The exhibition also connects thematically with the NYAA's mission to promote and preserve the tradition
of figurative art within the context of the contemporary art world.
The exhibition's theme is closely tied to the Academy's mission of promoting and preserving the tradition
of figurative art within the contemporary art world.
Not exact matches
In these
figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies
within the history
of art, objects and clothing, and offers a unique perspective on manufacturing, the hand - made and consumer culture.
In a diverse, exciting exhibition each
of these artists explores a range
of themes
within figurative art; from personal histories to the influences
of fashion and media.
Their subject matter includes all
of the traditional categories
within Western
Art:
figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.
His sculptural installations challenge perceptions
of figurative art by removing the human figure from the viewer's day - to - day experience and re-positioning it
within a controlled context.
The
figurative elements are spectral, there and not there, like subconscious phantoms lurking
within the stuff
of art.
PRESS 2017 Whitehot Magazine «Robert Zeller on The New Baroque and Current State
of Representational
Figurative Painting» 2015 The New York Optimist Profile
of my work 2015 Juxtapoz Magazine «A Space
Within at Dacia Gallery» 2014 Professional Artist Magazine «Bringing Old School Values into the 21st Century» 2014 Studios Magazine «Inside the
Art Studio, a guided tour
of 37 Artist's Studio's»
In this modus, abstract sculpture would seem to be operating
within the shadows
of figurative art, which by stark comparison has an endless «library»
of forms to work with.
The publication charts Hepher's life and work from the 1950s to the present day, tracing a path that begins in an era
of the last century that was highly suspicious
of figurative painting, through to the recent re-evaluation and rise to prominence
of post-war British
Art within global art histo
Art within global
art histo
art history.
In his book Mondrian: On Humanity
of Abstract Painting, the
art historian Meyer Shapiro validates the importance
of abstract
art within the context
of an
art historical canon that has been dominated by
figurative representation.
If
figurative work has been unstylish in recent years
within the micro-trending
art world in favour
of more lazy conceptual and minimal works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid
of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy work; thoughtful and intense and odd works, rendering and likeness and oil paint, works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.