MASTERPIECE Auction House's first auction of the year at Sheraton Towers on Sunday was a mostly quiet affair until Indonesian master Ahmad Sadali's 1965 mixed media
on canvas work showed up on the block.
Not exact matches
Reason: Director Doremus
showed what he can express about the power of a relationship with Like Crazy, which garnered emotional performances from his young leads
working on a very intimate
canvas.
Working with a mix of technical collaborators old and new, Villeneuve has once again delivered an impeccably well - crafted film, not least in Deakins» arresting widescreen lensing, which alternates between vast aerial
canvases that capture the epic sprawl of the border land, and closeups so carefully framed and lit as to
show particles of dust dancing
on a shaft
on sunlight.
The history of such directors making similar leaps is a mixed one: some have found great success and
shown they can
work on a big
canvas, others have been sent back to the indie world with their tail between their legs.
Sunday 10.11.15 - > 5 - 8 pm — Seven Bar & Kitchen in the Funk Zone Santa Barbara — 20 + pieces, never before
shown works in acrylic & spray paint
on canvas, plexi and recycled materials (& there are 4 limited edition prints available as well).
The
show features
works by Charlene Broudy who finds inspiration in the vibrant colors of Costa Rica, new
works by Carolyn Fox featuring luxuriously wide flowing lines suggesting rock, water, sand and sky, and Steven Gilbar, a self - taught artist who experiments with mixed media and collage
on paper and
canvas, drawing from this histories of both mediums.
In the current
show, perhaps the most compelling of these interactions occurs between two
works on canvas of the same size, Standard # 8 (Blue), 1994 and Portrait of a Standard (Blue), 2000.
The
show presents recent
works on canvas.
The
show consists of three floors: new
works in black acrylic
on canvas from 2012 and 2013
on the first two floors and «historical»
works from the 1950s and 1960s, when Soulages first gained fame in the USA,
on the third floor.
For West Wall, Dwan Main Gallery (1967), a now classic exhibition presented in 2008 at Peter Blum, Chelsea, William Anastasi photographed an empty gallery, silkscreened that image onto a slightly smaller
canvas, and installed that
work on the wall, making «the wall... a kind of ready - made mural,» thus changing «every
show in that space thereafter.»
The
show also includes
works on canvas from the 1989 exhibition Trip - Tics in which Gurrola made his own versions of Philip Guston paintings.
This exhibition by Los Angeles - based artist Mathias Poledna (b. 1965), his third solo
show at Galerie Buchholz and his first solo exhibition in Berlin presents his recent film
work, «A Village by the Sea», and a new suite of
works on canvas.
Williams
works for the
show were drawn
on a computer and printed
on canvas, then stretched, and often painted some more.
Hansa artists»
works represented in the Grey
show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil
on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body
on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.
It
shows her
working past the sheer density of the first generation, with a new technique of poured paint
on unsized and unprimed
canvas.
Continuing the Warholian reference,
on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as
works based
on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract
works made by pissing
on copper metallic painted
canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.
The
show presented a new body of
work — formal studies of the female form, including large, expressive line paintings of the body rendered in blue paint
on raw
canvas — that marked a radical departure from Emin's vernacular up until that moment.
The
show's oil -
on -
canvas paintings from the late 1940s and 1950s demonstrate the wide reach of the New York School —
works by Jack Jefferson, Deborah Remington, Ward Jackson, Louis Ribak, Lilly Fenichel, and Bea Mandelman — reprised here by the recent mythic narratives (2013) of Eugene Newmann.
Busch, a Danish artist
showing works for the first time in the U.S. with VSOP Projects, manipulates the top
canvas by cutting and twisting narrow strips, exposing gradients of color
on layers of
canvas beneath.
Executed only a few months before his death, the
work shows Warhol in the signature peroxide fright wig of his late career, staring starkly out from the
canvas in an emotionally arresting vision that confronts the reality of time head
on.
This is not, however, to say that there is no visible progression in Poliakoff's
work, for the series of four
canvases on the main wall, each titled Composition abstraite (1968) and each linked by a recurring claw - like shape, are undoubtedly the most accomplished of the
show.
The presentation will feature a selection of rarely
shown early paintings, iconic
canvases from Albers's Homage to the Square and Variant / Adobe series, and
works on paper.
The
show brings together a new body of
work executed in acrylic, charcoal and pencil -
on -
canvas, which present surreal and often discomforting scenes, accentuated by chaos.
In addition to the new
works in the
show, Richter has punctuated and augmented the exhibition with a selection of paintings
on canvas, glass and photographs made over the last 15 years — including his «Abstraktes Bild» and «Farben» paintings — which inform and re-contextualize his more recent pieces.
Continuing Christian Marclay's long - standing interest in the relationship between image and sound, this
show is comprised of
works on canvas and paper.
Tempted to relate to the tech crowd, the fair could not fail to
show the following art world's most notorious utilizers of computer technology who also epitomize its effect
on visual arts: Takashi Murakami, with a
canvas entitled Enso: Wind (2015) at Blum and Poe's booth; Wade Guyton, whose Untitled (2017) was featured by Galerie Chantal Crousel; the German photographer Thomas Struth (Marian Goodman Gallery) with computer - enhanced photographs of NASA - produced space - bound equipment; and Christopher Wool, whose
work occupies the entire Luhring Augustine booth.
