Sentences with phrase «first figurative sculpture»

Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.

Not exact matches

This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 31st — December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of major figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the «Souvenir» series.

When I first experienced movies like Alien and Terminator, and early Cronenberg, it opened a door for me as to how I wanted to take my figurative sculpture.

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.

Hidden amongst the items on the wooden tables are two sculptural works — the first is Thomas» first sculpture, a broken, lumpy, vaguely figurative work, the other is a hand that Sandra made herself.

Carroll's photographs call to mind multiple art historical influences — Greco - Roman figurative sculpture and its distinctive treatment of draping done in marble, the opulent cascades of textile pattern in Northern Renaissance painting, and the still life genre — in related series in Still / Life exhibited together for the first time.

On view are figurative sculptures in wood, alabaster and bronze, graphite wall drawings, and several new works being shown for the first time.

His early works — a sculpture of himself at his first communion, a tableau about bed - wetting, a cloaked shepherdess with a lamp — were directly figurative.

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

In conjunction with these figurative paintings, Bickerton is exhibiting a selection of new sculptures for the first time.

In the front gallery, two large sculptures dominate the space and appear at first glance to be monumental figurative abstractions.

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.

This first solo exhibition by Alina Martiros will present recent figurative paintings and sculpture.

At a first gaze, the idea of reinterpretation of earlier movements within the genre of figurative sculpture seems to be the main thread of the exhibition; the «Human Statues» by Frank Benson re-visit the classic models of sculpture with a post-modern attitude, suggestions of an archaic past revive in Schütte's warriors, while a Minimalistic taste gives shape to Georg Herold's haggard creatures.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

For a two - gallery exhibition in 1997 she exhibited life - size figurative sculpture at Mary Boone Gallery and the first of her projected light and sound installations at a project space run by Jeffrey Deitch.

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

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.

First, I would like to situate the difference between figurative and abstract sculpture, since I don't see them as entirely unalike.

Three domestically inclined pencil and white acrylic drawings from 1965 — 66 present a link to the surprisingly figurative beginning of Truitt's large - scale sculpture practice, First, 1961, a section of ersatz white picket fencing perhaps plucked from her suburban neighborhood in Washington, DC.

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)

Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British - born sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling of a range of materials — marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass — first exploring figurative and then abstract sculpture.

This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 30th — December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of major figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the «Souvenir» series.

This figurative sculpture made from frozen fabric is the first work I saw on entering the fair and it's a perfect representation of the fair in taking a typically European sculpture pose and infusing it with African influence.

While the pedestal, figurative form, and rotation at first call reference to classical bronze sculpture, the momentum of the rotation suggests a deeper intent that challenges classical conventions.

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

In 1999 Balka stated that Oasis (C.D.F.) is the first sculpture he produced that does not include a figurative representation of the body (see Balka in Tate Gallery Cataloguing Form, 12 November 1999, p. 3, Tate Artist Catalogue File, Miroslaw Balka, A19309).

Opening reception: Saturday, October 20th, 6 — 8 pm James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo gallery exhibition by Dutch artist, Folkert de Jong, who reinvents monuments and classical figurative sculpture by combining fictional and factual histories into life - sized sculptural tableaux.

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.