Sentences with phrase «figurative art work»

Figurative art work with abstract elements, depicting a woman in the foreground and The King of Bali in the background.

Early figurative art work found in cave in Southern Germany, the Venus of Hohle Fels.

Al Johnson is better known for his figurative art works.

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If abstraction is favored by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no small amount of figurative work on the scene.

My work is evolving all the time and after 35 years as a figurative artist I've recently discovered ways to express myself through abstract art which has been the most exciting and liberating experience I've had for ages.

But that may be about to change thanks to the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) which has launched the first major survey of Diebenkorn's figurative and abstract works in the UK in almost 25 years.

It features works by abstract and figurative painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.

Diebenkorn speaks of his family background and early life; his education and his service in the Marine Corps; his introduction to modernism; his early abstract work; the formation of the Bay Area figurative school and the relationship between art in New York and in the Bay Area; teaching; critical and public reaction to his work; important exhibitions of his work; vacillating between the figurative and the abstract in his painting; his working methods.

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

The Untitled Space gallery is pleased to present «SECRET GARDEN: The Female Gaze on Erotica» a group exhibition of female identifying artists exploring figurative works of nudes and erotic art.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.

DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.

Five years ago, he curated a show at Colby of such young art stars as Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who work in the same figurative territory staked out by Katz.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative aArt Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative artart.

DHC / ART is delighted to present a solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a leading international figurative artist working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their discipline.

Early figurative drawings and woodcuts, some done when the artist served in the Peace Corps, in Africa, bore witness to the acute sense of observation and refinement of means that still characterize his art, while pointing to the resonant economy of his mature works.

His work paved the way for a new generation of figurative painters, and his absence in the art world will surely be felt.»

The artist's figurative works are also featured in «Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas,» a new exhibition currently on view at the Seattle Art Museum.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

2001 10th Annual Figurative Small Works Show, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL 14th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

Even though his work is clearly figurative, it also incorporates various elements of abstract art.

The new 176 - page monograph, Edna Andrade, takes a comprehensive look at the full range of Andrade's work, from her early surreal and figurative landscapes, through several decades of Bauhaus - inspired design and the distinctive geometric patterns of Op Art, to her late - life quasi-abstract studies of the Atlantic coastline.

I think black people should always be producing figurative work because it's naïve to believe that the art world is not a part of the bigger world, and there are political implications to everything that goes on in this domain.

Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

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Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

«There are works in the figurative tradition, abstraction, works with a pop art look to it.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

America 1976 traveling exhibition United States Department of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling exhibition The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 30 Years of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

1989 Figurative Work of the 50s and 60s, Vanderwoude - Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY Don't You Know By Now, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY Ruth S. Schaffner Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Sector highlights also include a collage - like hanging of monochrome paintings by Mariela Scafati (b. 1973) at Isla Flotante; a configuration of new works that disrupt the boundary between the domestic and the natural worlds by A.K. Burns (b. 1975) at Callicoon Fine Arts; and figurative paintings by Koichi Enomoto (b. 1977) at Taro Nasu.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»

It has been difficult for art history to assimilate the figurative work of an avowedly conceptual artist such as Adrian Piper, who has painted since the mid-1960s.

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli's work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: «Over the course of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly detailed, deliriously beautiful works of both abstract and figurative art.

In these figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies within the history of art, objects and clothing, and offers a unique perspective on manufacturing, the hand - made and consumer culture.

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

Gallery artist Alex Kanevsky's work A.S. (2005) is included in the group exhibition We the People: Contemporary American Figurative Art at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ..

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

German Witch joins the ICA's important collection of art made by women, enriching the museum's strength in figurative works and expanding the holdings with a major work on paper.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

Spanning an arc to the present day, works of abstract, figurative, and textual art by Ernst Caramelle, Jimmie Durham, Douglas Gordon, Arturo Herrera, Imi Knoebel, Michel Majerus, Gordon Matta - Clark, Dan Perjovschi, Kay Rosen, Bridget Riley, Ulrich Rückriem, Kilian Rüthemann, Karin Sander, Thomas Schütte, Anri Sala, Josh Smith, Rinus Van de Velde, Alexander Wagner, Kara Walker, Lawrence Weiner, and Richard Wright have been realized directly on the walls.