Claudette Schreuders creates lithographs and carved and
painted wooden figures.
Baselitz is also known for his distinctive approach to sculpture: his roughly hewn and boldly
painted wooden figures fuse traditional woodcarving techniques with primitivist and folk art impulses.
Not exact matches
PAGES 28 - 29: From left, «Three
Figures,» 1966 (oil on canvas) by Emma Amos and «It Takes Two to Integrate (Cha Cha Cha),» 1961 (
painted dolls, dried fish, glass in
wooden box) by Edward Kienholz.
Also on display are powerful works by Sidney Geist, Studded
Figure (1957), a
painted wooden piece; Mary Frank's Reclining
Figure (1960); and Alex Katz's Ada Ada (1959), a double image of his muse, his wife Ada.
The centerpiece was an elegantly carved realistic
wooden figure of Wilde atop a pedestal displaying a plaque
painted with the number C. 33.
In another
painting from the «Social Consequences» series, a
figure adorned with polygons is poked with
wooden sticks or metal spears, as if bodies were at once formed by and put at risk by inhuman elements.
«Out of Sight» then proceeds chronically to present art from 1962 to 1978 and concludes by exhibiting four
wooden sculptures and a series of seven vivid
painting from her Days of the Week series by way of revealing Herrera's continued experimentation with
figure / ground relationships and the architectural underpinnings of many of her compositions.
Across from Bill King's Man, past Mary Frank's dense
wooden Reclining
Figure (1960) is Alex Katz's
painting, Ada Ada, of his wife, times two, from 1959.
Around the corner, King's
wooden painted elongated
figure, Man with a Checkered Jacket (1955), looks like a Giacometti sculpture for a Fourth of July party.
The Cleveland Museum of Art's latest acquisitions include a Virgin and Child, a rare 13th - century
wooden sculpture from the Mosan region of Europe; a Standing Female
Figure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ car
Figure, a clay
figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ car
figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first
paintings to employ cartoons.
Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped
Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to
wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel
paint.
He used
wooden dowels shaped with a jigsaw and hand tools to make intricate stretchers,
painting figures in patterns drawn from Aztec, Benin, and Egyptian cultures.
Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female
figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian
painting, while delicate fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two
wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look at.
Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and
wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted
figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921
painting Le Grand Déjeuner.
«SPIRIT AND IDENTITY: MELANESIA WORKS FROM THE HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM COLLECTION» continues through Aug. 29 at the David Filderman Gallery The exhibition showcases ancestral
figures, ceremonial masks, warrior shields, ritualized practical objects sourced from sacred sites, and carved and
painted wooden sculptures.
Influenced by pre-Columbian imagery and the Pre-Pop creations of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper John, she began making
painted carved
wooden figures incorporating found objects.
Featuring work from the 1980s to today, including
wooden figures, pottery and newspapers that she has
painted on, Himid's section of the Turner Prize exhibition at Hull's Ferens Gallery serves as an intimate window on to her intensely thoughtful practice.
Terence Koh one person at a time, 2012 wax, foam,
paint, plaster,
wooden bench, light bulb reclining
figure: 19 x 66 x 21 3/4 inches (48.3 x 167.6 x 55.2 cm) standing
figure: 63 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 16 inches (161.9 x 37.5 x 40.6 cm) bench: 26 x 79 3/8 x 20 3/4 inches (66 x 201.6 x 52.7 cm) TK - 16
As each deity is unique, so too are the figurines that signify them; each
wooden figure is made distinct with
paint, feathers, beads, buttons, and other materials.
The thread that connects all this disparate material, from Uncle Claudio's «Black Widow Killer» (a
wooden paint paddle) to the artist's collection of toy
figures, is the bittersweet quality of family memories.
The enigmatic title refers to the painter's «crown,» a heroic accessory evoked in Aldrich's «
Figure with Cape,» (2008) a shakily
painted outline of a caped matador with three
wooden sticks attached to the canvas surface.
I'd like to start to create
wooden sculptures somehow with blocks or doing
wooden figures and
painting them.
Zanzibar - born, Preston - based Himid tackles attitudes to race, from slavery to the present day, through her tableaux of
wooden figures and
painted - over pottery.
continues through Aug. 29 at the David Filderman Gallery The exhibition showcases ancestral
figures, ceremonial masks, warrior shields, ritualized practical objects sourced from sacred sites, and carved and
painted wooden sculptures.
In a large
painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster
figures cast from elaborately folded
wooden models as well as one large
painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.
Alterations consists of 120 female
figures — each
painted with individual features and expressions — placed on top of and around a long
wooden table with a solitary lamp illuminating them.
Apart from his
paintings, an installation by both artists, «I Catch the Little White Man,» (2003), features a
wooden cabinet filled with strings of white
figures, and refers to a mental institution in Sweden that doubles as a center for creative research.
Naming The Money consisted of 100
painted life - sized
wooden cut out
figures, originally shown at the Hatton Gallery Newcastle in 2004, which explored the multiple themes of naming, belonging, invisibility and survival.
It includes 30
paintings and 12 drawings, from «Sneeze» (2001), in which mucus spews from a woman's snoutlike nose, to «Carpenter» (2010), which shows a
figure stripping a
wooden deck with her teeth.