Sentences with phrase «painting soap boxes»

Long before painters such as Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Davis was painting soap boxes, billboards and gas pumps with a tongue - in - cheek wit that was ahead of his time.

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It was essentially its own thing, as Andy Warhol's play with soap boxes, or even the way he painted flowers.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

Lee creates poetic object - based installations fashioned from everyday materials and household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures of painting, drawing, and placement.