Sentences with phrase «large scale abstractions»

The large scale abstractions of American modernism themselves have European roots.

He is best known for large scale abstractions that express concerns about the destruction of the global ecological balance — from painterly musings on the destruction of the Mesoamerican Olmec, Maya...

This modest statement conceals the fact that these pieces are original and extremely challenging works of art that combine large scale abstractions in yellow, green, blue, and purple with the texture of torn, cut, and carved cardboard.

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.

Known for her love of paint and process, Holt's abstractions in several sizes (8 x 8 inches, sold individually these small works are also considered studies for larger scale abstractions that can be commissioned in any size, 30 x 30 inches, etc..)

Not exact matches

Hauser & Wirth's slate tends to favor abstraction and large - scale sculpture, but the gallery, which has spaces in New York, Zurich, London, Somerset, England, and Los Angeles (under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel), will soon move further into the photography... Read More

move back and forth between abstraction, figuration and the combination of the two a lot in my work as well as changing scale from very small to very large....

Today, the majority of these artists are best known for the large - scale, daring abstractions they created in the 1950s and 1960s, but the careers of each painter featured in the exhibition began to take off in the 1930s and early 1940s, when surrealism still held a central place among the avant - garde.

In these stills from the scene that appears in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970s.

Ranee has created large - scale and medium - scale works in this exhibition that tip - toe on the border of control within the realm of abstraction and result in a beautiful culmination of calculated chaos.

Then in an improvisational approach she unfurls these memories and ideas onto her vast canvases weaving them together to inform the meta narratives which emerge in the spontaneous approach she takes in creating her large scale «abstractions».

Soon came her large - scale geometric abstractions, activated by materials that reach across time and space: egg tempera and gold leaf on gessoed panels, the tools of her beloved Italian masters.

The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.

A series of flaming red coloured large - scale canvases, created for this exhibition, testify Lavier's on - going interest in the exploration of colour and the experience of abstraction.

His recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012) and at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2013) highlighted his most recent work — a striking series of small works on paper and panels and an impressive collection of large scale paintings on canvas — work he describes as «rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics».

Renowned for his large - scale paintings combining images from advertising and mass media with vibrant color and abstraction, Rosenquist has been credited with creating a unique brand of conceptual realism.

Her large - scale canvases isolate various graffiti - laden structures or spaces, while some of her smaller works pinpoint the subtle imperfections of spray paint and abstraction.

The gestural abstraction of Yayoi Kusama's ongoing series of Infinity Net paintings and her important large - scale accumulation sculpture Prisoner's Door provides a formal counterpoint to the geometric abstraction of Conrad Shawcross's Perimeter Studies sequence and Plosion sculpture, which take theories of cosmic expansion and contraction as their starting point.

For his second solo outing at the gallery, White will exhibit large - scale oil paintings as well as smaller works on paper, in which he continues his examination of the interstices between representation, abstraction and the tactile sphere of everyday life.

This master of abstraction continues to reach new heights and as Rose Lord, Director of the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Paris tells us, this new series of hand - painted photographs is a constant companion to his instantly recognizable large scale works.

In response to the art fair experience, Powhida has fabricated pieces he considers emblematic of art world tropes that are seen over and over again on the international art fair circuit: Post-minimalist sculptures, large - scale decorative abstractions, shiny object sculptures, ceramics in vitrines, celebrity paintings, etc..

Known for her labor - intensive, exuberant abstractions composed of matrix - like, swirling patterns of dots, Takenaga translates her meticulous, handcrafted, easel - sized work to wallpaper in this large - scale commission.

2002 «Austere Geometry (1955 - 1975) & Modern American Masterworks (1930 - 1945),» Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY «Early American Abstraction: Small Scale, Large Dimension,» Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) «New York Abstraction 1930 - 1945,» Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY

In addition to a solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2010, Barbara Kasten will exhibit her new large - scale abstractions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris in Spring 2010.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

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.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

Allegories of Nature: Organic Abstractions 1945 - 1949 includes a selection of paintings and large - scale watercolors from Stamos's formative years.

