Sentences with phrase «of painterly practice»

While the convention had all the traits of a powerhouse of social art practice, Alex Katz: Give me Tomorrow pledged a retrospective of pictures, by a painter who has honed a life - time of craft, unapologetically bourgeois in subject and honouring many of the traditional nuances of painterly practice.

By engaging with the traditions of painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.

These deliberate and calculated gestures, which Richter employs to both apply and subsequently remove passages of pigment from the surface, are at the heart of his painterly practice, designed to dissect the nature of painting and produce a work that is part chance, part inspiration, part creation and part destruction.

The photographs reveal a parallel between both forms of painterly practice, evidence of the simultaneous existence of contradictory bodies of work in Richter's oeuvre.

Throughout the evolution of his painterly practice, Colen has engaged in long periods of material experimentation, using substances such as chewing gum, flowers, dirt, grass, confetti and tar and feathers.

Thomas Soloman has brought together a group of works that exhibit a range of painterly practices and techniques spanning 40 years.

Not exact matches

Blending abstraction and figuration — common in today's painterly practices — each canvas displays a recurring combination of saturated colors, loose gestural marks, and patterned surfaces.

With its art historical and pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation of found imagery.

This catalog, another first, documents the Nasher show, a 10 - year survey exploring the arc of her practice which has evolved from a more painterly style to decidedly emphatic approach, mixing figuration and abstraction with a riot of bold color, symbols, and meaning.

As though they were photographs of scenarios and regions that had never yet been seen» — Gerhard Richter With its grid of dark, marbled bands, Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild is a shimmering greyscale vision dating from the finest period of his abstract painterly practice.

In Albert Oehlen's Titanium Cat with Laboratory Tested Animal (1999), the influence of Gerhard Richter's painterly practice and the process known as vermalung: the act of creating movement through undoing, scraping and over-painting, is in full evidence.

Similar in content to the performative work she created in the 1990s — which, today, is included in standard art history textbooks — her painterly practice is infused with an ironic eroticism, often time - based, and pointedly references the male - dominated history of Abstract Expressionism and action painting.

Immediate and fresh, they challenge the assumptions of painting as they exist within Hughes» oeuvre while also extending her painterly practice in surprising ways.

Continuing with his practice of the reversed figure, the painterly technique is expended by the adding of an all - over sprayed haze that blurs the compositional quality.

Artists like Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz forged painterly practices through delicate representations of vacation towns and summertime leisure, and the spirit of their observational imagery is present in Heidkamp's work.

[1] To that end, this exhibition explores the expanded field of painting through a wide range of works in a variety of media (i.e., installation, video, sculpture, and painting) that provide fertile territory for examining the legacy and meaning of painting and painterly practices in contemporary art today.

Remainders and markings of Lewis» physical practice continue to accumulate onto his surfaces until the moment of their installation, rendering his painterly objects as repositories of their own history.

The whole painterly practice of Elizabeth Peyton has been marked by the particular genre of rather intimate and sensible portrayal.

Ranging from dissections of Magritte's perspectival framework to analyses of color palette, Mayton's painterly quotations and paintings that also reference the practice of making them veer from overt borrowings to far less obvious, meandering meditations.

Interestingly, although being a black artist he does not incorporate motifs related to racial topics, rather he is eager to fully establish his artistic practice by applying purely painterly issues in relation to contemporary points of view, urban experiences and, most importantly, humor.

They engage with the layered histories of mimicry through queer, feminist, pedagogical, painterly, and performative practices.

In 2005, disenchanted with the increasingly abstract appearance of his works, he revived the vivid book cover as part of his new painterly explorations, hoping to reintroduce a sense of pictorial content to his practice.

Alexander writes that Shields» work is»... deeply rooted in a ritualization of the painting process and an assertion of art - making as an ancient practice... the large paintings possess a rich merger of painterly field and constructed objecthood — at once offhanded and painstakingly built.»

Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to talk about Baselitz's paintings as abstractions, as though the perverse act of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some of the first examples of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch

Papadopoulos incorporates in her practice a variety of approaches including the photographic, performative, painterly and sculptural to create densely layered two and three dimensional works.

