Sentences with phrase «photograph of his artist friend»

In 1970, he took a beautiful black - and - white photograph of his artist friend Michael Buthe — and then painted the face over with primary red, blue and yellow hues, a typically nose - thumbing gesture.

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Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.

Using never before seen works, writings and photographs, director Sara Driver, who was part of the New York arts scene herself, worked closely with friends and other artists who emerged from that period.

Since the 1990s, Peyton began exhibiting her work — paintings of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends, which she renders from photographs and from life — and more recently, also in still lifes, landscapes and scenes from the opera.

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.

Spielautomat (Slot Machine), 1999 - 2000, a self - portrait of the artist as a slot machine, features the title object covered with overlapping rows of images — snapshots of artist friends such as Lawrence Weiner, photographs of male movie stars torn from magazines, postcards and pictures of street scenes and storefronts — and is topped with a portrait of Genzken by Tillmans.

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.

Several people — friends or benevolent assistants of the artists — lined up in a dark, bare room with the works in hand, ready to be photographed by Gaestel.

These photographs, never - before seen until now, capture three of the leading post-war artists Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, and Jack Tworkov enjoying their friends and family while celebrating a humble festive dinner with each other.

Berni Searle's still images capture silhouette cut - outs made of red crêpe paper — of photographs of the artist's friends and family — that were then submerged in water.

Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe were also exploring themes along these lines in the 1980's In 1981 Pop Artist Andy Warhol in collaboration with his friend Christopher Makos worked on a series of photographs with a transgender theme.

Originally trained in photography, the artist uses elaborately staged photographs of friends and family as the source material for the final portraits on view.

In conjunction with her solo exhibitions at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, and at the Hammer Museum, Catherine Opie: Portraits, photographer Catherine Opie joins MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth and Hammer Chief Curator Connie Butler for a conversation about the concepts of portraiture, gender, celebrity, and creativity at play in the artist's photographs of Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air home and in her images of visual artists, fashion designers, and writers drawn from her own circle of friends.

Working from Polaroid photographs, he paints colossal portraits of his family, his friends, fellow artists, and himself.

Along with these texts and testimonies, the scrapbook - cum - catalog is full of reproductions of letters that Owens wrote to various figures, along with notes to herself, lists, photographs taken by her and her friends, including one of the artist and her birthday cake, which was based on one of her paintings.

His legacy as an artist is deeper and wider than we can know now — beyond the groundbreaking portraits of friends, family and neighbors that first made him celebrated, there are countless assemblages, innumerable landscapes, and oh so many wonderful photographs.

Drawing upon her own recollections of the South, the memory of her friend and mentor, artist Cy Twombly, and their shared past in Virginia, Sally Mann presents a series of color and black - and - white photographs of objects in Twombly's studio.

Cwynar's new photographs comprise studio portraits of Tracy, a friend of the artist, with superimposed found objects and images; recomposed illustrations of suits of armor; a set of Avon presidential after - shave bottles from the 1970s minus their heads; and a studio photograph of a hot pink peony on a green background.

Meanwhile, RONNIE COOKE NEWHOUSE narrates a day in the life of her best friend PHARRELL WILLIAMS, photographed by MAX FARAGO; publisher GERHARD STEIDL races jet lag across the Atlantic from Karl Lagerfeld's haute couture show in Paris to Robert Frank's Canadian solitude; distinguished historian ERIC HOBSBAWM discusses his views on the future of globalization with HANS ULRICH OBRIST; artist collective SLAVS & TATARS revisits the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Tehran with the first installment of its project 79/89/09 for 032c; Belgian art collector and interior decorator AXEL VERVOORDT makes all art contemporary;

Artists in the Exhibition Brooklyn - based John Edmonds (American, born 1989) has been photographing friends, family, lovers, and strangers since his college days in Washington, D.C.. For Edmonds, who earned his MFA from Yale University in 2016, the process of image - making is a collaboration — the process of building relationships and community.

The gallery will feature the German - born artist's edgy commercial and private work in a three - part show that includes his provocative photographs of Kristen McMenamy, alongside frank portraits of the artist's family and friends.

Her self - portrait as a slot - machine, Spielautomat (Slot Machine)(1999 - 2000), features an image of Genzken (taken by her friend and fellow - artist Wolfgang Tillmans) on top of a slot machine covered in snapshots and found photographs.

Talk: «Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois: Alex Van Gelder and Jerry Gorovoy in Conversation» at the New York Public Library Photographer Alex Van Gelder, who spent three years playfully photographing the private world of Louise Bourgeois, sits down with the legendary artist's former assistant and friend of 30 years Jerry Gorovoy to discuss her life, work and unique sensibility.

Discussing her large - format photograph Presently, Here Standing, Ntombi (2016)-- an arresting image of Brand's friend standing in a bathroom with breasts bared, staring directly into the camera — the artist explained: «That work was about the experience of being in Cape Town and feeling invisible.

