Sentences with phrase «imposing scale of works»

Her ebullient, cartoonish shapes also have a comic effect; along with the humorous wordplay in the titles and her light - hearted way of handling paint, they counter the sombre tones and imposing scale of works.

Not exact matches

With her large - scale installations, Barlow constructs imposing works that play between the monumental scale of public art and architecture and the precariousness of her chosen materials and compositions.

In Review (2015), he creates a scene with four German Chancellors, including Angela Merkel, facing another imposing large - scale work of art: Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950 — 51).

Pressed up close to each of her works in the two - floor show, similarly large - scale sculptures in small confines, you notice the artist's time - consuming transformation of lowly materials, one factor in maintaining an accessible feeling in imposing formats.

Although some of her most iconic large - scale works aren't in this exhibition, such as her commission for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square «Monument» (2001), and her haunting «Holocaust Memorial» (2000) which has a permanent location in Vienna, some smaller and equally iconic works are featured at the Tate Britain including «Untitled» (One Hundred Spaces)(1995), a composed of 100 casts of the negative space beneath a chair, arranged like sentinels guarding the imposing sweep of the Duveen Galleries, beyond the classical columns of the entrance.

Chakaia Booker, One Way, 2008 Rubber tires and stainless steel 96 x 45 x 65 inches On loan courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York Referred to as a «radial radical,» the African American contemporary artist Chakaia Booker used tires as her primary material in constructing these large - scale sculptures on loan from Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y. Spiky, dark, imposing and beautiful, these works interact with the museum's peaceful, minimalist sculpture garden in new ways.

She focused on their potential symbolic meanings by creating works that are formally rigorous and imposing in scale and materiality, and her human - scaled works are often handmade; the traces of her processes - welding marks, folds, stains, and scratches - are frequently left visible on the surface.

Ranging from intimately scaled objects occupying corners and corridors, to works that take on an imposing and overwhelming scale, her installations challenge and parody the heroic monumentalism of her predecessors.

In another set of interactions, works by the perennially influential Philip Guston appear across three generational shifts: a Social Realist drawing of Klansmen, dated 1930, hangs amid politically progressive paintings by Jacob Lawrence (the great War Series from 1946 - 47), prints by Louis Lozowick, Hugo Gellert and Mabel Dwight, and photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke - White and Walker Evans; his modestly scaled abstraction, «Dial» (1956), is installed between Mark Rothko's imposing «Four Darks in Red» (1958) and Louise Bourgeois» classically phallic «Quarantania» (1941) in the galleries devoted to Abstract Expressionism; and a large, brooding, late figurative canvas of heads, shoes and eyeballs, «Cabal» (1977), turns up beside paintings by artists twenty - five to thirty years his junior, along with one from Cy Twombly, who was two years older than Guston, born in 1911, and one by Alma Thomas, who lived from 1891 to 1978.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

While the sense of scale generated by Dachman's work has always been imposing and big, the work presented in Recent Paintings creates a perception of size from within the painting rather than from its physical aspect.

Often working at immense, room - filling scale, the British artist Karla Black undercuts the imposing size of her installations by making them as light and sweet as can be — all cotton - candy pastels, diaphanous drapery, and powders, strewn with cosmetics and other diminutive objects seemingly sourced from her medicine cabinet.

Ziegler has created an entirely new series of works tailor made for the underground space: his five imposing sculptures are influenced by Brueghel's painting The Cripples and are surrounded by large - scale light boxes depicting an abstracted thicket of horses legs, derived from a detail of a Piero della Francesca fresco.

Color and gesture are central concerns of this artist, whose works are at once challenging and whimsical, and her current exhibition departs from Grosse's typical method of large - scale sculptural installation, turning her abstract style instead towards work in which movement and color is tidily contained to the canvas instead of imposed onto walls and other three dimensional forms.