Sentences with phrase «of abstract artists who»

While the Washington Color School [which included such artists as Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Hilda Thorpe, and Paul Reed] is by now a well - known chapter of postwar American art history, there is another, lesser known though no less accomplished group of abstract artists who developed a meticulous approach to the phenomenology of color.

I am aware of abstract artists who use science or mathematics; physical and visible sources; subconscious feelings; or from their own paintings to generate progressions.

While all four artists are innovators, Whitten is the most relentless experimenter with materials in a generation of abstract artists who have yet to receive their due, perhaps because no one has come up with a catchy and marketable name for them, like the «Minimalists» or «The Pictures Generation.»

After moving to New York City in about that time, he joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists who were exploring the limits and possibilities of art by experimenting with new techniques and ways of organizing pictorial space.

In 1948, they relocated to Paris, where she joined a group of abstract artists who showed at the Salon.

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One wonders what his Potters team - mates will make of his life away from the game, Shea is an abstract artist, no doubt something he can chat about with Ryan Shawcross, who is himself a big fan of Dadaism.

The two works in the Empire State Plaza collection by Ellsworth Kelly, the famed artist who died Sunday at his Columbia County home, will have significance not only to lovers of the hard - edged abstract art.

The great American artist, Alexander Calder, who is known for his playful abstract organic works inspired Nohke's optic blue and black T - shirts while R Collective lapped up on the colour palette of Sonia Delauney for subtly patterned knitwear.

But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of an artist who's been silenced, and Panahi manages to put a human face — his own — on this injustice, and turn what can seem like an abstract violation of rights into something more immediate and terrible, the stifling of a life.

There are also examples of some contemporary artists who use geometric abstract shapes and abstraction in nature.

Artist, Sandy Gray, who regularly visits, paints some lovely landscapes of the surrounding area and some wonderful abstract paintings as well.

This one, The Johnson, showcases the work of celebrated Sydney abstract artist Michael Johnson, who is strongly influenced by nature.

Are we homogenizing the work of someone who labors for weeks on a portrait vs. someone who perhaps is an abstract artist and takes 1 day to complete a painting?

Opening: Sadie Laska at CANADA Following her group show at Gavin Brown's Enterprise earlier this year, Sadie Laska (who performs in the sound band I.U.D. along with artist Lizzie Bougatsos) will display more of her explosive abstract canvases in her third solo show to date.

In the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artists.

Savarino calls himself a modern abstract artist who works with «lots of texture and color» and whose style dictates the kinds of questions he asks potential customers.

When he landed in New York, in 1976, Little was taken under the wing of the older artist Al Loving, who drew him into the circle of such black abstract artists as William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, Mel Edwards, Fred Eversley, and Bill Hutson.

Five from LA «features paintings by... Whitney Bedford, Kirsten Everberg, Alexandra Grant, Iva Gueorguieva and Annie Lapin... all California based painters who meld representation with abstraction or the mediation of pigment... Mitchell - Innes & Nash presents works by a trio of reductive abstract artists that blur the boundaries between painting sculpture and installation.»

Mark Dagley is equally renowned for being a publisher and for playing guitar in the seminal punk bands the Girls and Hi Sheriffs of Blue during the 1970s and»80s, but given the strength of his current exhibition, he should be best known for being a reductive abstractionist — that is, an abstract artist who approaches painting through its most basic means and language.

Radiant Fields presents us with an artist who is capable of moving between painting languages — abstract Expressionism, geometric Abstraction, neo-geo — without being beholden to any of them.

Still, starting in the 1950s, the federal city was a cradle for a group of artists who produced colorful, abstract, even joyful works.

Although these sound like the fighting words of a hardcore abstract artist, Matthiasdottir was a realist painter who, like all significant artists working in this mode, reinvented it.

13 Women Who Broke All The Rules An overview of the early days of abstract expressionism until today A curated selection of 13 women artists featuring Mary Abbott, Mary Corse, Dorothy Dehner, Elaine de Kooning, Natalie Edgar, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Mercedes Matter, Pat Lipsky, Louise Nevelson, Charlotte Park and Michael West

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn..

