Sentences with phrase «for painterly exploration»

Starting from photographs she takes of people in her community, Laughlin converts the photos into composite figures and generates a line drawing, a coloring book template, for painterly exploration.

The paintings are not portraits of specific people, but the artist often uses the same facial shapes and motifs as a starting point for painterly exploration, such as in Shared Borders and Shared Space.

Melissa Oresky is a Chicago - based visual artist known for her painterly explorations of modern landscapes.

Because of his nontraditional artistic background, in the 1950s Davis felt free to explore different media and surfaces of support, painting on irregularly shaped masonite, suspending gravel and rocks in oil paint, incorporating mirrors into his composition, and using pages of the phone book as the ground for his painterly explorations.

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They are my explorations in color, line, shapes and painterly edges to push the boundary of what is possible for «Digital Art».

Shara Hughes» very personal new explorations in painting and painterly sculpture are an unusual treat for Atlanta.

For Justin Williams, Arcana represents an exploration of the self through painterly and sculptural engagements with mythology and folklore.

Regarding her subject matter, Bartlett is noted for her treatment of familiar American imagery such as houses, trees, and white picket fences; she is also known to veer into non-figurative territory via explorations of geometric or painterly shapes.

One of the sixteen small paintings that plays with me — holds me — the most is grounded by shiny reflections reminiscent of pennies in a wishing well, layered with these thick, orgasmic (for the painterly painter), awkward rectangles of material exploration which bar out Washington like stacks of gold or grids of currency, all finally subtitled with the words, «I HOPE IT RAINS» — maybe or maybe not a reference to the Louis Prima song, «Pennies from Heaven.»

The paintings on paper in the exhibition, while closely related to these themes, impress first and foremost as illustrations of Albers's wide - ranging search for compositional solutions and as explorations in the interplay of colors; they achieve remarkable painterly effects.

Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affection for the city she lives in, and also represent a painterly exploration of the balance between representation and abstraction.

Simultaneously, the velvet makes a perfect unprepared canvas, proving itself an ideal material for Bochner's linguo - painterly exploration.