Sentences with phrase «narrative figurative paintings»

At the heart of her narratives is mystery, wonder and a courage that is often quiet and understated but signals confidence and trust resonating through her narrative figurative paintings.

Abney is an intuitive, next - generation storyteller who is boldly redefining narrative figurative painting.

For him, the future was not to be built on the mythical narratives of narrative figurative painting, but rather on non-objective painting: «I saw in this Art a medium for the American painter to exceed the past.»

Abney, born in 1982, is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life.

Not exact matches

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

Selected new exhibitions feature contemporary abstraction, narrative installation, figurative paintings and conceptual print making.

Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, she has always maintained the primacy of color, with her narratives intricately based in her use of paint.

Quinn's richly layered paintings combine striking landscapes with fragments of figurative narrative from the breadth of history, myth and ironic imagination.

He has also written, «I had been looking at an abstraction and a figurative painting that had neither narrative nor visual coherence.

Viera will present both figurative narrative and landscape paintings.

While the paintings of Wendell Gladstone's «Fever Pitch» at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles are figurative in form, the ambiguity of the narratives they propose leans more in the direction of the abstract.

Formal yet liquid, amorphous yet figurative, the sculptures explore notions of traditional architecture while encompassing elements of painting, stagecraft, and suggestive, open - ended narratives.

Alexis Murray makes narrative, figurative paintings using old master techniques and are full of fantasy and caricature.

His work calls forth the tradition of figurative narrative painting by subverting it with personal cultural references and depictions of pared down and theatrical urban settings.

In Rosa's figurative paintings, a twinge of Socio - Realism is mixed with Pop tendencies, whimsical color choices and dreamy narratives to create a unique aesthetic landscape that often centers on the role of women in society.

His painting and writing were seminal in ending an English tradition of narrative, inward - looking figurative painting.

This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an artist, and although his art may be associated with the trends in figurative painting and British pop art, the most important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.

His figurative paintings also seem to capture a bit of the magic of dreams and portray them in narrative works for all to see.

The artist paints, photographs, and collages his abstract and figurative images to create fluid paintings and narratives.

The exhibition is rounded out by figurative narrative art installed throughout the gallery, including works by Gabriel Morena from his «Fragility» series along with paintings by Margaret Bowland, Margo Selski, Donato Giancola and Pamela Wilson.

In his current exhibition of abstractly figurative paintings, Iraqi - born artist Ahmed Alsoudani has shown that painting a narrative is more than a literal process.

Just as the figurative paintings of Giorgio Morandi, whom he admires, are not about merely depicting vessels, so Sean Scully's definitive abstract works have narrative structures when they evoke associations of figure and landscape, of window and mirror, or of religious forms and themes such as altar or resurrection.

And when people look at figurative paintings, particularly from the Renaissance, it's all about the narrative.

I liked abstract expressionism and modernism, but in college I figured out that I wanted to do these figurative narrative paintings.

Her narrative urge and her need to express herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on drawing and the human figure.

«Although figurative painting is inherently narrative I try to avoid overtly message - based or political work.

The figurative paintings depict women and weave narratives with deep cultural resonance.

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist - realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a «gorgeous bleakness.»

Carbone writes: «Soutine remains an outsider to the mainstream narrative of Modernism; he belongs instead to the still largely unwritten alternative history of modernist figurative painting.

Loose and disjointed narratives involving the histories and materiality of painting are found in several videos: Ragnheiour Gestsdottir's video «As If We Existed,» portrays the fictitious melodrama of a figurative painter working in Venice; Tameka Norris's «Purple Painting» incorporates makeup and food in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an art historical canon; in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with sprapainting are found in several videos: Ragnheiour Gestsdottir's video «As If We Existed,» portrays the fictitious melodrama of a figurative painter working in Venice; Tameka Norris's «Purple Painting» incorporates makeup and food in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an art historical canon; in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with spraPainting» incorporates makeup and food in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an art historical canon; in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with sprapainting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with spray paint.

The potential of figurative painting for intimacy and narrative emphasis, as well as thematic exploration is brought to bear in the paintings of Jaqueline Cedar.

«For contemporary figurative painter Kent Williams, «the tactile qualities of the painted surface, the mark - making itself, plays as big a role in the resonance of a work» as its narrative aspects.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana) makes figurative paintings that fit together to form «chapters» in large installations that suggest stories or narratives.

With his figurative, narrative style of painting and his choice of subjects, Spencer has contributed significantly to the development of modern art.

«Narrative Imagism and the Figurative Tradition in Northern California Painting».

Grlic belongs to a new stream of Croatian painting, which focuses on the figurative in art and on the narrative potential of the painting.

All of the paintings are figurative in the narrative realm of magical realism.

Living between different continents — Doig in London, New York and the Trinidad of his childhood; Armitage in London and Kenya, where he was born in 1984 — both artists make lush, seductive figurative paintings derived from fused sources of memories, photographs, film and art history, hinting at enchanted, disquieting narratives.

Rather than producing cold or slick abstractions, his are self - described «figurative, narrative, and allegorical paintings» that are highly emotional.

In a press release announcing the news, Gagosian Gallery said, «While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context, his formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

Even though many of the works are figurative, each painting has a unique narrative seamlessly interwoven into the composition.»

Other paintings in Snyder's solo show include landscapes of the East End, figurative works with Lorca as inspiration, balled trees wrapped in twine as if prisoners, bathing suit clad women near water, narrative paintings featuring dogs and bulls popping up aplenty.

He cites popular culture (cartoons, fashion photography, YouTube videos), personal narrative, and our embrace of online... read more... «New subjectivity: Figurative painting at Pratt Manhattan Gallery»

All the paintings on view present figurative narratives taking place around a swimming pool and explore the dimmer side of suburbia and America.

Ils Sont Peintres (They are Painters) considers paintings that have avoided the figurative, narrative, Neo-Expressionist trends that have defined the medium in recent years.

Hannah is a self - described «idiosyncratic» painter, having emerged improbably from New York's punk 1970s demimonde as a figurative artist obsessed with painterly technique and single - mindedly focused on reviving the narrative tradition in painting.

Hahn's inquiry is directed toward an attachment to narrative - figurative painting, and especially it's complicated relationship with the female body.

Like her figurative narrative paintings, the sensation of conjuring a memory is equally strong in her landscapes.