The new figurative sculptures, shown in the front gallery space, are carved out of cork, and darkened in parts with black paint.
Not exact matches
The second half of his solo exhibition includes a series of collaborative
figurative sculptures — papier - mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff's pants and shoes holding large - scale paintings by artists from Milwaukee, Chicago,
New York, and Atlanta, including:
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 Marsha
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 Marsha
New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and
sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
Marrinon received the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2001, which enabled her to attend the
New York Academy of Art, where she was introduced to traditional techniques of
figurative sculpture and gained a greater technical understanding of human anatomy.
He's created basketballs floating in vitrines of distilled water; encased
new vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescence in Plexiglas towers; cast statuary and everyday objects in high chromium stainless steel; fashioned painted polychrome
figurative wood
sculptures; cast glass
sculptures of sex.
For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate
New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale
figurative sculpture grown from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.
On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's
new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of
figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital today.
This show, entitled Case Studies, features
new paintings by Bas, who is primarily known for his expressionistic and highly detailed
figurative paintings, but also for his works in
sculpture, film, photography and installation.
This exhibition focuses on two
new series:
figurative sculptures and a print edition based on discarded images of divorcées from newspaper archives, dating from the 1930's -1970's.
The Nashville - born,
New York - based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating
figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.
But many artists are making a kind of
figurative sculpture that feels
new and transgressive, even though they're using forms and techniques associated with academic realism.
Some of the most high - profile pieces in the
New Museum's Triennial last spring were
figurative sculptures, and now a large gallery in MoMA P.S. 1's «Greater
New York» is dedicated to the genre.
On view are
figurative sculptures in wood, alabaster and bronze, graphite wall drawings, and several
new works being shown for the first time.
Equally drawn to the history of
figurative sculpture as to a wide range of craft and artisan traditions around the world — from ceramic techniques to glass blowing, enameling to welding — Upritchard pushes these practices in
new directions, bringing them together to create a striking and original visual language of her own.
A selection of
sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a
New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from
figurative to abstract art.
Limpert's
figurative sculptures have been featured in The Village Voice, ARTnews, American Contemporary Art,
New York Arts, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Elle.
«on the phone» features the artist's
new figurative works on board, canvas and paper as well as painted ceramic plates and
sculptures.
The
Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and
Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Art,
New York, NY
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, NYC 2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibit 2010 Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Painting, Drawing,
Sculpture Crowell's Fine At Gallery Bedford, MA Recent Work 2008 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY 2007 Verdigris Art Hudson, NY
Figurative 2006 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY War is Over 2004 The Painting Center NYC Recent Works on Paper 2003 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2002 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2001 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC AFA Gallery, Scranton PA Five Figure Painters Hudosn Opera House Hudson, NY Recent Works 1999
New York tudio School NYC 100 Drawings 1998 The Painting Center NYC Paulson / Eisenbeis Recent Paintings 1997 The Painting Center NYC Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie Rising Tide Gallery Provincetown, MA Invitational 1996 Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY Solo Show 1995 County College of Susssx Newton, NJ Solo Show 1994 Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, MA 1993 The Bill Race Gallery NYC Three Emerging Artists Education:
what: an exhibition of
figurative sculpture when: may 5 — june 30 where: deitch projects: 18 wooster street,
new york
Owing to the success of her
figurative work as well as her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is widely recognized for her uncanny mixed - media
sculptures that incorporate cast body parts with everyday objects.
The Lisson show will also include a
new series of
figurative sculptures — essentially milled stainless - steel skeletons.
Recent group exhibitions include Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007/08); The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2007); A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX (2007); Remix - The Collection, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY (2007) and Very Abstract and Hyper
Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2007).
On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic
figurative environment by the Polish sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and
Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sc
Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (
new and vintage photography linked to contemporary
sculpturesculpture).
In the main gallery, a
new series of notebook paintings surround three
figurative sculptures.
Inventing Downtown presents works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists» efforts to create
new exhibition venues for innovative works of art — ranging from abstract and
figurative painting, assemblage,
sculpture, and works -LSB-...]
