Sentences with phrase «figurative sculpture with»

Plus One Gallery artist Paul Day has spent over twenty years developing a highly personal approach to figurative sculpture with a particular interest in representing the figure in architectural space using high - relief, an art form that combines drawn composition and fully rounded sculpture.

«Germaine Richier» will explore the daring ways in which Richier's art bridges the tradition of classical figurative sculpture with an idiosyncratic visual language born of an anguished, searching, and, ultimately, spiritual post-World War psyche.

Elizabeth King combines precisely movable figurative sculptures with stop - frame animation in works that blur the boundary between actual and virtual object.

For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection, pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.

Not exact matches

The exhibition begins on the fifth floor, entitled America Takes Command: 1950s into the 1960s, with Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus, Junk Sculpture, Collage and Assemblage, Anti-Art, Beat Culture, Proto - Pop, and even some figurative painting.

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.

A key figure of Australian art since the mid-1980s, Linda Marrinon has developed an idiosyncratic language of figurative painting and sculpture that merges contemporary cartoons with neoclassic tropes of the nude, reclining figure, and bust or standing portrait.

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.

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.

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.

Many of her motifs are human figures and birds so figurative, yet their gender - neutral, profound expressions remind us religious sculptures with abstract and enigmatic quality.

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

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 motion.

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

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.

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.

Featuring over 36 works, Arneson's enormous ceramic ode to his»50s - era Davis tract home, will anchor the show, together with three Thiebaud masterworks, and three of Neri's most admired figurative sculptures.

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.

Peter Shelton's sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical as well as architectural motifs.

But many artists are making a kind of figurative sculpture that feels new and transgressive, even though they're using forms and techniques associated with academic realism.

Nathan Sawaya works with the popular toy to create large - scale figurative sculpture.

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.

That's another reason for my physical fascination with a certain type of figurative sculpture.

Upritchard has been making figurative sculptures — primarily using wire frames covered with a polymer modeling material that is then baked and painted — since 2006.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

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.

His early works — a sculpture of himself at his first communion, a tableau about bed - wetting, a cloaked shepherdess with a lamp — were directly figurative.

(My hope would be that this is happening in abstract sculpture too — though with sculptural, rather than pictorial, spatiality — but there is not really any comparable or relevant activity in how one moves through a figurative sculpture, since it rarely has any spatiality.)

His use of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.

From Elizabeth Jaeger's charmingly goofy figurative sculpture (with weaves!)

He has collaborated with others to realize «event - based group figurative sculptures.»

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

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).

While Huma Bhabha is known for her figurative sculptures, she was trained in painting and printmaking and has been working with photography.

Ikemura shows recent landscapes done in bold tempera colors on burlap as wide as nine feet alongside figurative ceramic sculptures and over 30 other works in conjunction with an exhibition, «CERAMIX, de Rodin à Schütte,» across two prominent museums (Paris's La Maison Rouge and Sèvres - Cité de la céramique).

This initiates a compelling dialogue with the installation in the gallery's second space, in which further aluminium painting and sculpture pairings are interspersed with a group of figurative photographs of the sort of life - sized rubber dolls made for shop windows or medical experiments.

Owing to the success of her figurative work as well as her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is widely recognized for her uncanny mixed - media sculptures that incorporate cast body parts with everyday objects.

The new figurative sculptures, shown in the front gallery space, are carved out of cork, and darkened in parts with black paint.

The artist draws freely upon the history of figurative sculpture, evoking Greek and Egyptian statuary, fertility icons, Rauschenberg's combines or the playfully sinister sculptural portraits of Marisol; indeed, the synthesis of science fiction, modernism and «pop» with the distant past underlies much of Bhabha's work as evidenced in her uncanny choice of materials.

The stylistic origin is in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927), with figures that are neither abstract nor figurative, referencing art deco to Memphis, midcentury machinery diagrams to Cycladic sculpture.

The show's more than 400 objects include liberal and lively quantities of scruffy bricolage, bodacious figurative sculpture, hip flirtations with fashion and design, and some rather inscrutable instances of latter - day institutional critique.

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.

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.

Moore's work is the starting point of the exhibition, with the figurative curves and dips of his sculpture synonymous with the words «body» and «void».

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).

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.

Glamour Wig, 2005, for instance, takes a stepladder and a rock star wig to create a pastiche of a skinny, androgynous long - legged glam rock star with a gaping mouth, mining the theatricality of the objects on display and contesting the histrionics behind the ideals of heroism and beauty that figurative sculptures embody.

In conjunction with these figurative paintings, Bickerton is exhibiting a selection of new sculptures for the first time.

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.