Sentences with phrase «personal photographs of the artists»

As the former Curator of Art at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Dean shows his own considerable artistic prowess at capturing the early heady times of space exploration through original on - site sketches and personal photographs of the artists working at Cape Canaveral in the early 1960's -1970's.

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Unlike most other collage artists that incorporate other's images, I have given myself the personal challenge of using only my own photographs, paintings, and drawings in my works.
Faces Places «ostensibly modest aims of photographing and plastering large photographs of average people onto structures across France provides a surprisingly humanist and playful backdrop, against which two remarkable artists create something both profoundly personal and entirely universal.
The CSA contain studio records, photographs and slides, the artist's tools and materials, his personal library, and extensive documentation pertaining to the art, career, and life of this important American artist.
He took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera, and later became known for his portraits of artists, architects, socialites, stars of pornographic films, members of the S&M community, and an array of other unique people, many of whom were personal friends.
Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means «the love of looking,» reflects on Goldin's intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum.
He took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera, and later became known for his portraits of artists, architects, socialites, stars of pornographic films, members of the S&M community and an array of other characters many of whom were personal friends.
The museum's photography curator at the time, Hugh Edwards, purchased 30 photographs from this now - legendary series for the permanent collection, and in 2000, the artist generously gifted a further 38 photographs — works that were openly personal and very different from his chronicling of the state of the country in The Americans.
Prompted by a photograph taken in his studio in 1989, Golub and Spero's assistant Samm Kunce gives a personal account of the generosity shown by both artists towards their team.
«Working both within and beyond the conventions of portraiture, landscape and text, these artists find inspiration in the meeting of the self and the collective, and the personal and the political,» added Russell Lord, NOMA's Freeman Family Curator of Photographs.
More personal than before, the photographed objects from the artist's childhood and youth put together form a reminder of the lost past and the artist's parents.
The «Fact» paintings have taken various other photographic themes as their subject matter since 2000, including: details from Hirst's own work, personal photographs of the birth of the artist's son; famous diamonds; and biopsies.
Constructive Spirit examines the connections, both conceptual and personal, among abstract artists, suggesting parallels that cut across time, national borders, and a range of media, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, -LSB-...]
Kazuo Shiraga also features a complete facsimile of the artist's personal scrapbook of photographs documenting his public performances and painting process — a rare treasure never before seen by the public.
Here, gelatin silver photographs and photograms — taken from the artist's personal archive made over the years and used both altered or unmodified — are layered into compositions, along with pieces of sheer black or tan fabric that allude to women's hosiery.
Rarely seen photographs and primary source materials including letters, artists» handwritten notes, and personal effects from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art are featured in this -LSB-...]
The authors consider the paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture produced by artists in James's circle, assess how his pictorial aesthetic developed, and discuss why he destroyed so many personal documents and what became of those that survived.
The paintings have taken various other photographic themes as their subject matter since 2000, including: details from Hirst's own work, personal photographs of the birth of the artist's son such as «Self - Portrait as Surgeon», which depicts Hirst in the hospital; famous diamonds; scientific photo library pictures of butterflies; and biopsies.
A catalogue designed by the artists to resemble a scrapbook, comprising a personal selection of texts and photographs, in addition to in - process images of the works in the show.
It was in these volumes that Williams» prescient eye sought to bring thoughtful, daring and experimental photography to the discerning public's eye — by combining and juxtaposing photographs by artists such as Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind (whom he considered a personal mentor), Frederick Sommer and Clarence John Laughlin — with equally provocative and original literature and poetry, drawing heavily from all over the country, including the nexus of creative energies at the famous Black Mountain College (N.C.).
In this virtual studio visit, a selection of the artists» works, art making tools and personal items, along with rarely seen photographs of private studio spaces - rarely open to the public - are on view.
He took his first photographs of his close friend, the singer - artist - poet Patti Smith, using a Polaroid camera, and later became known for his portraits of composers, architects, socialites, stars of pornographic films, members of the S&M underground and an array of other unique people, many of whom were personal friends.
My personal collection of photographs from artists across the globe is dominated by small, black and white, silver prints.
Through in - depth articles that canvas an artists» whole career, and photographs that beautifully document their working space, we are able to provide a more focused and personal account of an artist than is usually seen in online media.
The acquisition encompasses photographs, source material for Hammond's art as well as original artworks, personal correspondence, drafts of publications, professional papers, a slide registry devoted to lesbian artists and much more.
His practice mainly consists of drawings that hearken back to a personal archive of photographs derived from vulgarizing scientific magazines such as National Geographic, from biographies of artists and scientists... Lately, he often re-enacts found footage or even stages non-existent scenes in photographs, which he then uses as source material.
Born and raised in the South, the artist Travis Somerville explores the history of race and racism through a personal lens of painting, installation, and embellished found photographs.
The show displays a selection of pieces displayed salon style as both a reference to early modernist salons but also to the clutter and natural chaos of her own workspace.The show includes photographs, collages, drawings, and large - scale Polaroids, displaying for us a more personal, introspective viewpoint that we haven't seen yet from the artist.
