Sentences with phrase «pioneering artist john»

This summer, 12 leading non-profit and alternative art spaces in New York co-host a city - wide exhibition of the work of pioneering artist John Giorno, curated by Ugo Rondinone.

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Program 1 features short films by Jud Yalkut — a pivotal force in the avant - garde scene in the 1960s and»70s, intermedia artist, and video pioneer — featuring John Cage, Yayoi Kusama, Timothy Leary, Carolee Schneemann, and others.

In the years following World War II, a distinctive style of art, identified as Hard - Edge painting, was developed by pioneering artists such as Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Helen Lundeberg, and John McLaughlin.

The city provided these artists new platforms for expression and provocation — for example, pioneering artists like Yoko Ono, Shigeko Kubota, and Ay - O were able to contribute further to the burgeoning Fluxus movement, and Shusaku Arakawa and Ushio Shinohara to Neo-Dada, working with and around New York figures like John Cage, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.

Drawn from the local collection of Margaret and John Gottwald, the exhibition explores black artistic production and patronage at mid-century through work once associated with the Barnett Aden Gallery (1943 - 1969), a pioneering and influential private gallery located in Washington, D.C. — among the first with an integrated stable of artists and patrons.

«Sutter's Mill» (2000) is Rhoades's reconstruction of gold rush pioneer John Sutter's sawmill in Coloma, California, near the artist's childhood home.

We also have a very exciting show coming up in New York in May, presenting seminal works by the pioneering conceptual artist John Latham, alongside work by the Benedictine monk and influential cultural figure, Dom Sylvester Houédard.

Frieze New York is a vital platform to encounter today's most significant artists and artworks from around the world, including main section solo exhibitions featuring: Lorna Simpson, presenting new paintings and sculptures in her first ever project with Hauser & Wirth (New York); the celebrated American painter John Currin with Gagosian Gallery (New York); Anri Sala, presenting Bridges in the Doldrums (2016) with Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), ahead of the artist's participation in the Venice Biennale; Keith Sonnier at Pace (New York), bringing together his pioneering neon sculptures with two new series of works; Tala Madani with David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), coinciding with the artist's presentation in the Whitney Biennial; and Kevin Beasley showing with Casey Kaplan (New York).

Sprüth Magers (Berlin, main) will bring together key figures of post war art with contemporary European and American artists whom they have influenced; and Franklin Parrasch (New York, main) will explore the history of art within America, showing work from the 1960s through the 1980s by Californian pioneers Peter Alexander, Billy Al Bengston, John McCracken, Ken Price, Deborah Remington and Ed Ruscha.

This year's Global Focus series featured the first solo indoor exhibition of Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi in a U.S. museum, and a major exhibition of pioneering filmmaker, director, and theorist John Akomfrah.

Solo Shows Visitors will encounter solo exhibitions across the main section, including: Lorna Simpson, presenting new paintings and sculptures in her first - ever project with Hauser & Wirth (New York); the celebrated American painter John Currin with Gagosian Gallery (New York); Anri Sala, presenting Bridges in the Doldrums (2016) with Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), ahead of the artist's participation in the Venice Biennale; Keith Sonnier at Pace (New York), bringing together his pioneering neon sculptures with two new series of works; and Tala Madani with David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), coinciding with the artist's presentation in the Whitney Biennial.

The artist John Latham (1921 - 2006) was a pioneer of British conceptual art.

The operas selected for First Take explore themes ranging from gender equality — Laura Karpman's Balls, about the legendary tennis match between Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs — to ecological anxieties, in John Hastings» The Former World, adapting texts by pioneering land artist Robert Smithson.

Sutter's Mill (2000) is Rhoades's reconstruction of Gold Rush pioneer John Sutter's still - extant water - powered sawmill in Coloma in California, near the artist's childhood home.

Famous Neo-Dadaists included Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002), the modernist composer John Cage (1912 - 92), the metal sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), the Performance artist Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006), the «Happenings» pioneer Jim Dine (b. 1935), the Nouveau Realiste Yves Klein (1928 - 62), the Fluxus leader George Maciunas (1931 - 78), the Pop sculptor Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), the collage artist and father of mail art Ray Johnson (1927 - 95), the Japanese concept artist Yoko Ono (b. 1933), the video artists Nam June Paik (1932 - 2011), and Wolf Vostell (1932 - 98), and the installation artist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86).

Perhaps for that reason, I came to associate his photography with Southern California — with its abundant sunlight and also the pioneering aesthetic of artists like John Baldessari, Robert Heinecken and James Turrell.

Inspiration for the Social Realists came from the Ashcan School (many of them had studied with Ashcan artist John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York) and from the Mexican murals pioneered by Gerardo Murillo (1875 - 1964).

Joining the evening's celebration were Grammy Award - winning violinist Joshua Bell, artist Mark Sheinkman, rock singer Tony Harnell, Beat Poet and pioneering multi-media artist Gerd Stern, Nobel Prize Winner and Al Gore's Advisor on Global Warming David Rind, John Devol, Founder of Arts Horizons, Elizabeth Halverstam, Executive Director of Arts Horizons, opera singer Larisa Martinez, Associate Publisher at Art News, Judith Esterow, and inspiring basketball player Kevin Laue.

