Sentences with phrase «of a new generation of artists telling»

While African stories have long been told by outsiders, today Makgato sees himself as a part of a new generation of artists telling positive stories from African perspectives.

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His arrival with films like The Living End and The Doom Generation signalled a voice synonymous with the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s that saw gay stories told by gay artists.

Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces — like P.S. 1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more — as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Cinders, Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra's, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.

Together, these works tell a powerful story of myriad social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century, and offer inspiration to a contemporary generation of artists looking to make new lines of inquiry.

Morgan Falconer tells the story beginning with Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists on both sides of the Atlantic, proceeds through postwar abstraction in France, social realism in East Germany, the end of geometric abstraction in Europe, American post-painterly abstraction, the handmade ready - mades of Rauschenberg and Johns, Pop's rise in Britain and the US, painting's confrontations with photography in the 1960s and beyond, the return of expressionism in the 1980s, new approaches to Pop in the 1990s and 2000s, and the continued variety of some of the most recent paintings to be made by a younger, «post-medium» generation of artists.

His recent exhibitions include The Interview: Red, Red Future, a solo exhibition with the artist MPA that addressed the impending human colonization of Mars; Double Life with artists Jérôme Bel, Wu Tsang, and Haegue Yang that considered possibilities for performance without live bodies; Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, which brought together multimedia works by two pioneering female performers based in New York and Paris, respectively; and LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS, which documented, in the artist's own words, of «the rise of globalization and the decline in manufacturing as told through the bodies of three generations of African - American women.»

«You have this new generation of billionaire coming up and they're going to pay whatever they have to pay for certain artists, at whatever level low, mid, high,» the dealer David Nisenson told the Art Newspaper.

«The fair tells the entire story of printmaking, from its origins as the pinnacle artistic technology for the early masters, to its embrace by the pop artists as a democratizing tool in the art world, and a new generation of artists who push our understanding of what a print can be» says IFPDA Executive Director, Michele Senecal.