Jerry Ross Barrish is a San Francisco artist who makes
figurative sculpture from found objects collected off local beaches, roadways and recycling centers.
The museum has a significant collection of more than 300 works of traditional art from sub-Saharan Africa, including a broad selection of masks and
figurative sculpture from West and Central Africa.
This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 31st — December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of major
figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the «Souvenir» series.
Playful, enigmatic,
figurative sculptures from the Cologne - based artist, a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late 1970s.
Further enhancing the sensory experience of the stand are
the figurative sculptures from Kim Simonsson's space - age Moss People series, as well as an ambitious trompe l'oeil tree by Eric Serritella, and Katsuyo Aoki's baroque - inspired porcelain skulls.
This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 30th — December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of major
figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the «Souvenir» series.
Not exact matches
north wales About Blog Nick Elphick Artist, Conceptual, Portrait,
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Sculpture, exceptional artwork
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north wales About Blog Nick Elphick Artist, Conceptual, Portrait,
Figurative & Wildlife
Sculpture, exceptional artwork
from the heart of Wales.
Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly
from the model, on
Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course.
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.
From figurative sculpture at the Hayward Gallery to jazz - influenced canvases by painter Sean Scully RA.
The
Sculpture program at PAFA embraces contemporary and classical approaches across a broad range of art making — from traditional figurative sculpture to video and installa
Sculpture program at PAFA embraces contemporary and classical approaches across a broad range of art making —
from traditional
figurative sculpture to video and installa
sculpture to video and installation art.
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.
Curatorial projects include
Figurative Diaspora: The Migration of Academic Training
from Russia to China in the Service of Progressive Art, Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations of Provocateurs, Beautiful Beast, a contemporary representational
sculpture exhibition, The Big Picture, and Now and Then: Drawings
from the 19th Century to the Present, in partnership with the Dahesh Museum of Art.
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.
He draws inspiration
from public fountains and the
figurative sculpture that often accompanies them.
Presenting paintings
from the 1930s and»40s as well as more
figurative sculptures carved
from wood and stone, «John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night» opens at Pérez Art Museum Miami May 26, 2017.
For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale
figurative sculpture grown
from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.
On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of
figurative sculpture, his influences
from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital today.
This exhibition focuses on two new series:
figurative sculptures and a print edition based on discarded images of divorcées
from newspaper archives, dating
from the 1930's -1970's.
Without shying away
from the complicated socio - political histories relevant to the world, Wiley's
figurative paintings and
sculptures «quote historical sources and position young black men within the field of power.»
Other highlights
from the exhibition include Michelle Ramin's
figurative, watercolor and colored - pencil on paper works and Joo Lee Kang's animalia works of ink on paper drawings, wallpaper installation and large - scale
sculpture.
«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.
Equally drawn to the history of
figurative sculpture as to a wide range of craft and artisan traditions around the world —
from ceramic techniques to glass blowing, enameling to welding — Upritchard pushes these practices in new directions, bringing them together to create a striking and original visual language of her own.
Modernist sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting
from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but
from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable with Modernist
sculpture and large public commissions both abstract and
figurative became common.
Hepworth Wakefield is holding a highly acclaimed exhibition of the work of Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926 — 1973), which highlights how the artist's work developed
from classically
figurative sculptures to her later, politically charged, «awkward objects».
The heads presage a self - portrait print
from 1990, displayed nearby, as well as the soft fabric
figurative sculptures that Bourgeois took up in the late»90s.
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.
On a material basis, the trio's work couldn't be more different —
from digital prints to rough - hewn
figurative sculpture — but connective themes between the shows enrich each in turn, bridging generations, conceptual approaches and subject matter.
Paintings and some small
sculptures, predominantly black and white, ranging
from pure to
figurative abstraction; photo collages on paper and aluminum panel.
From Elizabeth Jaeger's charmingly goofy
figurative sculpture (with weaves!)
The
Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and
Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
He exhibits selections of his signature «painting
sculptures», culling
from his ongoing dynamically
figurative cosmos Psychogeographies as well as intimately - scaled acrylic and glass contrasts.
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.
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.
Taking its cue
from the resurgence of
figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and
from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly
from the 1960s onwards, with objects
from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.
This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges
from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant
figurative sculptures.
Inventing Downtown presents works
from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists» efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works of art — ranging
from abstract and
figurative painting, assemblage,
sculpture, and works -LSB-...]
From his ceramic
sculptures that eerily resist
figurative formations with their oozing, amorphic shapes to his multilayered mixed media paintings, Ruby's expansive body of work complicates already - turbulent nature of human mind.
He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional
figurative painting and
sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings
from photos, they probably were).
Selected
figurative sculptures that seem to dissolve created by artist collective Unmask
from Beijing, China.
From performative and low - fi beginnings, Oursler has developed an ever - evolving multimedia and audio - visual practice utilising projections, video screens,
sculptures and optical devices, which might take form as
figurative puppets, ethereal talking automatons or immersive, cacophonous environments.
There's a lot of different stuff involved,
from big sprawling assemblages to videos to
figurative sculpture.
Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples
from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early
figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron
sculpture Torso (1954), on loan
from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
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.
In his previous work, the 29 - year - old artist created
figurative and highly personal paintings and
sculptures, often using tropes
from the Spanish Baroque style.
Students learn
from morning and afternoon demonstrations, hands - on work, one - on - one instruction, readings, discussions and image presentations related to contemporary
figurative sculpture.
The
sculptures have often been constructed
from readymades but sculpted out of their original forms and combined to resemble
figurative sculpture.
The large, bronze,
figurative sculptures by Matteo Pugliese emerge
from the wall, both announcing and hiding themselves.