His sculptural installations challenge
perceptions of figurative art by removing the human figure from the viewer's day - to - day experience and re-positioning it within a controlled context.
Not exact matches
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine
Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition
of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a
figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's immediate
perception of what he is looking at.
[citation needed] By thus manipulating the conventions and structures
of figurative painting, he creates corollaries for literary, philosophical, and historical concepts in visual allegories about the nature and implications
of perception, meaning, and interpretation in
art.
«The
Perception of Appearances: A Decade
of American Contemporary
Figurative Drawing,» Frye
Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2002.