This season, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will test demand for Richter's
figurative work by asking $ 25 million for the artist's 1963 «Düsenjäger» (which means jetfighter) at Phillips on Wednesday.
The exhibition surveys artistic uses of rubbing, and includes a textural,
figurative work by Ellen Lanyon and a depiction of tools by Jim Dine.
He must have missed recent Turner shortlists that have featured
figurative work by painters including Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and George Shaw, as well as Paul Noble, who makes exquisitely detailed drawings.
This summer, massive steel dinosaurs by Dinos and Jake Chapman as well as
figurative work by Antony Gormley, will be displayed in the City of London, as part of an innovative public sculpture programme.
While materially and conceptually intricate, the visual plainness of Ingram's paintings feels emotionally unsatisfying next to
the figurative work by Howard and West.
Elegant abstract
figurative work by noted American painter Jamie Chase (b. 1954, resides Sante Fe, New Mexico) from 1994 entitled «Explorer II».
«Cher Peintre» takes the pulse of
figurative work by foregrounding a dozen recent exponents plus precursors Francis Picabia, Bernard Buffet, Sigmar Polke, Alex Katz, and Martin Kippenberger.
Paricio weaves art historical narratives throughout
his figurative work by appropriating themes and configurations of old and modern masters.
Several of the city's cultural institutions will also showcase art there, including the New York Academy of Art, which will feature
figurative work by its international students, and El Museo del Barrio, which presents an exhibition of modernist abstractions related to optical and kinetic art movements.
Come to Washington Studio School's Open House and meet their faculty, draw for free from a clothed model, visit their studios and enjoy current exhibition of
figurative work by faculty member Diane Nelson.
Delacroix's dramatic, Romantic approach to painting paved the way for modern art, asserts a show at the National Gallery in February, while in Bath the Holburne Museum marks its centenary year with a display of
figurative work by 19th - century radicals, the Impressionists.
Canada stacked up works by both established and emerging painters — including a new
figurative work by Katherine Bradford — and a small set of broccoli drawings by Adrianne Rubenstein.
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.
Highlights include works by the installation artist Rebecca Horn presented by Sean Kelly Gallery, paintings by the American Modernist Beauford Delaney presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and
figurative works by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud presented by Acquavella Galleries.
This work expands the museum's collection of paintings, joining
figurative works by artists such as Alice Neel, Lisa Yuskavage, and Dana Schutz.
Here the focus is on
figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.
For the Armory, Janssen is bringing a collection of uniquely
figurative works by subversive artists including Betty Tompkins, Sean Landers and Chris Martin amongst others.
Third, the gestural
figurative works by Willem De Kooning (1904 — 1997).
Figurative works by Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, which explore the human body and add a psychological dimension by means of painting, are followed by works of Josef Albers, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana that emphasize the support as such in its three - dimensional character and material quality.
We are also presenting
figurative works by Renoir and Vuillard, among others.
Figurative works by David Hockney and Wayne Thiebaud will be shown together, as will groupings of photo - based works by John Baldessari, Sophie Calle, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, and Jeff Wall.
There are
figurative works by Alex Katz and Nathan Oliveira; minimalist abstractions by Robert Ryman and Brice Marden; Robert Bechtle's photo - realism; work by conceptual and performance artists like Tom Marioni and Chris Burden; and numerous prints by Thiebaud and Diebenkorn.
Often such works are revived precisely to give contemporary artists the historical buttress that will burnish their reputations: thus late
figurative works by Picabia, previously seen as kitschy aberrations were first restored to critical favor in the 1980s at a time when it seemed to retrospectively offer an important patrilineage for and contribute to the historical buttressing of the work of a then emerging David Salle.
Not exact matches
Figurative language
works by implication and often
by indirection, which may account, in part, for the impression that poetry is hard to understand and needs to be interpreted, unlike a news article, where the language is literal and straightforward, the meaning self - evident.
The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic
work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction
by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils
by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights
by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures
by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video
by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking
figurative vs abstract
works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting
by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn
work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.
If abstraction is favored
by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no small amount of
figurative work on the scene.
For the artist, these
figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed
by those in power in modern - day China.
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.
Organized
by Paul Schimmel, this selection of 36 paintings and 53 drawings, traces the development of Guston's
work during this transitional period from abstraction to the beginnings of his iconic
figurative works.»
The assertion that drawing, however
figurative, is design, brought further forward into our consciousness
by Cézanne's heroic struggle --(«I advance my canvas, understand, together, all at the same time»)-- and developed, and explained in words, so eloquently
by Matisse, was simply the way Bonnard's eye's mind
worked.
Phillips relates the humour in that
work to another, much earlier
figurative alphabet Alfabeto Figurato
by Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1632).
The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied
by loose drawing (vague linear spots and / or
figurative outline) can first be seen in the early 20th - century
works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.
The
work of these artists was brought into fresh focus and given renewed impetus
by the revival of interest in
figurative painting
by a younger generation that took place in the late 1970s and the 1980s (see neo-expressionism and new spirit painting).
It features
works by abstract and
figurative painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.
Even earlier
works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles
by the nonspecific
figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.
DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions
by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international
figurative artists
working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.
Five years ago, he curated a show at Colby of such young art stars as Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who
work in the same
figurative territory staked out
by Katz.
Never experimenting with
figurative elements in his mature
work, the strict geometry of broad dark brushstrokes determined this composition, maybe referring his admiration of iconic squares
by Kazimir Malevich.
A variety of shapes gathered together, presaging her later,
figurative works inspired
by African avatar - like forms that assemble objects from the person's life and gather them together.
A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her
work as representing an abandonment of
figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction
by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich
by several decades.
Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist
works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's
figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings
by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).
Where as Avery's early
figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the
work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated
by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried
by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated
by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated
by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated
by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated
by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated
by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown
by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown
by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New
Works», curated
by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty:
Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small
Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small
Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated
by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small
Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY
Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine,
working part of the time in a
figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed
by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.
DHC / ART is delighted to present a solo exhibitions
by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a leading international
figurative artist
working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their discipline.
By the turn of the last century, Munch had worked his way toward a figurative style shaped by the emotions that preoccupied him — anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, fear, and grie
By the turn of the last century, Munch had
worked his way toward a
figurative style shaped
by the emotions that preoccupied him — anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, fear, and grie
by the emotions that preoccupied him — anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, fear, and grief.
Referred to as «abstract
figurative drawings,»
by Mr. Owens, the new
works are produced in ways that are «similar to the process of making photographic prints in a darkroom» but using everybody's favorite petroleum jelly, Vaseline, and everybody's favorite drug, coffee.
Although he continued to promote abstract
work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that
figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18
By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.
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.
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.