Instead of hanging on the walls, most of the large
paintings lean against them, emphasizing the conjunction of painting and sculpture.
TED: Jenny,
your paintings all lean against the wall as well.
Todd Bienvenu's studio is filled with stacks: art books on the floor,
paintings leaning against the wall.
He motions to
the paintings leaning against a fence.
Not exact matches
«A nude Negress
painted gold, having danced with a Negro twice her size,
leaned her body
against a post and masturbated..
Curved bathroom features vaulted ceiling adorned with large crystal chandelier illuminating his and her washstands topped with white marble paired with white beveled mirrors
leaning against upper walls
painted chocolate brown and lower walls tiled in white subway tiles accented with pencil rail situated across from freestanding bathtub placed in front of windows atop white and grey marble floor.
He brings outside old
paintings leaned up
against the wall; these are mildewed, and wisps of a spiderweb stretch across the corner of a frame.
This figurine represents the self - proclaimed ruler Pagan Min,
leaning confidently
against an old brick wall with a tiger graffiti
painted on it.
A bolt of burlap
leans against the wall, and drawings and
paintings cover the walls, of figures removed in the distance, and faces pressed
against the picture plane.
AT THE REAR OF RYAN LEE GALLERY in New York, a 1966
painting by Emma Amos casually sits on the floor
leaning against the wall between works by other gallery artists.
In one photograph the mirror is oriented so the
painted lines on a road continue in the reflection of the mirror and then again beyond it; in another, a mirror
leans against a tree which borrows a reflected trunk to become whole.
Another lies intact on the floor, surrounding the base of two
paintings that
lean against a chair.
The «Open» series was born when Motherwell noticed the enticing «congress of shapes» created by a smaller rectangular
painting leaning up
against a larger canvas in his studio.
In keeping with the theme of the exhibit, works, such as the Aurel Schmidt piece here, (including
painting, drawings, poems) were «unfinished» and displayed on the floor or
leaning against walls.
Purposefully made so tall it can only
lean against the wall, it evokes everything from Barnett Newman's «Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue»
painting to Richard Serra's steel plates.
Frieze US editor James Trainor
leaned against a wall for a moment, then, at the suggestion that the
paint might still be wet, sprang forward.
In 1951, Bacon
painted his first portrait of a famous person, British painter Lucian Freud, whom he depicted standing and
leaning against a doorway.
It is a shame to leave so thrilling a
painting as «Broken Towers» at foot level,
leaning against the wall amid a tangle of lines.
Painted on aluminum, wood or plastic, his work has its origin in snapshot photographs taken of his environment both domestically and when travelling — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom
leaning against a wall.
Painted on aluminum, wood, or plastic, his practice has its origin in photographs taken of his immediate environment, both domestically and whilst traveling — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom
leaning against a wall.
In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of
painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic
paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars
leaning against the wall.
The
paintings already show a gift for installation, each
leaning against the wall while resting on two more turds.
Two additional clumps support each canvas as it
leans against the wall like some icon or ex voto, reminding us that
painting is a universal, not Western, art form.
Mintz writes that Piotrowski's works «approach the possibility of narrative, though the artist deftly pulls back just in time» Conefry, Mintz notes, investigates «
painting as object, something constructed and assembled,» while in Cohen's
paintings «organic shapes
lean against geometrics to create a push - pull of color and form.»
He happened on the theme in the late 1960's, when he
leaned a small
painting, its back facing forward,
against a larger canvas whose surface had already been
painted.
Marc Glimcher, the proprietor of Pace, was
leaning against the wall of his gallery's booth, which was
painted light blue and had a series of small Kiki Smith sculptures of birds and wolves that looked like they were leaping through an azure sky.
And then, a little off to the side, almost unassumingly so, there was a glitzily colourful
painting of a black Virgin Mary,
leaning against a wall, and supported on little globs of elephant dung, by a young artist called Chris Ofili.
A 36 - year - old Denver woman, apparently drunk,
leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still
painting worth more than $ 30 million last week, punched it, slid down it and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case
against Carmen Lucette Tisch.
Paintings by Celeste Dupuy - Spencer, 38, who produces politically - charged portraits,
leaned against a wall, waiting to be hung near where Baer's works were installed.
Lean smaller
paintings against the wall and on top of a wood bureau.
A lump of dried, varnished elephant dung forms one bared breast, and the
painting is displayed
leaning against the gallery wall, supported by two other lumps of elephant dung, decorated with coloured pins: the pins on the left are arranged to spell out «Virgin» and the one on the right «Mary».
In a cavernous gallery just past the museum's entrance, 11 of the artist's signature,
painted, planks of wood
lean against the walls.
The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the
paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom
leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.
In another series, Maljkovic, who began his career studying
painting in Zagreb, presents his old
paintings rolled and encased in plexiglas boxes that lay across trestles or
lean against the wall.
In the upper gallery, several chipboard panels from 1987 are
painted with industrial
paint,
leaning against each other and
against the wall, indicating possibilities for adding to, or taking away from, an existing arrangement of panels.
The
painting's composition appears abstract at first; it takes a second to register that the fingerprinted white column depicts the back of a canvas
leaned against a wall.
Similarly, Bratsch's giant
paintings on paper encased in steel and glass frames
leaned against the walls outside the show's entrance look like grossly enlarged book end - papers adorned with crenellated turrets of iridescent
paint and colorful aigrette crowns gone mad.
The 1980
painting depicts a nattily dressed black man (the collector)
leaning against a fireplace with circles of smoke hanging in the air above him.
Where Carolyn's circle sags a little
against the wall in a gesture that suggests rest, you support your small
paintings on top of nails, which are tacked into a horizontally level graphite line, and
lean them
against the wall.
Using the logic of radical material transformation, lightweight panels
lean flat
against the wall, while others, warped by the application of water - based
paint, stand independently in space.
There were some
paintings by Alex Katz, his wife Yvonne Jacquette, and a few others by their friends hanging on the main wall, a cheaply framed, crooked, unmatted de Kooning drawing on the floor casually
leaning against the wall.
The works could be described as either
painting or sculpture, yet few hang on the wall in the traditional rectangular form of
painting; the laser - cut aluminum panels are connected like puzzle pieces, or as sheets of metal
leaning against the walls.
By letting them
lean against the wall, which reveals the gap between the two planes, I attempt to show the hidden three - dimensional qualities of
painting and its relationship to the wall that it always relies on.
I met David Rhodes (b. 1955, Manchester, UK) in a Greenwich Village loft where his black and white
paintings, both large and small,
leaned against walls and were propped on all bookshelves and tabletops.
Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open
paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas
leaning against a larger one.
Vital to the group is a large cross,
painted in a brilliant red and
leaning against a flat white background.
The exhibition will feature three oversized
paintings — the artist's largest works created to - date — which will be exhibited on flat aluminum blocks on the floor and
leaned against the gallery walls.
Upstairs, in Njideka Akunyili Crosby's
painting I Still Face You (2015), a poised woman in a yellow dress
leans against a credenza as she looks into the eyes of a man — her husband or fiancée, perhaps — in the company of their parents.
Made of newspaper, rolled up and glued, then
painted black to give the dried, tube - shaped material some rigidity, these straight or curly pieces were also scattered around a column in the gallery, or placed upright,
leaning against a window.
There are openings to other spaces, bathed in light or cloaked in darkness, but the spatial illusion in his
paintings is fused to a sense that the entire picture surface is
leaning up
against the picture plane, pushing into our world rather than receding away from it.