Sentences with word «latvian»

Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE - ya SELL - muns, TSEL - meench, in Latvian) was born on October 25, 1938, in Riga, Latvia.

IS A BOOK, IS A SHOP, IS A SHOW, curated by Egija Inzule and Maja Wismer, The Latvian Centre forContemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (GOS)

Rucka Artist Residency in Cesis, Latvia was founded by Latvian documentary filmmaker and photographer Kaspars Goba and producer Ieva Goba.

Upon the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, her parents and older sister Inta fled to Germany, survived the refugee - despising Nazi regime, and then lived in a United Nations supported Latvian refugee camp in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden - Württemberg.

Venues include Service Garage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York; Latvian Contemporary Art Center; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Art Rotterdam, NEST, The Netherlands; Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland and more.

Latvian - American artist Vija Celmins creates incredibly realistic images of the intricate patterns that underlie the natural world, such as sea waves, stars in the sky, and spider webs.

Their packaging features recognisable multi-national brands amended for a Latvian consumer, while an English - speaker struggles to understand each product's function.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.

It's been more than a decade since the Latvian - born, New York - based artist's last show in L.A., an extraordinary drawing retrospective at the Hammer.

The hugely influential Latvian - born artist, Vija Celmins, stunned the art world in the 1970s with her beautiful and illusionistic paintings of nature in tonal gradations of gray.

Korhonen's work has been exhibited throughout the world including at the Latvian Museum of Photography in Riga, the Perspektivet Museum in Tromsö, Norway, and the Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, as well as Malmö «s Museer and Kommendanthuset.

While, as in Vilnius, the updates are entirely uneven — there are boarded - up one - story wooden buildings between brand - new hotel towers — the Latvian capital, with its large quantity of meticulously restored decorative facades, is close to pristine.

Main image: Kaspars Groševs, Nothing passes (only that, which passes by), 2017, installation view, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga.

Kaspars Groševs, Nothing passes (only that, which passes by), 2017, installation view, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga.

on Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, International Call for Entries: 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium, Ceramic Laboratory

Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre invite artists to participate in the 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium CERAMIC LABORATORY.

Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) Latvian - born artist, pioneer of a style of Abstract Expressionist painting known as «Colour Field».

Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, International Call for Entries: 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium, Ceramic Laboratory Deadline: April 15th, 2018 Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre invite artists to participate... Continue reading →

Lecture: Tues., October 14, 7 pm (at Mercer Union) Screening: Sat., October 11, 8 pm (Latvian House, 491 College Street, Toronto) video programme: Wu Ershan, Open Fire, 2002, 5 min, Beijing Zhao Liang, Untitled, 2002, Shanghai Chen Xianyun, Sorrow -LSB-...]

In 1953 she married the Latvian - born abstract painter Adja Yunkers.

Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, International Call for Entries: 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium, Ceramic Laboratory

Studio Voltaire presents a new commission by Latvian - born, New York - based Ella Kruglyanskaya, her first solo show in a public gallery outside of the US.

This display, developed by the Henry Moore Institute with Dr Jeremy Howard (University of St Andrews, 2012 Henry Moore Institute Senior Research Fellow) and Irēna Bužinska (Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga) investigates how Markov developed a visual theory of appreciating sculpture.

Molloy created his drawing from the source photograph that Latvian - born artist Vija Celmins used for her painting Gun with Hand # 1 (1964), which emerged in the wake of images depicting Vietnam War violence.

There were many, many openings at galleries in Paris during FIAC week, including a great solo show by Latvian artist Daiga Grantina at Galerie Joseph Tang (she also appeared in Tang's (OFF) booth, accompanied by Adam Cruces, Jo - ey Tang and others).

Aida was born in England of Latvian refugee parents who emigrated to Hamilton, Ontario in a post war boom.

Danish born designer Jensen teamed up with Latvian born - New York based painter Ella Kruglyanskaya on this limited edition knitted cardigan based on a colourful drawing by the artist and reinterpreted as clothing by Jensen.

Ojārs Spārītis (President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga).

Featuring eleven radiantly colored, eccentrically shaped three - dimensional canvases mostly from the 1960s, this exhibition offered something of a retrospective for the Latvian - born, New York - based artist Sven Lukin.

In her works, Latvian artist Jana Brike (covered here) explores the spirit of her inner child through rich, narrative imagery.

This exhibition marks the opening of the public diplomacy and cultural program for the Latvian Presidency of the Council for the European Union in the United States of America.

Elita Ansone, Vija Celmins Double Reality, exhibition catalogue, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga 2014.

Featuring the work of seven emerging Latvian artists, the group exhibition Lily's Pool attempts to capture the presence of subtle, tangible, and poetic phenomena within a mediated post-Internet, «post-natural» culture.

Coral Castle was dedicated to the artist's former Latvian lover he called «Sweet Sixteen.»

Janis Avotins (b. 1981) is a Latvian born artist who continues to live and work in Latvia.

He received both his BA in 2003 and MA in 2010 in painting from the Latvian Academy of Art.

Latvian artist Jana Brike has arrived in the United States to present her latest body of work, «Book of Taboo» at Distinction Gallery in Escondido, CA.

, Curator at Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Curatorial Research Fellow at De Appel Arts Centre

Celmins» other major solo exhibitions include «Vija Celmins» at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (1995); «The Prints of Vija Celmins» at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2002); «Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster», (1964 — 68), at the Menil Collection, Houston (2010); «Desert, Sea, and Stars» at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011) and «Vija Celmins; Double Reality» at The Latvian National Art Museum, Riga, (2014).

Latvian - born Vija Celmins is a leading artist of her generation, skilled in several media.

• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (COLOUR FIELD PAINTING) Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) Latvian - American abstract painter, co-founder of Colour Field painting.

The young Latvian artist (1985) is currently based between Berlin and Paris, and works with a range of manmade materials, creating organic shapes that appear as a terrible meeting of the natural and industrial world — with a side order of glitter.

He had been playing the piece on keyboards, using orchestra software to approximate the instruments, but was awaiting the first rehearsal with the CBSO conductor, the highly regarded young Latvian Andris Nelsons.

Since the 1960s, Latvian - born artist Vija Celmins has been creating photorealistic paintings, prints, and drawings, using her own photographs as well as those culled from books and magazines as models.

Hirshhorn, who once was an unwealthy Latvian immigrant to the USA, bequeathed a substantial part of his collection to the Smithsonian to express gratitude to his adoptive country.

Her group shows include NNN, National Museum of Latvia (2017), White Walkers, Riga (2017), Nose to Flees, Rib, Rotterdam (2017), YOUNG POPES, Latvian Institute Rome, Rome (2017), Feed Your Friends, Odd, Bucharest (2017), Over Hang, W139, Amsterdam (2017), Lily's Pool, Art in General, New York (2015), Vortex, Garage's Project Space, Moscow (2014).

Vija Celmins the influential Latvian - American artist, makes minutely detailed and subtle depictions of oceans, spider webs and even the sky at night.

Evita Vasiļjeva (Riga, 1985) is Latvian artist based in Riga and Amsterdam.

I am Latvian.

Ella Kruglyanskaya (b. 1978) is a Latvian - born artist, now living and working in New York City.