Each class becomes a community of
figurative artists whose interest in storytelling encompasses all 21st - century media: graphic and illustrated novels, children's books, comic books, and painting series for gallery walls.
Caesar was
a figurative artist whose subject matter focused on the female figure.
Scott Hunt is
a figurative artist whose discipline is works on paper, specifically charcoal and pastel drawings.
Alex Katz is an American
figurative artist whose works have been shown worldwide.
Not exact matches
Couturier was born in Dieppe, Normandy and is an
artist whose works display bold
figurative lines of the «Jeune Painture & q...
DEBORAH PASWATERS A Visual and Multi-Media
artist whose Abstract /
Figurative style conveys the human figure via her evolving creations.
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.
We thought it would be interesting to take another look at the work of the post-war
figurative painters
whose style collectively became known as the School of London — Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Leon Kossoff and R.B. Kitaj — but open up the narrative both in time and in terms of the
artists included.
Clare Bonnet,
whose painting «Scarlet Peace» is shown here courtesy of the
artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, is a Cornwall based
artist who mixes
figurative painting with abstract mark - making.
THE CURRENT GENERATION of
figurative paintings owes a debt to Kerry James Marshall,
whose 2016 multicity retrospective cemented the
artist's often - stated goal, one that is as straightforward as it is enormous: to put blackness into art history.
At the palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, the work of 12 emerging
artists is shown alongside that of their mentors, such as Yinka Shonibare RA,
whose mentee is the
figurative painter Kimathi Donkor.
After experimenting with
figurative art, Spanish - born
artist Esteban Vicente (1903 - 2001) immigrated to the U.S. in 1936, embraced abstraction and teamed up with Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning,
whose New York studio was on the same floor as Vincente's.
Napoleone cites two little - known
artists whose work has recently been added to the collection: Claudette Johnson, a Black British
figurative artist in her sixties who has been «totally ignored», and the American graphic designer and
artist Elaine Lustig Cohen who is now in her eighties.
This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based
artist Walter Askin
whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant
figurative sculptures.
The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major
artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate
figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge,
whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.
Today,
figurative painting is experiencing an unprecedented revival, with a handful of
artists who are regularly exhibiting at major institutions and galleries and
whose works are counting serious dollars at auctions worldwide.
She mentioned
artists like Antonia Eiríz Vázquez, a painter of powerfully dark Goya - like visions who died in 1995; Raúl Martínez, a Pop - inflected painter and graphic designer, who also died in 1995; and Alfredo Sosabravo,
whose vividly colored
figurative painting often combines whimsy with a social bite.
Euan Roberts is a London based
artist whose figurative paintings and illustrations have been recently causing on a stir on the capital's art scene.
Madani's
figurative paintings often feature a riotous cast of middle - aged men, balding and stocky,
whose libidinal mayhem wreaks havoc on any situation the
artist thrusts them into.
While Wurm's use of a strong word like «ethics» refers to the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza,
whose seminal text Ethics manifested the emergence of The Enlightenment era understating of human agency and autonomy, the
artist aims to question the aesthetic and
figurative extents of sculpture in terms of mimicking the reality.
Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary
artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.
Seen in contrast to abstract works in the show by, for instance, Sadie Benning, Wade Guyton and Vincent Fecteau, an
artist whose work I've long admired — all, granted, coming at formalism from very different positions — the
figurative works felt far more urgent.
With
Figurative VS Abstract, Melody Saraniti underscores the inevitable conversation between both camps by inviting painters
whose work exists mainly on one side or the other, and then asking those
artists to invite their inspirations from across the aisle.
Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary
artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence.
said Milton Avery, who influenced many
artists but
whose own work — largely
figurative though essentially about color — has been hard to place in the hierarchies of art criticism.
There is an especially immersive gallery devoted to eight radiantly colored canvases by Mark Rothko, and another nearly as intense, with seven by Barnett Newman, as well as generous pockets of paintings by Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and Philip Guston,
whose figurative 1969 «Edge of Town,» near the show's exit, designates him as the only
artist who got out alive.
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (1986) is a self - taught
artist whose creative production revolves around classic
figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner.
ANGELL GALLERY is proud to present The Anxious Body, an exhibition featuring nine
artists from Toronto and New York
whose works reflect how social media and the current socio - political climate are influencing contemporary
figurative painting.
In 1999, Thomson was the co-founder, with Billy Childish of the Stuckism art group, which set out to promote
figurative painting, in opposition to conceptual art, which they identified with the Turner Prize (
whose jury chairman was Sir Nicholas Serota) and the Young British
Artists, of which Tracey Emin (who had once been in a relationship with Childish) was a leading representative.