-LSB-...] Pinault is an enthusiast, a friend of many artists, smart and self - ironic enough to let Piotr Uklanski do a thermographic photograph of him as a skeleton.

Chetwynd's new Canterbury Tales collages — which number almost 200 — again embrace the participatory spirit of her practice at large, making use of photographs sent to the artist by friends and acquaintances alongside a plethora of found imagery.

The painting is based on a photograph taken by the artist of Volker Bradke, who was one of his friends and assistants.

«The Gang: Photographs by Catherine Opie» concentrates on portraits of the artist's friends from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer community; a selection of work that invaluably subverts American archetypes.

Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends is the first 21st - century retrospective for the artist examining six decades of his work, with over 250 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sound and video recordings.

The Art Newspaper: «Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal Images, to be shown at Austin Desmond Fine Art, depict British artist with group of male friends on holiday at Pagham Beach in West Sussex» Article by Anna Brady in the Art Newspaper.

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.

Most of his early works are very large portraits based on photographs, using Photorealism or Hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists.

The sitters, many of them friends of the artist, are photographed in their own clothes against a blank background, and were asked to keep their faces expressionless.

Existentialist expressions, forlorn black and white photographs of physical contact, and exuberantly colorful illustrations of sexuality are evident in the works of some of the most eminent artists who are mostly's Clark's peers and friends.

In celebration of the new book, Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois, photographer and Bourgeois's friend Alex Van Gelder offers a revealing account of his intimate project photographing the legendary artist.

There are intimate photographs of immigrants in Nordhessen, Germany, by the Palestinian Ahlam Shibli, a chilling array of material from a group called the Society of Friends of Halit that has been investigating the murder of a young Muslim man in Kassel in 2006 that some believe was orchestrated by German authorities, and a subtle video by the Thai artist Arin Rungjang that concerns the present - day echoes of a Thai ambassador's meeting with Hitler in the 1930s.

Set in a dystopian Los Angeles, the 22 - minute film stars Stosh, a.k.a. Pig Pen — Opie's close friend and the subject of many of her photographs — as a struggling artist, obsessed with midcentury modern architecture and driven to arson by the crumbling world around him.

The Rhine II Artist: Andreas Gursky born 1955 Date: 1999 Classification: on paper, print Medium: Photograph, colour, Chromogenic print, on paper Dimensions: frame: 2063 x 3575 x 50 mm Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 2000 © Courtesy Monika Sprueth Galerie, Koeln / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn and DACS, London 2018

Lil Picard and Counterculture New York will be accompanied by a state - of - the - art interactive web site, which will include hundreds of photographs of both Picard's artworks and the artist with art - world friends.

Guise & Dolls focused on several prominent bodies of work from each artist's oeuvre: Warhol's «Ladies and Gentlemen» series (1975) of drag queen portraits, Christopher Makos's «Altered Images» series of Warhol in drag, Mapplethorpe's photographs of lifelong friend and longtime muse Patti Smith that range from masculine to feminine and Mapplethorpe's photographic series and book Lady: Lisa Lyon (1983) of the female bodybuilding champion in numerous gender - bending guises.

Close often draws on his friends, many of them artists themselves, as subjects for his photographs and paintings.

American artist Chuck Close rose as a prominent Photorealist painter, who made his name with huge, billboard - sized paintings of himself and his friends, reproduced from photographs in painstaking detail, seen in the minutely detailed texture of the skin and hair of his subjects.

Roughly half of the photographs are similarly intimate, featuring some of his closest friends, lovers, and mentors that helped develop the young artist as an upandcoming fashion photographer from Puerto Rico, such as the legendary Mariano Vivanco.

Huanca ditched class to hang out with these friends, and during that time they took this photograph — a bit out of focus, appearing as a fuzzy memory of adolescence, it serves as a disembodied psychic connection between the past, present, and future of the artist herself, who appears at the opening both in human and ghosted form.

While initially creating collages using found photographs, objects, and painting, Mapplethorpe turned to photography in the early 1970's, through which — using a Polaroid SX - 70 camera — he quickly became known for the portraits he took of his wide circle of friends, including famous artists, musicians, porn stars, and socialites.

Guests donned pseudo-historical costumes and posed with an array of fun props for photo portraits taken by the artist — inspired by the photographs he takes of his friends that serve as studies for his drawings.

Over the past couple of years, she has shot close artist friends like Matthew Barney, Raymond Pettibon, and Kara Walker against a black background, in hopes of investing her photographs with more narrative mystery.

On the ground floor, La Traversée de la vie (The Crossing of Life) will see the artist re-employ photographs he previously used for a work from 1971, entitled Album de photos de la Famille D. For this seminal piece Boltanski used found photographs from a 1950s family album belonging to one of his friends.

Each of the «sanctuaries», every one beautifully photographed by Robin Friend with portraits of the artists, is accompanied by illuminating interviews that immediately shed new light on their work.

Photographs of the sculpture and cancer cells appear beside correspondence and notes about the suffering and treatment of the artist and her friends.