Sentences with phrase «for figurative sculptures»

Althamer is predominantly known for the figurative sculptures he creates of himself, his family, and various other individuals within his community.

Folkert de Jong is internationally recognized for figurative sculptures — executed in the inorganic industrial materials of Styrofoam and polyurethane — that mine issues of empire, trauma and myth.

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent.

While Huma Bhabha is known for her figurative sculptures, she was trained in painting and printmaking and has been working with photography.

Althamer is predominantly known for figurative sculptures of himself, his family, and various other individuals within his community.

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We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

At Nahmad, whose booth right next to the entrance, a figurative wire sculpture by Calder, Hercules and Lion (1928), is not for sale, but its other works are priced from seven figures on up: a Jean Arp at $ 1.5 million, a Max Ernst at $ 12 million, a Fernand Léger at $ 13 million, and a Joan Miró at $ 15 million.

I had made sculpture in England, figurative stuff, and had just started taking photographs — as sketches for the sculpture.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

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.

While Giacometti may be best known for his distinct figurative sculptures that emerged after World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men... go to book page >>

Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative - based figurative sculptures that address power dynamics, war, dislocation and greed.

Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative - based figurative sculptures...

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.

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.

Thomas Houseago, born in Leeds, England, gained early acclaim for his highly tactile figurative sculptures.

This show, entitled Case Studies, features new paintings by Bas, who is primarily known for his expressionistic and highly detailed figurative paintings, but also for his works in sculpture, film, photography and installation.

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.

A remarkably prescient source revealed itself unexpectedly in 1965, during a trip across America: Jones happened upon a slot machine embedded within the form of a Vegas showgirl, a commercial variant of figurative sculpture which struck Jones for its sexual presence and intensely non-art condition.

That's another reason for my physical fascination with a certain type of figurative sculpture.

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

Modernist sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable with Modernist sculpture and large public commissions both abstract and figurative became common.

In this immersive installation, West, placed her figurative sculptures into a space she has created within the gallery that mimics a home space, alludes to narratives of the domestic life, and sets the stage for ambiguity, inviting ---- per her signature ---- voyeurism borne of very human curiosity.

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.

Elizabeth Jaeger is known for evocative figurative sculptures that manipulate traditional social and art historical tropes about the female body.

This initiates a compelling dialogue with the installation in the gallery's second space, in which further aluminium painting and sculpture pairings are interspersed with a group of figurative photographs of the sort of life - sized rubber dolls made for shop windows or medical experiments.

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-.....]

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.

Giacometti is best known for his bronze figurative sculptures, which attract some of the highest auction prices in the industry: a Walking Man broke records when it sold for # 65m in 2010.

On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic figurative environment by the Polish sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary scSculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sculpturesculpture).

Inventing Downtown presents works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists» efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works of art — ranging from abstract and figurative painting, assemblage, sculpture, and works -LSB-...]

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

For reasons unknown he abruptly switched to a figurative sculpture that was so strikingly poor one assumed the artist was another «Larry Bell.»

«This is a man who for years and years worked for the state, doing figurative large sculpture to survive,» said Ms. Lévy, who also represents the Korean painter Chung Sang - Hwa.

Glamour Wig, 2005, for instance, takes a stepladder and a rock star wig to create a pastiche of a skinny, androgynous long - legged glam rock star with a gaping mouth, mining the theatricality of the objects on display and contesting the histrionics behind the ideals of heroism and beauty that figurative sculptures embody.

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

Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow sculptures, which transform seemingly abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into figurative shadow portraits.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

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 fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

I'm still interested in developing them but for the Outpost show I felt that the drawings inhabited the figurative space in the work in a similar way to these sculptures.

For this exhibition, the Canada - based Feyld continues to explore the continued abstraction of his figurative work while Ilizarbe brings Haring-esque patterned wall sculptures from Peru.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

A prominent figure within the pop art movement, most noted for figurative art which included sculpture, paintings, and print is American artist and Brooklyn native Alex Katz, born on July 24th, 1927.

Neri, who is recognized asa pioneer in the 1960s San Francisco figurative art movement, continues to receive critical praise for his drawings and sculptures.The ISC's Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes artists who've make exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture.

He is known for figurative and minimalist sculpture, as well as abstract painting.

Mntambo is best known for her figurative cowhide sculptures which allude to the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.

It was at once fun and awe - inspiring to see how Audrey Flack deploys nearly every trick in the sculpture book to claim (mainly) bronze figurative tradition for women.

Over a long career, she has worked in various media and genres, and may be best known for her paintings and sculptures, in which abstract and figurative elements with allusions to history and myth come together to mine psychic depths.