Sentences with phrase «pieces by black artists»

She spearheaded one timed to the bicentenary of Britain's abolition of slavery, «Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery,» which combined 18th century watercolors that depicted slaves working in sugar colonies alongside contemporary pieces by black artists.

Not exact matches

New York - based artist KEVIN BEASLEY presents mixed - media sculptures inspired by two very different cultures and time periods — Bernini's 17th century Baroque alter piece in Rome and an iconic image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.

The Artist and the Model, a portfolio of twelve intaglio prints, is published by Sylvan Cole at Associated American Artists, New York; receives a Tamarind Artist Fellowship and travels to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produces thirty - four editions of primarily black - and - white lithographs that continue the Artist and the Model theme; begins using the airbrush, which he had learned from the artist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, KenArtist and the Model, a portfolio of twelve intaglio prints, is published by Sylvan Cole at Associated American Artists, New York; receives a Tamarind Artist Fellowship and travels to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produces thirty - four editions of primarily black - and - white lithographs that continue the Artist and the Model theme; begins using the airbrush, which he had learned from the artist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, KenArtist Fellowship and travels to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produces thirty - four editions of primarily black - and - white lithographs that continue the Artist and the Model theme; begins using the airbrush, which he had learned from the artist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, KenArtist and the Model theme; begins using the airbrush, which he had learned from the artist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, Kenartist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, KenArtist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, Kentucky.

In honor of his upcoming retrospective «Five Decades» at New York's Mnuchin Gallery (a rare event for the mysterious and officially gallery-less artist), we've excerpted this essay on Hammons's subtle, powerful installation piece Concerto in Black and Blue, written by the curator Bob Nickas and originally published in Phaidon's Defining Contemporary Art.

The contrast between this bleak vision of urban life and the confection of pastel plastic sheeting by Karla Black over the stairwell underlines the diversity of the work produced by artists living and working in Scotland, leaving very different pieces to exist in the same space without forcing connections.

The late black - and - gold piece was donated by the artist in 1993, the result of the artist's relationship with the University of Glasgow's then head of art history, Alan Tait.

Now installed at MUAC, the piece is centred around a silent, black - and - white film that narrates the story of a migrant family who is lynched by the community to which they've migrated — a timeless scenario which, according to the artist, metaphorically points to the breakdown of the state, and the rise of vigilante justice.

Across pieces by heavy hitters such as Ellen Gallagher, Glen Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker, different aspects of the Civil Rights movement — boycotts, protests, revolutionary Black Power movements, antebellum history — were filtered through a collection of text - based works (Ligon and Adam Pendleton), portraiture (Marshall and Simpson) animation (Walker), sculpture and an archival collection of Black Panther newspapers (loaned by New York - based artist Rashid Johnson).

2015 Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American Women, Allentown Art Museum of The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum of Art, New York, USA Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA Status Quo, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Breath / Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, USA To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

The Central Pavilion's facade has been hung with enormous black and blue shroudlike cloths by the artist Oscar Murillo while just above is a pale neon piece by Glenn Ligon that announces «blues, blood, bruises.»

Artist Carlos Bunga deinstalls his Chicago Architecture commissioned piece, Under the Skin, accompanied by experimental musical ensemble The Black Monks of Mississippi.

Classic paintings by the former Spiral group artist, including 1994's Tightrope, which shows Amos clad in a Wonder Women suit and a black robe, will be shown alongside newer pieces.

Following a sold out first exhibition at 12 Ossington that welcomed Chicago's Hebru Brantley for Coffee Makes you Black, a 22 piece show, artist residency and outdoor mural work, comes Rally - a curated show for Toronto by artist Jon Todd, Yves Laroche Gallery and Hermann & Audrey.

[12] Fragmento Brasil (1977 - 2005), a synchronized multi-projection piece without sound, is made up of paired sequences of 648 images [13] from three sources: details from Albert Eckhout's mid-17th-century paintings of Brazilian birds set in idealized landscapes of European provenance; the abstract drawings of Yãnomãmi people from Venezuela and Brazil, 1978 — 80; and in conjunction, black & white landscape photographs of the Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricoera and Rio Branco regions in Venezuela and Brazil taken by the artist on a five - month walk in 1977.

Elsewhere in the exhibition, next to a black - and - white abstract calligraphy ink painting by Hasegawa and an untitled piece by Robert Motherwell featuring an oil paint — splash «wave» cresting through the air, Asian - American AbEx artist Satoru Abe presents The Idol (1958), an equally delicate copper and bronze skeletal monument.

