Sentences with phrase «gifted artist whose»

Wylie is a fiercely independent spirit, a highly gifted artist whose faux - naïve style and seemingly slapdash painterly manner belie a classical sensibility.

Bible Road is a very different book from Church Signs Across America, in large part because the Paulsons stood in front of a lot of signs and took snapshots of them, whereas Fentress is a gifted artist whose photographs embrace the varying moods and textures of the many distinctly American scenes he portrays.

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Can we enlarge on the insights of artists such as Gerlach, whose creative gifts depend on the process of letting - go or opening, to receive imaginative insights from a Spirit greater than ourselves?

I never take for granted this gift, to be a writer — an artist whose canvas is the keyboard.

Your gift helps fulfill our mission to celebrate the independent ethos of artists in music and film whose creations push against the grain of corporate - subsidized popular culture.

To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist - an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real - life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways... Johannes» gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household.

He is an artist, a visionary whose unique gift sets him apart from ordinary mortals.

The mission of Art & Theology is to help the church rediscover its rich heritage in the visual, literary, and musical arts and to open it up to the activity of contemporary artists, whose giftings can enable us to see God in new and different ways.

The installation features a strong female protagonist named Cassandra, a figure of Greek mythology whose prophecies — first gifted and later cursed by the spurned Apollo — were disbelieved by the fated Agamemnon; and is inspired by East German writer and critic Christa Wolf's 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary.

Of the 37 artists whose works are included in the most recent gift, 21 are entering MoMA's collection for the first time.

Author Francine Prose, in the first installment of her four - part series «The Lives of the Artists,» weaves a tale of a Venetian painter whose artistic talent is as much a curse as it is a gift.

Together, they present an argument for Báez as one of our most gifted and relevant young artists working today, one whose exquisite works - on - paper are set apart by their devotion to poetry and politics, abstraction and narrative, history and fantasy in equal measure.

Its other prongs include an artist residency at her home in Sonoma, California, for living artists in her collection, as well as scholars and curators whose work extends the canon and relates to the artists in her collection; sitting on the boards of museums like the Art Institute of Chicago; publishing critical scholarship, beginning with the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art; and collecting and gifting major works by black artists to institutions.

The collection began in the 19th century with a number of gifts from private collectors and artists whose works were on long term display at the SLG.

Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»

Additionally, these extraordinary gifts add depth and meaning to our understanding of the styles and influences of contemporary artists whose works are already a part of the Kemper Museum Permanent Collection.

The work establishes a congenial link with the history of the New York School, whose presence persists in gifted contemporary artists determined to add to the tradition.

Highlights of Broad MSU exhibitions in 2015 include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres, the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; The Broad Gift, an exhibition of 18 works generously given to the Broad MSU by founding patrons Eli and Edythe Broad; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 — 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation to the present day; and Material Effects, bringing together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials.

The Portland, Ore. - based company produces art books, calendars and gift products and for more than a dozen years has collaborated with the gallery on wall calendars showcasing works by 20th century African American artists including Cortor, whose stately and graceful images often celebrate the black female figure.

This combined gift and purchase features work by some of the 20th century's greatest minimal and conceptual artists, whose work the Fischers promoted, including Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman and Sol LeWitt.

In addition to teaching, he is a gifted lecturer with an extensive knowledge of art history and a writer whose articles on painting appear regularly in The Artist Magazine.

Cézanne's remark reminds us that Pissarro was not only endowed with the gift of seeing, but with the rarer ability to make other artists see for themselves: Cézanne, Gauguin and von Gogh bear witness to the effectiveness of Pissarro as a teacher, or rather, one whose very presence in the vincinity of the chosen motif might serve as a catalyst, a liberating agent for the act of visual response, freed from both traditional poncif and subjective authority.

The gift from her holdings includes pieces by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Cai Guo - Qiang, Roni Horn, Alfredo Jaar, Robert Kushner, and Lucas Samaras, whose work will be entering its collection for the first time.

A gifted and dedicated artist whose life spanned vast social and political changes, Thomas steadfastly forged her path without regard to political or social expectations from the art world.

The curator had accumulated numerous gifts from artists whose work he'd shown over the years.

Aspects of Portraiture addresses various approaches to photographic portraiture taken by artists such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, and celebrates the patrons whose gifts are on view, with special homage to our late friend Robinson Grover.

American artists whose work is included in the gift are Joseph Cornell, Nancy Graves, Ed Kienholz, and Tom Wesselmann.

It «charts the powerful, straightforward story of an artist whose natural gift as draughtsman was second in the 20th century only to Picasso's», writes the Financial Times's critic Jackie Wullschlager.

Other acquisitions mark stages in the careers of artists whose retrospectives SFMOMA has originated or hosted, among them Richard Tuttle, Jeff Koons, Anselm Kiefer, Diane Arbus, Brice Marden, Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson and Eva Hesse.Significant gifts of photography include works by Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu, reflecting SFMOMA's distinctive investment in post-war camerawork in Japan.

«Speaking for myself, it was only when I saw that big show of Louise Bourgeois that I really understood her work and realised how important she was,» says the art dealer and philanthropist Anthony d'Offay, whose huge gift of contemporary masterpieces to Britain is the basis of the Artist Rooms collection, run by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland for the nation.

They require so little from contemporary art, or so it seems to me, that they are prepared to help over the admittedly modest stile to victory one artist who produces lame conceptual objects, another whose installation is like a solemn sixth - form project, a third whose composition for six opera singers has startling characteristics purely as a piece of music, and a collective of 15 architects, all highly gifted but themselves bemused by the shortlisting, given the existence of (just for instance) the Stirling prize.

Artist James Welling, whose mid-career survey of photographs was presented at MOCA in 2001, made a gift of 37 photographs spanning his career.