Varejão's first solo U.S. museum exhibition is currently
on view at ICA Boston featuring among other
works, «Polvo Portraits» (
shown above), an oil
on canvas series referencing Brazil's 1976 census, in which citizens were given 136 options for describing their race in terms of color.
The
show's more than fifty
works included important
canvases from private and public collections, but the most spectacular inclusions, in many ways, were the
works on paper, ranging from intimate pencil studies with little or no color to pastel and crayon - enriched images, as complete as paintings; many of these had rarely — if ever — been exhibited before.
Galleries outside of the Bay Area also brought their funk to ArtMRKT, most notably Red Truck Gallery of New Orleans, who contributed a wall of
works by Bryan Cunningham, and Sundaram Tagore Gallery of New York / Hong Kong / Singapore, which
showed Kamin Lertchaiprasert's acrylic
on canvas, «Birth - Death, Woman - Man, Right - Wrong, Husband - Wife, Good - Bad, Nothing.»
But it's all relative: Hauser & Wirth (which likes publishing a slew of results at fairs) reported the sale of a new mixed media
work on canvas by LA - based artist Mark Bradford's for $ 2 million, as well as The Opaque (1947), an oil by Arshile Gorky,
shown publicly for the first time since 1965.
The one oil
on canvas work in the
show, Abstraktes Bild 875 - 3 (2001), sings a muted song of representation, buried beneath layers of paint which seem chiselled away in order to reveal something urgent but ultimately lost beneath.
Tom Calnan will be
showing a large - scale oil
on canvas together with smaller mixed media 2 - D
work and photomontages.
The
show's centrepiece — a series of hanging, unstretched, painted
canvases by the Guatemala - based artist Vivian Suter (Untitled, 2017)-- seems to cast a tawny glow onto the
works on the walls around it, as if caught in a late - summer twilight.
Summing up the ambiguous position of Jane Frank's
work on canvas with respect to both landscape art and pure abstraction, a reviewer for The Art Gallery magazine wrote of her 1971 solo
show at London's Alwin Gallery: «Her richly textured
canvases evoke a world of crags and forests, rivers and plains, in terms which are entirely non-representational.»
Though Ward has traditionally
worked on paper in a mixed media format of charcoal, oil pastels and graphite, this
show will also introduce collaged
works presented
on canvas.
The critic Dore Ashton, reviewing his
work at New York's Brata Gallery, which Mr. Kobayashi helped found in 1957, described his
canvases and a
work of sculpture
on view in a 1958
show as «based in a wiry, expansionist imagery composed of tensile lines vibrating from central axes.»
His
work which is mostly acrylic
on canvas or wood panels has been
shown at the AGH (Art Gallery of Hamilton), solo
shows at the arts project in London, as well as galleries in Kingston and Toronto.
Similarly, the distinctive and highly acclaimed inkjet - printed paintings of Wade Guyton
on the first floor — with a suite of his striking flame
canvases shown in a wood - paneled den and another of his stark white paintings
on display in a barren, decrepit room — are testimony to this brand of
work's seductiveness and popularity.
is a group
show of paintings, prints, relief objects and
works on canvas
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The display
shows Gilliam's huge range, starting with a
canvas of dye pigments from 1972 and ending with a vertical acrylic
on birch
work from 2010.
This group
show, by nine artists, of paintings, prints, relief objects and
works on canvas takes its title, Where Were You?
At Sadie Coles he
showed work featuring the imprint of huge palm leaves
on weathered
canvases splattered with rain saturated with pigment, while at the Zabludowicz Collection there were boldly painted aluminium sculptures and a recent series of five video
works using appropriated scenes from Tarkovsky films played against a segment of a Velvet Underground song.
Archer (1951), a
work which
shows the transition from the pictographs to the imaginary landscapes, keeps residual regulations of the formerly divisive lines, but these are now placed randomly
on the
canvas.
Comprised of twelve medium - format
works on canvas, the
show will be
on view from July 22nd through August 15th, 2017.
The
show will feature new
work by the artist, including five 11 - foot - tall oil
on canvas paintings and eight smaller - scale
works.
Iraqi - American Ahmed Alsoudani, whose
work was last seen in the MATRIX gallery in 2012, is represented by an acrylic - and - charcoal
on canvas showing bodies torn apart by war.
Terry Haggerty, Side by Side 2, 2008 Acrylic
on canvas on wood, 145 x 122 cm August 29 — October 4, 2008 YOU SAID HE SAID SHE SAID is a group
show of New York based artists whose
work to date spans various media and who have enjoyed exploring space, senses, sensitivity and scenarios.
Along with his watercolours, Roberts
showed works on canvas, particularly self - portraits and images of his first wife Marian, who would be the subject of numerous nude and clothed figure paintings.
The three paintings that were
on view during his
show — Peekaboo, Prom Night (For Bigger Thomas), and Window Painting — combine collaged materials that the artist hand - stitched into the
canvas, with printed images of his family he pulled, without permission, from Facebook, to form
works that create tension between formal aspects of painting and the ways in which people live online.