Sentences with phrase «promoting pioneering artists»
The Gallery became a primary establishment to nurture the city's earliest art collector base by promoting pioneering artists from across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Since its establishment over three decades ago, Leila Heller Gallery has gained worldwide recognition as a pioneer in promoting creative dialogue and exchange between Western artists and Middle Eastern, Central and Southeast Asian artists.
In addition to preserving and promoting the legacy of pioneering abstract artist Joan Mitchell, the Joan Mitchell Foundation supports individual artists through several grantmaking programs, residencies at its Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, professional development services, and related initiatives.
Before being promoted to the role of Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, she helmed Rhizome, a pioneering website and New Museum affiliate that supports artists who engage with digital culture and the internet.
As one of the founders of the A.I.R. Gallery in New York, which promotes women artists, she was a pioneer of feminist art.
Probably taking advice from the pioneering photographer and New York gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in promoting modernism to American audiences, Henderson acquired work by the most avant - garde artists of the day from both sides of the Atlantic — Picasso and Braque, Matisse and Derain, Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, among others.
The gallery has gained recognition for being a pioneer in promoting contemporary artists from the Middle East, Central and South Asia.
Despite the efforts of the above pioneers, along with those of inter-war artists Marcel Jean (1900 - 93), Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) and Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)- see their respective works Spectre of the Gardenia (1936, plaster head, painted cloth, zippers, film strip, Museum of Modern Art NYC); Object (1936, stuffed parrot, silk stocking remnant, cork ball, engraved map, Museum of Modern Art NYC); and Poem - Object (1941, Museum of Modern Art NYC)- junk art did not coalesce into a movement until the 1950s, when artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) started to promote his «combines» (a combined form of painting and sculpture), such as Bed (1955, MoMA, New York) and First Landing Jump (1961, combine painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board, Museum of Modern Art NYC).
The gallery has gained worldwide recognition for being a pioneer in promoting contemporary artists from the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Turkey.
When Betty Parsons wasn't working tirelessly to promote the brave new works of pioneering artists, she herself was creating artworks.
In 2010, Stanford University Library — Special Collections purchased Ms. Stellweg's 40 - year archive based on her experience playing a pioneering role in promoting Latino and Latin American artists.
About the Gallery: Since its establishment over three decades ago in New York, Leila Heller Gallery has gained worldwide recognition as a pioneer in promoting creative dialogue and exchange between Western artists and Middle Eastern, Central and Southeast Asian artists.
An advocate of Minimalism and Conceptualism, Castelli promoted the work of such pioneering artists as Joseph Kosuth, Donald Judd, Richard Serra and Flavin.