American artist Lucas Ajemian, along with his brother Jason, a jazz musician and composer, assembled a ten - piece classical orchestra for their performance of the legendary rock song, «Into the Void» by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

«Mixed Messages» is one of 32 pieces included in «Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists,» an exhibition presented by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

This year the armory's focus was MENAM where 15 galleries from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean were invited to be part of the Armory curated by Omar Kholeif.Turbulence (Black) installation by Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum was a minimal but powerful piece.

It issues a formal citation of the artist's date pieces, rectangular photostats dominated by a dense, funerary black void, and accompanied by a compact series of white captions at the bottom of the image.

Organized by CAAM's visual arts curator Mar Hollingsworth, the show includes work by nearly 50 artists starting with the stunning 1964 painting by Daniel LaRue Johnson, Big Red, a square of dark red stripes framing a smaller square of charred black detritus, a piece that in itself contains both meanings of «Hard Edged.»

In addition to these works, which are consistent with these artists» colorless mode of production, the gallery will present black and white works made by several of our newer artists who, in certain cases, typically make polychrome pieces.

An art piece titled «Black Sun,» by artist Teresita Fernandez is displayed at Mass MoCA on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, in North Adams, Mass. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

They submitted their withdrawal to the Whitney yesterday, which Yams Collective member Maureen Catbagan said was driven by objections to the Biennial's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white male Princeton professor hires black female actors to play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford (the piece has been ongoing since 2005, according to the artist's website).

A dinner with Glasgow - based women of colour will provide the centre - piece for the debut UK exhibition by iQhiya, a South African collective of black women artists.

♦ Mitchell - Innes & Nash: Alexander Liberman's target - like «Black and Red Circle» from 1960, a 24 by 30 oil on canvas, sold in the $ 50,000 range; Anthony Caro's glass, bronze, and steel «Display,» from 2011 - 12, went for a bit over $ 100,000; and among the living artists, Virginia Overton's Arte Povera - like «Untitled» wall piece sold for around $ 25,000.

«It's like 2007 again in some ways,» said Alex Logsdail, associate director of the Lisson Gallery, who had sold 15 pieces within the first four hours -LSB-...] a black wall sculpture by Anish Kapoor for 550,000 pounds and a stereogram by Haroon Mirza — who won the Silver Lion for the most promising young artist at this year's Venice Biennale — for 16,000 pounds.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

Freestanding sculptures include a minimalist grid configuration by Carl Andre, a towering column of staggered concrete blocks by Adrian Paules, a sleek black triangular pillar made of resin by John McCracken, and a carved refrigerator by Josh Callaghan; wall mounted pieces include plaster bone forms arranged into letters by Nathan Mabry, Light and Space artist Peter Alexander's colorful grouping of shimmering resin bars, and an annulus finished with silver leaf by Peter Shelton — each work displays a skilled proficiency in construction and intent.

When it's an utterly splendid, signature black - and - white piece by Christopher Wool, one of the top - five most expensive living painters — his work regularly sells for the ten of millions of dollars at auction — and among the most influential artists anywhere today.

[23] There were «physical / ephemeral» pieces by younger artists, such as Jason Rhoades and Richard Jackson, and the famous large - scale black rats by Katharina Fritsch, which were shown earlier at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York.

People were paid $ 20 a piece — in the form of a number check drawn by the artist — to sit at one of several tables and, using materials provided, paint a black, eight - inch - diameter dot on a white, 12 - inch square canvas.

The college was owned by the faculty, which included Buckminster Fuller, who created his first successful Geodesic Dome at Black Mountain, Merce Cunningham, who founded the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain, John Cage, who taught music and produced multi-media theater pieces, artist Josef Albers, who had fled Nazi Germany after the closure of the Bauhuas and Robert Motherwell, one of America's finest artists, whose prints are for sale at Vertu.

The piece, «Arab in Black» by leading South African artist Irma Stern, has been linked to Nelson Mandela, according to Bonhams auction house.

In his practice, the artist highlights the important ideas and details by utilizing contrast, mainly between gray, black and fluorescent colors to make the subject and messages of the piece come out intensely.

The exhibition opens with Red W - L (1982)-- a piece (which is part of the artist's «Waterfall Series»)-- which displays vast swaths of electric blood red splashes interrupted by jet black and opalescent splatters, bridging four distinct but descending varnished panels.