In his fourth solo show at On Stellar Rays, New York - based artist JJ PEET draws on this boundless spectrum, extending his madcap style of enigma to
intimate scaled sculptures — ad hoc assemblages gently embellished with a miscellany of scruffy, clue - laden objects.
Not exact matches
He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative
sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the
intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.
The exhibition presents a cross-section of Rachel Whiteread's entire oeuvre, showing her most important large
scale sculptures alongside her more
intimate works.
The exhibition surveys a broad range of inventive methods and materials employed by Rivers over the course of his career, which includes
intimate works of graphite, collage, large -
scale paintings, life - size
sculptures and foam - sculpted relief - paintings.
The human
scale of this particular Spider creates a sense of preternatural unease, offering a more unsettlingly
intimate encounter than larger spider
sculptures such as the monumental Maman (1999), one version of which today towers ten metres tall outside the Guggenheim Bilbao.
She creates work ranging from
sculpture and drawing in an
intimate scale to conceiving and realizing large -
scale earthworks and installations around the globe.
In particular he seems to have sought specific settings for exhibitions of his early wall - mounted
sculptures, which, seen together, gave the impression of amply spaced pops of primary color in otherwise white rooms.6 Following the precisely
scaled galleries he created for his 1984 exhibition at MoCA's Temporary Contemporary, he made a rotating exhibition of such works at Leo Castelli's New York gallery in 1986 — 87, sometimes forgoing the main gallery spaces for a more
intimate basement.7
The new polished marble
sculptures of German duo Venske & Spänle take on more
intimate (and sellable)
scale in works related to their public artwork «Autoeater.»
His
sculptures range from large -
scale public commissions to
intimate sculptural portrait heads and studies of the human figure.
The artist photographs the
sculpture's individual components and prints them in large -
scale format; this shift in
scale and medium recasts
intimate objects as monumental, architectural portraits.
The installation includes over 50 new works:
sculpture from
intimate to large
scale, and inflatable, 2D drawing studies, completed works and photographs, felt collages and a shocking homunculus.
Pairing smaller -
scale, more
intimate works by Frankenthaler with fully realized, relatively small Smith
sculptures brings to light a subtle visual dialogue.
«The
sculptures» universal — even fantastical — subjects, along with their
intimate scale, seductive colors, and shimmering surfaces, seem equally lovely and strange.
Poppy Fields features a series of vividly colored, oil on linen paintings that are uniquely
intimate in
scale and nature compared to the artist's iconic large -
scale Ash paintings and monumental
sculptures.
In tandem with an independently organized retrospective at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, this hometown survey of Fishman's fifty - year - long career features the painter's esteemed large -
scale gestural abstractions alongside a selection of
intimate studio investigations — an assortment of miniature paintings, sketchbooks, and small
sculptures — that share the same physicality and unapologetic emotional punch as her bigger, iconic works.
I have been a Bontecou fan since writing about her magisterial wall
sculpture in the Koch Theater lobby at Lincoln Center more than two decades ago, and the
intimate scale of this untitled work from 1960 is a phenomenal entry point for understanding this reclusive and serious artist.
Instead of depicting nature as a sublime force in the manner of Caspar David Friedrich or J.M.W. Turner, the Japanese artist Yutaka Sone addresses the natural world through
sculptures, paintings, and drawings that depart from art - historical tradition by using tricks of
scale and perspective to render the most familiar aspects of the environment uncanny, and strangely
intimate.
In «Brainwaves and Archetypes, The
Sculpture of Strong - Cuevas,» Donald Kuspit posits Stong - Cuevas»
sculptures as «cosmically open and epic in
scale or hermetically enclosed and
intimate in
scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites.
Using
sculpture, installation, video, photography, text and performance, Bonvicini's work ranges from the
intimate to the architectural in
scale, questioning some of the often hidden forces that shape identity.
MCASD: While your
sculptures have been made in many sizes, could you discuss the
intimate and personal
scale of much of your work?
For Nolan this exploration happens through making things — whether these things are
sculptures, textiles, photographs or texts, monumental or
intimate in
scale, they are presented to us as tentative and precarious markers of the experience of our place beneath the sun.
The object relates to Swallow's recent
sculptures in bronze, which draw on the
intimate scale and materiality of domestic forms.
They seem to develop more
intimate relation with his wood
sculptures that were increasingly growing both in size and
scale.
She will make a colourful large -
scale glass installation made of many intricately cut
sculptures, using found and blown glass and create an
intimate atmosphere between the creature - like figurines which come to life with dramatic lighting.
His highly representational
intimate sculptures of gritty urban landscapes and worn travel vehicles, presented in 1:12 classic dollhouse
scale, will be exhibited for the first time in Amsterdam.
Working mainly in the field of
sculpture, Bove has been making sculptural installations that range from small -
scale,
intimate arrangements of objects to monumental outdoors artworks.
Czechoslovakian artist Klara Kristalova is known for her allegorical ceramic
sculptures of
intimate scale.
Now at the forefront of the renewed interest in the evolution of Land Art, feminist and conceptual art practices, Stuart's
intimate and monumentally
scaled works synthesize drawings with the post-minimalist
sculpture and the discourse surrounding site - specific Land Art.
The presentation spotlights both
intimate and large -
scale works across four decades and illuminates how, over the course of their careers, both artists asked many of the same questions that challenged the assumptions of what
sculpture could be, but answered them with wildly different solutions in pursuit of their own personal aesthetic identities.
Richard Tuttle has long been known as a major post-minimalist artist who works on an often
intimate scale in mixed media that ranges from
sculpture to drawing to installation, prints and artist books.
Featuring an
intimate collection of domestic -
scaled objects, this show will include modernist
sculptures by masters such as Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore as well as Contemporary stars such as Alexander Calder and Anish Kapoor.
In a vast 1,500 m ² open gallery space, some of Whiteread's most important large
scale sculptures are shown alongside her more
intimate works.
Iconic works from ancient civilisations are juxtaposed with striking modern artworks; imposing large -
scale paintings and
sculptures are set against more
intimate, personal images; diverse artistic practices and cultural traditions are compared and contrasted.
This week the RA welcomes the works of German artist Anselm Kiefer: from
intimate watercolours and artist's books, to vast paintings, complex
sculpture, and installations on a monumental
scale.