Sentences with phrase «matter for painters»

Long a favorite subject matter for painters, urban landscapes can vary greatly depending upon the subject's geographical location, the lighting featured in a work, and how much movement is depicted.

Not exact matches

That's the conundrum that consumes a Rashomon - like narrative whereby the postmaster's son Armand (a notably full - lipped Douglas Booth) sets out to settle the matter of the painter's premature death at age 37 once and for all.
This is a pure matter of geometry, which you can verify by using a device of the painters for measuring the picture size of an object: Take a pencil in your fist, hold it at arm's length, and mark off on it with your thumb so much space as is necessary to cover the object.
I've been struck by the fact that contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about contemporary painting.
«When I saw Lawren Harris (who lived from 1885 to 1970) I actually mistook him for a Rockwell Kent, an American painter of the same era and same subject matter.
Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
In her delightful essay, «Why Abstract Painting Still Matters,» Laurie Fendrich asserts that «abstract painters ought to celebrate loudly, rather than apologize for, the convention - bound nature of their artwork.»
Paul returned to this stretch of coastline to make studies for paintings that highlight the painter's challenge not only to capture specific states of matter — water and air — but to attempt to capture the moment.
The optimistic, romantic, psychological and personal nature of their works leads to the realization that these are not Formalist or for that matter Colorfield painters.
Figurative painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant for American style and subject matter has persisted for twenty years.
Art Basel Miami Beach, with GAVLAK Los Angeles / Palm Beach, Miami, FL (catalogue) Ten Year Anniversary Show, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA Re (a) d, curated by Ryan Steadman, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY The Valentine's Day Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Puente, KINMAN, London, UK 2014 The Go Between: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak booth, Miami Beach, FL 100 Painters of Tomorrow: New York Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA The Armory Show, Gavlak Booth, Pier 94, New York NY Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue) 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak Booth, Miami Beach, FL (catalogue) This is the Story of America, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy Rema Hort Mann Foundation LA Arts Initiative Auction, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Acid Summer, Curated by Matthew Craven, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Whitney Museum Art Party Benefit Auction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY MiArt2013, Gavlak Booth, Milan, Italy The Armory Show, Focus: USA, Gavlak Booth # 908, New York, NY (catalogue) Art Rotterdam, Office Baroque Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands My Echo, My Shadow, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL 39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) 239 Days, School of Visual Arts MFA Alumni Show, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY 2012 News From Chicago and New York City, Curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, Germany Time, After Time, Curated by ARTNESIA, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) SUNY New Paltz Alumni Show, Dosky Projects, Long Island City, NY What's the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY It's a Small, Small World, Curated by Marilyn Minter and Organized by Hennessy Youngman, Family Business, New York, NY The Virgins Show, Curated by Marilyn Minter, Family Business, New York, NY Just the Tip, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Organized in Collaboration with Mike Egan, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 2011 MFA Fine Arts Fall Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Sentimental Education, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Things Fall Apart, Curated by Asya Geisberg, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Means, Curated by Richard Brooks, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY MFA Fine Arts Spring Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Celebrating 15 Years: Young Artists at Heckscher, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY College Art Association New York MFA Exhibition, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York, NY Vuu Collective W / S 2011 Show, K&K Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 MFA Fine Arts Winter Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Emerge to be Seen, Westside Gallery, New York, NY Marks That Matter, Juried by Gillian Jagger, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY The New, Art (That Matters), Oyster Bay, NY New York Art & Culture Exhibition Series, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 2009 No Girls Allowed: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Best of Show: 2009 Best of SUNY Exhibition, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 2008 Crit 3: Work from Students and Alumni of SUNY New Paltz, Curated by Kathy Goodell, Spencertown Art Gallery, Spencertown, NY Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Three, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY SPECIAL PROJECTS 2013 Shinola x Andrew Brischler, Installation & Capsule Collection, Tribeca Flagship Store, New York, NY Converse Footwear for Publicolor, organized by Grey Area COLLECTIONS Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Oil Painters of America and McBride Gallery will not be responsible for loss or damage of any artwork, no matter what the cause.
Each painter attempts to delineate a specific perspective on how matter is organized, how space is allotted, how color and light, depth and viscosity work to establish standards for understanding how the universe affects us.
The absence of traditional subject matter was a primary issue for painters in mid-twentieth-century America whose imagery lacked representational references; it was also a problem for those struggling to understand modern art.
Concerning his penchant for difficult or vulgar subject matter, San Francisco - born painter Peter Saul has stated, «Putting crime, war, sex, distortion and low class stuff into the picture is a way to take the decoration out of the picture — literally remove it from the dining room because no one is going to drink orange juice in the same room with it.»
(For that matter, so might the British painters Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach.)
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges traditional depictions of the female body.
In Roy Kiyooka's early works are found forms evoking cacti or crowns of thorns, influenced perhaps by the British painter Graham Sutherland but also by the Mexican taste for such subject matter, suggesting Kiyooka's intention to express at that time a kind of stoic suffering.
Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild, for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry, for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma, for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly, for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer, painter and sculptor noted for his powerful work and complex subject matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The exhibition underscores the printmakers» search for a new visual language and subject matter - in self - conscious competition with oil and ink - and - brush painters on the one hand and mass - produced print culture on the other.
He sought to obscure the subject matter not just for the goal of pure abstract expression but also to create a visual poetry more concrete than that of his painter friends.
