Sentences with phrase «powerful paintings shows»

Whenever I come into your gallery, with its beautifully spare rooms and elegant finishings, I immediately remember two previous shows here that strike me as among the most powerful paintings shows I've experienced, the early Frank Stella show from 2012 and the David Hammons show from 2011.

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I've looked at this Dutch artist's powerful paintings and masterful drawings amid jostling throngs in temporary shows mounted by the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute... Read More
Simultaneous to the painting show at CMCA, Bowdoin is showing six large - scale drawings in a small but powerful exhibition, «John Walker: A Painter Draws.»
This suite of eight monumental paintings collectively bridges the formal and painterly gap between the emotionally powerful Abstract Expressionist masterpieces that brought Tworkov to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s and the more quiet, cerebral constructs that became the artist's late career focus in the 1970s and early 1980s, and which formed the basis of his one - man show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1982.
While Mr. Sultan used imagery from newspaper photos as his source material, the paintings have powerful resonance today, said Alison Hearst, an assistant curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which organized the show.
(Although another equally powerful line of endeavor developed at the same time, in 1992 - 93: the riotously bright paintings on awning canvas, printed with stripes or flowers, which were first shown as a group only last winter at the Skarstedt Gallery on the Upper East Side.)
Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.
«The late works are very raw and powerful but then you see actual painting, the quality and the assurance,» says Nicolas Serota, director of Tate Modern [who is curating a show on Guston's contemporary, Donald Judd, in February].
(As I was preparing this post, I discovered that Lot 35, the powerful Faith Ringgold painting shown above, had been removed from the online catalog.
This spare but powerful oeuvre (along with related paintings and works on paper) is being shown in full for the first time, with an accompanying catalogue by Malcolm Daniel, Eugenia Parry, and Theodore Reff.
The dark and powerful painting of the purple - cape - clad Pope with a contorted face has not been shown to the public in 40 years.
Perhaps as a result, the most powerful of his abstract paintings may be among his least - known — works made, presumably, after the 1961 show of abstractions but before the fateful meeting of the Spiral group in 1963, after which Bearden returned to figuration.
His independent passion and fierce commitment to his ideas and practice are evident in his powerful paintings, and his singular work garnered him shows at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City alongside Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
Korean artist Byung so Choi, showing with Arario Gallery, exhibits another powerful abstract work by saturating newspapers with ball point pens until the pages themselves seem to flake as paint chips.
A 1969 work by Sam Gilliam, which was painted to commemorate the first anniversary of Luther King's murder, is one of the most powerful paintings in the show — it falls down the wall like a curtain of purple sorrow and without even knowing the subject of the work it is striking in it's consciousness.
KLIMT AND SCHIELE: DRAWN The sketches Gustav Klimt used to prepare his dense, mosaic - like paintings are juxtaposed with Egon Schiele's wiry, powerful drawings in this show of work borrowed from Vienna's Albertina.
In part, this is due to painting's long and continuing history of being the poster child for the powerful, a precedent that feels at odds with the show's filters; but this goes deeper than that.
The new gallery is on Grosvenor Hill in Mayfair and its double - height, day - lit spaces shows, from Saturday, the stirring paintings of Cy Twombly, an artist whose gestural abstraction — sometimes incorporating scribbles and scrawled text alongside powerful swirls of colour — has a singular place in post-war American art.
The new paintings shown above showcase Momo's ability to utilize minimal themes to create powerful pieces.
Your paintings show women that are both sexual and powerful, a combination that is rarely depicted in popular culture.
Featuring a dizzying variety of works — from paintings and photography to political cartoons and posters — this volume shows how contemporary artists appropriate and recontextualize myth and history to tell powerful new stories about life in Iran.
The masterful catenary paintings, still under - sung in Johns» copious repertoire, are a powerful conclusion to a blissful show.
Why: In a revelatory, wide - ranging group show that examines the marginalization of Asian - Americans and their stereotyping as a «model minority,» Truong's seductive, mixed - media painting asserts itself as a shocker partly because it is as unabashedly beautiful as it is conceptually powerful.
His allegiance to the stretched canvas was so unlike anything else shown in France at that time — an era dominated, in terms of avant - garde painting, by the Supports / Surfaces dogma of the loose canvas (la toile libre, literally the «free» canvas, freed from the stretcher)-- that he exerted a powerful fascination on younger painters even though they could barely figure out his work.
