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This September, painter Ariel Basson Frieberg fearlessly explores figure painting through two striking gallery shows:

This September, painter Ariel Basson Frieberg fearlessly explores figure painting through two striking gallery shows: Ariel Basson Freiberg: Trespass Daughter at Howard Yezerski Gallery (September 8 — October 10), and Reconfigure with...

This September, painter Ariel Basson Frieberg fearlessly explores figure painting through two striking gallery shows: Ariel Basson Freiberg: Trespass Daughter at Howard Yezerski Gallery (September 8 — October 10), and Reconfigure with fellow Boston - based painter Lavaughan Jenkins at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (September...

This is an exhibition of figure painting through the twentieth century — a time of upheaval and pain — and the art made in response to all that is as tortured as you'd expect, and hugely influential.

Not exact matches

Through interviews with other women who skateboard and prominent figures in the skateboarding industry, Amelia paints a picture of a subculture within a subculture on the verge of breaking out.

Now on Earth, Atlas is walking through notable periods of time, meeting various historical and mythological figures, all of whom have been depicted (in real life) in paintings and other works of art, such as statues or books — from the likes of Henry VIII, to Medusa, to William Wallace and a demon that blew up Mount Vesuvius.

I especially like the paintings where it is hard to figure out what you are actually looking at (the taming of the shrew, siren); it gives the work an air of mystery and formal abstraction that keeps you circling back through.

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

Looking at the painted figures offers a tour through artistic life in the 20th century; one encounters artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson, and Metropolitan Museum conservator Henry Geldzahler.

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

When he resumed painting in 1945, Tworkov began experimenting with an academic approach to abstraction through the study of still life and the figure.

«Through his ties with leading modernists on both side of the Atlantic, Hoyland is a pivotal figure in 20th - century abstraction and the stain paintings from this period, many of which have never been publicly exhibited outside of London, are ripe for rediscovery and new understanding.»

MA: With the painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have elements of the painting that suggested that Conjestina, the central figure of the painting, had been given the role of village idiot by the local media (under the guise of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going through episodes of paranoid schizophrenia).

Matthíasdóttir painted figures, animals, buildings and landscapes of Iceland and Maine with a directness and clarity achieved through bold bands of color and broad brushwork.

Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculinity and homosexuality through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

Bacon, who painted in the first person, transferred his visceral energy and enigmatic symbols and metaphors directly to the canvas, while Warhol, who worked in the third person, adopted existing forms and figures from the media and made them his own through various techniques of reproduction.

At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»

John Hartley Much as David Levinthal's War Games series depicts combat through staged photographs of toy soldiers, the Fort Worth - based Hartley draws from his interest in toy collecting and the human figure to create oil paintings that explore militaristic, religious and social themes.

At this space, the figure of a female nude tied to what looks like a torture device is the disturbing central image of a nine - panel 1975 painting called «Moving Through» by the American artist Juanita McNeely.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

Through the process of transcribing these sketches into paint he has to scrape and reapply paint repeatedly; forming several layers that overlap which creates further abstraction of the figure and its surroundings.

«Bushwick Open Studios really strives to give every working artist in Bushwick, regardless of their level of experience or success in the art world, an equal opportunity to show their work to a wider public,» said Hitchings, whose works include a series of pastel colored paintings in which forms and figures seem to bleed through the canvas like haunted photographs.

The paintings take on a spectral, transcendent quality, as if seen through a fog that only gradually lifts as we begin to discern the figures, making reception of them slower, and pushing them towards abstraction.

Bortolami is pleased to announce Fortune, Jutta Koether's second solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with a reprint of the artist's 1987 novella f. On view from May 9 through June 6, 2015, this exhibition presents a new series of paintings that both reference and depart from the allegorical figure of Fortune's wheel.

Five large paintings, a hundred foot wall drawing and a floor work describe a strange, transformative cycle as a large drowning figure oscillates through phases of birth and death, shifting between the confining solidity of the shore and the murderously infinite possibilities of the sea.

Much as David Levinthal's War Games series depicts combat through staged photographs of toy soldiers, the Fort Worth - based Hartley draws from his interest in toy collecting and the human figure to create oil paintings that explore militaristic, religious and social themes.

Mr. Burban encourages individuality of expression through an exact analysis of the elements used to draw or paint the figure in compositional structure and pictorial space.

Through the use of color and chiaroscuro and an ethereal sense of light and space, Hollowell paints images that play with ideas of foreground and background, figure and ground, and body and landscape.

Pessoli's figures are formed through conventional means: they are drawn, painted, or sculpted.

She focused her studies on the human figure during her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, through the mediums of painting, printmaking and sculpture, always with the goal of further understanding humanity and herself.

On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) from February 18 through May 27, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Mark Bradford is the first major museum survey of paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works by this leading figure in contemporary American art.

I paint the female figure as others before me, and continue to push boundaries by exploring current political constructs of feminism through erotic imagery.

Through sculpture, painting, drawing or collage, the artists chosen for this show share a consistent interest in addressing the human figure, each with a distinct style and motivation.

Mr. Robins asserts that he sold a painting of a dark figure by the highly praised South African - born artist Marlene Dumas through the David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea in 2004 with an agreement that the sale remain confidential.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

Co-organized by the four institutions, Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist will focus on the artist's figure paintings and portraits through approximately 50 to 60 paintings from both public institutions and private collections.

The works build through a stream of images and ideas with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...» In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

The way I've figured to go about doing this through objects is to always try to surprise myself, decision by decision, as I build each painting with the hope that the viewing experience mimics this process, meaning that I hope that the painting unfolds, collapses, comes back together and unfolds again in a different way as the viewer navigates through it.

Through more than 50 carefully selected works — most of which are large - format, monumental paintings — the exhibition explores the push and pull of these two remarkable figures.

Surveying the Body: Modern and Post-Modern Figurative Work from the Collection December 14,1997 - July 1998 Spanning a diverse range of work from the 1930s through the present, «Surveying the Body» explores shifting conceptions of the human figure as articulated through painting.

She hasn't totally figured out yet what to do with it, but her command of painting's essentials is sure and her determination to work through the ramifications of this particular device amply evident, so it seems like just a matter of time before she starts making truly magnificent work.

Through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture and photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process.

Edmond is holding a painting class this spring, Figure and Composition: Complete Traditional Skills, Mondays through Wednesdays, 4 pm to 7 pm.

The contours of one figure provide shape for another, and the background of the paintings offer windows for other subjects to peep through, echoing the viewer's gaze.

He created the animated, crudely drawn stick figures of this postwar apartment complex by scratching through black paint to reveal hidden, delicate colors beneath.

As the chains move and unfurl, the painted rubber figure is twisted through a detailed choreography.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

So, as we pass through this collection of around 40 drawings and paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the form of At the Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).

For her first exhibition at the gallery, the artist presents a series of Staffordshire figures that have been re-imagined through skilled restoration and hand - painting.

Through drawings and paintings of the figure, still lifes, and landscapes, the 20 artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from the art historical canon — Renaissance painting, the Hudson River School, American Modernism — and advance realism as a critical mode of painting in the 21st century.