(São Paulo, Brazil) According to José Augusto Ribeiro, curator of the exhibition, all 20 works presented by seven Brazilian
artists — Erika Verzutti Ivens Machado, João Loureiro, Leda Catunda, Saint Clair Cemin, Sergio Romagnolo and Tiago Carneiro da Cunha — are united by the ambiguity of their conformations: are all three - dimensional,
figurative and their construction processes are easily perceived, but
whose forms have consistency or inaccurate, misshapen contours and are apparently temporary.
It represents a major change of tack for the
artist,
whose last show comprised large
figurative paintings, demonstrating a remarkable agility and versatility.»
Conceived as the companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, which explored the fragmentation of the
figurative as well as the loose and expansive nature of abstraction, this section chronicles the history of black
artists whose work relies on the drama of restraint.
Assaf Evron (b. 1977) is a Chicago - based
artist whose work investigates the dialectic between the abstract and the
figurative in a variety of media.
During March and April, George Adams Gallery will present an invitational group exhibition featuring the work of 18
artists whose work explores
figurative representation and bodily gesture.
Thomas Houseago,
whose work is amongst the best represented in the Saatchi show, is an LA - based
artist whose monolithic
figurative sculptures dwarf the viewer and freshly reinterpret sculptural practices which stretch right back to Classical times.
Instead, it includes a painter who makes
figurative work, an
artist whose practice has recently stretched from drawing to sculpture, and another whom the judges called «a modern fresco painter».
Outside the museum last week, a group of
figurative artists —
whose work never features on the Turner shortlist — held their annual protest, wearing black top hats and holding posters bearing such slogans as THE TURNER PRIZE IS CRAP.
At the Frieze fair, which opens on Friday, numerous galleries will include work by Biennial
artists: New York's Mitchell Innes and Nash, which represents Pope.L,
whose massive installation in the Whitney included hundreds of pieces of bologna affixed to the wall in pushpins, will be offering one of the
artist's (less perishable) photographs; the Los Angeles - based Night Gallery will feature works by Samara Golden,
whose installation in the Whitney, The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes, included miniature interiors and a profusion of mirrors; and Mary Mary, a Glasgow gallery, will feature a booth with works by Aliza Nisenbaum,
whose large - scale,
figurative paintings of immigrants are also included in the Biennial.
Title: Tiferet Alex Lazard is a Mexican
artist and
figurative expressionist painter
whose work has been exhibited both in Mexico and abroad.
Nancy Spero, an American
artist and feminist
whose tough, exquisite
figurative art addressed the realities of political violence, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
PaceWildenstein represents several of the hottest names in contemporary Chinese art: Zhang Huan, the conceptual
artist and photographer who is part of an
artists community outside Beijing known as the East Village, and Zhang Xiaogang, the
figurative painter
whose style is often called Cynical Realism.
The show is divided into two categories;
artists who approach the topic on a formal level through the use of highly saturated materials; and
artists whose work looks at these themes in a more
figurative way, using the female image as a point of reference, often investigating the fashion industry.
Artist Christopher Shoemaker (b. 1969) is a well listed artist whose abstract figurative and abstract impressionist paintings are in many private collections throughout the U.S., Can
Artist Christopher Shoemaker (b. 1969) is a well listed
artist whose abstract figurative and abstract impressionist paintings are in many private collections throughout the U.S., Can
artist whose abstract
figurative and abstract impressionist paintings are in many private collections throughout the U.S., Canada...
Advised for the first time by Ruba Katrib (SculptureCenter, New York) in collaboration with returning curator Fabian Schoeneich (Portikus, Frankfurt), highlights include: • An installation - performance by Lloyd Corporation at Carlos / Ishikawa in which wholesale - style «lots» of material are auctioned off to fair visitors • A new installation including a video essay by Hannah Black at Arcadia Missa, coinciding with the
artist's solo show at London's Chisenhale Gallery; • Various Small Fires recreating a site - specific variation of The Harrisons» «Survival» series, inspired by research into adapting to climate change — in this case, a proposal for the indoor cultivation of fruit trees • Kraupa - Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin) with Anna Uddenberg
whose uncanny
figurative sculptures were a highlight of the Berlin Biennial 9 (2016)
I told Eleanor that we needed some
figurative artists but
whose work had to have a strong metaphysical basis.
William H. Bailey is an American
artist, best known as a
figurative painter
whose work is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Paul Behnke is a New York - based
artist whose abstracted paintings include
figurative elements that relate to the intersection of pop culture and spirituality.
This book explores the portraiture of Elaine de Kooning, an enormously talented
artist whose widely admired body of work — both abstract and
figurative — is overdue for a contemporary reassessment.
But Hockney is also an art world - favorite
whose carefully observed portraits, optimistic studies in color, and vigorously experimental compositions are as full of life as they've ever been — and continue to influence generations of
artists at a time when we're seeing a new golden era of
figurative painting.
Paschke was known as a member of the late - 1960s Chicago Imagist movement, a group of
artists who called themselves The Hairy Who,
whose expressive style of
figurative painting was rooted in outsider art, popular culture, and Surrealism.