Sentences with phrase «first practicing artist»

Witty, affable, and entertaining, Perry was the first practicing artist to be selected for the Reith Lectures, an annual radio series inaugurated by the BBC in 1948.

As such, she is the first practicing artist to curate the event in its over eight - decade - long history.

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Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, «The unique gathering of independent voices, for the first time in a multi-Lab setting, allows our artists to collaborate across different creative practices and focus on experimentation in storytelling.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

First, as the narrator Marc shared with us, humorously and candidly, his views on the practice of medicine, his patients, artists and entertainers and women, among other subjects.

Twelve years later, artist Andrea Fraser wrote in Artforum, «Nearly forty years after their first appearance, the practices now associated with «institutional critique» have for many come to seem, well, institutionalized.»

, is the first museum retrospective to focus on this aspect of the French artist's practice, with rare loans of Parisian scenes, sketches of «majestic beards,» and views of the Sahara, all part of his search for a more impulsive, raw form of expression.

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades of the artist's wide - ranging conceptual practice.

BOOKSHELF Check out these recent studies of the aforementioned artists and their practices: Part of the Wexner Center for the Arts series, Mark Bradford is the first major book on the artist and features images and essays examining the social and aesthetic significance of his work.

JORDAN WOLFSON: MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE presented major works spanning several years of the artist's practice in a two - part exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam — Wolfson's first solo exhibition in The Netherlands.

Dubuffet Drawings, 1935 — 1962, is the first museum retrospective to focus on this aspect of the French artist's practice, with rare loans of Parisian scenes, sketches of «majestic beards,» and views of the Sahara, all part of his search for a more impulsive, raw form of expression.

Flavin has been credited with being «one of the first artists to make use of a basically progressional procedure,» and the systematic arrangement of color and light fixtures was an aspect of his work that not only led to it being characterized as Minimal art but which moreover influenced Conceptual artistic practices.

Of particular focus is Giacometti's studio practice, which is examined through rarely seen plaster sculptures that highlight the artist's working process, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — which hosted the artist's first US museum exhibition, in 1955 — and with New York City.

The Palazzo Ducale in Mantova hosts Michelangelo Pistoletto's exhibition «Da Cittadellarte alla Civiltà dell» Arte», which explores the full range of the artist's practice over the past 60 years, from the first self - portraits, through to his celebrated mirror paintings, as well as his ongoing Terzo Paradiso project.

Exhibited together for the first time, the works reveal a young artist in the process of establishing the elements of a painting practice that has lasted nearly five decades.

For the first time, this exhibition brings together regional, national and international artists that focus on actions in and with the landscape through various practices.

Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer — the first major museum exhibition of the artist's work — will chronicle a pivotal moment in Gibson's career when his contemporary artistic practice converged with his Native American heritage.

Spanning from a drawing from the workshop of Raphael, to the first - ever watercolor by Winslow Homer to enter a museum collection, to works produced in the past five years by Natalie Frank, William Kentridge, and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition highlights the role of draftsmanship in artistic practice through a diverse selection of masterworks from artists across a wide range of art history.

This conscious «lightness» was perhaps at first rooted in his generation's rebellion against the grand narratives of academy artists, but the joy of free expression that followed from this lightness has remained throughout more than two decades of Song Dong's artistic practice.

The first solo show in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of about forty paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important abstract painter in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.

He was among the first wave of South Korean artists to move to New York (his home since 1977) where he developed his signature process and style using ballpoint pen, a medium important to his practice over the decades.

The artist's first major retrospective to date, the exhibition spans over four decades of Boghiguian's practice.

The tradition has continued well into the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, and is practiced by artists like Jim Dine, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry, and Judy Pfaff.

«The first monograph on the New York based artists» collaborative known for its socio - political art practice.

Produced to coincide with «Re: Mine,» McArthur Binion's inaugural solo show at Galerie Lelong, this monograph is the first in the artist's 40 - year practice (a blend of Minimalism and personal narrative) and features an interview with Binion conducted by Franklin Sirmans and an essay by Lowery Stokes Sims.

At the time, members of The Archive Project felt that for artists living with HIV two deaths were on the horizon; the second was the physical death; the first was someone's artistic practice and career.

Providing us with the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate science, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, the computer, and the physical sciences, the book also incorporates the relevant art theory and personal statements of the surveyed artists, hoping for a better understanding of the new artistic practice.

Art Night also features open artist - studios, provocative art installations, a free concert, the art opening of first year students at Otis MFA Public Practice entitled Autonomy and Ana Guajardo's Marketplace Tianguis, which consists of a cultural explosion of diverse craftworks by twelve artisans in 18th Street's parking lot.

