Finding himself drawn to
figurative images displaying a complexity of expression, Lawson's resulting paintings each focus on a single figure from torso up, all including faces and hands.
Not exact matches
Shot on a large format camera, Cawston's
images — whether landscape or cityscape, interior or
figurative —
display a fascination with shape, pattern, colour and texture and, coupled with metaphor and association, the poetry which these qualities can often suggest.
The drawings on
display are both representational and non-objective, with
images that include
figurative, landscape and abstraction.
Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more
figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that
displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform
images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of
images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.
For this comprehensive show at Museum Brandhorst — which features thirty - three pictures on canvas, some thirteen
display cases full of drawings, and, surprisingly, two videos — Guyton takes his formal vocabulary in new directions: «Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier» promises a journey into the dangerous shoals of
figurative images.