Sentences with phrase «figurative painters in»

For nearly a decade now, Jenny Morgan has been one of the more fascinating and adventurous figurative painters in the US

Interestingly I see abstract painters having to compete with the best of figurative painters in a way that I don't seem to see abstract sculptors having to compete with figurative sculptors.

A forerunner of abstracted, expressionist painting, particularly amid the more conservative Los Angeles figurative painters in the late 1930s, Burkhardt nonetheless based his experimentation on a solid artistic foundation.

Part of a group of contemporary figurative painters in New York (including John Currin, Will Cotton, and Lisa Yuskavage), she is also associated with Pop Surrealism.

Stefan Szczesny September 13 — October 9, 2012 The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a young generation of bold figurative painters in the German - speaking world who came to be known as «Neue Wilde.»

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

Born in Dublin, Scully began his career as a figurative painter in London, in the years when Freud and Bacon still dominated Britain's art climate.

I was a figurative painter in college.

I see myself as essentially a figurative painter in the European tradition, attempting to maintain my craft at the highest level, using paint to explore issues of truth, meaning and value.

She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for best young figurative painter in 2012.

Oliveira came into prominence as a figurative painter in the late 1950s, counter to the dominant Abstract Expressionist trend.

She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters coveted John Koch Award for Best Young Figurative Painter in 2012.

Alex Katz emerged in the 1950s as a figurative painter in an age of abstraction, challenging critics who shunned imagery in art, especially the figure.

Entering this space evokes the experience of stepping into a painting, informed by Baggesen's formal training as a figurative painter in the Netherlands in the 1990s (she studied at the Rijksakademie from 1996 — 1997 under painter Luc Tuymans).

Not exact matches

Jim Morphesis, a painter of expressionistic figurative works, also based in Los Angeles, continues to use oils in his signature palette, including cadmium reds, although he knows chronic exposure to cadmium can lead to kidney damage and other problems.

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

As is typical, many galleries are bringing out the big guns for the new season — from Agnes Martin at The Pace Gallery in New York to a well structured survey of Bay Area figurative painter, Nathan Oliveira, at John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.

Both Yiadom - Boakye and Los Angeles - based Taylor explained why they prefer to be called «figurative» painters and how politics factors in their work:

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.

Soon after the show closed in New York, the figurative painter Kenneth Hayes Miller also found the show explosive, but in a positive way: «It set off a blast of dynamite in a cramped space — it blew everything wide open.

MB: I am sure that the painting from Cluj is associated with the term Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the «old masters» have become key reference points for many contemporary painters.

For Russian born Brooklyn - based painter Vera Iliatova, the floral and figurative are interspersed in dreamscapes.

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

The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades.

His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications.His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Syd Bee is a Seattle - based painter that creates figurative paintings that often appear to exist in a dreamlike state.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

Over in Europe, I am following the figurative painter Marwan, who originally hails from Syria; though in his 80s, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

He had his notorious show that followed in 1970, in his late fifties, and it announced the isolation of not just a figurative painter, but also of age.

Midwest Painters Demonstrate Realism and Its Discontents By Jud Yalkut Taking its cue from Sigmund Freud's treatise on psychology and civilization, the current exhibition by the Midwest Paint Group tackles the place of realism and figurative art in contemporary times.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish figurative elements duking it out with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.

Duly Noted Painters, Kurtis Ceppetelli and Matthew Malone, present a new series of figurative drawings titled In the Flesh.

I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other generations of contemporary figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.

British painter Lucian Freud is a great figurative artist with an immense following who was always going in and out of style in his 70 years of working.

Ann Gale is a Seattle - based figurative painter engaged in an intense observation of her subjects.

While conceptual artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Cornelia Parker, and Tacita Dean engaged the public (in one way or another) with cheeky videos and installations, painters were smitten with large - scale figurative work.

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.

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.

His pictures stand between abstraction and figuration and he is, in his own words (which he has tired of hearing thrown back at him) a figurative painter of emotional situations.

She is a figurative painter who works in oils.

The show brings together three figurative painters, spanning three generations, to consider who has a voice, who authors and figures prominently in history.

David Park (March 17, 1911 — September 20, 1960)[1] was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.

The exhibition will give a rounded view of Neel's career, showing her to be a radical painter in the figurative tradition — which was unjustly eclipsed in a period of high abstraction.

The American figurative painter was born in 1900.

WHAT IT IS: $ 627,000 AIM: To foster contemporary figurative art, as in the style of the late Russia master painter Arkady Plastov ELIGIBILITY: Any contemporary artist working in the figurative style.

April 8 Joe Forkan is a figurative and landscape painter who lives and works in Southern California.

After prepping at what was then called the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design), he moved on in 1962 to Pratt Institute, where his teachers included Richard Lindner, Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz, all major figurative painters.

Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.