David Richard Gallery is pleased to present (Un) Real, a group exhibition featuring
new figurative paintings by Michele Bubacco, Angela Fraleigh, David Humphrey, Martin Mull and Claire Sherman.
More recently, the gallery showed Liernur at this year's miart in Milan; the Argentinian artist will also unveil
new figurative paintings in a solo exhibition at Reena Spaulings later this spring.
Opening: «Eric Fischl: Rift Raft» at Skarstedt Perfectly timed to open during Frieze Week, Eric Fischl's first solo show with this gallery
offers new figurative paintings of visitors to art fairs.
For the nineteenth exhibition in the Projects at Clifford Chance series, we are pleased to present a show
of new figurative paintings, Forms of Figuration.
But I still had this desire to do a really strong show
on new figurative painting, and I just adapted it to this commercial situation — a show that's supported by making sales, which we do in this sector.
You know, this acceleration of trends in the art world where a certain kind of process - based abstraction becomes a big thing and then has to go away because we've replaced it with
this new figurative painting... it's become this cycle that's kind of ugly.
With this group of artists I'm looking at with
the new figurative painting, there's more talent in New York than L.A.. It's the dialogue, the social networking of people seeing each other in person and talking and hanging out.
I had planned, at MOCA, a show on
new figurative painting.
The Symbolist paintings of 19th - century French artist Henri Fantin - Latour, sentiments of queer culture, and hints of Rococo, Film Noir, and the theatricality of Caravaggio have inspired the New York artist's
new figurative paintings.
Coming out of the tail end of a legacy of abstraction at the region's art schools and in the midst of the ascendency of
new figurative painting and changing approaches to sculpture via clay, etc, (eg, Voulkos) in the Bay Area, the work they made in that period of transition shows the freedom with which they approached art - making.
By Gardar Eide Einarsson, we will display
a new figurative painting, rendered in the artist's characteristically opaque black and white, an example from the his ongoing series of works that sample their content from book covers.
The first exhibition of
these new figurative paintings was held in 1970 at the Marlborough Gallery in New York.
However, because of the poor reception of
his new figurative paintings, Guston withdrew even more to his home in Woodstock, New York, where he died in 1980.
Corey Helford Gallery, founded in 2006 in Culver City, California, is a world renowned gallery dedicated to highlighting international figurative and pop surreal artists worldwide, highly praised for its standout exhibitions showcasing the finest emerging and noted contemporary artists, working in genres of
new figurative painting, pop surrealism, graffiti and street art.
Thomas B. Hess wrote that «the «
New figurative painting» which some have been expecting as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism was implicit in it at the start, and is one of its most lineal continuities.»
(Well, maybe not completely: One of the first of
the new figurative paintings, Paw, shows an animal appendage, rather than a human hand, drawing a stark horizontal line that might well be one of those in his 1967 drawings.)