In one of the rooms, two large - scale paintings of the aforementioned type might vaguely allude to landscapes, albeit ones so distorted that they collapse into pure abstraction.

His large - scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.

This exhibition present new large - scale painting and sculpture which feature exuberant pop references mixed with painterly abstraction and stoic minimalism, unified by the over-arching motif of funerary form.

Harkening back to his early days as a multi-purpose experimenter, Schneider presents several large - scale prints on canvas, collages, and an enormous multi-panel abstraction printed on self - adhesive fabric.

This week David Zwirner dedicated his spacious booth to a solo presentation of work by German photographer Thomas Ruff dominated by the artist's notorious «supernudes,» blurry, large - scale photos of hard - core pornography that straddle the line between abstraction and graphic figuration.

Indicative of his mature style and inspired by a hugely productive stay in the Italian town of Voltri near Genoa in 1962, Voltron XXIV (above), which is offered from the collection, exhibits the artist's interest in geometric abstraction on a large scale.

Also given prominent spaces are Channa Horowitz, who died last year, with large - scale, intricately constructed ink drawings on mylar that are reminiscent of Hanne Darboven's numeric abstractions, and leporellos — painted accordion - folding books — by Etel Adnan, the Lebanese - American writer and artist who participated in dOCUMENTA 13 and has an exhibition at the Arab Museum of Modern Art (aka Mathaf) in Doha coming up later in March.

For his fourth solo show at the gallery, Wynne will exhibit work across a range of mediums, including large - scale poured and mirrored glass wall abstractions, canvases of baroque imagery embroidered with text, and collaged prints of a magic act.

Diebenkorn returned to abstraction in 1967, soon after moving to Southern California and establishing a studio in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, where he created his most celebrated works — large - scale, color and light - filled abstractions.

Working often in large - scale, energetic multi-media abstractions, the artist creates erotic depictions of feral pubescent figures whose convulsive energy feminine iconography.

February 2016 marked the artist's return to Halcyon Gallery to exhibit Multiplied, a series using mixed media on large - scale wood panels as part of his continuing exploration of cinema, abstraction and found imagery.

Puryear's sculpture combines organic and geometric abstraction, on both intricate and large scales.

The most noticeable, and therefore notable, features of Keltie Ferris's well - lavished paintings are their two most immediate strata: Ferris finishes off her large - scale abstractions with arrays of spray - painted dots and dashes and then returns with a brush loaded with a higher - intensity, contrasting color to lay down short, chunky strokes tightly packed in vertical, parallel arrangements around the previous layer.

It is a large - scale painting with the trademark blend of abstraction, anthropomorphic forms, and wood - grain patterns Dunham orchestrated in lively paintings in the 1980s, the period when he emerged as one of the leading postmodern artists.

Although Goldberg is best known for his large - scale, New York School paintings, a close look at his later work reveals affinities with graffiti art and an urban aesthetic placed in productive tension with the rigors of postwar American abstraction.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.

In 2007, together with Iris Müller - Westermann, McElheny co-curated a groundbreaking display of the very first painter of geometric abstraction, the visionary Hilma af Klint, at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and in 2011 McElheny's highly researched interpretations of Blinky Palermo's «lost» wall paintings of 1970 - 1972 were exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard College as part of his large scale collaborative curatorial project with curator Lynne Cooke and CCS director Tom Eccles.

Noah's large - scale paintings marry abstraction with realism, calibrating cityscapes with atmospheric washes of color.

Burri's combination of performativity, abstraction and large scale invites parallels with American Abstract Expressionism.

Using a variety of media and a series of photographic processes, Ngyuen creates fantastical, large - scale installations, engulfing the viewer into an otherworldly vortex that fluctuates between representation and abstraction.

Adopting the language of abstraction and revolutionary aesthetics, Nolan typically uses a reduced palette of red and white and simple, inexpensive, utilitarian materials to create banners, posters, pamphlets, paintings and large - scale installations.