Sentences with phrase «first piece of sculpture»

Construction # 31 was my first piece of sculpture purchased by a major museum.

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And this seems entirely appropriate given that the movie begins and ends with a presentation of and then an assault on a piece of sculpture — the first of which is stone and covered with a fig leaf, the second human and emotionally stripped bare.

Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Color Field pioneer Sam Gilliam, for example, first applied acrylic paint to raw, unprimed canvas by staining it like a piece of fabric, as realized in the sculpture - painting hybrid Hedge Sky.

2015 The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA SAIC 150th Anniversary Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de La Habana, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Bring in the Reality, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY Pilgrimage Dun Huang — First International City Sculpture Exhibition, Architectural Society of China, Dun Huang, China POP Stars!

Its first section is based on the Marfa, Texas, Chinati Foundation exhibition of 2005 - 2006, with installation shots and photographs of each exhibited piece; the second section assembles a total of 85 foam sculptures, constituting an almost complete catalogue of this group and an update to Chamberlain's catalogue raisonné of 1986.

The exhibition will feature 170 works of art, including more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso alongside more than 20 works of African and Oceanic art that were part of his personal collection — pieces that he collected, lived with and kept with him in his studios, many of them featured for the first time in the Americas.

Andre's first major exhibition in Britain for over 10 years, it features eight sculptures made between 1967 and 1983, as well as some of his typed - out poems from the same period (their words are arranged to form bold patterns on the page, almost like little pieces of sculpture).

Fragments of infinity For his first solo show at mariondecannière, Adrien Tirtiaux presents a selection of new works and spatial explorations, prototypes at various scales, expandable sculptures, almost functional modular devices, adaptable site - specific works and possibly sellable pieces.

That piece, an emblematic expression of his community - geared work, will be present in the Polish artist's first major American exhibition when it opens at the New Museum this month, along with a new installation featuring sculptures that the artist will make over the show's duration, to be shown alongside drawings accumulated from the exhibition's visitors.

Her first major London retrospective for almost 50 years, «Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World» features over 100 works, including some of her best - known pieces such as Pelagos (1946; below), which can be seen alongside sculptures by her contemporary Henry Moore and predecessor Jacob Epstein.

Comprised of nearly 200 pieces in a wide range of media including sculpture, painting, photography, installation art, found objects, film, and art books, the exhibition is the first to feature this little - known artist in the US.

This is the Casasempere's first solo exhibition in Japan and features large scale sculpture with a group of ceramic pieces.

J.W. Anderson Signed copies of the J.W. Anderson «Disobedient Bodies» catalogue — a book which brings together all of the pieces of sculpture, fashion photography and art that are on display in the Hepworth Wakefield exhibition — will be available within the J.W. Anderson space on First Floor.

For her first solo show in the UK, Judas Companion — artist Jasmin Reif — will present a series of knitted mask pieces - a new body of work that explores the concept of a mask through sculpture, photography and film, and includes a first look at the bespoke piece created as part of the inaugural year of the Ketel One Artist Commission.

His first North American retrospective will feature 90 of his works from the 1960s to the present, including paintings, sculptures and installation pieces.

The thought - provoking work on display here covers a variety of mediums (sculpture, relief, installation, photography), with many pieces exhibited on the continent for the first time.

Although Judd had exhibited his first freestanding piece in November 1962, as part of a faculty show at the Brooklyn Museum, it was in New Work: Part I where his shift from painting to sculpture was announced.

Considered one of the earliest artists to use Cor - Ten steel (Richard Serra's material of choice), Pepper first exhibited welded pieces in Italy alongside sculptures by David Smith, Alexander Calder, and Lynn Chadwick.

Part minimalism, part constructivism, part sculpture, and part architecture, Ryman's latest batch of pieces will grace Northern California in his first Bay area exhibition, on view through December 22nd.

His first monumental outdoor sculpture «Know Time» depicts seven links of an anchor chain standing 9ft tall by 1ft diameter, carved from a single piece of stone.

Clare Lilley, who selected and placed the works, said: «From the contemplative and ephemeral to the robust and monumental, the exhibition includes the park's first - ever conceptual work — a remaking of a rare 1969 piece by Ed Herring — and classic painted sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet alongside a newly created work by Eddie Martinez.

The first retrospective to document the eye - dazzling ceramics of Ralph Bacerra (1938 - 2008), a Los Angeles - based artist known for his innovative approach to surface design and embellishment, the exhibition features more than ninety of the artist's finest pieces - dramatic, highly decorated vessels and sculptures that have never before been the focus of a major exhibition or publication.

Now in its sixth year, Sculpture in the City, the City of London's annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the first ever screening of Petroc Sesti's digital piece Solar Relay — one of 17 works of art in the open - air sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in Sculpture in the City, the City of London's annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the first ever screening of Petroc Sesti's digital piece Solar Relay — one of 17 works of art in the open - air sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in Sculpture in the City.

The piece is the first in the artist's egg series of sculptures, and one of six versions in bronze (the other being at the Centre Pompidou, The Met Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago and private collections).

