Sentences with phrase «for figurative artists»

Green Mountain was a gathering place for figurative artists, and painter Diana Kurz remembers meeting her at their openings.

This will be followed by a book - signing for The Figurative Artist's Handbook by Rob Zeller, which will be available for purchase.

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One of the wryly witty aspects is of how tortured lives are ascribed to artists, as Jason's upbringing seems relatively normal and uninteresting, but with a play that is so wildly exaggerated to as to include a boorish father and an ending that includes suicide for its main characters, Ms. Sinclair takes the figurative and ascribes the literal.

In 1953 Blackman was co — founder of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society and he was also one of seven artists responsible for the Antipodean Manifesto; these artists protested the dominance and rejected the rise of abstract expressionism and non — figurative art.

Richard Diebenkorn, the versatile artist best known for his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and later for his «Ocean Park» series of paintings, will have his catalogue raisonné published this fall by Yale University Press in conjunction with... Read More

For the artist, these figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day ChiFor the artist, these figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day Chifor showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day China.

For 2018, there's an esteemed group of expert judges to decide the finalists and Overall Winner, including Peter Brown NEAC (British Figurative Painter), Luci Noel (Director of the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead and Battersea, Autumn Collection), Jacqui McIntosh (Exhibition Manager, Drawing Room Gallery), Siska Lyssens (Freelance Arts Writer), Mark Roscoe (Portrait Artist and Winner of the Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2017) and Karl Bielik (Abstract Painter).

My work is evolving all the time and after 35 years as a figurative artist I've recently discovered ways to express myself through abstract art which has been the most exciting and liberating experience I've had for ages.

The artist has invoked afros in his figurative work and as abstract motifs for two decades.

2018 — Figurative Diaspora: The Migration of Academic Training from Russia to China in the Service of Progressive Art, Co-curated by Mark Tansey 2017 — Piss & Vinegar: Nina Chanel Abney, Robert Arneson, Sue Coe, Robert Colescott, R. Crumb, Nicole Eisenman, Natalie Frank, Hilary Harkness, Peter Saul, Robert Williams 2016 — Now and Then: Drawings from the 19th Century to the Present 2015 — Beautiful Beast: Ball, Cook, de Jong, Demetz, Dill, Dupont, Fischl, Fox, Mennin, King, Penny, Piccinini, Pondick, Silverthorne, Smith, Taplin, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2014 — The Big Picture, Desiderio, Fischl, Rauch, Saville, Tansey, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — Iconomancy, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY 2011 — I've Got a Secret, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY 2011 — Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths 2010 — Just Off, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY 2007 — Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 — Uprising, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space, New York, NY 2005 — Primed, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2003 — The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — Space Invaders, FishTank Gallery, New York, NY 1985 - 89 — The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Artist Curator, Responsible for interviewing artists, portfolio reviews and initial selections for group exhibitions.

Following «The Great Figure,» a six - person show held in late 2014, this sequel show, mounted in the midst of a steady market demand for figurative painting, brings together a new group of canvases by 15 sought - after artists.

An admired artist in India, Arpita Singh, who is best known for her figurative paintings of woman, often floating in an elusive space, rarely shows in America and that is our loss.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

In the Company of Alice presents portraits and figurative paintings by a diverse group of artists - some established and some emerging, some for whom portraiture is the crux of their practice and others for whom creating a portrait has been a new exercise.

«The anniversary coincides with a new outpost in Hong Kong, which will open in January with an inaugural show by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans, lauded for his figurative paintings.

As Peter Schjeldahl writes in The New Yorker, «Outlasting insult and condescension, a woman among competitive men, and a figurative artist in times agog for abstraction, she triumphed.»

«The Figurative Artist's Handbook... is a very beautiful book to look through, so it may be challenging for those who use it as a handbook to let it get dirty and dog - eared, just like the previous generation did with their [Andrew] Loomis books.

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

Because figurative art has been in existence prior to the Egyptians, there is a deep well of experience for contemporary artists to draw upon.

The winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's award for best young figurative painter a few years back, she was recently curated into a show by the artist Alex Katz and now has growing market buzz.

The Italian born, LA - based artist has been working on this concept since the»90s and was probably among the first artists that used 3D CGI programs for figurative painting.

One of the most talented and unpredictable British artists today, Phil Hale is a figurative painter especially known for his characteristically intense paintings and portraits.

The New York - based artist joins a recent rash of figurative painters, but sets herself apart by fusing art - historical precedents (the supine muses of Renoir, for instance) with a rebuke of the traditional male gaze.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

Just as suddenly, he put it all aside, with repercussions for artists between abstract and figurative today.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's greatest living artists, best known for his impastoed figurative and cityscape paintings and his heavy emphasis on drawing, both as a medium itself and as an intrinsic part of his painting process.

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.

It has been difficult for art history to assimilate the figurative work of an avowedly conceptual artist such as Adrian Piper, who has painted since the mid-1960s.

Working in an increasingly figurative and self - reflective mode, the artist used himself, his family, fellow expats, and prostitutes as models for hyper - realistic paintings, which depicted an increasingly acerbic view of humanity.

British artist Gary Hume is known for his brightly - colored, Minimalist paintings, which are usually figurative, yet highly reduced and abstracted.

The figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.

Turner Prize nominated artist Lynette Yiadom - Boakye (b. 1977) known for her striking figurative paintings of imagined characters, selects works inspired by nature from the V - A-C collection.

But his body of work completed over many decades, the artist died in 1993 at the age of 71, includes many figurative, landscape and still lives that served as a foundation for his large scale abstractions.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

Figurative painter Natalie Frank discusses the prize and says, «Establishing new names, new routes, new protections [for women artists] feels more important than ever.»

For instance, in the chapter «Art and the Body,» one might find performance discussed alongside figurative painting, sculpture and photography alongside video, and North American artists alongside Asian artists.

An Wei is a Madrid - born street artist and painter of Chinese origin, known for his figurative murals and graphic portraits.

Mr. Hendricks was an uncontested champion in a battle for figurative painters and (perhaps more importantly) Black artists long before many of my generation ever knew such battles existed.

Best known for creating powerful, immersive, large - scale installations, Nelson selected historic and contemporary figurative works from the V - A-C collection for his presentation, by artists including Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Constantine Brâncusi, Alberto Giacometti, Sherrie Levine, Henry Moore and Willem de Kooning.

Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works.

Each class becomes a community of figurative artists whose interest in storytelling encompasses all 21st - century media: graphic and illustrated novels, children's books, comic books, and painting series for gallery walls.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]

The influential figurative painter talks about «The Gap,» the exhibition of Belgian artists he organized for the London gallery Parasol Unit, and his upcoming retrospective in Doha.

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 plywoFor 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 plywofor his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

Owing to the success of her figurative work as well as her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is widely recognized for her uncanny mixed - media sculptures that incorporate cast body parts with everyday objects.

1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.

The exhibition — a collaboration between Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), the country's premier public museum and host venue for this show, and The New Church Museum, a private collection with a contemporary focus — juxtaposes historical and contemporary works by 27 artists (20 men and seven women) to offer various critical insights about patriarchy and gendered tropes within figurative painting.

Tuymans has specifically selected these artists for the individual nature of their practice and the paradoxical way each of them uses their medium — as the artist himself is a figurative painter who constantly seeks to extend the traditional boundaries of his own practice — Tuymans has sought to recognise a similar trait in the artists he has chosen to exhibit; their works collectively investigate the potential, formal and conceptual tensions within the notion of abstraction.