Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction finds»

The exhibition's thesis on the interplay of figuration and abstraction finds four basic expressions among the featured artists.

Not exact matches

Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

In «Meta - Modern» practice there is extension and deconstruction of formalism, which blurs lines between abstraction and figuration, and employs the use of non-traditional with traditional painting materials, which is found in much of Vernacular art.

Beyond bronze, he roamed through the history of sculpture and its materials, carving in stone, working in ceramics, moving between abstraction and figuration and occasionally even using found objects.

Employing various objects he found in his studio onto canvas, Ruby tests the limits of painterly expression, while subverting visual extends of both figuration and abstraction.

Alongside this view, we can find works of many other contemporary artists, that reveal the abstraction in figuration, for example, seen last year in Santa Fe and the exhibition (Un) Real.

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

All of the polarities of West Coast art have found their way into his practice, from «cool» abstraction and the brand - newness of Pop to «hot» (abject) figuration and the used - upness of assemblage.

Combining classical influences with Neo-Expressionist features and processing themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, death and belief, Schnabel plays with both abstraction and figuration with the use of found materials, fragments of language, paint, and digital reproduction.

The multimedia work of Brazilian artist Valdirlei Dias Nunes navigates the space between geometric abstraction and figuration, using found and created objects, forms, lines and shapes to create a dialogue between all parts of his compositions.

Unlike the strict geometries found in the butterfly works, Grotjahn's face paintings appear more free and loose, exhibiting a raw energy and a greater degree of back - and - forth between abstraction and figuration.

Splitting the difference between these two approaches is a third, employed by Sue Williams, D'metrius John Rice, and Tschabalala Self, in which an even balance is found between figuration and abstraction, neither quite getting the upper hand.

Commenting on the works he brought to the fair, Centeno added, «I wanted to find a balance between figuration, gesture and abstraction, and also a feeling of human presence on the stand.»

A constellation of paintings, sculptures, and found objects, this show dramatically expands upon the artist's practice including a carefully considered investigation of color and figuration amidst his signature abstractions.

For his collages, he uses found images from cartoons, coloring books, and fairy tales, combining fragments of Disney - like characters with violent and sexual imagery to make work that borders between figuration and abstraction and subverts the innocence of cartoon referents with a darker psychology.

Expect to find landscapes presenting both interior and exterior vistas rendered in realism to abstraction plus figuration and still life.

Sometimes hyperrealist, sometimes fluidly disembodied, and drawing on found imagery and 3 - d forms, Morley's painting displays an intense, ambivalent engagement with abstraction and figuration, representation and the imaginative re-creation of the world.

Famous first as a founding contributor to Bay Area Figuration of the 1950s and early»60s - a regional counterthrust against the influence of New York School abstraction - Diebenkorn (1922 - 93) has achieved canonical stature internationally for the abstract paintings he began producing after his move to Los Angeles in 1966.

Elmer Bischoff: «Figurative Paintings» (closes on Saturday) During the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, a number of painters in San Francisco turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, thereby founding what came to be known as Bay Area Figuration.

During Abstract Expressionism's heyday in the 1950s, three artists in San Francisco turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, founding a movement that came to be known as Bay Area Figuration.

While continuing the dance between abstraction and figuration found in her previous decade of works, the new pieces move away from a more direct narrative to a more abstract, open language about painting itself.