Two very large men visibly struggled, their bodies shaking with physical strain as they held up one
of the smaller paintings in the show, adjusting its alignment by an inch.
A
rainbow of small paintings occupies one wall of the loft, but what really draws my attention is the furniture: she's got more chairs than a home showroom.
Her long practice of self - portraiture, which she expands significantly in this new
group of small paintings, is an active investigation of cultural forms related to the self.
In addition, the exhibition presents a series
of smaller paintings from the Rocket series, inspired by Whistler's «Rocket Paintings.»
«Henry Glavin - Wooden Calendar» also will have a Closing Reception featuring a new
body of small paintings by Henry Glavin on view for the first time.
A
selection of small paintings from 1962 will be shown alongside a selection of drawings from the same time — metamorphic and mostly frankly rude.
The retrospective of Jay DeFeo, who died in 1989 at the age of sixty, with «The Rose» as its centerpiece, attempts to chronologically trace the trajectory of a career that began in 1951 and ended with a group
of small paintings done shortly before the artist's death.
The Geoffrey Young Gallery will present «Full Disclosure,» an
exhibition of small paintings, drawings and prints from June 26th — July 17th, 2004.
For his exhibition Plegarias, opening Saturday, November 7, 3 — 6 p.m. Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia's work
consists of small paintings on wooden panels, paper and canvas which continue the artist's Christian references inspired by ornamentation common to small Catholic chapels and matachín outfits.
The three diptychs on display, each
composed of a small painting and a video, similarly lay bare the artist's multistep process, providing one point of access to the larger - than - life paintings that form the bulk of the exhibition.
Curated by Phong Bui, both shows are proposed experiments to explore the various conditions that lead to the
production of small paintings: how paintings» sizes are determined by artists» conscious and unconscious intentions, and how those sizes, in turn, affect their relation to viewers in the various spaces the artworks quietly occupy in contemporary visual culture.
Besides these high stakes games of «hide - and - go - interrogate» in the larger works, Berryhill offers an array
of smaller paintings here that are less - obviously forthcoming in their critical content.
In 1969 Andrews, a New York based artist reared in rural Georgia, Korean War veteran, activist in the Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam War, and feminist movement, undertook a major cycle of works, creating one major work per year for six years building up to the Bicentennial in 1976, each work emerging from
dozens of smaller paintings and drawing studies.
She selected 1,000 submissions and memorialized each in the
form of a small painting of block - lettered words, in many cases on abstract backgrounds simulating abstractions by famous male painters, like Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.
The two - person show of photorealism is as much about artist kinship as it is about the complimentary
mix of small paintings by Dike Blair and life - size sculptures by Duane Hanson.
These early works are displayed alongside Khanna's most recent project, an array
of small paintings created in the months leading up to the exhibition.
The description states that the panels are «oil on aluminum,» but actually each of these pieces is an amalgamation
of smaller painted panels that when fastened together complete the referenced image.
Stopping in
front of a smaller painting he did of Arnold Palmer when the club made Palmer an honorary member last summer, Dillon pointed his cane at the King's likeness and said, «Arnie told me he likes it better than the one Norman Rockwell did of him.»
I spend half my time there, the other half in Hong Kong, where I have works on paper and an
assortment of smaller paintings on board and smaller canvasses being worked on on a daily basis.
This small show
of small paintings begins in 1957, two years before Stella made black the new black, and all but ends in 1967, two years before Pierre Soulages declared his black paintings beyond black.
Tisa produced the
wall of small paintings; one each day during the 1980s and early «90's as a way of coping psychologically with the AIDS crisis.
In 2000 Doig collaborated on a series
of small paintings with the artist Chris Ofili that showed two figures: a black man with an enormous Afro and a white man dressed in a Napoleon hat and uniform.