Sentences with phrase «large figurative work»

I wonder if my response to the work would have been different if I'd known her large figurative work.

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While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

Enjoy the combined living and working spaces with an abundance of natural light, fresh air and stylish designer furnishings and large figurative Blackman prints throughout, or step out to the fabulous spacious balconies to take in many of Melbourne and St Kilda Road's distinguished sites.

«Medium to large format abstract work is generally more sought after than figurative [work],» says Heyman, «as a figurative piece, especially a portrait, may convey something about a character's personality or history, whereas abstract work is usually more subtle and can be more open to interpretation.

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 use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing (vague linear spots and / or figurative outline) can first be seen in the early 20th - century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

Although Park died at he age of 49 in 1960, he produced a large body of powerful abstracted figurative work, especially during his mature period of about ten years.

The figurative work is composed of large areas of color to form spaces into which Diebenkorn placed a simplified standing or seated figure.

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.

Unlike his figurative work, these paintings are larger in scale and made using a much different technique, utilizing a broom to paint and later flooding the surfaces with chlorine and water.

In a queer analysis of figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works on paper and one soft sculpture.

For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale figurative sculpture grown from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.

The work is an example of the Neo-Expressionist trend known as Transavanguardia, which focuses on expressive figurative work done on a large scale.

Christopher Roberson's work at Zeitgeist features large black and white ink drawings featuring messy loops and lines along with figurative elements like an alligator's smiling head.

The Last Painting of the Century (1999) and Ultrazoomazipzamapopdeluxa (1998), two large acrylic, oil, and spray paint works, use figurative and abstract elements to represent energy, motion, and the relationship between reality and imagination, freedom and control.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

While conceptual artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Cornelia Parker, and Tacita Dean engaged the public (in one way or another) with cheeky videos and installations, painters were smitten with large - scale figurative work.

His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour.

Nathan Sawaya works with the popular toy to create large - scale figurative sculpture.

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.

«It was an honor... The variety of submissions was impressive, ranging from intimate figurative drawings to large - scale abstract paintings and from sculptural constructions to gallery - sized installation work.

The first room was dedicated to focusing the viewer's attention on the underlying spatial — almost geometric — structure of Doig's large, richly atmospheric, figurative 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.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

In the large enamel and oil on canvas, Number 7, 1952, one can see not only a head, but also Pollock's own footprint in the upper right corner, and the exhibition catalogue points out that Pollock's re-engagement with more overtly figurative work may have been due in part to his time staying at Ossorio's home.

Katz's brightly colored, large - scale figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop art despite the fact his work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.

He has continued to work with clay with a primary interest in large - scale work, including public projects, figurative work, and sculptural vessels.

Through immersive text - based installations, large - scale public text pieces, publications, sound projects, and discursive programming, my work engages with both figurative and literal language to explore how we narrate the connections between the past, present, and future.

- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale figurative and landscape oil paintings.

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.

The exhibitions central work is a large scale figurative painting titled «Bedroom Wall».

Yossifor's 2010 show at Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring figurative work made during her residency at Frankfurter Kunstverein and in large part as an exploration of her deeply felt connection to German Expressionist painting, was her last body of identifiably figurative work.

Conceptual pieces and large installations were prominent, while painting, especially figurative work, seemed exhausted.

This exhibition of work by New York - based artist Summer Wheat (U.S., born 1977) features a suite of large - scale abstract - figurative paintings that serve as both portals to imaginary worlds and as mirrors that reflect interior states of being.

Mr. Smith's nine canvases insouciantly sum up the show's no - holds - barred attitude, tripping the light fantastic with works variously monochrome, gestural and figurative, as well as a kitschy sunset and the artist's signature, writ goofily large.

The show presents 15 large and medium - format figurative works on canvas by Enoc Perez, produced with a unique process akin to printmaking.

Opening Sunday, March 2 at PARTICIPANT INC, New York is «The Years Made Flies,» a culmination of Luther Price's larger than life figurative work made between 1982 - 1985.

This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures.

Burr's various working forms - large scale platforms and installations, mirrored folding screens, found object arrangements, hinged figurative forms, pinned collages, and blanket paintings, for example - are sometimes created for particular situations and bear the marks of that context.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

and possibly the fact that here they are not given a room to themselves but are juxtaposed, as are most of the figurative works here, with large - scale abstract paintings in this loosely chronological hang.

«This is a man who for years and years worked for the state, doing figurative large sculpture to survive,» said Ms. Lévy, who also represents the Korean painter Chung Sang - Hwa.

In it's sixteenth season the gallery has a reputation for the unusual, with large - scale paintings, figurative ceramics and three - dimensional works.»

In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, art critic Donald Kuspit writes: «Carol Ross gives us two kinds of sculpture: large, free ‐ standing works, implicitly monumental, sometimes evocative of nature, sometimes figurative, and smaller wall pieces, sculptures as flat as the wall on which they are placed as though they were paintings.

Nery will present several large format works on paper that combine figurative images and rhetorical language that directly question viewers» positions on race relations.

Her early work — large acrylic, figurative paintings — came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories.

His primary work is in figurative art; portraiture, classical studies of nudes and landscape painting, although commissioned work has included large scale abstracts.

She sculpts and paints monumental, life - size and miniature works in bronze, resin and marble, and is best known for her large outdoor painted figurative pieces with water themes.

Strongly influenced by the work of the abstract expressionists and the romantic light of the old masters, Rayer - Smith's large oil and acrylic paintings effortlessly fuse abstraction, the figurative and the surreal.