a sense of landscape.

In five year's time, «The Ten» would part ways: Rothko and Gottlieb abandoned figuration for a new style, Abstract Expressionism.

Sheldon Tapley reviews the exhibition Narrative Figuration at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati on view through June 5, 2011.

The influential exhibition shifted the discussion away from conceptualism to focus on figuration by arguing that what many of the most interesting contemporary artists — Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley — had in common was their reimagining of the body.

It wasn't easy for the Dublin - born Sean Scully to make the abstract work that he did in the 1980s; given the trend toward figuration at the time, he was paddling hard against the tide.

The exhibition New Figuration at Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery in Beijing presents works by the artists Chen Han, Guo Hongwei,...

This kind of beauty can typically be found in figuration by such artists as kindred spirit Petah Coyne, whose Mishima's Spring Snow, 2015 is exhibited by the long running Galerie Lelong.

Pilkington's work explores abstraction through figuration, investigating the... Read more»

«David Park: Personal Perspectives» and «The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism»: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday and noon - 5 p.m. Sunday.

The realities of the American «sexual revolution,» prompted her to turn her practice towards figuration with a series of «sex paintings» with the intention of exploring female autonomy and sexuality amidst the cultural landscape of Second - wave Feminism.

The artist abandons figuration with thick, painterly passages framing the top and bottom of the vertically - oriented composition.

Including original texts from a diverse roster of contributors, this catalogue provides important new scholarship on the period, examining production by artists across the globe who were simultaneously confronting radical cultural and political developments that would lay the foundation for the emergence of an art form embracing figuration, media strategies and mechanical processes with a new spirit of urgency and / or exuberance.

Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper - Realism on the other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or Figurative Abstraction?»

On view is the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.

The painting, titled «Portrait of Z. Sharkey,» is an exceptional example of Tworkov's abstract figuration which dominated the artist's oeuvre during the late 1940s.

Like Calder, whose abstract stabiles make playful allusions to the natural and animal realm, Joel Shapiro explores the metamorphic possibilities of geometric figures and forms, referencing the human body, spirit and gesture as he merges figuration with abstraction.

It was the artist Francis Bacon who always considered his work to exist in the middle ground between figuration art and abstraction.

These artists use figuration to create scenes of solitude, power, intimacy or vulnerability that implicate the viewer as either intruder or audience.

Picasso-esque in form, these works blend figuration with a Modernist abstraction, producing a vibrant, enchanting effect.

Procession considers the complexity of Lewis» art in its entirety: It examines the role of figuration within Abstract Expressionism, considers how Lewis integrated social issues with abstraction, and highlights the surprising and expressive palette the artist championed throughout his career.

**** An iconic figure of postwar painting in New York, Jackson Pollock produced this work when he returned to a form of abstracted figuration after creating his completely nonrepresentational drip paintings in the late 1940s.

The pendulum has now swung away from the cool, abstract and geometric art of Noland's generation and the Minimalist painters who followed them, and toward expressive figuration practiced by such artits as Julian Schnabel (MATRIX 52), Francesco Clemente (MATRIX 46) and Georg Baselitz (MATRIX 70).

Millei has explored figuration in the past with his Procession paintings from 1997 - 2006, which were highly abstract as well as in 2009 with a series called Woman in a Chair (after Picasso).

Working with both classical figuration as well as experimental conceptualism, his exhibitions - as seen here - are visually dense and aesthetically expansive.

As the museum notes, his practice melds figuration, abstraction and decoration and Ofili flexes his muscles in each of these areas, powerfully incorporating all three in one canvas after another.

Having worked with with constructed, geometric and architectural forms from the late 1950s onwards, William Tucker had already begun to turn towards figuration when a visit to Italy in 1981 had a revelatory impact on his work.

As for the paintings, Pundyk moved away from incorporating figuration into abstraction for her «Revolution» series.

All played pivotal if very different roles in turning sculpture away from traditional figuration and toward new relationships with found objects, materials, process, color and the viewer's space.

Resembling propaganda posters and executed in her signature style mixing figuration with abstraction, the works «offer sincere portrayals that counter how black life is represented in the mainstream media.

But it's also a reminder of why Guston moved on to fleshy, cartoonish figuration in the last decade of his life — this show inadvertently makes the case that abstraction became a dead - end, or perhaps circuitous cul - de-sac, from which Guston desperately needed an exit.

Traces of figuration make the job of viewing Regatta easier.

Fafi and Miss Van are among the most influential street artists in Europe, creating pop figuration from a woman's perspective.

«Black Figuration on Blue» by Robert Motherwell, 1950.

Contemporary expressionist figuration is sometimes called «neo-figurative art».

The Tobias» introspective and oblique woodcuts lovingly embrace eccentric figuration, geometric abstraction, and the typographic.

The paintings serve as a continuation of the sculptural, war - like figurations which are part of a new series of work entitled «The Dawning of an Aspect.»

Like many young artists today, Alex Chaves seems to view painting and early Modernist figuration as full of potential, and he argues the case convincingly in his New York solo debut at Martos.