Sentences with phrase «performance artist leigh»

At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder of the city's Museum of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream of the building burning.

Out of the monumental paintings Freud made in the 1990s of two outsized characters, the performance artist Leigh Bowery and benefits supervisor Sue Tilley, the curators have astutely chosen two in which the subject is asleep.

In the 1990s, disease, death, and bodies became one of the most potent themes and Damien Hirst created A Thousand Years, depicting live flies as they feed on a cow's head, and Lucian Freud painted portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery.

From Damien Hirst's work A Thousand Years, in which live flies feed on a cow's head, to Lucian Freud's portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, art rediscovered the flesh, the stuff of life.

Not exact matches

Mike Leigh's biopic of the later years of iconic English artist JMW Turner is a colourful, moving and hilarious period piece featuring a brave and torturous performance by Spall.

REPRESENTATION Brooklyn - based artist Simone Leigh, whose work spans sculpture, video, installation and performance, joins Luhring Augustine gallery.

Particularly significant are his collaborations with an impressive list of highly regarded visual and performance artists including Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Joan Jonas, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Leigh works in ceramics, performance, and installation to investigate what she refers to as «black female subjectivities.»

Screening: «John Maybury's Read Only Memory» at Le Petit Versailles From the maker Francis Bacon biopic «Love is the Devil,» and the famous Sinead O'Conner music video «Nothing Compares 2 U,» comes «Read Only Memory,» documentary of the fabulous life of Australian performance artist and London underground celeb Leigh Bowery, who danced for choreographer Michael Clark, modeled for painter Lucian Freud, and was one of the most photographed, influential, and outrageous fashion icons of the 1980s and «90s.

