Sentences with phrase «pivotal role of artists»

The artist's wife, Danna Ruscha, posted the following comment on the Facebook page of L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight, beneath a piece he wrote on the pivotal role of artists in shaping MOCA historically and the warning sent by the current exodus:» Christopher Knight, Ed has resigned.

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The Loisaida Awards were reinstated, and we honored living legends such as Adela, the still - standing Puerto Rican restaurant and community epicenter; CHICO, street artist of storied fame; Melissa Mark - Viverito, newly elected as the first Puerto Rican speaker of the City Council; and Rosie Méndez, the Councilmember who played a pivotal role in keeping Loisaida Inc. alive.

As an artist, theoretician, and teacher, he has played a pivotal role in the development of the unique tenants of contemporary art.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site will co-host a landmark exhibition of contemporary art to highlight the pivotal role that the two historic properties - and the artists who lived and w...

Looking at the pivotal role of drawing in current practice, the exhibition features almost 200 works on paper by some of the most significant artists working today.

It also examines the camera's pivotal role in recording the development of artworks, and in shaping the artist's public persona.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

Playing a pivotal role in the groundbreaking November 2012 Post-War and Contemporary auction, Loic oversaw the sale of Jean - Michel Basquiat's Untitled, which brought in record price of $ 26.4 million for the artist.

Moreover, it will exemplify the pivotal roles that the galleries played in showcasing works by radical female artists of the time.

A scholarly catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition, with a lead essay by Ann Dumas that chronicles Matisse's principal models and sheds new light on the artist's working process and the pivotal role his models played in the development of his art.

This sprawling group portrait of a region documented and reclaimed the little - known history of the artists who worked and lived in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Region, illuminating the pivotal role they played in shaping the ethos and aesthetics of postwar California.

Robert Irwin as an artist, theoretician, and teacher, has over the last 50 years, played a pivotal role in the development of the unique tenants of Modern Art.

The exhibition reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice while alluding to its enduring status in the -LSB-.....]

During his tenure at the MCA, Molon curated major thematic survey exhibitions with a broad international and historical scope such as Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside - Out (2010) where the exhibition addressed the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice; and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967 (2007).

The exhibition reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice while alluding to its enduring status in the popular imagination.

Over the course of the last seventy years, NOMA has played a pivotal role in championing artists working outside mainstream art contexts, especially those from the American South.

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership / Olana State Historic Site co-hosted a landmark exhibition of contemporary art to highlight the pivotal role that the two historic properties — and the artists who lived and worked there — played in shaping America's tradition of contemporary art.

Around 800 guests gathered in a party tent outside the Geffen Contemporary in Downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the 83 - year - old California conceptual art legend for, in Vergne's words, his pivotal role in the formation of body art, word art, post-structuralist, postmodernist, and proto - appropriation art; the rise of Los Angeles as an art center; over 377 solo exhibitions, 1,500 group shows, and 4,000 works of art — not to mention Baldessari's position as an artist trustee, newly resumed this past year (see Jeffrey Deitch Defends Klaus Biesenbach and Helen Molesworth Hired as Chief Curator of LA MOCA).

Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site co-hosted a landmark exhibition of contemporary art to highlight the pivotal role that the two historic properties — and the artists who lived and worked there, Thomas Cole and Frederic Church — played in shaping America's culture of contemporary art.

Kippenberger was one of the most influential artists to come out of postwar Germany and he played a pivotal role in establishing the postmodernism aesthetic between the late «70s and «90s.

Previously he held positions as Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where he organized major thematic survey exhibitions with a broad international and historical scope such as Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside - Out (2010), which addressed the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice.

«So many great artists and writers have lived and worked in Los Angeles, a city with an incredibly rich landscape of museums, galleries and art schools which play a pivotal role in the international art world.

Seen in this light, the 1951 drawings played a pivotal role in the artist's development that year, bringing him back from an extended battle with alcoholism and the pressure of dealing with his newfound fame, to a place of reinvention and discovery.

The Showroom was established in 1983 and in 2013 celebrated thirty years of supporting artists to stage their first solo shows in London and its role as a pivotal force in the development of contemporary art practice.

It was a retrospective progression of his paintings, tracing the path from his beginnings in the Dutch traditional style to his abstract paintings, firmly establishing the artist's pivotal role in the international art world's move toward abstraction.

He has also played pivotal roles in the development and leadership of countless artist - run projects in Australia, including CBD Gallery, SPHERE press, Project 11, MOP Projects, Sydney Non-Objective, Non-Objective Toowoomba, i.e. gallery, and Buttons and Zippers.

In 1947 her work was included in an international exhibition of surrealism in New York, where she was the only female British artist featured, establishing her pivotal role within the surrealist movement.

Although Nauman is a prolific artist who has worked in a wide range of media, video has played a pivotal role in his artistic development.

Over the course of a forty - year career, artist Sarah Charlesworth (1947 — 2013) investigated pivotal questions about the role of images in our culture.