The Irascibles were a group of American abstract artists who, in 1950, signed an open letter, to the president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, rejecting the museum's exhibition: American Painting Today — 1950, and boycotting the accompanying competition.

Artwork for Bedrooms draws a parallel narrative from the same moment of young artists who were similarly invested in «poor» materials, but who put them to work in more abstract, fragile, or conceptual ways.

Because of my struggles with the line between abstract and figurative art, I'm always intrigued to find an artist who has managed to successfully straddle the two.

Many scholars attribute the important characteristics of Avery's style to his professional affiliation with the gallery of Paul Rosenberg who exposed him to modern European artists and their abstract ideals.

In 2008, Dior presented «Dior and the Chinese Artists,» an ambitious exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, featuring specially commissioned works by 20 artists, among them Liu, who made a series of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern froArtists,» an ambitious exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, featuring specially commissioned works by 20 artists, among them Liu, who made a series of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern froartists, among them Liu, who made a series of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern from 1948.

Vicente (1903 - 2001), a Spanish - born artist who lived most of his life in New York, was best known for his collages, and a big red abstract - floral one greets visitors at the entrance.

Then the show turns to work by the second group, an imposing cadre of trained artists working in Los Angeles like Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, Senga Nengudi and Noah Purifoy, who worked for decades at the margins of the mainstream, exploring aspects of assemblage and found materials as well as political expression in often abstract forms.

The Pattern and Decoration movement consisted of artists, many of whom had art education backgrounds, who had been involved with the abstract schools of art of the 1960s.

There is a great article by Linda Besemer, «Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities,» which tells a history of activist artists who make abstract work.

The artists who exhibited in Ideal are committed to an abstract art practice that communicates directly through the experience of pure visual information.

Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.

I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right with regard to the artists who are making abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all about.

The blank stare of a giant Homer Simpson; a gurning Mickey Mouse; a half - erased Batman cowl: this is the vocabulary of Joyce Pensato (b1941), the born - and - bred Brooklyn artist who for the past 30 years has been creating eerie and explosive large - scale portraits of cartoon characters and cultural icons, marrying pop art sensibilities with abstract expressionist - inspired execution.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

The exhibition is part of a larger movement that seeks to shed light on female abstract artists, who have often been overlooked or accused of copying the work of male artists.

On the cover — Wolfgang Tillmans: Martin Herbert meets up with the Turner - Prize winning German artist, who has gone from London street and club photography to that of broader cultural eyewitness in New York and Berlin, globetrotting still life and natural photography, abstract photography and, more recently, colour and darkroom experimentations that addresses the history of the medium.

Curator Gary Garrels worked with six abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one of their own recent paintings as well as works by other artists who have influenced their thinking.

The Pratt Institute community mourns the loss of one of its renowned alumni, the pioneering abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, who passed away on December 27 at the age of 92 at his home in Spencertown, New York.

The artist — who lives in Berlin — will be displaying his extensive and many - sided oeuvre, consisting of photographs, abstract paintings, table installations, videos, and artist's books.

Mark Bradford is an American abstract artist who's fast becoming one of the art world's hottest properties.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

And yet, this American painter managed to forge his own path and become one of the most famous abstract artists, who stood toe - to - toe with titans such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman.

Ruth Asawa, an artist who learned to draw in an internment camp for Japanese - Americans during World War II and later earned renown weaving wire into intricate, flowing, fanciful abstract sculptures, died on Aug. 6 at her home in San Francisco, where many of her works now dot the cityscape.

A highlight of the new season in London is an exhibition of paintings by Joseph Albers, a highly distinctive abstract artist who died in 1978.

An artist who has mined the dual seams of abstract painting and conceptual repetition, Christopher Wool has used approaches from decoration, street art, and, in more recent work, the digital landscape.

It's exciting to think about O'Keeffe and Still as American contemporaries (O'Keeffe died just 5 years after Still) who were responding to similar socio - political climates artistically through themes based in the spiritual and abstract, but it is also worth exploring how these two artists relate to larger twentieth - century ideas that led to the notion of the «single - artist museum» in the first place.