Sentences with phrase «modestly scaled paintings»

Although Murphy has been showing regularly in New York since the early»70s, this is the first time that she has had a space big enough to comfortably display her work, a multi-panel work like «Knots» (2009), a suite of 15 modestly scaled paintings, along with more than a dozen paintings and drawings, with the largest painting ranging six feet in height or width.

Although the subdued colors fit in, the arch humor and intuitive approach of these modestly scaled paintings seemed out of place.

A close associate of Vladimir Tatlin and Kasimir Malevich, Popova's modestly scaled painting on cardboard anchors the exhibition in the history of European abstraction.

Not exact matches

Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick OBE said, «Observations of a lover's face or a city at night, of a blade of grass or a horizon are distilled into a lyrical alphabet of abstraction in Howard Hodgkin's modestly scaled but visually arresting paintings and prints.

The exhibition includes more than two - dozen modestly scaled drawings, paintings, pastels and mixed media works, dated between 1966 and 2000, depicting cityscapes, mountains, and farmland.

The artist drips and meticulously builds layers of thick oil paint in her modestly scaled works, the largest of which measure three feet square and the smallest seven inches square.

All the works in the exhibition are stripe paintings, ranging from the modestly scaled black and white of Horizontal Vibrations made in 1961, to the glowing colours of six huge new canvases completed this year.

Dark, with objects lit in a powerfully theatrical way, the room balances modestly scaled icons and Robert Rauschenberg's equally portable 1956 Untitled (Gold Painting) against Yves Klein's large, almost unbearably tactile gold - leaf - on - wood Untitled (Monogold)(ca. 1960), James Lee Byars's The Halo (1985) and a ravishing Rothko multiform.

The show will also include a series of new paintings that vary in size, from monumentally scaled nudes to more modestly sized canvases that explore bodies and facial features.

In Unfoldings Kroll shows modestly scaled abstract paintings, which are simultaneously structural and intuitive; informal and hyper - considered; gestural and geometric.

Robinson presented his earliest paintings at the historic Times Square Show organized by Colab in 1980 at an abandoned building on West 41st Street, and within two years was exhibiting modestly scaled but brashly colored paintings of pulp romance cover illustrations at the seminal Metro Pictures gallery.

In another set of interactions, works by the perennially influential Philip Guston appear across three generational shifts: a Social Realist drawing of Klansmen, dated 1930, hangs amid politically progressive paintings by Jacob Lawrence (the great War Series from 1946 - 47), prints by Louis Lozowick, Hugo Gellert and Mabel Dwight, and photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke - White and Walker Evans; his modestly scaled abstraction, «Dial» (1956), is installed between Mark Rothko's imposing «Four Darks in Red» (1958) and Louise Bourgeois» classically phallic «Quarantania» (1941) in the galleries devoted to Abstract Expressionism; and a large, brooding, late figurative canvas of heads, shoes and eyeballs, «Cabal» (1977), turns up beside paintings by artists twenty - five to thirty years his junior, along with one from Cy Twombly, who was two years older than Guston, born in 1911, and one by Alma Thomas, who lived from 1891 to 1978.

Since most of these paintings are modestly scaled, many, on a piece - by - piece examination, are perhaps less gripping than when they are viewed in concert.

In contrast to the upper gallery, this one features a denser collection of modestly scaled drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and hybrid works.

It will include examples from two bodies of work: Paintings for an Abstract Commune, a suite of new, modestly - scaled enamel works on medium - density fiberboard that function simultaneously as both abstract paintings and flags; and Monochrome (Shaped Canvas), which use shape to impart dynamism into the discipline of monochrome Paintings for an Abstract Commune, a suite of new, modestly - scaled enamel works on medium - density fiberboard that function simultaneously as both abstract paintings and flags; and Monochrome (Shaped Canvas), which use shape to impart dynamism into the discipline of monochrome paintings and flags; and Monochrome (Shaped Canvas), which use shape to impart dynamism into the discipline of monochrome painting.

Her two modestly scaled (16 by 16 inches), cooly luminous untitled canvases from 1978 are less like paintings than patterns of light.