Sentences with phrase «first as a sculptor»

After her marriage in 1896 to Harry Payne Whitney, a financier and brilliant polo player, she devoted much of her time to fine art, first as a sculptor, then - more importantly as a patron.

Often known first as a sculptor whose transgressive early works confronted mortality and bodily decay, Smith is an innovative printmaker whose more recent work on paper explores nature, portraiture, and fairy tales.

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As the first and primary role models for our children, we are sculptors of the next generation.

As the first and primary role model in a child's life, Moms are the sculptors of our next generation.

We have completed the first draft on a major ghostwriting project, as well as finalizing the selection for a writer on an autobiography of a truly extraordinary man who has lived his life as a merchant marine, bar owner in Japan, several years as a Peace Corp volunteer in Africa and a sculptor.

In 1987 she moved to France where she worked as a sculptor and freelance journalist, and she began writing her first novel, Egg Dancing.

Takes a year off from studies at Amherst to live in Italy; takes drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence; studies the work of Renzo Vespignani and other Italian neorealists as well as the Italian old masters; learns Italian; while in Florence, visits the studio of American sculptor Bernard Reder; buys his first prints, which include works by Georges Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz, Rodolphe Bresdin, and illustrations from the German periodical Die Stürm; on his return to the U.S., reads Dante's Divine Comedy in the original Italian.

Exhibition by British sculptor in October to be first in new gallery space carved out of hillside as part of # 20m redevelopment

Trained as a sculptor, Terada first builds diminutive domestic sets, and photographs them to achieve these austere environments.

The first recipient of the Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is Chinese - Canadian artist Terence Koh, who is best known for his sculptural installations, such as the Bee Chapel that he first created on his property in upstate New York.

There were no signs in her work of the organic monumentalism synonymous with the sculptors and conceptualists who first decamped for the desert, and she didn't seem the type to erect a permanent museum of her art, as did the assemblage artist Noah Purifoy, a pioneer when he left L.A. for Joshua Tree in the 1980s.

Allan Stone Projects is pleased to announce an intimate Project Room exhibition of six early Wayne Thiebaud figure drawings, on view May 2014, during the first half of the exhibition Robert Mallary Sculptor (main gallery, April 24 - June 27, 2014), as a reflection on the long friendship these two artists maintained.

Other notable solo exhibitions explore significant artists working today, such as Salon 94's presentation of new works by MoMA - honored Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha, and the first four - decade survey of Joyce Pensato's work, presented by Petzel.

As a gallerist, she was one of the first to introduce key European artists such as Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys and Marcel Broodthaers to American audiences and has represented some of the biggest names in the business, including Anselm Kiefer, the sculptor Richard Deacon and the video artist and Oscar - winning film director Steve McQueeAs a gallerist, she was one of the first to introduce key European artists such as Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys and Marcel Broodthaers to American audiences and has represented some of the biggest names in the business, including Anselm Kiefer, the sculptor Richard Deacon and the video artist and Oscar - winning film director Steve McQueeas Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys and Marcel Broodthaers to American audiences and has represented some of the biggest names in the business, including Anselm Kiefer, the sculptor Richard Deacon and the video artist and Oscar - winning film director Steve McQueen.

The project space's first few shows have focused on younger black artists who have had little market exposure, such as the Yale MFA student Vaughn Spann and painter and sculptor Leonardo Benzant, subjects of the current show «Homeostasis,» curated by black curator and Aljira Center director Dexter Wimberly.

A massive structure of wooden poles festooned with colorful ribbons by the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow is the first work one encounters when visiting the 2013 Carnegie International, the quadrennial (or thereabouts) show at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art that stands as the oldest global contemporary art exhibition in the United States.

From the bad boys of BritArt to the grand - daddies of modern painting, many daubed their first canvas as a student while studying at Central Saint Martins; Lucian Freud completed his course in 1939, Gilbert & George met and studied fine art there, while England's best - known sculptor Antony Gormley is a 1974 graduate.

While at the ICA Mergel organized numerous exhibitions, including Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video (2009), and Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume.

Richier was first trained as a classical sculptor at the École Supérieure des Beaux - Arts de Montpellier and then became a student of Antoine Bourdelle (a student of Rodin and teacher to Alberto Giacometti) in Paris.

Barthé established his first studio in Harlem and spent the early 1930s establishing his career as a sculptor.

The first three ground - floor rooms trace Rodin's beginnings as a sculptor, from an early portrait of his pinch - faced father Jean - Baptiste Rodin (1860)-- the first sculpture he kept — to a terracotta bust of a Young Girl with Flowers on her Hat (1870), a vision as pretty as a Fragonard from his period in Belgium as an ornamental sculptor.

This exhibition of 12 sculptures and numerous drawings and photographs by the Italian - born artist is prefaced by a new work, In Frequencies, by Tony Cragg, who in the accompanying catalogue credits Rosso as the first modern sculptor.

1976 Long Island Sculptors, Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, State University of New York, Garden City, NY 30th Anniversary: Artists of the First 10 Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY 23rd Annual Art Auction to benefit the Women's Campaign United, Sotheby Parke - Bernet, New York, NY Exhibition of Liturgical Arts, 41st International Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA Artists and East Hampton: A 100 Year Perspective, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Part II Inaugural Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the New York Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract arAs a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin was the first to adopt the medium, creating sculptures from straight glowing bars of neon, using the commercially available materials as a sort of readymade.

The other, is a 19thcentury Frenchman who is credited as the first modernist sculptor.

He worked on Urbino's first Renaissance church, which came to completion under Luca della Robbia, one of Florence's leading sculptors and a pioneer of terra - cotta as a decorative building material.