With the leadership and curatorial strength of museums like LACMA and the Hammer, together with new museums and galleries slated to open, like The Broad and Hauser, Wirth, + Schimmel; pioneering programming planned at the city's renowned institutions — Mike Kelley's retrospective at MOCA, John Altoon at LACMA, and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Getty, among others — and so many L.A. artists being included in the Whitney Biennial (more than 15 from CalArts alone), the prominence of Los Angeles will be undeniable in 2014.

Also at Tate Britain, Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age will explore the relationship between pioneering early photographers and Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and Impressionist artists, including works by John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Julia Margaret Cameron and Henry Fox Talbot.Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 - 79 will trace the course of conceptual art from its genesis in the early 1960s and through the 1970s, showing the origins of a movement that was profoundly influential on later generations of artists.

In the State of Flux Gallery: John Driscoll (USA), «Slight Perturbations» In the Main Gallery: Sonia Paço - Rocchia (QC), «Sentier Sonore» Composers Inside Electronics: John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein» [CIE is] a pioneering collective of musicians and sound artists centered around David Tudor, who is best - known for his collaborative relationships with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.»

CA: Many contemporary artists work with sound nowadays, and additionally there is a long tradition of sound art; just think of pioneers like John Cage or LaMonte Young.

A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.

According to Flam, «John Yau focuses his attention on how the artist's pioneering paintings relate to life as it is lived — and on what they tell us about what it means to be mortal and alive in time.

Exhibition explores full career of revolutionary Ashcan School artist WILMINGTON, DE American realist painter John Sloan (1871 — 1951) is best known for his images of New York during the early 20th century and as one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

During the 1970s Breakwell worked with the Artist Placement Group a pioneering artists» organisation founded in 1966 by Barbara Steveni and John Latham, together with David Hall, Barry Flanagan, Anna Ridley, and Jeffrey Shaw among others.

One of the top contemporary artists in the field of photorealism, the American sculptor Carole Feuerman continues the tradition of representational art pioneered by 20th century sculptors like Duane Hanson and John De Andrea.

The best known digital artists include the German pioneer Manfred Mohr (b. 1938); the American artist Ronald Davis (b. 1937) who is associated with the movement's geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction; John Lansdown (1929 - 99), and Jean - Pierre Hebert whose specialty is algorithmic art and mixed media.

Although not invented by the Impressionists - it was pioneered by the likes of John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28), (artists incidentally whose works Sisley became familiar with during the four years he spent in England from 1857 to 1861), as well as the Barbizon School - it was the Impressionists who revolutionized its use, and Impressionist landscape painting that captured the imagination of the world.

Organised at Almine Rech Gallery by the artist DeWain Valentine, «Plastic Show» is presenting a series of works by five Californian artists (Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-RRB- who have been investigating the potential of plastic (synthetically produced resins) in art:» Known for their pioneering work with various synthetic resins and synthetic polymers during the 1960s and «70s, these artists are today recognized not only for their active roles in the development of plastics as a newly discovered medium in art, but also for their sophisticated techniques and at times even quasi-acrobatic prowess required to shape them into the seamless, translucent, luscious volumes.»

• Performance Art and Happenings (Early - 1960s onwards) Pioneered by artists like John Cage (1912 - 92) and Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006), this genre became a new way to present art to the masses.

Hannah Hoch, Richard Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, and others pioneered the technique of photomontage, using preexisting photographs, often drawn from mass - media sources, to create composite images that sharply critiqued German society and culture in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on the foundations of Dada, neo-avant-garde artists of the 1950s like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created assemblages that brought collage techniques into three dimensions — laying the groundwork for much contemporary sculpture — as well as works on paper that incorporated found elements drawn from the mass media and everyday life.

Participating artists include Pip and Dwayne Brant; Randy Burman; C.M. Clark; Artist - in - Residence (AIR) Elaine Defibaugh; FIU Honors College with professors John Bailly, Jose Rodriguez, Gretchen Scharnagl Pioneer Winter and students, Pioneer Winter with Marissa Alma Nick; (AIR) Vanessa Garcia; Jackie Gopie, Amy Gross, (AIR) Michelle Grant Murray and Miami Dade College students; Doug Hoekzema; (AIR) Nicole Hospital - Medina; Frank Hyder; Regina Jestrow; (AIR) Luis Lazo; Lucinda Linderman with Kerry Phillips and also with Joan Miguel Porquer; Temisan Okpaku; Ernesto Oroza; Jee Park, Lisa Rockford, Karen Rifas; Tom Scicluna; (AIR) Magnus Sodamin; Magnus Sigurdarson; (AIR) Gerry Stecca; Alex Trimino with Michael Loveland; Clara Varas.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

Here, Dine became an early pioneer of Happenings, a type of chaotic performance art, along with other young artists like John Cage (1912 - 92), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006).

He studied under the conceptual pioneer, John Baldessari, in the 1970s, and this recent body of work was informed by the iconography of the capitalist realism movement which included German artists like Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.

In a serendipitous discovery Booth # 208 — Vivian Horan Fine Art (NY) had two artists with museum shows currently going on: Cindy Sherman with her photography retrospective at the MoMA and John Chamberlain, the pioneer who made crushed automobiles into art, at the Guggenheim (He recently passed away last December 2011).