Sentences with phrase «paintings of familiar places»

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The goal in painting these subjects so intimately familiar to the artist is to provide the viewer with a tour of his hometown neighborhood — a place he refers to as occupying a «middle space», a uniquely American in - between of poverty and middle class.

Ruby's spray painted blocks and wall hangings seem to reference the aesthetic of these 90's video game graphics that place the viewer in this familiar world where you're still a normal human, but, due to technological limitations, non-essential information, such as concrete walls, aren't highly rendered.

The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.

By placing these works alongside prints by Peter Doig, with their haunting and mysterious evocation of place, sculptures by Katja Larsson and painting constructions by Ruth Solomons, whose practices are both dependent on the experimental, Digging Deeper not only references links in the intent and the processes between these four artists, it also attempts to offer deeper insights into the seemingly familiar.

Each painting contains a central object that acts to «trigger collective memory» and which builds a psychology within the image that makes it distantly familiar, yet still out of place.

His approach to exploring psychological concepts is highly abstracted and every painting begins with metaphors relating to architecture — rooms, staircases, hallways: «These spaces are stretched and contorted, almost to the point of becoming paradox illusions, to twist spaces that should be readily familiar into places that are fragmented and uncertain.»

With her new series of paintings and drawings, Shurts continues her visual and psychological exploration of familiar and imagined places.

Young's reverse paintings, rendered on the underside of thick glass with automotive paints, are investigations of places and objects that are familiar to us yet feel foreign.

Young's reverse paintings, rendered on the underside of thick glass with automotive paints, are investigations of places and objects that are familiar to -LSB-...]

Using bold gestures in paint, Porter addresses the specific character of people, places, and things as they are — from two matter - of - fact yet tender paintings of the family's Golden Retriever Bruno, to portraits of his young daughters in the familiar architecture of their home, surrounded by furniture and furnishings that likewise become active members of the scene.

Sam Wolfe Connelly is a New York - based artist, known for his paintings and illustrations that are vivid renditions of the unknown, placed into surreal yet oddly familiar domestic settings occupied by haunting figures.

Nine years later there is a new generation who is not familiar with his work, and this exhibition gives everybody an opportunity to honor not only his paintings and drawings but also his significant place in the history of art in Texas.

I think I find a similar dialogue taking place in Fiona Rae's paintings, only here the digital seems to be referenced more in the synthetic colours and the insertion of manufactured collaged elements from childish popular culture, girly stationery, stickers of cute cartoon pandas, her now familiar mixing of crass pop decor with the tropes of Abstract Expressionism, that continues to have the power to jar, entertain, and provoke.