Sculptor, performance artist, writer and filmmaker Josiah McElheny has been appointed for this semester as Cornell's first Teiger Mentor in the Arts.

He held his first solo exhibition as a sculptor and painter at 16 years of age.

For her first solo show at Gavin Brown — and her largest in New York to date — the artist will present three impressive bodies of work, including her Braddock - based series «The Notion of Family,» as well as two newer compilations probing the Flint water crisis and the artist's own pilgrimage to Joshua Tree, California, to see a remarkable outdoor desert art museum founded by 20th century African - American sculptor, Noah Purifoy.

Pangolin London, London, 25 March — 2 May 2015 Kapoor and the other experimental British sculptors who emerged during the 1980s and 1990s had the ground laid for them by influential figures such as Bryan Kneale, who in 1974 became the first abstract sculptor to be elected a Royal Academician, after an acclaimed exhibition at the Whitechapel in 1966.

He is a self - thought full - time artist first worked as a sculptor, mostly welding and using t...

This curatorial validation was matched by market indicators such as the first auction prices surpassing $ 1 million for El Anatsui, the Ghanian sculptor whose retrospective drew crowds to the Brooklyn Museum this spring.

The installation celebrates seven decades of Catlett's career as a sculptor and printmaker; it is also one of the first major exhibitions of her work in the Southeast since Ms. Catlett's passing in 2012.

Isa Genzken: As Isa Genzken prepares for her first American Museum retrospective, Martin Herbert profiles the influential German sculptor.

As Robert Slifkin notes in his essay written for the exhibition catalogue: «while Roszak certainly identified himself first and foremost as a sculptor, coming of age as an artist when such medium - specific monikers were fundamental to aesthetic practices, he consistently produced finished drawings... that can not be considered ancillary to any specific sculpture... A relentlessly productive artist, Roszak invested all of his creative practice with equal vigor and intensitAs Robert Slifkin notes in his essay written for the exhibition catalogue: «while Roszak certainly identified himself first and foremost as a sculptor, coming of age as an artist when such medium - specific monikers were fundamental to aesthetic practices, he consistently produced finished drawings... that can not be considered ancillary to any specific sculpture... A relentlessly productive artist, Roszak invested all of his creative practice with equal vigor and intensitas a sculptor, coming of age as an artist when such medium - specific monikers were fundamental to aesthetic practices, he consistently produced finished drawings... that can not be considered ancillary to any specific sculpture... A relentlessly productive artist, Roszak invested all of his creative practice with equal vigor and intensitas an artist when such medium - specific monikers were fundamental to aesthetic practices, he consistently produced finished drawings... that can not be considered ancillary to any specific sculpture... A relentlessly productive artist, Roszak invested all of his creative practice with equal vigor and intensity.

Bridging Upper East Side and Chelsea locations of Mitchell - Innes & Nash with Caro's arresting abstract sculptures, First Drawings Last Sculptures offers a trajectory of the artist's six - decade - long career as an innovative sculptor.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a clean, a strong, and a varied one and of vast artistic, educational interest and importance, and, if I mistake not, will have as a result, and despite the unquestionably skeptical and even hostile attitude towards the merits of the new foreign movements, or an indisposition to accept them as being worthy of the title of art movements in general — the most marked effect upon the cause of art in America, and upon the coming production of American painters and sculptors, than anything that has occurred since the first exhibition of the so - called Munich band of young American painters in the old American art galleries in 1878, and of the work of Monet and his contemporaries and followers held here in 1883.

Having first met with some success as a figurative sculptor, by the end of the 1960s he was making a new sort of utterly abstract sculpture.

A symbol of all that is new and modern in sculpture, Anthony Caro is present in all the most important international events: it is worth recalling his first personal show at André Emmerich in New York in 1964, his participation, as the only sculptor, at the British pavilion of the 1966 edition of the Venice Biennale, the retrospective at the MoMA in New York in 1975, the 1984 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and, finally, his work with Normal Foster for the Millennium Bridge.

ART STAGE Singapore welcomes Colombian figurative artist and sculptor Fernando Botero as the first Honorary Invited Artist with a comprehensive dedicated exhibition of his works.

After World War II, Smith became the closest counterpart among sculptors to New York School painters such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who first won world recognition for contemporary American art.

The first solo museum exhibition of sculptor and installation artist Martha Russo, coalescere, Latin for «come together,» highlights work created over the course of the artist's career as well as a series of new works and large - scale, site - specific installations.

Hailing from Glasgow, UK, she worked as a contributor for BBC Radio Scotland and as an artist's assistant for the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy before first coming to New York to work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and, later, Independent Curators International (ICI).

Widely recognized as one of the most significant sculptors of the 20th century, Caro first rose to prominence in the 1960s with imposing painted steel sculptures freed from the pedestal, exhibited directly on the floor.

New York City - based Sculptors Guild, celebrating 80 years as one of the first artist - run nonprofit organizations in NY, is thrilled to present «American Twist,» a group exhibition of members» small works and installations at Antenna Gallery, 3718 St Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117, from March 11 - April 2, 2017.

Created in close collaboration with the artist, this new book not only presents Michael Heizer's first exhibition with Gagosian Gallery in New York, but also firmly establishes the artist's reputation as a legendary sculptor.

Lisson was the first to introduce New York minimalists such as Sol LeWitt to the U.K. audience in the early 1970s and to champion the next generation of British sculptors, including Tony Cragg.

Trained as a sculptor, he introduced the third dimension to his canvases first by puncturing them with holes in 1949 and then, from 1958, but performing his most famous gesture: the Cut.

This is the first of three similar works which can be seen as the culmination of Hepworth's figure studies of the late 1940s and early 1950s (Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, 1966, pp.20 - 1).