This summer, Tate Liverpool is going all out with (often quite grotesque) paintings of the body, exploring the fundamental problem of its location, both on canvas and in the world, by presenting a double bill of exhibitions of two key
figurative artists from the 20th century, Francis Bacon (1909 - 92) and Maria Lassnig (1919 - 2014).
Not exact matches
north wales About Blog Nick Elphick
Artist, Conceptual, Portrait,
Figurative & Wildlife Sculpture, exceptional artwork
from the heart of Wales.
north wales About Blog Nick Elphick
Artist, Conceptual, Portrait,
Figurative & Wildlife Sculpture, exceptional artwork
from the heart of Wales.
Working primarily in oil, and in a
figurative style, the
artist reflects and expands on his interactions and experiences — his work aiming to elaborate on moments
from the recent past to create personal and explorative responses.
I \'m an old - fashioned \» \ «commercial
artist \» \»
from technical illusts to cartoons, but now prefer to work in a loose
figurative style.Book illusts, T.V storyboards, human & pet portraits.
In these excerpts
from the 2004 documentary, Nicolas Carone: Pushing Tradition, Nicolas Carone discusses «the new painting» of New York City and the
artists» inquisition of space, the
figurative tradition, and pure artistic perception.
2018 —
Figurative Diaspora: The Migration of Academic Training
from Russia to China in the Service of Progressive Art, Co-curated by Mark Tansey 2017 — Piss & Vinegar: Nina Chanel Abney, Robert Arneson, Sue Coe, Robert Colescott, R. Crumb, Nicole Eisenman, Natalie Frank, Hilary Harkness, Peter Saul, Robert Williams 2016 — Now and Then: Drawings
from the 19th Century to the Present 2015 — Beautiful Beast: Ball, Cook, de Jong, Demetz, Dill, Dupont, Fischl, Fox, Mennin, King, Penny, Piccinini, Pondick, Silverthorne, Smith, Taplin, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2014 — The Big Picture, Desiderio, Fischl, Rauch, Saville, Tansey, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — Iconomancy, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — I've Got a Secret, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY 2011 — Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths 2010 — Just Off, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY 2007 — Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 — Uprising, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space, New York, NY 2005 — Primed, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2003 — The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — Space Invaders, FishTank Gallery, New York, NY 1985 - 89 — The Drawing Center, New York, NY,
Artist Curator, Responsible for interviewing
artists, portfolio reviews and initial selections for group exhibitions.
Integrated a multitude of styles and movements into a single canvas, the
artist makes compositions that are both
figurative and abstract, and a bit erotic and violent,
from a perspective that is decidedly feminine and contemporary.
Considered one of the leading
figurative artists today, Rego draws inspiration
from many sources including literature and fairy tales to create mysterious and narrative works.
A unique amalgamation of
artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest
from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of
figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by
artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.
The second half of his solo exhibition includes a series of collaborative
figurative sculptures — papier - mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff's pants and shoes holding large - scale paintings by
artists from Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta, including:
The dynamic group ranges
from young Los Angeles - based
figurative painter Becky Kolsrud to New York - based performance
artist Justin Vivian Bond to the late Austrian painter and sculptor Kiki Kogelnik.
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
Representing a stylistic transformation
from his previous
figurative practice to monumental geometric abstractions, these pieces capture a sense of the Ocean Park community of Southern California where the
artist created them between 1967 and 1988.
An amazing collection of paintings and other works
from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, traces the development of this extraordinary and inventive
artist,
from his early
figurative works to his most modern pieces.
At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago
from a group of
artists whom I now love, the
figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.
A former illustrator, Leveille has been attracted to a
figurative style of drawing and painting and has influences ranging
from Old Masters like Titian and Fragonard to contemporary
artists like Walter Robinson and Kara Walker.
Solo and group exhibitions showcase abstract as well as
figurative work
from a diverse body of
artists from the U.S., Asia, Latin America and Europe.
With galleries in Zurich (Switzerland Kunstwarenhaus Est. 2000) and Los Angeles (USA Est. 2010), Artspace Warehouse specializes in affordable international urban, pop,
figurative and abstract art
from the hottest emerging and mid-career
artists.
For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17),
artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale
figurative sculpture grown
from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.
