Sentences with phrase «on canvas painting explore»

Works including Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Treatment series of black pen drawing of famous white men like President Herbert Hoover rendered black, Zoe Buckman's feminist Every Curve series of lingerie embroidered with Biggie and Tupac lyrics, and Titus Kaphar's George Washington's Chef oil on canvas painting explore the historical and present impact of blackness on the shaping of identity and popular culture.

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Funded by the Polish Film Institute, Loving Vincent was created by a team of 115 artists who hand - painted all 65,000 of its frames, re-creating and elaborating on the canvases of Vincent van Gogh for a detective story that explores his last years in France and his mysterious, still - controversial death.
Sounds like a suitably broad canvas for Lee to paint on — this should afford him plenty of room for a typically nuanced investigation of class, sexuality and popular culture, while offering him another completely new story world to explore.
Painted on canvas or wood supports these paintings explore an illusionary space, their seductive often highly tactile surface enhances the experience.
In a kind of ironic way, being drawn to good - old fashioned painting on canvas gave her a lot of space, a lot of freedom to explore ideas,» said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney Museum's chief curator and organizing curator of this exhibition.
Robyn is exhibiting an eclectic series of mixed media paintings and acrylic works on canvas exploring a variety of themes.
For more than sixty years, Virginia - born artist Judith Godwin has explored abstract painting, recording motion and gesture with brushstrokes on canvas.
Multi-panel paintings in oil and smaller paintings on canvas and aluminum formats explore the tundra fragmented into puddles and bits of ice with small cascades flowing over the rocks, reminders of accelerated seasonal changes melting ice fields and sea ice.
Wilmerding explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the pictorial space of the canvas.
Exploring the Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia The museum's inaugural exhibition opens November 4, 2017, which includes Wiharso's painting «Melt», 2008, acrylic, spray paint, car paint, collaged photo details and oil on canvas, 300 x 600 cm (Collection of Museum MACAN).
explores significant breakthroughs by artists who pushed the language of abstraction forward by finding innovative ways to apply paint to canvas, focusing on expressive use of colours, and championing improvisational techniques.
For nearly sixty years the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig has explored the concept of «body awareness» in paint, concentrating on minute corporeal stirrings and rendering the sensations with quick and long brushstrokes on canvas.
Since the mid-1990s Martin has also painted monumental yet subtly fragile paintings, made on thin canvas, initially with simple matte - black house paint and frail white drawn lines, but more recently exploring bolder colors.
Holyhead's practice is abstract painting and the presentation of his watercolour drawings in this show provides a kind of language through which he explores what seem to be compositional and colour strategies for the larger works on canvas.
Phoebe Collings - James (b. 1987) places an un-stretched canvas on the floor and paints using her whole body to explore violence, sexuality and desire; here she shows a new work using an ivory black pigment and containing her own footprints.
Alexander Liberman, Sun II, 1962 Acrylic on canvas, 79.25 inches diameter, private collection Feb. 16 — June 17, 2007 The first comprehensive survey of Op Art by an American museum in more than 25 years, the exhibition examines the development and lasting influence of the international movement exploring perceptual phenomena in painting, sculpture, and light installation.
His work explores the theme of ritual, whether in a boxing match, the White Horse pub or in love, and he paints different outcomes on one canvas, creating a kaleidoscope of narratives.
In his early paintings, Wool used commercial rollers to apply decorative effects on canvas, and he has continued to explore pattern in his art.
The same year he began exploring the idea of monochromatic canvases — a series of acrylic drawings consisting of white and off - white squares arranged into groups of three to five panels — but tabled the idea a year later to focus his attention on paintings organized around a nine square grid structure.
Emblematic of Wylie's tendency to work across multiple canvases, this work elaborates on her series of large - scale monochromatic paintings that utilized the forms of animals to explore the conventions of painterly abstraction.
The final lecture, «Angel Otero: Material Discovery,» presented by chief curator Isolde Brielmaier, Ph.D., explores works created on glass, which are then hung on canvas, offering a fresh take on the art of painting.
Presenting abstract paintings from 1961 — 1967 that explored non-traditional methods of painting on canvas without brushes.
Doug Reina's recent work involves painting the figure while exploring ideas about how to manipulate the treatment of the paint on the canvas surface.
For her first solo exhibition in Italy, La Kermesse Héroïque, the Brussels - based Lucy McKenzie has made a group of new works, including mural paintings on canvas, painted objects, sculptures and figures - combined with elements of decor (such as lighting and furniture) to explore the relationship between style, ideology and value.
With this body of work, she explored using gouache on paper (as opposed to predominately oil on canvas paintings in previous exhibitions) and depicted urban landscapes in both daylight and moonlight.
Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.
The prominent abstract painter has seven new canvases on view at this new Boyle Heights space, which explore aspects of landscape and the female figure, as well as one of the early «stroke» paintings for which she is well known.
He has explored that theme in a series of paintings based on John Singer Sargent's «The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit» and in another cycle of canvases drawing on imagery and icons of the Italian cinema of the 1960s.
The exhibition, presented in the first floor gallery, will feature oil on canvas paintings, a large site - specific wall work, a sculptural work, and a silkscreen piece from his INDEPENDANCE series, all of which explore the relationship between politics, language, and race, and consider how history bears on the present.
Surface Tension highlights artists who explore the materiality of paint on canvas, transforming a means of representation into a vehicle for building texture and depth.
Callum Innes belongs to a generation of British artists who continue to explore the possibilities of paint on canvas.
The high velocity color and fractured narratives explored in these recent paintings show an uncompromising commitment to explore the compositional potential on all the canvases and triplewall plastic that he works upon.
Executed on unprimed canvas and attached to rollers, it differs from conventional painting by exploring the question of time: the near - invisible tiny dots made by the gun hover on the verge of existence, suggesting «a coming into being» when they accumulate with others; and by rolling the canvas up and down, Latham was able to make painting a temporal exercise in a process analogous to memory, aimed at exemplifying the experience of past, present and future.
These abstract paintings were designed (1) to explore human emotional reaction to various colour combinations, without distracting the viewer with unnecessary content, or narrative; and (2) to create a sense of movement on the canvas, thus creating an ultra-primitive life form.
Commonly regarded as a Minimalist, Robert Ryman's work explores the manipulation of painting media, often in white or off - white paint on square canvas, to expose the face - value materiality of the applied substances.
His first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery will consist of very recent paintings on canvas and watercolors on paper, contextualized with work from the past decade, as a means of exploring the evolution of his lexicon and style.
Making letters has led him into the world of abstraction, which he now explores also on canvases, using acrylic paint and brushes.
Paul Reed has created luminous paintings — stretched, not stretched, square, rectangular and dynamically shaped, on canvas, muslin and paper — that explored transparency through a range of subject matter spanning mandalas, biomorphic shapes, discs and geometric abstractions.
Fridman Gallery (287 Spring Street) opens their first solo exhibition, «INFOESQUE,» by the British artist Navine G. Khan - Dossos on April 13, 6 to 9 p.m., The show includes a series of works on canvas that «explore the design strategies of Rumiyah magazine,» plus thirty - six panel paintings that use issue 5 of the now - shuttered Dabiq magazine as source material.
What is striking, however, is how fresh the Bush paintings appear, which perhaps indicates that the freedom to explore visual ideas on paper was less daunting than moving an idea immediately to canvas.
Created between 2012 and 2018, the works on display explore the varied approaches towards painting Tyson employs, from conceptual to mythological to formalist and beyond, and how these methodologies are united in the final result of paint on a canvas.
Acrylic on canvas, 56x64», 2016 Chicago artist Stephen D'Onofrio, paintings explore the relationship between physical spaces and the objects that we fill them with.
Consisting of large scale hand - pulled silkscreen and acrylic paintings on canvas, LA - based artist, Knowledge Bennett's latest show at Joseph Gross Gallery explores the African diaspora, critiquing the treatment of the Black American Community by the American government throughout history.
Moyer's sumptuous paintings on canvas explore and extend the legacy of American Abstraction while paying homage to many of its seminal female figures among them Helen Frankenthaler, Elizabeth Murray, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Using a mixture of humour and pathos, the artist creates post-modern canvases that reflect on the history of painting while exploring the flattening of artistic hierarchies in an age where technology provides a constant stream of unmediated imagery.
Carrie Moyer's sumptuous paintings on canvas explore and extend the legacy of American Abstraction while paying homage to many of its seminal female figures among them Helen Frankenthaler, Elizabeth Murray, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Recent work explores the relationship between painted and embroidered marks on the surface of the canvas referencing a rich tradition and history of tapestry and weaving in Scotland as well as the distinct gendered associations within each process.
Born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, artist Jackson Pollock studied under Thomas Hart Benton before leaving traditional techniques to explore abstraction expressionism via his splatter and action pieces, which involved pouring paint and other media directly onto canvases.
These expanded horizons led Poons to explore surface effects of paint on canvas.
Known first for his circle paintings, Noland became a defining Color Field painter by rhythmically exploring a wide range of acrylic hues in a visual language of chevrons, diamonds, horizontal bands, and plaid patterns on variously shaped canvases, one as wide as 7.3 meters.
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