Sentences with phrase «long career as an artist»

His obsession led to a long career as an artist and a two - decade stint with New York City's renowned Dia Art Foundation.

Throughout her long career as an artist and teacher, Washington experimented with drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage.

Even during the early phases of his five - decade - long career as an artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto treated the mirrored surface as an instrumental element of his practice.

During her long career as an artist and administrator, Hilla Rebay, the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting — later renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952 — built a significant fine art collection of her own.

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Their long involvement with Hollywood is icing on the cake, as we learn about Harold's career as a storyboard illustrator and concept artist and Lillian's work as a research librarian.

Whatever position one takes on his worth as an artist, one thing is for sure: Fincher has come a long way since the early days of his career, when he was known simply as yet another television - commercial and music - video wunderkind (along with, say, Spike Jonze, Mark Pellington, Michel Gondry, and others) taking some bold stabs at feature - film directing.

Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of.

I've been an artist a long time but did nothing to start it as a career.

It's the idea of always being willing to learn, adapt and feel the excitement around what I can do as an artist to build a rewarding career, taking the long view, planning and course correct as I progress.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

As a black female artist who has been outstandingly prolific in her nearly 50 - year - long career, despite little museum attention and only recent gallery representation, it's safe to say that Himid knows a thing or two about the issues she raises in her work.

Upon his return to Turkey, he began his career as a video artist in 1998 becoming internationally recognized for his sets of short videos that are usually between ten and twelve minutes long.

Rosenfeld had a very long and productive sixty - year career as an artist.

Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.

Tania Bruguera's long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban - born artist Ana Mendieta.

[6] The Pollock - Krasner Foundation also honors lifetime achievement with the Lee Krasner Awards, which are «based on the same criteria as all regular Pollock - Krasner grants, but are given [as] a tribute to and recognition of artists with long and distinguished careers.»

Melvin Edwards: Five Decades will feature a recreation by the artist of these works, in addition to midsize and large - scale sculptures, maquettes reflecting his long career as a public sculptor, rarely seen drawings, and a selection of his sketchbooks.

Thomas began her career as a commercial artist, art director and illustrator, and switched to painting full time in the early 1980s, inspired by her move to the East End of Long Island.

We see the responsibility of the gallery as threefold: to work for the long - term development of each artist's career, acting as a liaison to international galleries and museums as well as placing works in collections; to create an historical archive for each artist; and to act as an accessible public space in which the exhibitions become an exemplary gesture of the power of subjectivity to the audience at large.

The American romance with the automobile and the open road can be seen throughout the artist's decades - long career, as he came of driving age in the 1950s, filled with the promise of adventure and escape.

Kohn Gallery represents important West Coast artists with long careers and rich histories such as Larry Bell, Joe Goode and Lita Albuquerque, as well as the Estates of Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman and Charles Brittin.

Inspired by Eric Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980s, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Inspired by Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980's, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Through a competitive application process, 12 artists who demonstrate both success and potential to have a working career as an artist in Atlanta will be selected for this year - long program.

Anthony Kirk has had a long career in printmaking as an artist, teacher and exhibition curator, but it is his work as a master printer for a wide spectrum of artists that has been his main focus and for which he is best known.

Through a competitive application process, 12 artists who demonstrate both success and potential to have a working career as an artist in Atlanta are selected for this year - long program.

It represents important West Coast artists with long careers and rich histories such as Joe Goode and Lita Albuquerque, works by Larry Bell, as well as Estates of Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Charles Brittin.

It surveys the artist's half - century - long career with just about as many paintings as the walls can carry.

In his three - decades - long career, Peter Doig has established himself as one of the most inventive and accomplished artists working in painting today.

«As one of the longest running art competitions, I am grateful for the commitment Sasol has demonstrated to the careers of young artists by investing their expertise and resources.

And that's not even considering their value as works of art, an appraisal that will have its most fulsome expression to date in Koon's long - anticipated career survey opening at the Whitney Museum this week — the first time that the artist's extremely diverse and challenging series will all be displayed in the same place at the same time.

One, Degas: A New Vision at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is sprawling and comprehensive; the other, Picasso The Line at the Menil Collection, spans every period of the Spanish artist's long career but focuses on «Linear Picasso» as played out in about 100 works on paper — mostly drawings.

Over the course of her five - decade - long career, most of which was spent as artist - in - residence with the City of New York Department of Sanitation, Ukeles mapped out a practice that seems to place her somewhere between the late - 20th - century strategy of institutional critique and the current vogue for social - practice art.

The celebrated designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., (a career milestone she hit early on, as a 21 year - old Yale student) has gone on to have a long and productive career as an artist and architect.

In the early 1930s, Diller began a long career with the various incarnations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which became a vital way for him to support himself as an artist.

SFMOMA's New Work exhibition series, founded in 1987 as a platform for artists to create ambitious projects or show new artwork, has been the first stop of many who have since gone on to have long and successful art careers.

««Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait» — the National Portrait Gallery's first exhibition entirely devoted to media art — offers a new interpretation of the work of the pioneering video artist as a career - long experimentation with portraiture.

The exhibition features highlights from the artist's long, distinguished career, including monumental paintings from many of his most important series as well as intimate prints and drawings, many of which strike a delicate balance between eroticism and violence, life and mortality.

A selection of recent paintings demonstrate the rich and bold palette that has gained international attention in recent years for an artist who has a long, successful career as a writer and poet.

This solo exhibition showcases a new Garry Fabian Miller tapestry created in collaboration with Dovecot Tapestry Studio, placing it within Garry Fabian Miller's recent body of work as well as tracing back long term influences through key early pieces from the artist's career.

Bridging Upper East Side and Chelsea locations of Mitchell - Innes & Nash with Caro's arresting abstract sculptures, First Drawings Last Sculptures offers a trajectory of the artist's six - decade - long career as an innovative sculptor.

Virtually all are manipulated somehow, either through advance digital processes, crude Microsoft Paint - like effects, or in - camera techniques, filters, dyes, and mirrors with which Samaras established his early reputation as proto - Photoshop artist and kind of define his career - long probing of his psyche and identity through altered images.

Anderson, one week into a month - long artist in residence stint at the nearby spacious waterfront estate of the late Robert Rauschenberg on Captiva Island, gave the talk as an overview of her multi-layered career along with a brief update on projects she was working on during the residency.

He enjoyed a long and successful art career as a commercial art director and as a passionate creative geometric artist exhibiting in NYC; Miami; Boca Raton; Dallas; Montreal, Canada; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Scores of scholars, curators, and critics have published copiously illustrated books and exhibition catalogues devoted to retrospective looks at the French artist's five - decade - long career, as well as his use of color, textiles, and ornament, his portraits and still lifes, his penchant for making two versions of the same subject from time to time, his visits to Morocco, the Nice period of the 1920s, his late cutouts, the chapel in Vence, France, and even his collectors.

Wardlaw, who turned 90 last spring, has continued throughout his long and distinguished career as both an artist and academic, to be a prolific painter and sculptor of primarily large - format paintings and sculptures.

The exhibition will feature eleven films and highlight both the consistencies and the diversity between them and will trace the evolution of the series, as well as the various locales that have influenced the artist's four decade long career.

Even later in his long career, as other artists began to adopt Abstract Expressionism, he continued to work slowly and methodically in a realist mode, drawing inspiration from both the old Victorian houses of small New England towns and the mundane, quotidian world of the city, featured in such famous paintings as the Art Institute's Nighthawks.

This book considers the history of Dyck's engagement with the small throughout her career as an artist, most prominently in her long - term collaboration with the bees.