This subject matter was thought of as beneath for some painters, but the printmaker used the watercolor medium to produce this fine study of light and texture of the rabbit, as well as fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors.
And yet there is something about a modern painter starting out for an island paradise that makes the matter somewhat more than one of relocation; something, also, about Doig's personality as a painter that makes his move to such a romantic redoubt more significant still.
Known for her unique approach to canvas and her thoughtprovoking subject matter, Marlene Dumas is widely considered one of today's most important painters.
Alberto Burri (1915 - 95) Matter painter, famous for pretty works using sacking and / or collage.
Group Exhibitions 2016 Regrouping, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Spaced, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Philadelphia Painters, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 2015 Summer Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Haunted Summer, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY The Nothing That Is: Chapter 1 DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC (Curated by Bill Thelen and Jason Polan) Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Mark DeLong and Sarah Gamble, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Katherine Bradford and Sarah Gamble, Adams / Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR Listening In: Philly Artists Speak, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Grizzly Grizzly) Begin Where You Are, Crane Arts, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Love's Industrial Park, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY Between Matter and Experience, Presidents Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Underdonk Selects, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Reprefantasion: Abstracting Reality / Representing Fantasy, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Down the Moon, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Group Show: Paintings and Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Love's Industrial Park, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Psychedelphia, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Season Review: Selected Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Assembly 2012, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY First Contact, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY Peep, A Curious Look Into Painting, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Free Range: Painting at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Lee Arnold, Sarah Gamble, Andrew Gbur, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY Places, Everyone, Cross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Art of the State, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA Former AIR, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2008 Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Vision Quest, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2007 Sarah Gamble and Terra Fuller, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY minty, VoxPopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 New Trends in Painting, Concordia University, Seward, NE Omaha Hobo Showbo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia,for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2008 Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Vision Quest, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2007 Sarah Gamble and Terra Fuller, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY minty, VoxPopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 New Trends in Painting, Concordia University, Seward, NE Omaha Hobo Showbo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia,for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia,For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
His series explore a wide range of subject matter and visual motifs, and for his exhibition at Dairy Art Centre, works being displayed will examine themes of «The Painter and the Painting,» and «Spirituality and the Sublime.»
Frequently taking on closed in shots of hand painted signage, politically - fueled graffiti, and weathered urban surfaces as his subject matter, Siskind is most known for his mythic compositions that at times bear a striking resemblance to the work of important twentieth century Abstract Expressionist painters.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1985, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (born in 1958) has established himself as one of the most influential painters working today, known for his distinctive painting style as well as for his choice of historically and emotionally charged subject matter.
If the New Museum had the nerve to put the French painter Bernard Frize into the mix, or, for that matter, the younger Julian Kreimer (whose work is in a group show at Von Lintel this month), then I might go all - in for this quasi-speculative thesis.
The addition of men is a welcome move, a penis not being the most typical subject matter for a contemporary woman painter, but the paintings, as lovely as they are to look at and as sure as they are to attract rapt crowds studying details, still feel strangely sealed and caricaturelike.
Arthur Kwon Lee is a Korean American painter best known for his large scale paintings on repressed archetypal subject matter.
Taunay was best known for his landscapes having studied from the age of 13 with artists like the Italian painter Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (1727 - 1803), whose landscape and history paintings inspired Taunay's own subject matter.
Joe Zucker: «Empire Descending a Staircase» (through April 27) This is something of a comeback show for one of the most restless and ambitious painters to emerge from the 1970s, who habitually combines eccentric painting processes with weird subject matter and weirder materials.
But it wasn't until the 16th Century when nature became an acceptable subject matter for European painters.
Two of the great surprises of the day came in the form of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-auction estimate — one of the highest recent prices paid for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter of the painting itself, finishing at almost seven times the pre-auction estimate of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world record at auction for the painter.
And understanding what has happened is an urgent matter, not only for the painters whose work still dominates many of the contemporary galleries but also for the gallerygoers and museumgoers who still look to their work.
American Folk artist and Naïve painter, Steve paints in a primitive style as «an expression of optimism», allowing for the use of bright vivid colors, simplicity of forms, details and diverse subject matter.
Her work has been recognized with grants from the Astraea Foundation (2004), NY Community Trust (2006), New York Foundation for the Arts (2005, 2009), Printed Matter Inc. (2009), the Art Matters Foundation (2010), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation for Painters and Sculptors (2010).
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.
In line with an understanding of Lanyon as a realist painter is an understanding of changing subject matter as the chief cause of the changing look — for want of a better word — of Lanyon's painting.
Not only was she not an Abstract Expressionist; she was the anti — Abstract Expressionist, someone who had no use for the cult of personality and personal gesture... And at a time when just about every painter who mattered was a heroic abstract artist, or trying to be, she was not.
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