Sentences with phrase «figurative paintings in»

Do you see yourself as an underdog of sorts by making figurative paintings in the context of so much abstraction?

Andy Fabo, a native of Calgary, who has been making figurative paintings in Toronto for the past seven years.

[2] The earliest figurative paintings in Europe date back to the Aurignacian period, approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago, and are found in the Chauvet Cave in France, and in the Coliboaia Cave in Romania.

Tim Tozer, new Rosalux member, is showing his colorful abstract figurative paintings in a solo exhibit at Groveland Gallery.

Erik Thor Sandberg's six richly sculptural, masterfully executed figurative paintings in «Cyclical Nature» feature compositions both witty and, with their flagrant nudity, engagingly confrontational.

David Freeman utilizes carpets as a backdrop for his abstract expressionistic figurative paintings in the manner of de Kooning.

Born and trained in Germany, Delaunay's work ranges from early figurative paintings in the 1900s to the vibrant abstraction of the 1960s.

Artsy.net September 4, 2015 Bridget Gleeson A new exhibition of figurative paintings in Santa Fe marks a departure for David Richard Gallery, a venue that previously focused exclusively on abstract art.

Over decades, Leslie Allen's paintings have evolved from tightly rendered still life and landscapes in watercolor, to fiercely expressive abstract and figurative paintings in oil and mixed media.

Over the next two decades, she experimented with mixed media constructions and figurative paintings in pastels and oils.

In 1948, the young artist first visited Italy after having received the Prix de Rome; he returned in 1960 when his work was featured at the Biennale di Venezia, and again in 1970 as an artist in residence in Rome, following the harsh criticism surrounding his first exhibition of figurative paintings in New York.

Do you think you've gone back to figurative paintings in some way?

First International Biennale Exhibition of Figurative Paintings in Toyko, Shibuya Tokyo Department Store

There are two Deborah Oropallo figurative paintings in the dining room, a Michael Huey in a bedroom, a Jose Maria Sert painting and a Japanese sculpture by Masatoshi Izumi in the living room, along with Josef Hoffman silver collectibles dotting coffee and side tables here and there.

One could settle for a broader umbrella, and label him a figurative painter, yet that doesn't seem a perfect designation either: «I've been grappling with making figurative paintings in the last seven years,» he confesses.

Though he had primarily been making portraits and figurative paintings in the 1920s and early»30s, Vasarely's The Chess Board painted in 1935 marked the beginning of Op Art.

A new wave of figurative paintings in recent New York exhibitions prompts critical questions about which bodies we depict, for whom and to what end.

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

Though tempting, it would be too easy, and crass, to say that there are also too many figurative paintings in the world.

I would never have expected this, having seen her large figurative paintings in the past!

After starting with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.

Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.

«Controversial for his exuberant figurative paintings in dung and glitter, Ofili has here contributed a relatively somber composition, choosing a detail from a series of pencil drawings entitled «Afro Margins.»

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

School of London was a term invented by artist R.B. Kitaj to describe a group of London - based artists who were pursuing forms of figurative painting in the face of avant - garde approaches in the 1970s

There's hardly been an ambitious exhibition of new figurative painting in any American museum in a long time.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

«They add an entirely new dimension to our understanding of figurative painting in the 1960s and 1970s.»

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

The movement was formed by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to celebrate and promote figurative painting in a reaction to the proliferation of conceptual art.

In this extract from his new book, Timothy Hyman explores how the visionary Belgian painter remade figurative painting in his own macabre manner.

The works on view are all on loan from the Center for Figurative Painting in Manhattan.

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.

The landscape dominated American painting throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, and though it continued to have practitioners thereafter (Fairfield Porter, for example), it was overshadowed, along with figurative painting in general, by various styles of abstraction from Cubism to Minimalism.

After an initial dalliance with figurative painting in the 1950s he became a life - long proponent of the possibilities of non-figurative imagery, which possessed for him, he once wrote, «the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning».

Tate Modern will present the first UK retrospective to assess the breadth of her vibrant artistic career, from her early figurative painting in the 1900s to her energetic abstract work in the 1960s.

Recognized as a leading West Coast Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s, Diebenkorn turned his attention to figurative painting in 1955 and achieved equal success in this alternate style.

The exhibition presents representative survey of contemporary figurative painting in the works of over twenty artists from nine countries.

Tightrope Walk is about figurative painting in the light of abstraction.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind David Hockney (9/7/1937 --RRB-, Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind David Hockney (9/7/1937 --RRB-, Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a...

David Cohen reads a passage on Philip Guston working in the 1960s, after Timothy Hyman's book, «The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century.»

Using Bacon and Freud as anchors, the show will examine the portrayal of the human experience in art and provide an expansive picture of figurative painting in the 20th century, particularly in Britain.

Still, the show does promise to help assert the continued relevance of figurative painting in today's anything - goes, hodgepodge art world.

The painting hangs by itself in lonely splendor toward the exit of the exhibit, the only truly insistent figurative painting in the show.

In 1968, Giorgio Griffa abandoned figurative painting in favor of a format of abstract painting that still characterizes his work to this day.

To begin 2018, the George Adams Gallery will mount an exhibition of early paintings by Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1991), tracing his development from the mid-1940s, to the years preceding his transition to figurative painting in 1952.

But for this artist, an American considered part of the London School that promoted figurative painting in the 1970s, it feels like an embarrassingly skimpy offering.

Figurative painting in Britain over the past two decades is a story of fragmentation, of individual accomplishment that has never coalesced into a discernibly British painting style.

burst onto the scene and into the spotlight, heralding the revival of figurative painting in the contemporary art world.