Sentences with phrase «photographic source imagery»

Born and raised in Nigeria but living now in the United States, Akunyili Crosby layers paint, fabric, and photographic source imagery that she transfers or collages onto her surfaces.

Drawing inspiration from a commemorative publication celebrating the assassination of Osama bin Laden, Hume's new compositions isolate and fragment the photographic source imagery to near total abstraction.

Not exact matches

This photographic series combines imagery from four disparate sources: neoclassical sculpture, west of Ireland landscapes, found images and the studio setting.

The Latvian - born, New York — based artist has been rendering nature imagery from black - and - white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings and prints.

While considerable attention has been given to the decade through artists» use of appropriated imagery and photographic sources, the exhibition examines this moment specifically through the lens of painting, considering the ways in which the medium was reinvigorated throughout the decade at a time when its relevance was fundamentally challenged...

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

Claiming imagery typically referenced through our daily interaction with media sources, Kahrs builds on the diversity of photographic images infused with the seductive palette of artists such as Richter and Tuymans, but invests them with a grotesque, bodily relationship to the viewer seen in the work of Jenny Saville.

The self - portraits are also based on photographic images that have been screenprinted onto canvas; in both groups of paintings, the varying tones of black, gray, and brown enamel are often overprinted several times, simultaneously accentuating and obliterating the contours of the source imagery.

Carving into a painted MDF surface with a router, Aaron Williams recreates graffiti imagery in photographic sources, expanding the idea of mark marking and materials.

Since the 1960s Celmins has been rendering nature imagery from black and white photographic sources, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings, and prints.

New «machine paintings» - digitally retouched photographic images printed on vinyl - hang in various rooms, sometimes lending context to, and revealing the sources for, the obscured imagery in the paintings proper.

In addition to the traditional live models she works from, Stump has begun incorporating found imagery as source material, focusing specifically on deconstructing the male gaze present in the photographic imagery of vintage men's magazines.

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise new narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

This work expands our awareness of the manipulation in photographic sources while also bringing attention to the saturation of constructed imagery in contemporary society.

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

He works from a plethora of found sources, usually photographic; mid twentieth - century magazine cut - outs, Americana and biker imagery among others.