About 65 objects created from 2011 to the present will be featured
including figurative works, text - based wall hangings, a significant selection of beaded punching bags, painted works on rawhide and canvas, and video.
Sanctums of Decision at the Richard Taittinger Gallery (until 2 October)
includes figurative works that depict delicately - rendered, dreamlike interiors and exteriors that take their cue from 19th - century European painting and Iranian history.
Not exact matches
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Figurative is a Sculpture Gallery of Melanie Furtado which provides sculpture classes, how to sculpt articles, art Courses, demonstrations, events,
Works in Progress and Exhibitions
including Human Figure, Anatomy, Skull, Portrait, Realism, Clay Sculpting.
Primary Elements Gallery also features several sculptors
including the human
figurative work of Greg Congleton.
Her
work includes landscapes, seascapes and
figurative images, bridges and walls, industrial and abstract compositions, and Asian and Judaica themes.
The exhibit will
include stunning hyper - realistic
work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking
figurative vs abstract
works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn
work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.
Jim Morphesis, a painter of expressionistic
figurative works, also based in Los Angeles, continues to use oils in his signature palette,
including cadmium reds, although he knows chronic exposure to cadmium can lead to kidney damage and other problems.
Each
figurative work is made from different materials
including resin, ash and broken glass.
Opening at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on Saturday, May 10 and continuing to August 1, 2014, the exhibition will present
work from Resnick's entire six - decade career,
including a rare 1937 portrait; quintessential Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1940s and»50s; a selection of the large allover paintings of the 1960s through 1980s for which Resnick is best known; and a group of late
figurative works.
The show
includes early
works in oil, watercolor, gouache and ink; Abstract Expressionist paintings done in California; and «Untitled (Horse and Rider)» (1954), considered one of his first mature
figurative paintings.
Considered one of the leading
figurative artists today, Rego draws inspiration from many sources
including literature and fairy tales to create mysterious and narrative
works.
Canada stacked up
works by both established and emerging painters —
including a new
figurative work by Katherine Bradford — and a small set of broccoli drawings by Adrianne Rubenstein.
Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist
works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement,
including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's
figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).
Later
figurative paintings,
including the recent
work Raft (2017), depict ordinary moments and activities — from reading in bed, attending casual dinners, to participating in faculty meetings.
Known formerly for her
figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials
including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.
The display will
include works that span his long and productive career, from the
figurative paintings of the 1940s to the Perspex square reliefs he made in his later years, which will be displayed across the ground floor of the gallery.
While the first exhibition in 2008 * focused on the iconic Estate Paintings, White Abstracts and History Paintings which established Coventry's reputation in the 1990s,
Works 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhib
Works 2002 - 2009 will
include an extraordinarily wide range of
work, much of it overtly
figurative,
including major new
works that have never before been exhib
works that have never before been exhibited.
There are tons of
figurative painters
working today, and I would love to have
included them, but I had 5,000 square feet.
Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as
works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary
figurative art masters, the book
includes some of the finest
figurative art of the past and the present day.
Elms
includes much strictly formal
work such as
figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.
In addition to several spectacular abstract and neo-modernist
works by artists
including Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson, the exhibition will feature Selvaag's outstanding collection of pioneer
works within American and Japanese
figurative photography which seldom or never have been shown in Norway, by American Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, and Japanese Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki.
Some of the many strong solo exhibitions around the country this month
include: Angelbert Metoyer at Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston; Donald Moffett at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin; a beautiful show of
figurative works on paper by New York School founding member Jack Tworkov at Valerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago; Brian Bress at Cherry and Martin and a major show of new
work by Jonas Wood in David Kordansky's cavernous new gallery space, both in Los Angeles; and Whiting Tennis at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle.
Sector highlights also
include a collage - like hanging of monochrome paintings by Mariela Scafati (b. 1973) at Isla Flotante; a configuration of new
works that disrupt the boundary between the domestic and the natural worlds by A.K. Burns (b. 1975) at Callicoon Fine Arts; and
figurative paintings by Koichi Enomoto (b. 1977) at Taro Nasu.