This exhibition, to be shown at Museo Picasso Málaga until 17 September 2017, brings together Francis Bacon's powerful solitude, Lucian Freud's carnal angst, Michael Andrews» encapsulated ego, Frank Auerbach's three - dimensional painting, David Bomberg's emotional force, William Coldstream's rigorous measure, Ronald B. Kitaj's multiplicity, Leon Kossoff's visceral quality, Paula Rego's subversion and Euan Uglow's proportion, all of them artists associated with what has come to be referred to as the School of London, a label that has not, however, been accepted by art historians or by the artists themselves.
For his first solo show in New York since 1993, the gallery presents a selection of paintings and works on paper by the expressive artist, including his powerful Portrait of Odilon Redon, the disturbing Untitled (Figures in a head) and the amusing La caresse atroce (The fiendish caress).
Paul Nash, one of Britain's most important 20th century artists, shows us the terrible impact of war through his powerful and symbolic paintings.
Artists responded to rapid social change and economic anxiety with some of the 20th century's most powerful art - brought together now in this once - in - a-generation show, America after the Fall: Paintings in the 1930s.
Now one of that show's most subtly powerful pieces, an untitled 2009 painting - sculpture hybrid, has permanently insinuated itself into two collections — the Menil and the Dallas Museum of Art's.
Showing me a huge pink near - abstract nude painting of herself — it is very powerful — she says she originally wrote the word «old» on it.
In one of The Armory Show's few overtly political moments, a powerful and timely painting by Titus Kaphar hangs on the booth's outer wall; the work (The Cost of Removal, 2017) was inspired by President Trump's hanging of a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and sees Jackson on a horse with the names of his slaves penned on shreds of canvas tacked on by rusted nails.
This survey of works by Peter Sowiski shows pulp painting at its best: a sophisticated vehicle for texture, color, and shape as powerful as any brushstroke.
After declaring a powerful and emotive story with Walls with Wounds Dale has found a new peace within himself and its shows in this varied body of contemporary painting work.
It was shown in dialogue with one of the most powerful and celebrated of all Scottish landscape paintings: William McTaggart's The Storm (1890).
The powerful and monumental paintings in Vincent Desiderio's ninth show with Marlborough Gallery since 1993 reveal his continued fascination with the history of figurative art and a mucky pleasure in pushing copious amounts of oil around a surface.
The seventeen new portraits created specifically for the New Museum show continues Lynette Yiadom - Boakye's powerful reinvigoration of figurative painting.
Works range from Barrie Cooke's Megaceros Hibernicus, a painting in which the depicted elk represents a powerful symbol of pre-civilised consciousness, to Cúchulainn in Warp - Spasm by Louis le Brocquy, one of 20 tapestries by le Brocquy illustrating the legend of The Táin — both on show at Galway University Hospital.
«Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions» (April 15 - June 10) is the first show of the artist's early paintings and sculptures — generally considered to be his best and most powerful — to be mounted in over 20 years (the last one was at the Hirshhorn in 1993).
The monumental oil painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, painted in 1831 by the great English Romantic painter John Constable (1776 - 1837), will be shown alongside one of the most powerful and celebrated of all Scottish landscape paintings: The Storm (1890), by William McTaggart (1835 - 1910).
Masterful and powerful, every painting featured in the show goes against the conventions of portraiture — often emotive and introspective.
The Ruc paintings show a further development of these mythic or symbolic forms in a more graphic style and include what the artist himself has described as some of his most powerful images.
Robert Goodnough may have favourably described Number 32 1950, the first black painting, as showing «open black rhythms... dance in disturbing degrees of intensity, ecstatically energising the powerful image in an almost hypnotic way», 1 but not everyone shared his good opinion.
On a smaller scale, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.'s recent gallery showing of a group of Joan Mitchell paintings from the 1950s, including some small - format canvases that have only lately come to market for the first time, also served as a reminder of the powerful punch the best abstract painting still packs, as did numerous works in Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's recent exhibition, Abstract Expressionism: Reloading the Canon.
They stood apart from the other paintings in the show, as well as suggested that she has been able to shift her work in a new and, to my mind, fresh and powerful direction.
Two exhibitions responding to the war — one directly and the other indirectly — are now on view in Boston: a powerful solo show of recent paintings by the celebrated political artist Jenny Holzer at Barbara Krakow Gallery, and «War and Discontent,» a well - meaning but muddled exhibition of historical and contemporary works at the Museum of Fine Arts.
When the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian left Paris in 1938 to escape the threat of a German invasion, he ended up sharing a boarding house in London's Belsize Park — and a new exhibition at the Courtauld gallery shows that the two years he spent in the UK were productive ones, in which he painted some of his purest and most powerful works.
I was cautiously considering painting two captains chairs in my kitchen so seeing those turquoise painted chairs showed me how powerful that color would be to brighten the wood tones already in there.
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