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Opening reception: Saturday, October 20th, 6 — 8 pm James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo gallery exhibition by Dutch artist, Folkert de Jong, who reinvents monuments and classical figurative sculpture by combining fictional and factual histories into life - sized sculptural tableaux.

Valérie Blass adapts customary figurative sculpture by introducing unconventional methods and materials in search of a unique experience.

Along with artists such as Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch, Charles Ray has salvaged the tradition of crafted, figurative sculpture by radically reconstituting the three - dimensional object as «image.»

The final gallery has another excellent generational mix, this time of figurative sculpture by Rodin, Medardo Rosso, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Warren and Alina Szapocznikow.

Basquiat's work — a make - shift wall inside of the gallery graffitied with expressive marks — was a standout success next to videos by Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, hand - painted text signs by Jenny Holzer, figurative sculpture by John Ahearn and Tom Otterness, and others who would define art of the 1980s.

Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.

Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his works, playfully disrupts the history of figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated with it.

Complementing the paintings is a group of figurative sculptures by Stephan Balkenhol, Huma Bhabha, Tom Friedman, Kendell Geers, Henry Moore and Yinka Shonibare, MBE.

Also catching my eye were figurative sculptures by Max Leiva, exhibited with ten472 Contemporary Art (Nevada City) and Peter Demetz, exhibited with Liquid Art System, White Room (Capri / Positano).

Dramatically offsetting the small works on wooden panel (ranging from 10 x 7 1/2 inches to 18 x 24 inches) are two life - size figurative sculptures by Hanson depicting opposite spectrums of life.

The large, bronze, figurative sculptures by Matteo Pugliese emerge from the wall, both announcing and hiding themselves.

Outstanding figurative sculptures by Bremen Germany - based artist Gregor Gaida.

Skarstedt is delighted to announce an exhibition of important figurative sculptures by Juan Muñoz (1953 -2001) at the London gallery in January.

Mercifully lacking a contrived theme, the summer group show at Petzel Gallery simply features a fine selection of deftly executed figurative sculptures by six gallery artists.

Not exact matches

At Nahmad, whose booth right next to the entrance, a figurative wire sculpture by Calder, Hercules and Lion (1928), is not for sale, but its other works are priced from seven figures on up: a Jean Arp at $ 1.5 million, a Max Ernst at $ 12 million, a Fernand Léger at $ 13 million, and a Joan Miró at $ 15 million.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and dean of the Yale University School of Art and former senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition and an accompanying catalogue will bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the figurative impulses that connect them.

From figurative sculpture at the Hayward Gallery to jazz - influenced canvases by painter Sean Scully RA.

The second half of his solo exhibition includes a series of collaborative figurative sculptures — papier - mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff's pants and shoes holding large - scale paintings by artists from Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta, including:

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

He's created basketballs floating in vitrines of distilled water; encased new vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescence in Plexiglas towers; cast statuary and everyday objects in high chromium stainless steel; fashioned painted polychrome figurative wood sculptures; cast glass sculptures of sex.

Linked by the works» engagement with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

The exhibition, which opens at Tate Modern in November and will run till spring 2016, will include a wide selection of Calder's motorised constructions and figurative wire portraits, often inspired by the circus or cabaret, alongside his suspended kinetic sculptures of vividly coloured shapes.

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

His five recent paintings are joined by Philippe's steel sculptures, which «reference tall bird perches while doubling as figurative bird like poems,» and muted paintings of hill - like forms.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

This show, entitled Case Studies, features new paintings by Bas, who is primarily known for his expressionistic and highly detailed figurative paintings, but also for his works in sculpture, film, photography and installation.

Ancient figurative sculpture and numerous bronzes by Auguste Rodin are highlighted during these 1 - to 1.5 - hour tours.

Focusing on sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the living body, Hirst's «Virgin (exposed)» will be displayed alongside figurative works by artists including El Greco, Auguste Rodin, Louise Bourgeois and Duane Hanson.

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.

A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from figurative to abstract art.

Holland Tunnel Gallery will feature a collection of figurative and kinetic metal sculptures by local Brooklyn artist Alexandra Limpert in an exhibition titled, Reverie.

Be sure not to miss an intricate and fantastical woodblock and lithograph edition entitled Monkey Biz by Duke Riley at Graphicstuide / USF; seminal prints by prominent American Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol at Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art; a visually hypnotic nine - color screen print by Jason Middlebrook at Flying Horse Editions; an impressive suite of etchings entitled The Caprichos by Emily Lombardo at Childs Gallery; striking figurative lithographs by American artist Robert Longo at Hamilton - Selway Fine Art; a bold woodcut by Royal Academy artist Eileen Copper at Rabley Contemporary Gallery UK; three - dimensional print sculptures by Lesley Dill and mixed media prints by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos at Tandem Press; a series of haunting portraits by the American artist Monica Lundy at Stoney Road Press / Ireland; colorful mixed media work by Stanley William Hayder at Susan Teller Gallery; subtle and contemplative photolithographic prints by Linda Schwarz at Wildwood Press LLC; and bold and colorful works by Alexander Calder and Chuck Close at Thomas French Fine Art.

The Human Factor An exploration of today's best figurative sculpture, with work by Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Katharina Fritsch and many more.

Artistically promiscuous, Harvey's work has ranged from highly worked figurative paintings to vital, impastoed oils of nudes delineated by black lines known as his «Readers Wives», playful politicised sculptures as well as a powerful mosaic image of Margaret Thatcher.

The sculpture is a translation of Katz's signature style of large, glamorous, figurative paintings of close ups of people's faces inspired by television, cinema and billboard images.

The «Cosm» sculptures are surrounded by a series of small paintings whose vertical format echoes the figurative character of the sculptures, placing the two distinct types of object in dialogue.

Recent group exhibitions include Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007/08); The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2007); A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX (2007); Remix - The Collection, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2007) and Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2007).

On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic figurative environment by the Polish sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary scSculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sculpturesculpture).

On December 1st, a figurative painting and sculpture exhibition organized by former competitors Jeffery Deitch and Larry Gagosian will open in Miami's Moor Building.

ALBERTO SAVINIO Pairing the virtuosically strange figurative painting of Savinio — the pianist, critic and younger brother of the better known Giorgio de Chirico — with sculptures by Louise Bourgeois.

Well - established in the area of Bay Area Figurative art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened in 2001, broadening the focus to incorporate contemporary painting and sculpture by artists across the country.

Selected figurative sculptures that seem to dissolve created by artist collective Unmask from Beijing, China.

A unique survey of contemporary figurative sculpture, this profusely illustrated volume features works by Pawel Althamer, Frank Benson, Huma Bhabha, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Katharina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison, Georg Herold, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Honert, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Cady Noland, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Schütte, Yinka Shonibare, Paloma Varga Weisz, Mark Wallinger, Rebecca Warren, Andro Wekua and Cathy Wilkes, among others.

It was in his sculpture Pyramid (1959) where the figurative was erased by the method of stacking identical wood segments in a repetitive form, which like Frank Stella's «black» paintings appeared as if the process had been simply mechanical.

Altmejd's work often draws a corollary between the body and architecture with architectural landscape punctuated by figurative elements or figurative sculptures blown up to gigantic scale or infected with inorganic material.

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.

Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

Celebrating his life as an artist, this expansive exhibition (organized by Douglas Fogle, former chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) presents a selection of Mr. Melotti's work, featuring his early, somewhat - surreal figurative ceramics and his later abstract, brass sculptures, which portray political and theatrical subjects.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.