Sentences with phrase «first public art work»

His first public art work, «the floaters» depicts Taylor with a friend and rod - like floating devices in a Palm Springs pool.

Some of these major monumental sculpture commissions include:.125, a mobile for the New York Port Authority that was hung in Idlewild (now John F. Kennedy) Airport (1957); Spirale, for UNESCO, in Paris (1958); Teodelapio, for the city of Spoleto, Italy (1962); Trois disques (Man), for the Expo in Montreal (1967); El Sol Rojo, installed outside the Aztec Stadium for the Olympic Games in Mexico City; La Grande vitesse, the first public art work to be funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1969); and Flamingo, a stabile for the General Services Administration in Chicago (1973).

The artist's first public art work is on view for a full year through March 2018.

The project commemorates «A Subtlety,» Walker's first public art work which was installed at the Old Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Coinciding with the opening of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Henry Taylor's first public art work is on view at the High Line in New York for a full year (March 17, 2017 — March 2018).

On «A Subtlety,» Kara Walker's first public art work, a monumental sugar sphinx on view over the summer in Brooklyn «I was a little disappointed with Kara Walker's piece that she did for the former Domino Sugar factory.

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The near - Earth asteroid Bennu will become the first extra-terrestrial art gallery, with the space agency inviting the public to contribute works of art that are inspired by the spirit of exploration.

Karen received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the Mildred Levenson Dance Foundation, a Coldwell Bankers Cares Award, A Citizen Interested in the Arts Award, CEF APAP Travel Award to set a new work in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 2012 and KPD earned its first John and James L Knight Foundation Challenge Award in 2012 to support the company's work in the Miami Dade Public Schools.

Tom Pugh has a First in Art history and works as a copywriter and speechwriter for a London - based public affairs firm, an international auction house and a Japanese publisher.

KARA WALKER Already one of the most highly regarded artists working today, Kara Walker forges into new territory, conceiving «A Subtlety,» her first - ever major sculpture and public art project.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

The Manchester Art Gallery presents Raqib Shaw's largest solo exhibition to date, featuring 28 recent recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, many on public view for the first time.In addition, Shaw has created a floral installation that fills the galleries, lending an otherworldly, paradisical atmosphere to the space.

Exhibitions of his work in the late 80s, often controversial in content, sparked debates about public funding for the arts, censorship, First Amendment rights, and broadly, what defines art.

Having held the first major museum survey of the artist earlier this year as part of its «Recognition of Art by Women» series, it was at the head of a queue of more than a dozen public institutions waiting to buy Ms Crosby's painstakingly crafted works.

Founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960 and led by Marc Glimcher, Pace has been a constant, vital force in the art world and has introduced many renowned artists» work to the public for the first time.

The deCordova Museum was a big part of my formation as an artist, and my teacher George Greenamyer's work Mass Art Vehicle at deCordova was one of the first public sculptures I loved.

Co-organized by Dina Deitsch, independent curator, and Lillian Hsu, Director of Public Art, Common Exchange featured ten contemporary artists whose work addresses connectivity in the twenty - first century.

It is the nation's oldest public art museum and was the first to obtain works by Caravaggio, Salvador Dali and many others.

These exhibitions, and the controversial works they presented, sparked a larger international and ongoing debate about public funding for the arts, censorship and other First Amendment concerns, as well as the definition of that which is considered art.

Lucy Byatt of Hospitalfield Arts, who curated the exhibition, first worked with Fagen on the artist's acclaimed public art project in Royston, Glasgow, which was the genesis of ROSE, Fagen's multiple published by The Multiple Store in 2013.

Il Lee's recent venture into a different medium, exemplified in the first public unveiling of his large - scale acrylic and oil on canvas work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010, has opened up a significant and exciting new direction for the artist.

Organized by Public Art Fund, the exhibition will feature bronze works that «may first look like giant, tactile lumps,» as Carol Vogel of The New York Times writes, «but on closer inspection each has a form reminiscent of human features.»

This sculpture forms part of «Internal Affairs», a series of works Hirst exhibited in his first solo show in a public gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1991.

December 7, 2016 — The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will present the first - ever survey of the museum's extensive collection of drawings, the oldest public collection of works on paper on the continent, illuminating the evolving and foundational role of drawing within artistic practice.

