Sentences with phrase «on a monumental scale at»

The 2004 painting, 4 Pattern Dub, on a monumental scale at nearly 9 feet square, isn't a cut - up at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape abstractions of Arthur Dove.

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Thus, an exhibition now on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York that showcases a number of Müller's mature, large - scale paintings is a welcome, if short lived, opportunity to see his monumental Abstract Expressionist allegories.
These tapestries, woven in mohair on traditional looms to monumental scale will be on view in the new Goodman Gallery project space, at Arts on Main, downtown Johannesburg, Main Street.
Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin's practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition — how knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience or how life is recognized only at the edge of death.
«Appropriating the monumental scale, stark composition and dramatic light of the Abstract Expressionists, he would beat the heroic generation at their own game,» the critic Carter Ratcliff wrote in a 2005 monograph on Katz.
Golub experimented with scale, and the works assembled for this exhibition range in size from the smaller works on paper to monumental, unstretched canvases that extended from floor to ceiling at the Serpentine Gallery.
Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, DeLucia's work centers on images of domestic objects rendered in monumental scale through sculpture and relief.
This major solo exhibition will feature several new ballpoint works including two very large - scale works on canvas and will be presented at the gallery's monumental project space in the Railyard District across from SITE Santa Fe.
When David Hockney exhibited his 12 - metre - wide landscape «Bigger Trees Near Warter» at the Royal Academy's 2007 Summer Exhibition, he gave the world a glimpse of a tiny corner of East Yorkshire, albeit on a monumental scale.
The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery's booth at The Armory Show.
As his large scale works on canvas and on paper suggest at once the monumental and the fundamental dynamism of nature, these new prints convey scale and movement beyond the possibilities their modest formats suggest.
And at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1940s he could be found painting a monumental series whose subject was Women, albeit women painted on a scale and with an intensity unlike anything else in the history of art.
The trio represented the country at the 1997 Venice Biennale, a moment regarded as monumental in the industry, as the importance of aboriginal women's art was recognised on an international scale.
Sean Kelly Gallery is showing large - scale drawings of monumental archeological structures alongside a playful interpretation of the iconic Russian Embassy in Havana in Lego bricks by the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros and photo - based works by Marina Abramović that document the famous walk she made on the Great Wall of China in 1988 with Ulay, her partner at the time.
His finely rendered portraits of both friends and strangers, seen head - on and often at monumental scale, seem at first to be straightforward depictions.
A handful of artists have exhibitions at multiple venues in the city at the moment, notably Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy, who both often work on a monumental scale.
In the post-war period New York had produced abstract painting of a certain scale and ambition, and this context, along with the size of Bowling's New York studio, allowed him to work on the larger, often monumental scale works on view at IMMA.
To accommodate the monumental scale and scope of the work, Thinking Big is on public view at The Sorting Office on New Oxford Street, a vast former postal depot in central London.
It was at this point that the figure fell away from McFadyen's work and the full - blown landscape, often a serious comment on life in the modern urban environment, and on a monumental scale, emerged and continues to preoccupy him to this day.
Her debut at the gallery centers on Structural Psychodramas # 2, an installation of small Murano glass sculptures, as well as two of the artist's monumental disaster paintings and large - scale, provocative neon works, one of which reads «NO MORE MASTURBATION.»
Other ambitious, memorable projects Ms. Pasternak oversaw during her two decades at the high - profile organization include Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx sculpture, A Subtlety, at the Domino Sugar Factory, and Doug Aitken's large - scale film projection Sleepwalkers on the side of the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
In the main gallery, Price will show three large - scale sculptures that continue the expansion of his practice into more monumental sizes, which he began working on shortly after his last exhibition at the gallery in 2006, in which he debuted his first large - scale piece.
His paintings post-emigration are characterized by exuberant color, a refreshing openness of pictorial space and a focus on working at a monumental scale.
Von Heyl's challenge in translating her drawing on site at this monumental scale (17 x 67 feet) was to reinvent each gesture with equal degrees of precision and liveliness (the painting process did not allow for mistakes or revisions) in order to keep the overall image, rhythm, and freshness of her original sketch.
Although works on paper are often relatively small, Till Freiwald creates close - up watercolor portraits at monumental scale, whose largeness and realism can be unsettling.
Weber uses cardboard as her medium (sometimes cast in bronze for public projects) and achieves beauty from the quotidian on a monumental scale that is both humble and spectacular at the same time.
We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»
The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.
The artist is currently working on an ambitious large - scale public project that includes monumental porcelain and mixed - media sculptures, opening September 2018 at Madison Square Park in New York.
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