His use
of photographic source material is a basis for his signature figurative paintings, which transform mediated film, television, and print sources into examinations of history and memory.
With my recent figures and portraits, painted
from photographic source materials, I am exploring and expanding my content while continuing my desire to connect the present to the past.
Five prominent writers consider various aspects of Woods» practice, including her painting technique and use
of photographic source material; her engagement with the traditions of landscape and figurative art; her relationship with artistic forebears such as Francis Bacon, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland and Eduardo Paolozzi; and the connections between her life and ever - evolving work.
Since then, Quinn has gained fast fame for his incredibly distinct portrait style in which he
uses photographic source material to rebuild his human subjects from within.
Using a wide range of
photographic source material, from her own Polaroids to newspaper images and pornography, Dumas creates paintings and drawings that are focused largely on the human body or face.
Reducing
his photographic source material to diagonal lines of pastel - colored pixels that mimic driving rainstorms, Zucker makes inkjet prints and transfers them onto large - scale canvases.
Multiple canvases with in - progress works line his walls, all of them surrounded by litanies of
photographic source material.
The painted surface performs a sort of alchemy that transcends
the photographic source material, making this symbolic depiction of the contemporary condition more, not less believable and absorbing.
Through
the photographic source material of oceans, night skies and deserts she relentlessly explores the image and the richness of its variation.
These sanitized images of limp - dicked men are taken from
photographic source material.
These paintings include a single grayscale canvas that due to its chromatic verisimilitude with
the photographic source material demonstrates in a visual form what the exhibition as a whole encapsulates conceptually.