Sentences with phrase «pioneering artists looked»

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We frequently see her on her laptop or iPhone, video - chatting with her boyfriend (Ty Olwin) or looking up people like artist Hilma Af Klint, a pioneering Swedish painter and mystic whose 19th - century works were said to have been inspired by spirits — and whose art anticipated abstract expressionism by decades.

Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin notes, «presenting the exquisitely focused Wexner family collection allows us to offer audiences — especially university students and scholars — an unparalleled look at some of the pioneering artists whose work in the first half of the 20th century transformed the cultural landscape of their time, and continues to resonate in our own.

The late, great Boetti — one of the pioneers of Italy's Arte Povera movement in the Sixties and Seventies, and one of the world's leading Conceptual artists after that — can be seen sharply dressed, standing with his back to us, and looking at a photographic negative of a child's face that he holds up to the light.

A pioneer of postwar art, Jasper Johns opened up vast swathes of territory for future artists by changing the way we look at and think about how pictures are made and are visually consumed.

Assembling many of the foundation's most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant - garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation's identity as a forward - looking institution.

This exhibition is a singular opportunity for American audiences to experience an in - depth look at the practice of Brazilian artists now recognised as the pioneers of their generation.

The story of the pioneering collectors and artists behind the Guggenheim's radical collection Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim celebrates the late 19th - and early 20th - century masterworks at the core of the institution's holdings, and the trailblazers — artists and early patrons alike — whose contributions helped define the forward - looking identity of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery opens its exhibition season with Nancy Holt: Sightlines, a thematic exhibition offering an in - depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time - based media.

As a result of looking at so - called outsider artists like Adolf Wölfli, some of Dubuffet's compositions from the 1950s are entirely covered with obsessively detailed marks, serpentine lines based on the practice of automatism pioneered by the Surrealists.

In this episode we take a look at the exhibition and also at the facade of the La Casa Encendida building which is currently used for an installation by American artist Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of conceptual and installation art.

Opening: «Global / Local 1960 — 2015: Six Artists from Iran» at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU Mixing work by pioneering Iranian modernists with emerging artists living in Tehran and elsewhere, this comprehensive exhibition offers a scholarly look at work by three generations of Iranian aArtists from Iran» at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU Mixing work by pioneering Iranian modernists with emerging artists living in Tehran and elsewhere, this comprehensive exhibition offers a scholarly look at work by three generations of Iranian aartists living in Tehran and elsewhere, this comprehensive exhibition offers a scholarly look at work by three generations of Iranian artistsartists.

The artists included in the gallery show were participants in the original «Responsive Eye» exhibition, including Hannes Beckmann, Tadasky and Anuszkiewicz, and the exhibition looks at works made right up to the present day that showcase these pioneers» continuing interest in the relationship between art and optics.

Currently on view at Mitchell - Innes & Nash is a select body of work by artist Nancy Graves, focused around the late artist's New York - based Foundation, and which promise an expansive look at the pioneer Conceptualist's bright career before and after her passing in 1995, including a Whitneyretrospective that marked her as the first female artist to have a solo retrospective under museum's roof.

★ Smithsonian American Art Museum: «Nam June Paik: Global Visionary» (through Aug. 11) Including a large and fascinating trove of material from the Nam June Paik archive, acquired by the Smithsonian from the artist's estate in 2009, this survey of the avant - garde musician, multimedia wizard and video art pioneer (1932 - 2006) looks startlingly current despite the preponderance of analog televisions and other obsolete hardware.

For our ongoing columns, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen talk to conceptual photographer Christopher Williams as part of the «Pioneers» series; in «Futura 89 +,» Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets (with Katherine Dionysius) interview young artist Jasper Spicero; Jeffrey Deitch remembers punk legend Alan Vega in his «Renaissance Man» column; Fiona Duncan meditates on Alexa Karolinski and Ingo Niermann's Army of Love as part of «Pro / Creative»; and lastly, in «What's Next,» we look forward to the season with Kickstarter's Director of Arts Victoria Rogers.

I particularly appreciate the pioneering role of Dastan's Basement within the Iranian contemporary art market, its staff's forward - looking vision and their enthusiasm for showcasing emerging Iranian artists internationally.