1987 The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris,
New York, Contemporary Cut - Outs (catalogue) Monte Carlo, Monaco, Monte Carlo
Sculpture ’87 Port of History Museum at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, National
Sculpture Society 54th Annual Exhibition Kent Fine Art,
New York, Assemblage Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo, U.S.A. — U.K. Pop Art, exhibition traveled to Daimuru Museum of Art, Osaka; Sogo Museum, Yokohama) Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT, Contemporary Cut - Outs:
Figurative Sculpture in Two Dimensions laneni Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity Herter Art Gallery.
He studied at the
New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional
figurative painting and
sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).
1982 Zabriskie Gallery,
New York, Flat and
Figurative: 20th Century Wall
Sculpture The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Homo Sapiens: The Many Images (catalogue) Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, When They Were Very Young Semaphore Gallery,
New York, Another Look at Landscape Butler Institute of America, Youngstown, OH, 46th National Annual Midyear Show
In tribute to this history, the artist's 8 foot tall bronze
sculpture Pouce (1993) will stand in front of the gallery's building, a literal and
figurative fingerprint on the streetscape of
New York City.
In conjunction with these
figurative paintings, Bickerton is exhibiting a selection of
new sculptures for the first time.
Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive works that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal
new meanings on contemporary existence.
A museum patron passes the
sculpture «Untitled (Big Man), 2000» by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibit, Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May
sculpture «Untitled (Big Man), 2000» by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibit, Bodily Space:
New Obsessions in
Figurative Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May
Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May 4, 2004.
Beverly Caffery, left, and Lorraine Kibler, right, view the
sculpture «Untitled (Big Man), 2000» by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibit, Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May
sculpture «Untitled (Big Man), 2000» by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibit, Bodily Space:
New Obsessions in
Figurative Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May
Sculpture, at the Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May 4, 2004.
In
New York, at the opening of his recent show at Sean Kelly's new space, Antony Gormley explained that several of his abstract sculptures have figurative ancesto
New York, at the opening of his recent show at Sean Kelly's
new space, Antony Gormley explained that several of his abstract sculptures have figurative ancesto
new space, Antony Gormley explained that several of his abstract
sculptures have
figurative ancestors.
Having first met with some success as a
figurative sculptor, by the end of the 1960s he was making a
new sort of utterly abstract
sculpture.
An extraordinary 2013
figurative sculpture called «No Sex, No City: Miranda,» by the young
New York artist Stewart Uoo, incorporates dead flies, maggot cocoons and dust into an image of disintegration that is also a virtuosic star turn.
Flat &
Figurative: 20th Century Wall
Sculpture, Zabriskie Gallery,
New York.
Partly responding to an upward - spiraling art market, partly from a lack of means to evoke a stressed - out world made porous by virtual reality, sculptors from Paul McCarthy and Urs Fischer to David Altmejd and Thomas Houseago have powered a
new monstrosity in
figurative sculpture.
Several galleries are offering two - and three - person booths, with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presenting expressive,
figurative paintings and
sculptures by Erik Olson and and process oriented abstractions by Andre Hemer;
New York's Albertz Benda featuring dynamic abstract ceramics by Brie Ruais and John Mason; NYC's Magenta Plains displaying mythically minded canvases by Bill Saylor and Zach Bruder; and Nathalie Karg Gallery, another
New York venue, presenting minimalist paintings by Nathlie Provosty and Nancy Haynes and classical realism with a twist by Jesse Mockrin.
Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery,
New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery,
New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor,
New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford,
New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting &
Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The
New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness:
Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza,
New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.
The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of
sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the
figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a
new solid foundation.
Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of
New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and
figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.
As with most American painting and
sculpture outside
New York, Bay Area
figurative art remained obscure — more local legend and oral myth than seriously examined cultural legacy — with even basic factual data unavailable.
Elizabeth Jaeger is a
New York based sculptor who explores notions of memento mori by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations of everyday objects and
figurative sculptures.
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.
An in - depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his
new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of
figurative sculpture.
New Zealand Born however east London based Francis creates an effective composite of
figurative sculpture and techno - coloured fantasy.
This group show consists of contemporary
figurative sculpture one would expect to find in
New York or London.
For her newly commissioned work, Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus) and growing a
figurative mycelium - based
sculpture in a laboratory in Upstate
New York.