Sentences with phrase «figurative sculpture in»

Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta (particularly lifesize on sarcophagi or temples), wall - painting and metalworking (especially engraved bronze mirrors).

It is a philosophy evidenced in a long career that began with figurative sculpture in clay and plaster when he was an assistant to Henry Moore, before moving to abstract sculpture in steel.

For over thirty years Montana artist, Beth Lo, has created playful vessels and figurative sculpture in porcelain.

It is the non-specificity of his figures and their abstract qualities that make his sculptors part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and not just any contemporary figurative sculpture in America.

Contemporary Cutouts: Figurative Sculpture in Two Dimensions, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

At the heart of City Sculpture Projects 1972 is the only explicitly figurative sculpture in the project: Nicholas Monro's extraordinary King Kong.

Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.

1987 The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, Contemporary Cut - Outs (catalogue) Monte Carlo, Monaco, Monte Carlo Sculpture ’87 Port of History Museum at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, National Sculpture Society 54th Annual Exhibition Kent Fine Art, New York, Assemblage Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo, U.S.A. — U.K. Pop Art, exhibition traveled to Daimuru Museum of Art, Osaka; Sogo Museum, Yokohama) Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT, Contemporary Cut - Outs: Figurative Sculpture in Two Dimensions laneni Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity Herter Art Gallery.

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.

Joel Shapiro's work bridges the gap between abstract and figurative sculpture in a keenly post-minimalist manner.

It's difficult to think of major female artists since the 1970s who work with figurative sculpture in the way of a Charles Ray or a Paul McCarthy, although I can think of many celebrated female artists who have used the body in installation and performance art.

On view are figurative sculptures in wood, alabaster and bronze, graphite wall drawings, and several new works being shown for the first time.

Counts further conveys the symbolic depth of objects with her two most figurative sculptures in the exhibition, Moment A, a massive candle dripping with satisfying layers of blue, white, gray, and silver glazes, and Moment B, a colorful vase full of large ceramic roses.

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent.

Her early figurative sculptures in wood, terra - cotta, bronze, and plaster (e.g., Ancient Figure, 1932) show a preoccupation with blockish, interlocking masses that recall the sculpture of Central America (where she traveled in the 1940s) and anticipate her mature style.

Surrounded by various figurative sculptures in progress in his Los Angeles studio, including an over-sized bust of President George W. Bush, artist Paul McCarthy discusses the process of casting from life and the resulting perfections and imperfections.

She will work with Middle School students in this Learning Lab to create figurative sculptures in papier - mache supported by wire armatures that they will hand - paint.

Not exact matches

Maria discovered polymer clay in the mid 1990's and the creative possibilities of figurative sculptures.

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Maria discovered polymer clay in the mid 1990's and the creative possibilities of figurative sculptures.

We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

I had made sculpture in England, figurative stuff, and had just started taking photographs — as sketches for the sculpture.

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:

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.

Marrinon received the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2001, which enabled her to attend the New York Academy of Art, where she was introduced to traditional techniques of figurative sculpture and gained a greater technical understanding of human anatomy.

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.

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.

After leaving the field of clinical psychology in the mid-1940s, Truitt began making figurative sculptures, but turned toward reduced geometric forms after visiting the Guggenheim Museum with her friend Mary Pinchot Meyer to see H.H. Arnason's exhibition «American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists» in November 1961.

In their seeming lack of the kind of detail or warmth that we associate with much of Larner's work, there is still something interestingly personified about each sculpture, which allows them to at once appear stoic and and the same time oddly figurative and thus in motioIn their seeming lack of the kind of detail or warmth that we associate with much of Larner's work, there is still something interestingly personified about each sculpture, which allows them to at once appear stoic and and the same time oddly figurative and thus in motioin motion.

In media, he was all over the map: painting (abstract and figurative), drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, installation, performance, sound art; he did them all, often messy, counterintuitive combinations.

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.

In the collage, an upside - down cartoon of an anthropomorphic tree mimics (and partially covers) a black - and - white photograph of a figurative, tribal sculpture.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

In a queer analysis of figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works on paper and one soft sculpture.

In the pavilion's quiet courtyard, Bove reimagines Giacometti's figurative sculptures, like his «Femmes de Venise» series.

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.

Thomas Houseago, born in Leeds, England, gained early acclaim for his highly tactile figurative sculptures.

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.

Carroll's photographs call to mind multiple art historical influences — Greco - Roman figurative sculpture and its distinctive treatment of draping done in marble, the opulent cascades of textile pattern in Northern Renaissance painting, and the still life genre — in related series in Still / Life exhibited together for the first time.

The Nashville - born, New York - based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.

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.

In this exhibition, she shows a series of nearly - life - sized figurative ceramic sculptures, as well as sawdust - fired vessels made during a residency at Lynden.

A remarkably prescient source revealed itself unexpectedly in 1965, during a trip across America: Jones happened upon a slot machine embedded within the form of a Vegas showgirl, a commercial variant of figurative sculpture which struck Jones for its sexual presence and intensely non-art condition.

Some of the most high - profile pieces in the New Museum's Triennial last spring were figurative sculptures, and now a large gallery in MoMA P.S. 1's «Greater New York» is dedicated to the genre.

«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.

The works in her ongoing Anatomy of Architecture series are ceramic busts that recall the aesthetics of African figurative sculpture.

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.