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.
(New York, NY)-- VENUS is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Paintings
from 1956 to 1999, an exhibition of important and historic works by the renowned late
figurative painter, who remains one of the most controversial French
artists of the 20th century.
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.
From Chelsea to Bushwick, a strong showing of young
artists fill New York's galleries this fall, spanning fresh
figurative paintings, embroidered wall - hangings, and an installation that imagines a robot society.
The exhibition focuses on the
artist's methodology,
from his use of repeated systems to
figurative drawings that explore alternate means of creating an image.
What makes de Kooning such a great
artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional,
from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.
Featuring more than 100 works spanning
from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the
artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.
«NATURAL SELECTION» will exhibit
figurative and impressionistic work
from established and emerging
artists including Abby Abrams, Kirsten Benfield, Chris Butler, Kurt Giehl, Anne Holton, Mary Laspia, and Richard Udice.
NW: We are going to show a new
artist from the Netherlands, Merijn Hos, who cuts
figurative shapes out of wood and embellishes the shapes.
In a diverse, exciting exhibition each of these
artists explores a range of themes within
figurative art;
from personal histories to the influences of fashion and media.
Moving
from art - school grad to accomplished young
artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and
figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).
Turner Prize nominated
artist Lynette Yiadom - Boakye (b. 1977) known for her striking
figurative paintings of imagined characters, selects works inspired by nature
from the V - A-C collection.
Frohsin, third generation Bay Area
Figurative artist —
from the...
Also, we had Leon Golub, who did his large, partially untreated canvases, and then we went
from Arnulf Rainer to [Gérard] Gasiorowski, to Raoul De Keyser, who was then still alive and making these amazing abstract paintings, to Robert Ryman, to Malcolm Morley —
from conceptual to abstract to
figurative — to On Kawara, to Gerhard Richter, who reunites all these dimensions, to Dick Bengtsson, a tricky forgotten Swedish
artist who died young, to Ed Ruscha, to Niele Toroni.
Hepworth Wakefield is holding a highly acclaimed exhibition of the work of Polish
artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926 — 1973), which highlights how the
artist's work developed
from classically
figurative sculptures to her later, politically charged, «awkward objects».
A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by
artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move
from figurative to abstract art.
The
artist's barbershop paintings
from 2007 - 2009 are shot with color, and range
from figurative to completely abstracted, color - blocked canvases referencing the architectural perspective of the space.
As an
artist, feminist and lifelong activist, Nancy Spero researched the obscured histories of women to create a
figurative cast of characters, a kind of repertory company, culled
from many eras and cultures.
Join them in Washington, DC, April 19 - 22, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Reston, to commemorate the traditions of
figurative art and portraiture with
artists from around -LSB-...]
BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY In the «Spotlight» section, showcasing a single
artist in each booth, Bruce Silverstein is exhibiting three spectacular canvases
from the 1970s by Alfred Leslie, a painter who started off as an Abstract Expressionist and later turned to
figurative realism.
Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of
artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves
from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color
figurative paintings and drawings.
Apart
from the impact that Northern European modernist landscape and
figurative painting had on the members of the Group of Seven, the breakthrough to modern movements came in Montréal in the 1940s through efforts initiated by
artists themselves.
Best known for creating powerful, immersive, large - scale installations, Nelson selected historic and contemporary
figurative works
from the V - A-C collection for his presentation, by
artists including Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Constantine Brâncusi, Alberto Giacometti, Sherrie Levine, Henry Moore and Willem de Kooning.
Each of these vaguely
figurative shapes is based on a specific instance
from the history of visionary abstract fashion and anti-fashion created by various
artists (and two fashion designers).
«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting,
figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts
from the
artist's life.
Probably benefiting
from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same
artists, Engender shows how contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a range of abstract and
figurative strategies.
In 1989 Dora Koch, widow of Academy member John Koch (1908 - 1978), left the Academy a bequest to establish an award in art of $ 10,000 to be given
from time to time to a young
artist of
figurative work.
Belgian
artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through
figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life
from any human forms.
The exhibition presents representative survey of contemporary
figurative painting in the works of over twenty
artists from nine countries.
1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for
figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some
artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's,
from Graffiti to Street Art,
from wild cartoons to urban murals.