Sentences with phrase «figurative painting practice»

Claire Tabouret's Sitting, 2016, is a group portrait characteristic of her figurative painting practice.

«Fear and Loathing in American Suburbia» has long been the topic of Eric Fischl's figurative painting practice.

Hahn, for the exhibition, continues her investigation with traditional concerns in her figurative painting practices while creating environments of psychological landscapes in the female mind and body.

Independent art critic and curator Sacha Craddock discusses figurative painting practices in the context of the exhibition Figuratively Speaking curated by Marcelle Joseph.

Not exact matches

In the Company of Alice presents portraits and figurative paintings by a diverse group of artists - some established and some emerging, some for whom portraiture is the crux of their practice and others for whom creating a portrait has been a new exercise.

She returned to New York in the early 1970s, where her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation.

The RA's exhibition explores Diebenkorn's practice across four decades, focusing on the three different stages of his career from his initial embrace of abstraction in the early 1950s, his shift to figurative painting in the mid-1950s, and his return to abstraction in the late 1960s.

I learned early on that while most people know Barkley for his figurative paintings, he considered his practice much wider - ranging in nature, including landscapes and photography.

Clayton Colvin Clayton Colvin has developed a practice of painting that is both challenging and seductive, using a hybrid of figurative and abstract approaches to create delicate, fantastic, and concrete spaces - the immediate and intimate nature of drawing infusing his paintings and ceramics with an hypnotic mix of familiarity and mystery.

His studio practice involves animated gifs, figurative painting, social media, early cinema, computer glitches, theatrical design, culinary exploration, alchemy, and folk magic.

Insogna's devotional ceramic cauldrons reference scrying - an ancient form of divination, are paired with colorful abstract and symbolic figurative paintings to evoke a history of ritual practice.

His broad practice, which ranges from figurative painting to film and performance, explores the complexities of the flawed, yet enduring myth of the American West.

«My artistic practice is based in figurative oil painting and is motivated by my interest in human experience and behaviour.

Well known for large stylized figurative paintings with elements of abstraction, his studio practice has evolved to include directed abstraction in intimately scaled paintings.

He uses the black to outline and separate the colours, thus enhancing their intensity in the way that the Expressionists did, and as he had practiced in the figurative paintings he had done in 1948; he learned from looking at Rouault and the German Expressionists...»

Pairing a figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.

She returned to New York in the early 1970s, when her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation.

While his practice has remained consistent throughout the years, with the re-emerging prominence of figurative painting around him, his work feels timely (and timeless).

According to de Kooning, «the key to his self - discovery» was the «hundreds of tiny sketches on small pads, menus, napkins, envelopes, on the backs of bills, on any scrap of paper around a park, cafeteria or studio».10 Kline had created these in private and in parallel to his more formal and public practice of figurative painting.

Rather than conforming to the era's dominant trends of pop art and conceptualism, he defied expectation by turning instead to figurative painting — unfashionable in London at that time — and began to develop a unique painterly practice informed by diverse art historical precedents.

ARTIST SUMMARY Cristina Gonzalez's figurative works are rooted in the practice of drawing and painting.

Inspired by Kelly, Clark left his earlier figurative practice, and experimented with biomorphic hard - edge painting.

Adhering to this belief in her studio practice, the 2015 MacArthur Award winner refuses to limit herself to any one way of making: in the three decades since graduating from RISD, she has created eye - opening figurative paintings, prints and sculpture teeming with social significance.

Subsequent exhibitions include Inter + Vista, an exploration of contemporary vignettes via figurative and formalist practices, shown at L + M Arts, Los Angeles in 2013 and most recently «Colony», a series of paintings depicting the conditioned movements of a group of young adults ensconced in the setting of anonymous apartments, exhibited at Galerie Haas in Berlin in 2016.

Simon's artistic practice is informed by an academic interest in theoretical ideas behind abstraction in art and explores the act of transformation of figurative elements in painting into abstract planes.

About The Artist From figurative painting, collage and installation to cartography and picture - book making, Oliver Jeffers» practice takes many forms.

An alumna of the New York Studio School in the 1970s, where she was mentored by influential artists including Mercedes Matter and Joan Mitchell, Pensato challenged the school's strict figurative life drawing practice and painted directly from cardboard cut - outs, dolls and photographs as a replacement for the traditional fruit of still lifes.

The fact that New York - based Casteel's work graces the cover makes a statement about the significance of her emerging practice and the fresh perspective she brings to figurative painting.

Working across the practices of painting and photography, Sitar's work is distinguished by its subtle fusion of abstract and figurative elements.

Free of external narrative and made tangible purely through the power of the medium, Bound Over to Keep the Faith is emblematic of one of the most distinctive practices in contemporary figurative painting.

Eisenman's continual representation of women (both «butch» and «femme») and female love not only imbues the practice of figurative painting with an audaciously queer bent but also recasts art history in a feminist light.

The complex, internecine role of community in defining artistic practice speaks to larger issues around the critical viability of figurative painting today.

Early figurative works on paper and in bronze welcome visitors to YSP's Longside Gallery, revealing the fascinating evolution of practice and underscoring the «shock» of Caro's early painted steel works in the main space, such as Month of May (1963).