«Experimental film - makers like Isaac Julien and Cerith Wyn Evans showed there, [performance artist] Leigh Bowery, [choreographer] Michael Clark, wicked, witty, totally relevant, those people were in clubs.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (NOTE: + denotes participant in the Film Program; * denotes participant in the Performance Program): Charlie Ahearn (b. 1951) + / John Ahearn (b. 1951) / Chantal Akerman (b. 1950) + / Sam Anders on (b. 1982) / Richard Artschwager (1923 — 2013) / Robert Ashley (1930 — 2014) * / Charles Atlas (b. 1949) / Lutz Bacher (born in the USA) / Fia Backström (b. 1970) / Alvin Baltrop (1948 — 2004) / Rina Banerjee (b. 1963) / Morgan Bassichis (b. 1983) * / Kevin Beasley (b. 1985) / Gina Beavers (b. 1974) / Gelsey Bell (b. 1982) * / Michael Bell — Smith (b. 1978) / Sadie Benning (b. 1973) / Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) / Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946) + / Mel Bochner (b. 1940) / Robert Moskowitz (b. 1935) + / Lizzie Borden (b. 1958) + / Robert Bordo (b. 1949) / Gregg Bordowitz (b. 1964) + / Liene Bosquê (b. 1980) / Amy Brener (b. 1982) / Ben Thorp Brown (b. 1983) / Rudy Burckhardt (1914 — 1999) + / Harry Burke (b. 1990) * / Scott Burton (1939 — 1989) / Abigail Child (b. 1948) + / Susan Cianciolo (b. 1969) / Shirley Clark e (1919 — 1997) + / Todd Colby (b. 1962) * / Roy Colmer (1935 — 2014) / Sara Cwynar (b. 1985) / Mira Dancy (b. 1979) / Jaime Davidovich (b. 1936) + / Jimmy DeSana (1950 — 1990) / Vivienne Dick (b. 1950) + / Andrew Durbin (b. 1989) * / Diego Echeverr í a (b. 1946) + / Terry Fox (1958 — 1981) + / Su Friedrich (b. 1954) + / Eckh aus Latta (founded 2011) / Mary Beth Edelson (b. 1933) / Gregory Edwards (b. 1981) / Joy Episalla (b. 1960) / Loretta Fahrenholz (b. 1981) / Ben Fama (b. 1982) * / fierce pussy (founded 1991) / John Finneran (b. 1979) / Henry Flynt (b. 1940) / Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) / John Giorno (b. 1936) * / Ignacio Gonzá ez — Lang (b. 1975) / William Greaves (1926 — 2014) + / Jonah Groeneboer (b. 1978) * / Red Grooms (b. 1937) / David Grubbs (b. 1967) * / David Hammons (b. 1943) / Fanny Howe (b. 1940) * / Katherine Hubbard (b. 1981) / Peter Hutton (b. 1944) + / Elizabeth Jaeger (b. 1988) / Ken Jacobs (b. 1933) + Paolo Javier (b. 1974) * / Joan Jonas (b. 1936) + / Jamian Juliano — Villani (b. 1987) / Angie Keefer (b. 1977) / Devin Kenny (b. 1987) / Eli Keszler (b. 1983) * / Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980) / KIOSK (founded 2005) / Manfred Kirchheimer (b. 1931) + / Ajay Kurian (b. 1984) / Robert Kushner (b. 1949) / M. Lamar (b. 1984) * / Louise Lawler (b. 1947) / Deana Lawson (b. 1979) / Sophia Le Fraga (b. 1990) * / Barry Le Va (b. 1941) / Okkyung Lee (b. 1975) * / Simone Leigh (b. 1968) / Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) / Nancy Brooks Brody (b. 1962) + / Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) / Tan Lin (b. 1957) * / Eric Mack (b. 1987) / Tony Matelli (b. 1971) / Gordon Matta — Clark (1943 — 1978) / Lionel Maunz (b. 1976) / Park McArthur (b. 1984) / Adam McEwen (b. 1965) / Marie Menken (1909 — 1970) + / Wardell Milan (b. 1978) / Ieva Misevičiūtė (b. 1982) * / Rashaun Mitchell (b. 1978) / Silas Riener (b. 1983) * / Yoshiaki Mochizuki (b. 1961) / Donald Moffett (b. 1955) / James Nares (b. 1953) / Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts — New York (founded 2011) / Raul de Nieves (b. 1983) / Véréna Paravel (b. 1971) / J.P. Sniadecki (b. 1979) + / Morgan Parker (b. 1987) * / Rebecca Patek (b. 1980) * / Sondra Perry (b. 1986) / Pharmakon (b. 1990) * / Howardena Pindell (b. 1943) / Seth Price (b. 1973) / Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) + / Will Rawls (b. 1978) * / Nick Relph (b. 1979) / Joyce Robins (b. 1944) / Bunny Rogers (b. 1990) * / Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964) / Cameron Rowland (b. 1988) / Jen Rosenblit (b. 1983) * / Peter Saul (b. 1934) / Collier Schorr (b. 1963) / Nancy Shaver (b. 1946) / Judith Shea (b. 1948) / Gedi Sibony (b. 1973) / Hayley Silverman (b. 1986) / Charles Simonds (b. 1970) + / Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) / Rosalind Fox Solomon (b. 1930) / Jack Smith (1932 — 1989) + / Kiki Smith (b. 1954) / Greg Parma Smith (b. 1983) / Slow and Steady Wins the Race (founded 2001) / Nelson Sullivan (1948 — 1989) / Sergei Tcherepnin (b. 1981) / Third World Newsreel (founded 1967) + / Stewart Uoo (b. 1985) / Stefanie Victor (b. 1982) / William Villalongo (b. 1975) / Keith Fullerton Whitman (b. 1973) * / Sue Williams (b. 1954) / Lebbeus Woods (1940 — 2012) / Nathan Donavon Wooley (b. 1974) * / Geo Wyeth (b. 19 84) * / Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957) / C. Spencer Yeh (b. 1975) * +

He has brought his uniquely playful precision to bear on a staggering range of films, videos, installations and live performances, working along the way with artists including Marina Abramovic, Antony and the Johnsons, Karole Armitage, Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn and Yvonne Rainer.

Brooklyn - based Leigh, whose work spans sculpture, video, installation and performance, is a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2016 Fellow of A Blade of Grass for socially engaged artists, and the 2016 Visual Arts recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.