This exhibition marks the artist's first gallery show outside of Asia and will feature his complex mixed media pieces that transcend the static limitations of sculpture and address the relationship between the spiritual and physical.

Two years earlier, at Roche Court sculpture park, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, the couple had shown together for the first time in their marriage: he with a dozen huge, rusted steel pieces from the series called Flats, made in 1974 in Canada with the aid of a crane; she indoors with a sequence of vibrantly coloured canvases painted with architectural forms not far distant from his.

That piece of found furniture would become the base for one of Kusama's first and most iconic sculptures: Accumulation No. 1.

His first and most celebrated pieces were layers of laminated colored acrylic forming magical prismatic sculptures.

In Camden, there are more than 60 artists included in the show — an unusually high proportion of them women — spanning a multitude of media, including painting (Dorothea Tanning, Alice Neel), photography (Irving Penn, Claude Cahun), sculpture (Wangechi Mutu, Sheila Hicks), weaving (Anni Albers, and West African textiles from Mr. Olowu's personal collection) and collage (the 25 - year - old fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, recent winner of the LVMH prize for emerging talent, has a piece on display for the first time).

Organized by the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, this exhibition brings together 50 of the artist's small «test» pieces to examine, for the first - time, how Hesse's experimental practices and working method in the studio informed her larger sculptures.

The deftly crafted - and often humorous - installations and sculptures made by Los Carpinteros may appear whimsical at first, yet every piece has an element of political commentary, mostly related to their personal experience and context.

But spend some time with these weird, sprawling wall pieces — and the monster of a sculpture, Walking with Garth, 2011, that lies in the middle of the gallery floor — and you might find a sharper edge to what, at first, appears lighthearted and ornamental.

In the first gallery, Ms. Lee has constructed sculptures of mechanical - looking pieces of steel in shallow, mirrored boxes.

In 1967 the Whitney Museum hosted the first retrospective of Nevelson's work, showing over one hundred pieces, including drawings from the 1930s and contemporary sculptures.

Amongst these are a selection of his iconic Combines, pieces that hover between painting and sculpture, including Monogram (1955 - 59), traveling to the UK for the first time in over 50 years, and Bed (1955).

His Regular / Fragile series, first shown at the Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale in 2003, is composed of approximately 1,000 pieces of white porcelain sculptures that are replicas of everyday objects such as hats, shoes, toys, and books.

But while these pieces may at first glance seem to be somewhat haphazard, their installation is in fact rigorously directed by the artist, who accompanied each coveted sculpture with a set of exacting written instructions for the placement of every tile (making them akin to a Sol LeWitt wall drawing).

A particularly strong piece, The Lifted X (1965), sits in the center of the main gallery and meets visitors as the first sculpture they experience in the space.

Together with a number of wall objects, sculptures and early drawings by Donald Judd, the exhibition will show early Baltz photographs from The Prototype Works and from the 25 - piece The Tract Houses that were first exhibited in 1971 at Leo Castelli.

For her first major show in Miami, Friedman created four brightly hued sheets of rubber — which she made by pouring 1,000 pounds of material onto the Locust Projects» floor — along with metal sculpture and an accompanying performance piece by artist Silas Reiner.

Though many of her earlier pieces have looked to the body to inform both design and scale, these sculptures mark Al - Hadid's first forays into representing the human form.

It encompassed visions as distinctive as Michael Landy's Market, an installation of empty stalls made from stacked bread crates; Gordon's slowed - down 24 - hour version of Hitchcock's Psycho; Jane and Louise Wilson's psychological explorations of historic buildings through film and photography; and Wallinger's Ecce Homo, a sculpture of Jesus as an ordinary man that was the first piece on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.

Lorna Simpson, best known for her photographic installations, debuted her first new sculptures in 25 years at the Frieze art fair in New York last spring: One of them, «They Cheated Death,» consisted of short stacks of vintage Ebony magazines, held down by pieces of glass that looked like blocks of ice.

In the main gallery, Price will show three large - scale sculptures that continue the expansion of his practice into more monumental sizes, which he began working on shortly after his last exhibition at the gallery in 2006, in which he debuted his first large - scale piece.

In the excellent exhibition «Anthony Caro: First Drawings Last Sculptures,» which occupies both Mitchell - Innes & Nash locations, the pieces do a little of everything while adding something new: thick slabs of tinted or clear Perspex (acrylic sheets).

Among them there was the first re-fabrication of the unique piece titled Sculpture tactile, a project conceived by Yves Klein in the 1950s, but previously unrealized.

Among the new sculptures produced for the exhibition is Fischer's first candle self - portrait, which is set alight and slowly burns down before our eyes, in the fashion of his acclaimed installation at the Arsenale di Venezia, which was described by the Financial Times as «the single most stunning new piece anywhere» in the 2011 Biennale.

«It's like 2007 again in some ways,» said Alex Logsdail, associate director of the Lisson Gallery, who had sold 15 pieces within the first four hours -LSB-...] a black wall sculpture by Anish Kapoor for 550,000 pounds and a stereogram by Haroon Mirza — who won the Silver Lion for the most promising young artist at this year's Venice Biennale — for 16,000 pounds.