The exhibition was the first at the gallery to not present Chimes's work by theme or period, instead examining some of the artist's working methods that extended throughout his career and drawing practice.

Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to announce the first UK solo exhibition by Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, two artists whose collaborative practice is one of the most significant in contemporary art today.

Martha Rosler is the first recipient of The 100K Prize, a biennial award presented to an influential, U.S. - based woman artist in honor of her exemplary artistic achievements and enduring commitment to her practice.

This first solo presentation of works by South Korean artist Park Chan - kyong presents a series of his latest film and documentary works that offers a new perspective on folk religious practices such as shamanism and utopian religious communities, from the period of colonisation and the cold war to the present time.

7 - 9 pm Opening: Tracey Emin: Angel Without You VIP Opening Reception at MOCA North Miami The first American museum exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin and first - ever exhibition to focus on Emin's works in neon, a crucial aspect of the artist's practice that began with her iconic The Tracey Emin Museum (1995), which opens the show.

Her art practice has found its public through representation by the Julie Saul Gallery in New York and many dozens of exhibitions over the years at Bard College, Exit Art and Mary Boone Gallery (where she was the first female artist to have a solo show), as well as in recent years at P!

Prior to her trumpeted appointment, she'd made her mark on the Los Angeles art landscape at the Hammer Museum, where she not only shepherded the first L.A. solo shows of contemporary visionaries Simone Leigh and Njideka Akunyili Crosby into fruition, but was also integral in realizing the exhibitions at Art + Practice (such as a show by Alex Da Corte), the arts and social services foundation established by influential artist Mark Bradford.

On view from December 4, 2013 through March 9, 2014, this is the first - ever exhibition to focus on Emin's works in neon, a crucial aspect of the artist's practice that began with her iconic The Tracey Emin Museum (1995), which opens the show.

For the first edition of Amsterdam Art Fair Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents a solo presentation by Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven, whose artistic practice concerns itself with the historic and social connotations of various valuable objects, ranging from lapis lazuli to ancient Egyptian mirrors.

Her project for the artist book «Berlin 1973», is conceived by Isa Genzken as her first artistic work relevant to her practice.

Oscar Murillo is now considered an established artist — and David Zwirner is currently presenting Murillo's first exhibition at the gallery in London — titled «Binary Function», which refers to the pairings that permeate the artist's multifaceted practice; with multiples that play against one another to create a dialogue that the exceeds individual objects, with another chance to step on the artist's work!

The series chronicles the lives of New York - based emerging artists in the first decade of their career, and provides glimpses into their artistic practice, taking visitors into their studios and apartments, places of work and leisure.

Japanese artist Tetsuo Mizù, in his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Whitestone Gallery, presents a welcomed deviation from more traditional depictions of the subject with paintings that focus on the storied practice of international maritime flags.

A three - part exhibition, the first gallery provides a glimpse of McGinness's studio practice, the second displays a selection of the objects McGinness chose from the museum's collection alongside his sketches and final image, and the last portion features early works the artist made while growing up in Virginia Beach.

Gallery 2 has developed a reputation for significant historical exhibitions, presenting first - time, one - person shows, and shedding light on lesser known aspects of prominent artists» practices.

Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice will be the first exhibition since 1956 to explore the drawing practice of this major figure of the Venetian Renaissance and will offer an entirely new perspective on Tintoretto's evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his influence on a generation of painters in northern Italy.

On the occasion of her first public talk in Nigeria at ART X Lagos, award - winning Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby sits down with us for an intimate conversation on the various dynamics that inform her work and practice.

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, numerous artists, writers, critics and scholars pushed the boundaries of social thought and practice, revolutionised the arts and thereby developed the concept of Modernism.

«As one of the first American museums to acquire Pollock's work, it only is fitting that the DMA should present this definitive exhibition of the black paintings, engaging a new generation of audiences with this important and under - examined aspect of the artist's practice,» Delahunty concluded.

The entirety of Sharif's studio — recently donated to Sharjah Art Foundation by the artist's estate — will also be on view for the first time, providing new perspective on the artist's practice.

Parkina's project for SFMOMA, entitled Fallow Land — the artist's first U.S. museum exhibition — premieres her latest body of work and showcases the range of her practice with a large suite of new works on paper (including watercolors and tissue paper collages), all created specifically for this presentation.

«Pussies,» Judy Chicago's first solo exhibition in San Francisco since her iconic installation The Dinner Party premiered there in 1979, presented paintings, drawings, and ceramic plates made between 1968 and 2004, many of which exemplified the feminist art practices pioneered by the artist in the 1960s and»70s.