Also don't miss the extraordinary, intensely personal paintings, drawings and photographs of nonagenarian Geta Brãtescu in Romania, as well as the film by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler in the Swiss Pavilion which tells the heart - wrenching story of Flora Mayo, long - forgotten American artist and lover of Alberto Giacometti, through the voice of her now aged son.
In 2013, the Harry Ransom Center acquired a Ruscha archive comprising five personal journals filled with preliminary sketches and notes; materials related to the making of his artist's book On The Road (2010); notes, photographs, correspondence and contact sheets relating to the creation and publication of his many other artist's books; and materials relating to his short films Miracle (1975) and Premium (1971); his portfolios; and several art commissions.
ANNANDALE - ON - HUDSON, NY, May 11, 2016 — Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early eighteenth century.
In his desire to counterbalance personal feelings of alienation and displacement prompted by an unfamiliar terrain, the artist chose to create these photographs, which attempt to translate what a child might do and feel in this type of situation.
The presentation of more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, and personal photographs and artifacts, will allow visitors a multifaceted view of Picasso, the man and the artist, to «see him as never before.»
Employing found photographs, video footage, and footage of feature films as mnemonic devices, artists Marcel Odenbach, Igor Savchenko, Maxim Tyminko, and Vadim Zakharov question the connections between national and personal fates as these are imprinted in local historical memory and universal social history.
In Burton's most ambitious exhibition to date, the artist will present a new body of photographs that explore the practice of image making and the notion of performance through his personal relationships within Los Angeles.
-- For art, the photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle, whose earliest work, the Suite Venitienne (1979), in which she followed — and photographed — a man throughout the streets of Venice after meeting him at a party in Paris, sets the tone for her unique approach to documenting her personal experiences.
The collages contain such autobiographical elements as photographs and personal correspondence, as well as postcards portraying typically German landscapes, and clippings from news magazines, including photographic portraits of artists, and music and movie reviews.
On loan from Shepard Fairey's personal collection will be one of the original window display signs and photograph from the «Liberty Street Protest,» a large - scale provocative anti-war installation created by Friedman in 2004, with the assistance of artists» Chris Habib and Shepard Fairey.
The main draw is a veritable retrospective of the drawings, erotic and otherwise, and a smattering of paintings starring the new - in - town, gold - on - gold «Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» Also here: a photo mural of sections of Klimt's most famous painted mural, the «Beethoven Frieze»; a period room; photographs and personal effects, including one of the artist's signature caftans; and piped - in music, all written in Vienna of course, and available for purchase on CD.
In this film, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals the personal story behind a series of videos and photographs of her family in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a selection of which were exhibited in «Video Studio: Changing Same» at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Contemplating both the universal norm that regards portrait photographs as the physical description of personal identity and the history of Hong Kong photography starting from the mid-19th century, this exhibition presents the perspectives of the two artists, who carve out both visible and invisible portraits of individual / communal and social / historical stories.
Featuring more than 60 views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri, Prendergast in Italy also includes the artist's personal sketchbooks, letters, photographs, and guidebooks from his two trips to Italy, in 1898 and 1911.
The final exhibition for Sharon Lockhart's season at The Artist's Institute takes darkness as a point of departure, bringing together a night painting from Katz's personal collection with the pioneering flash photography of Harold Edgerton, two artists whose works have been touchstones for Sharon's latest series of photographs.
In a statement, the Columbus Museum expressed its gratitude to the artist's family and other donors who have contributed hundreds of Alma Thomas - related items to its collection over time, including works of art, family photographs, documents, and personal property.
Each photograph in the series depicts the chronological progression of the artist's relationship with the Doll and its increasing familiarity - the earlier photos show the lifelike latex doll in formal poses while the most recent represent the subject engaging in seemingly personal thoughts and actions.
The final exhibition for Sharon Lockhart's season at The Artist's Institute takes darkness as a point of departure, bringing together a night painting from Alex Katz's personal collection with the pioneering flash photography of Harold Edgerton, two artists whose works have been touchstones for Sharon's latest series of photographs, When You're Free, You Run in the Dark.
Throughout the installation, photographs of activists in New York, Berlin, Osaka, Santiago de Chile, and St. Petersburg coexist seamlessly with glimpses into the artist's private life, reflecting the broader tension in Tillmans's oeuvre between the political and the personal.
The exhibition will survey the past 11 years of work by the noted photographer in over 20 photographs and one new video installation selected from his work in the fashion industry, as well as from the artist's personal archive.
Spanning the years from 1926 to 2016, the exhausted chronology embeds personal images such as Saar's baby pictures, family photographs, and casual snapshots of the artist at work within a larger visual narrative, consisting of historical events ranging from the founding of the National Negro Congress, to the debut of Ms.Magazine, to Nina Simone's final concert at Carnegie Hall.
The photographs offer a personal view of Tokyo, a result of the artist's need to connect to the people and the city.
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