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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peri's show, which includes drawings, sculptures, and paintings, revolves around three figurative themes: head, seated man, and reclining woman.

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».

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.

Her figurative works, which she refers to as «humanoids,» blur the line between painting and sculpture.

Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly figurative or representational.

Her early works adopt a classical figurative style, but she later radically rethought her sculpture, which she perceived as a concrete extension of memory and body.

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.

Giacometti is best known for his bronze figurative sculptures, which attract some of the highest auction prices in the industry: a Walking Man broke records when it sold for # 65m in 2010.

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).

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.

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.

British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow sculptures, which transform seemingly abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into figurative shadow portraits.

«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.

In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, art critic Donald Kuspit writes: «Carol Ross gives us two kinds of sculpture: large, free ‐ standing works, implicitly monumental, sometimes evocative of nature, sometimes figurative, and smaller wall pieces, sculptures as flat as the wall on which they are placed as though they were paintings.

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.

Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.

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.

A prominent figure within the pop art movement, most noted for figurative art which included sculpture, paintings, and print is American artist and Brooklyn native Alex Katz, born on July 24th, 1927.

Mntambo is best known for her figurative cowhide sculptures which allude to the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.

Coming out of the tail end of a legacy of abstraction at the region's art schools and in the midst of the ascendency of new figurative painting and changing approaches to sculpture via clay, etc, (eg, Voulkos) in the Bay Area, the work they made in that period of transition shows the freedom with which they approached art - making.

Over a long career, she has worked in various media and genres, and may be best known for her paintings and sculptures, in which abstract and figurative elements with allusions to history and myth come together to mine psychic depths.

Thomas Houseago, whose work is amongst the best represented in the Saatchi show, is an LA - based artist whose monolithic figurative sculptures dwarf the viewer and freshly reinterpret sculptural practices which stretch right back to Classical times.

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.

New York artist Carroll Dunham makes figurative paintings and sculptures that frequently draw on that uniquely American dovetailing of Surrealism and cartoon idioms, of which the late Philip Guston would be an obvious instance, resounding with a libidinous zaniness.

He's one of the artists participating in the Nasher Sculpture Center's «Statuesque» exhibition, which focuses on figurative sSculpture Center's «Statuesque» exhibition, which focuses on figurative sculpturesculpture.

Winner BWA Warszawa was certainly striking, with Karol Radziszewski's paintings which proffer the Aryan ubermensch as a homoerotic object for the viewer's gaze, while Ewa Axelrad's partially figurative sculptures explored the limitations between protection and aggression of the body.

Hauser & Wirth, which operates multiple spaces in New York, London and Zurich, sold a white and blue totem sculpture by Louise Bourgeois for $ 1.95 million and Paul McCarthy's messy figurative painting «WS, Dior» for $ 950,000.

With her classically formal clay and bronze sculptures, London - based Rebecca Warren positions herself within the predominantly male figurative tradition, which includes Degas and Rodin, while maintaining the contemporary stance of questioning her predecessors» authority.

In this modus, abstract sculpture would seem to be operating within the shadows of figurative art, which by stark comparison has an endless «library» of forms to work with.

Absurd and elegant, figurative and abstract, Handforth's Dallas Snake animates the space, conversing with and taking on the large «formal» sculptures nearby, such as Tony Smith's Willy (destroyed in 1962; fabricated in 1978), which is comprised of black geometric forms.

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.

Installations involving architectural and interior design elements including walls, mirrors and windows further complicate West's figurative sculptures, which previously appeared alongside work by Howard in ATLBNL, the 2016 Atlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary.

Advised for the first time by Ruba Katrib (SculptureCenter, New York) in collaboration with returning curator Fabian Schoeneich (Portikus, Frankfurt), highlights include: • An installation - performance by Lloyd Corporation at Carlos / Ishikawa in which wholesale - style «lots» of material are auctioned off to fair visitors • A new installation including a video essay by Hannah Black at Arcadia Missa, coinciding with the artist's solo show at London's Chisenhale Gallery; • Various Small Fires recreating a site - specific variation of The Harrisons» «Survival» series, inspired by research into adapting to climate change — in this case, a proposal for the indoor cultivation of fruit trees • Kraupa - Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin) with Anna Uddenberg whose uncanny figurative sculptures were a highlight of the Berlin Biennial 9 (2016)

MG I always liked the way your work connects to a long history of figurative sculpture, which to me is strongly interwoven to the basic ideas of art making: funerary sculptures, totemic figures, magical or cultural objects.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

The dynamic duo unveiled their first collaborative project entitled «UNREALISM» which celebrates the revival of figurative painting and sculpture.

These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery of figurative and abstract art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.

The Columbian - born South American artist Fernando Botero is noted for his large - scale contemporary art - a unique blend of surrealism and figurative art comprising obese depictions of both humans and animals, some of which have been repeated as sculpture.

He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.

Following her marriage to a stone last summer, the honeymoon phase continues for Emin this spring in «Stone Love» (a title is inspired by the David Bowie song «Soul Love»), which spans neons, bronze sculptures, and embroidery, and a significant return to expressionist figurative paintings.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.