Sentences with phrase «practice of painting anonymous»

A departure from Wiley's practice of painting anonymous sitters, these portraits include a select group of extraordinary contemporary artists ---- Derrick Adams, Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

Not exact matches

Subsequent exhibitions include Inter + Vista, an exploration of contemporary vignettes via figurative and formalist practices, shown at L + M Arts, Los Angeles in 2013 and most recently «Colony», a series of paintings depicting the conditioned movements of a group of young adults ensconced in the setting of anonymous apartments, exhibited at Galerie Haas in Berlin in 2016.

Following the arc of his evolving practice, as presented by the exhibition, one sees Marshall working through an overtly political form of history painting to a more distilled mode of anonymous, intimate portraiture that often literally sparkles in its sequined detail.