So I then mainly did
figurative work based on Egyptian symbols and stuff.
Not exact matches
Jim Morphesis, a painter of expressionistic
figurative works, also
based in Los Angeles, continues to use oils in his signature palette, including cadmium reds, although he knows chronic exposure to cadmium can lead to kidney damage and other problems.
Both Yiadom - Boakye and Los Angeles -
based Taylor explained why they prefer to be called «
figurative» painters and how politics factors in their
work:
About 65 objects created from 2011 to the present will be featured including
figurative works, text -
based wall hangings, a significant selection of beaded punching bags, painted
works on rawhide and canvas, and video.
The Italian born, LA -
based artist has been
working on this concept since the»90s and was probably among the first artists that used 3D CGI programs for
figurative painting.
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.
Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage
works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research -
based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale
figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.
The
work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed
figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object -
based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Eschewing his earlier tendencies in that direction, by the 1980s his
work was
figurative and even narrative, sometimes even
based on the Inspector Maigret detective novels by Belgian author Georges Simenon.
On November 5th, Corey Helford Gallery will present «Rainbeau Samsara,» the newest body of
work from Los Angeles -
based figurative painter Natalia Fabia and her first solo show in four years.
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.
Artsy explores why San Antonio -
based patrons Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt founded the Bennett Prize, a biannual grant that will award funding to emerging women painters who live in the U.S. and
work in a
figurative realist style.
Scully abandoned his early
figurative work, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, began formulating his own abstract language,
based on the grid.
Through immersive text -
based installations, large - scale public text pieces, publications, sound projects, and discursive programming, my
work engages with both
figurative and literal language to explore how we narrate the connections between the past, present, and future.
Stephen Pace is well known for two bodies of
work: the dynamic abstract paintings he produced from 1949 to 1962 and the freely expressed
figurative art,
based in abstract principles...
MATRIX 250 features the
work of Los Angeles —
based artist Linda Stark (b. 1956), who has been making
figurative and abstract paintings with heavily built - up surfaces of paint since the late 1980s.
Baltimore -
based artist Mequitta Ahula's
work Performing Painting: A Real Allegory of Her Studio (2015) used herself as a means to depict and deconstruct the history of
figurative painting as it relates to the body along time and space.
German - born and Los Angeles -
based artist Florian Morlat
works in a constructivist - Pop style that combines humble materials like cardboard and wood, with absurdist
figurative gestures referencing pop icons like the Beatles.
This exhibition of
work by New York -
based artist Summer Wheat (U.S., born 1977) features a suite of large - scale abstract -
figurative paintings that serve as both portals to imaginary worlds and as mirrors that reflect interior states of being.
Strange and poetic
figurative art of the Trinidad -
based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in exhibition of 120
works
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.
When you
work on your
figurative works, do you have concrete ideas in your mind about the subjects they're supposedly
based on?
Exhibition highlights include: two ornate,
figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn -
based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural
works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.
After his last truly Futurist
works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance
based on the Golden Section to
figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.
Mixed Greens represents US -
based artists that specialize in conceptually driven and
figurative work in a diversity of media.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery has chosen three
works that are representative of Shrigley's art: a humorous drawing, a text -
based work and a more
figurative piece.
Other notes:
Based on the available lots, more of the
figurative work are made by women and more of the abstract
works are made by men.
Bette Cerf Hill is a Chicago -
based artist mostly known for making
figurative work in acrylic on canvas and charcoal on paper.
«Although
figurative painting is inherently narrative I try to avoid overtly message -
based or political
work.
Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside
Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white
figurative paintings,
based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside
based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily
worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.
For this exhibition, the Canada -
based Feyld continues to explore the continued abstraction of his
figurative work while Ilizarbe brings Haring-esque patterned wall sculptures from Peru.
«Featuring nationally performing artists Biba Bell, Megan Byrne, Jennifer Harge, Pedro Jiménez, Jessica Ray, and Maya Stovall, as well as St. Louis -
based artists Jacqueline Fritz, Maxi Glamour, Fame Mizrahi, and Kat Reynolds, among others, this program will explore spatial relationships to fluidity and movement in response to Medardo Rosso's
figurative work on view, as well as the spaces of the Pulitzer's Tadao Ando - designed building and the architecture of St. Louis.»
Her current
work is
based around
figurative art and using bold colors to extenuate her energy and emotion onto canvas.
With about 20
works, this survey of this Los Angeles -
based artist's output from the last two decades stresses his
figurative works.
Initially built around artists who emphasize the human form and
figurative concerns, the gallery program embraces unparalleled craft, counter trend experimentation, New Media, and deviations into abstraction, installation - forward, and object -
based works to expand the greater initiative of the program.
This new category will include historical
work, fantasy, religious, and Sci - Fi entries, with portraits and other realist
based figurative works remaining in the Figurative
figurative works remaining in the
FigurativeFigurative Category.
Nigerian - born, Philadelphia -
based Odita has been described as «an abstract painter whose
work explores color both in the
figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.»
Assaf Evron (b. 1977) is a Chicago -
based artist whose
work investigates the dialectic between the abstract and the
figurative in a variety of media.
His earliest
figurative works seemed to loosely be
based on self - portraits.
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.
For her newly commissioned
work, Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus) and growing a
figurative mycelium -
based sculpture in a laboratory in Upstate New York.
The exhibition spans the New York —
based artist's five - decades - long career, featuring early
figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual
works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.
Between 1941 and 1945, he completed a distinctive series of pictures in tempera paint that were
based on the prior Market sketches, combining
figurative work within the abstract - like maze of daily Market activity.
At the Frieze fair, which opens on Friday, numerous galleries will include
work by Biennial artists: New York's Mitchell Innes and Nash, which represents Pope.L, whose massive installation in the Whitney included hundreds of pieces of bologna affixed to the wall in pushpins, will be offering one of the artist's (less perishable) photographs; the Los Angeles -
based Night Gallery will feature
works by Samara Golden, whose installation in the Whitney, The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes, included miniature interiors and a profusion of mirrors; and Mary Mary, a Glasgow gallery, will feature a booth with
works by Aliza Nisenbaum, whose large - scale,
figurative paintings of immigrants are also included in the Biennial.
Participants will have an opportunity to create their own photocopy -
based art
works such as concrete poems and
figurative abstractions from provided source material from the exhibition library.
Employing funny, sad or even personal subjects and characters, rather than a generic body of
work based on digitally - influenced techniques, Dispirito's imagery concentrates on the
figurative.
Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his
work combines both letter -
based and complex
figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern
figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»
Be sure not to miss booths by Azart Gallery from New York, focusing on innovative and original
work of artists influenced by abstract,
figurative, illustration, pop culture and street art; En Foco Gallery from Chicago, a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S. -
based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage; Haven Gallery from New York, exhibiting emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively driven, representational artwork; Lilac Gallery from New York, focusing on emerging international artists that explore new media in their concept with cutting edge techniques; Mirus Gallery San Francisco, championing new movements in contemporary art; and Stephen Romano Gallery from New York, amongst others.
This exhibition solidifies Wood's position as one of the most important Los Angeles -
based painters
working today, and as a key inheritor of several lineages of American
figurative painting.
These
works will be placed in context alongside numerous examples of Bradley's engaging and intimate
works on paper and his recent experiments with sculpture, ranging from minimalistic floor -
based works to
figurative bronzes
based on found amateur sculptures.