Anna Virnich's artistic practice incorporates a variety of media, such as sculpture, installation, photography, video and textile - based tableaus made of found fabrics as well as new materials, stretched on wooden frames thus creating organic and almost painterly compositions that oscilate between transparency and density.

Thinking about his sound work as an audio parallel to the painterly practice of translating information from the world onto a surface in the studio, Augustus Thompson's installation combines sounds from the studio, outside noises and constructed harmonies into what the artist considers a «sound painting.»

The new paintings in the show «might be the culmination of my entire painterly practice since 1977», Schnabel says.

In these artists» hands, the traditional practice of drawing is transformed into an exploration of time and space manifest in forms beyond traditional linear representation in photographic, painterly, and sculptural work.»

Rather than conforming to the era's dominant trends of pop art and conceptualism, he defied expectation by turning instead to figurative painting — unfashionable in London at that time — and began to develop a unique painterly practice informed by diverse art historical precedents.

Cy Twombly's Untitled from 2005, the largest work from the acclaimed Bacchus series, which marked the culmination of the artist's 50 - year painterly practice, sold for $ 46,437,500 before two lots later, Sunset (1957) by the same artist achieved $ 24,000,000.

By then, Boone had become the bellwether to a new generation of artists and her gallery a byword for risky, bold, painterly practices.

Unlike Fairfield Porter, a writer and artist who formed friendships with the avant - gardists of his day but practiced a genteel painterly realism himself, Gorky continually pushed his own work into the crosscurrents of Modernism until his moment of disillusionment.

The chronologically curated paintings essentially depict two modes of practice: paintings based on photographs, and painterly abstracts; representation versus non-representation.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

There, it's worth mentioning Cynthia Daignault's photographic and painterly meditation on images of the Matterhorn for New York gallery Lisa Cooley; British artist Merlin James» solo show of his expanded landscape painting practice at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; London - based Italian artist Salvatore Arancio at Rome's Federica Schiavo Gallery alongside Jay Heikes; and Jacqueline Mesmaeker's beautiful photo - sculptural installations at Nadja Vilenne, Liège.

Aquatint allows the practiced artist to create passages of light and darkness that appear almost painterly.

Still juicily painterly and rendered in a limited palette of warm grisaille, Morgan's newest compositions portray not her physical self, but rather a suite of characters — musicians and writers, by and large, from the current to the canonical — who feed her soul and inform her creative practice.

Since the 1980s, Koether has engaged in an intimate «battle» against painterly tradition, developing a defiant artistic practice able to sketch out a counterhistory of the modernist, male - dominated and heteronormative canon.

Woodman's practice related to her ceramics, their decorative design, imagery and unusual use of various media, and can be seen as a way of exploring her painterly sensibility.

Drawing on a unique practice, Waldman immerses architectural photographs taken over the course of trips worldwide in painterly abstraction.

Additionally, wooden panels are standing freely throughout the space, painted on both sides with motifs reminiscent of nature - referring to Calero's previous painterly practice on canvas.

It was Monet, however, who adhered most closely to the practice of plein - air methods, continuing to refine his painterly techniques (even when plagued with failing eyesight) in his monumental series of water lily paintings completed in his garden at Giverny, until in death in 1926.

Though initially born as an elegant riposte to the painterly gesturalism that dominated the New York art scene at that time, the cosmic sublimity of these mesmeric compositions positioned Kusama as heir to the Abstract Expressionist practices of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

In her most recent works, von Wulffen deploys a host of painterly techniques to create works that, although they depart from the photographic collage practice for which she is best known, remain deeply referential.

Two years ago she began a series of paintings that, while using all the painterly techniques of her established practice, borrowed daringly from the methods of cartography.

This summer, Charles Duncan will further reflect on Pousette - Dart's appreciation of photography and the mechanical medium's impact on his painterly practice.

Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic performance practices (including live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).

Becoming a part of the group of painters associated with the School of Paris, in particular, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Alberto Giacometti and Sam Francis, Zao Wou - Ki incorporated traditional Chinese painterly practice into more colorful European abstraction.

In her writings on paintings in essays such as «Figure / Ground,» 2001, Schor is seen as making a case for the relevance of painting in a post-medium visual culture and for arguing for the compatibility and mutuality of painterly and theoretical practices.