Zeller also
includes chapters on creativity and on using a sketchbook to take ideas from initial inspiration to a fully developed
work... appreciated the book's surprises,
including spreads that
include not only the finished
figurative painting but the preparatory sketches as well.»
(3) Thiebaud's early 1960s
figurative work coincided with the interests of many of his contemporaries at the time,
including Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, and Alfred Leslie.
Highlights
include Tschabalala Self, a Forbes «s 30 Under 30 alum who has been lauded for re-centering black sexuality, and queer
figurative painter and MacArthur «genius» Nicole Eisenman, whose
works mix humor and the grotesque.
In this show six artists
working in a
figurative mode —
including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson — demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.
Gallery artist Alex Kanevsky's
work A.S. (2005) is
included in the group exhibition We the People: Contemporary American
Figurative Art at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ..
Although all of the artists have donated
works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting,
including abstract
works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a
figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.
Particularly significant are the collection of Bay Area
figurative painters,
including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff, and
works by American Realist painters Philip Pearlstein, Jack Levine, and Jerome Witkin.
FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition
includes his later
work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse
figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.
He is known for his
figurative works and for many public commissions,
including the 220 - foot Zodiac Screen (1961), a series of twelve monumental bas - relief representations of the Zodiac on what was then the Pan American World Airways terminal at Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport.
Focusing on sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the living body, Hirst's «Virgin (exposed)» will be displayed alongside
figurative works by artists
including El Greco, Auguste Rodin, Louise Bourgeois and Duane Hanson.
A few years before the memorable crit at MassArt, his
work had been
included in the Corcoran Gallery's 40th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, which critics saw as an antidote to the «camp and kitsch» of
figurative painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl.
Other highlights from the exhibition
include Michelle Ramin's
figurative, watercolor and colored - pencil on paper
works and Joo Lee Kang's animalia
works of ink on paper drawings, wallpaper installation and large - scale sculpture.
We thought it would be interesting to take another look at the
work of the post-war
figurative painters whose style collectively became known as the School of London — Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Leon Kossoff and R.B. Kitaj — but open up the narrative both in time and in terms of the artists
included.
Featuring more than 100
works spanning from the early 1980s to the present,
including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.
«NATURAL SELECTION» will exhibit
figurative and impressionistic
work from established and emerging artists
including Abby Abrams, Kirsten Benfield, Chris Butler, Kurt Giehl, Anne Holton, Mary Laspia, and Richard Udice.
Other surprises
include a handful of abstract collage
works by Andy Jenkins, known primarily for whimsical
figurative illustration.
First shown in a solo exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York, in 1986, this
work was one of four
figurative paintings that featured iconic political figures and groups from the late 1960s and early 1970s,
including Angela Davis, the Black Panther leader Kathleen Cleaver, and the experimental troupe the Living Theatre.
Highlights
include works by the installation artist Rebecca Horn presented by Sean Kelly Gallery, paintings by the American Modernist Beauford Delaney presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and
figurative works by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud presented by Acquavella Galleries.
Pieces
include Adam's
figurative and imaginative
works.
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.
There are outstanding
works by at least some of these artists in the Permanent Collection,
including Albert Irvin's glorious «Caledonia,» David Nash's «Branch Cube» and «Family Tree,» James Turrell's suite of aquatints, and a watercolour by the brilliant
figurative painter John Bellany.
He has continued to
work with clay with a primary interest in large - scale
work,
including public projects,
figurative work, and sculptural vessels.
The artists
included in this exhibition will present a diverse selection of
works that are linked by a shared engagement with
figurative representation in contemporary art.
This group exhibition investigates the genesis of the Bay Area
Figurative movement and features several generations of artists,
including contemporary artists
working locally and internationally
It is a rare opportunity to see a large group of
works by the founding members of the Bay Area
Figurative Movement —
including Richard Diebenkorn and David Park.
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.
At Pratt, he studied with some of the foremost
figurative painters of the day
including Richard Lindner, Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz, but it was painter Richard Bove who encouraged Williams to
work from intuition and memory rather than from observation.