A film by Hito Steyerl, Abstract (2012), has been acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for GoMA, becoming the first work by the artist to enter a public collection in the UK.

This will be the first public exhibition of this series of paintings — the artist's earliest mature body of work — since a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Ringling Museum of Art in 1968.

«The last Bienal was the first step to making it more engaged with the public,» say Bienal co-founder Nelson Herrera Ysla about the increased number of public - art works throughout the city, from the likes of Havana - based artist Arles del Rio to the Russian conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, who brought their globe - trotting»

The party for Rashid Johnson's first - ever work of public art started 30 minutes earlier, so I'm out slightly out of breath when I reach the southern edge of the High Line.

He also installed his first - ever public art work on the High Line in New York, not too far from where the biennial exhibition is on view.

Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monArt in New York, the exhibition coincides with a number of other notable moments for Taylor, including his work gracing the March cover of Art in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monArt in America magazine, his first - ever public art installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this monart installation, and a new artist record at auction achieved at Christie's London earlier this month.

Her proudest moment of 2016, however, came with the launch of «inHarlem: Kevin Beasley, Simone Leigh, Kori Newkirk, Rudy Shepherd,» four ambitious public works embedded in four of Harlem's historic parks — and the Studio Museum's first public art project.

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.

He had his first public gallery show at Southampton Art Gallery, then he was shortlisted for the 2001 Turner prize and chose to exhibit Work No 227: The lights going on and off.

The large - scale public art project, her first, is garnering more attention and visitors than any other New York public art work in recent memory.

We are pleased to partner with the Walker Art Center in the organization of the first major retrospective of the artist's career, adding to new curatorial insight and broadening public understanding of an artist whose work deserves even greater national and international recognition,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, the DMA's Eugene McDermott Director.

Most recently, her work was exhibited throughout the permanent collection and public spaces of Parrish Art Museum during their first summer season in their new Herzog & De Meuron building.

This exhibition, which debuted at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in October 2014, includes paintings dating from 2006 to 2011 and marks the first public display of the artist's work.

Kasper and I had actually first worked on a book about public art, and while we were working on all kinds of public art theories, on the social contract of art, we realized that, as a matter of fact, there was still painting.

«I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now» is one of a number of works in Hirst's early series, «Internal Affairs», many of which were shown in his first solo show in a public galley, (also called «Internal Affairs») at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1991.

«Entangled Orbits demonstrates the museum's commitment to presenting work by living artists in public spaces and the idea that art should be the first thing you see when you enter the museum and the last thing as you leave,» said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford.

Many of these images were first exhibited to the public in a solo exhibition of Shore's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976.

«Figure Study II is one of the greatest acquisitions the Contemporary Art Society has ever made and the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public collection in this country... Its display with Figure Study I offers a rare opportunity to understand the artist's thinking across two works from a critical moment of Bacon's career».

With his first artist monograph freshly published by JRP Ringier and two recent solo exhibitions at Tramway Art Space in Glasgow and Firstsite in Colchester, England, Hughes» work is at the center of public attention.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

Prior to Performa, he worked at the public art organization Creative Time; his recent projects include the first New York public art quadrennial, Plot09: This World & Nearer Ones; Hey Hey Glossolalia: Exhibiting the Voice, and the Russian and South American touring show Electric Earth: Film & Video from Britain for the British Council.

Often referred to as his greatest work of art, Isamu Noguchi opened The Noguchi Museum to the public in 1985 and it remains the first museum in the country founded by an artist during his lifetime and dedicated to his own work.

In 1952 when the curator of the Batley Art Gallery accepted the piece as a gift from the Contemporary Art Society on behalf of Batley, it became the second work by Bacon to enter a public collection, the first being Painting, 1946 acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced Wednesday that a thoroughly transformed SFMOMA will open to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016, offering nearly three times the previous exhibition space, featuring 260 works from the Fisher Collection, a first showing of more than 600 artworks promised to the museum, the debut of the new Pritzker Center for Photography and an outward - looking architectural design that weaves the museum into the city as never before.

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In 2010, he won the Wollaston Award for his work Crash Willy in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and Nelson's Ship in a Bottle became his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.