Sentences with phrase «pseudo-confessional text paintings»

The musings discovered in Winston's text paint a clear picture of his thoughts on extraterrestrial life,

The sale offers Christopher Wool's text painting, Untitled, 1990 (estimate: $ 250,000 - 350,000), a work that engages the viewer through a dynamic composition of the text, which reads visually as well as conceptually.

Beginning with his early text and photo - text paintings from the 1960s, he has explored these dichotomies through hybrid compositions of photography, text and painted images.

The white on white text painting, executed with oilstick, graphite and gesso on panel, was originally painted in 1990 and enhanced in 2003.

Like glimpses into various Xanadus, the subjects here include a blackamoor sculpture from the apartment of Coco Chanel; a violent bronze in the drawing room of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé «s Paris apartment; two Chinese scholar stones auctioned from the collection of Liz Taylor and a text painting about the Polish Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka who died in 1980.

His simple, wavy stick figures painted over metallic backgrounds, or wonky chevron patterns, are a figurative version of his older series of «DUMB AND EASY» text paintings exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery in 2011.

Here we find painted sculptures with «low» cultural references, graffiti - inspired text paintings and large installations with performative elements.

His fixed messages have none of the variability of, say, Jenny Holzer with her crawl screens and blacked - out text paintings.

For the current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Israel has collaborated with the celebrated author to create text paintings — fragmented narrative combined with lush stock imagery — that mine their native landscape.

Sean Landers is best known for his layered text paintings, which typically advertise his artistic triumphs and failures in tragicomic fashion.

Although Wool pretty much shut down his franchise in text paintings after 1992, there are a pair of late stragglers in the show, one from 1997 and the other from 2000; but the artist keeps changing his tactics, trying new ways of creating «false fronts and psychological stances.»

An introduction to the Californian Conceptual artist's witty work, from his wry text paintings to his colorfully dotted film stills.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

Franklin Evans papers the stairs with its history, while Andrea Geyer's text paintings cite older artists and patrons.

In the early 1990s, he made a few text paintings based on spicy quotes from Pryor routines.

Then, for his next show, «Strings Attached,» Lund burlesqued the conditions dealers put on sales by making text paintings that blared requirements like, «This Painting Must Be Sold to a Collector In Peru» or «This Painting Must Be Sold to a Golden Globes Winner.»

When Pablo Helguera dedicates his project to text paintings announcing that all proceeds will go to his favorite causes, even politics becomes a sales pitch.

It brings to the museum both familiar faces and essential works, but a text painting by Christopher Wool comes perilously close to summing it up: the show is over.

Only recently, Mike Bouchet returns to text paintings and stereotypes of American culture, but in Diet Coke.

In an interview with Artspace, Indiana notes that he began to combine his graphic text painting with classical sculptural forms once he left his urban environs: «How could I resist?

If you know Kay Rosen from her text paintings, you may enjoy puzzling over her colors, which she identifies as olive grove, red maple, nomad's trail, and buffalo grass — all, rest assured, On Top of Old Smokie.

This space allowed for more ambitious projects such as Glenn Ligon's Text Paintings: 1990 - 2004 and Doug Aitken's The Moment.

Gardar Eide Einarsson will be represented by a new text painting rendered in black, white, and gray.

Bob and Roberta Smith's iconic text painting Letter to Michael Gove was shown in the Academy's 2014 Summer Exhibition.

The 49 - year - old Bronx - born artist is probably most famous for his text paintings, which he's made since the»80s, appropriating words by everyone from Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison toRichard Pryor.

In other text paintings, Tompkins incorporates close - ups of the female body, drawn from her own provocative oeuvre.

Most well - known for his text paintings and charming and humorous multiples, Leibowitz is also a voracious collector of art and design.

Andrew Falkowski's newest text paintings riff off pop - culture sources culled from junk mail, commercial packaging, magazines, art history and punk songs.

I'm showing a two channel video installation of that in one of the galleries, together with a text painting of one of the lessons.

Does it help for Glenn Ligon to make text paintings an exercise in looking back, to everywhere he has lived?

Imagine an Ed Ruscha text painting, and remove the painting.

Also on view in this two - person exhibition are text paintings by the German artist Volker Eichelmann based on writings by British luminaries William Beckford and Stephen Tennant.

He had been known for his big text paintings and was experimenting with much more pared - back abstract work.

This plays out in colorful text paintings, in which self - help - inspired affirmations — such as «I found myself,» «I see myself in you,» and «To thine own self be true» — are painted both backwards and forwards as if reflecting off one another in a mirror.

Much more seductive than the text paintings are two abstract paintings that directly reference Rorschach patterns.

Perhaps Kay Rosen in Chicago, with text paintings and murals, simply supplies the map's legend.

The exhibition brings together a selection of John Baldessari's (b. 1931) paintings from 1966 - 68 and includes examples of the experimental, small canvases and the larger Text and Photo - Text Paintings.

The smaller paintings developed into the larger Text and Photo - Text Paintings (1967 - 68).

The photos in the Photo - Text Paintings were either «originally taken for nonart use» or «taken to violate then - current photographic norms.»

His text paintings on monochrome canvases or found panels overspray lettering in missives urging the exploration of sexuality, the committing of suicide, or deadpan self - description.

The exhibition extends into the offices of Cubitt where a text painting is installed as a mantra for the host organisation's members and administration.

Except for a crisp and adulatory wall text introducing the artist, «Waiting for God» — which kicked off with a 1999 text painting that tells the story of a young woman's inability to become pregnant, and concluded with The Cockpit (2008), a work that debuted on South African television — eschewed captioning altogether.

Text paintings, decorative abstractions and graphic illustrations abutted.

Majerus's installations of tiled canvases, painted in heterogeneous modes, allude to an American late - twentieth century artistic canon: Andy Warhol's silkscreened skulls, or Christopher Wool's text paintings (one painting consists of the phrase COOL / WOOL, a parody / homage to Wool's formalistic treatment of block capitals).

$ 225 Produced in partnership with MZ Wallace, this generously - sized tote bag features the print from Glenn Ligon's «Untitled (I Am Somebody),» a 1991 oil stick on canvas text painting.

Rauschenberg combine paintings, Rothko color - fields and Baldessari text paintings are all parroted and strung together into one joke that is not only laughing at the unfortunate protagonist of its internal riddle, but also at the past fifty years of artistic production.

THE STUDIO MUSEUM in Harlem recently explored the intersection of food and art in an exhibition featuring, «Untitled (Dinners)» by Carris Adams, a text painting that transitions from bold black lettering to a muted pink and yellow palette spelling out «Chitterlings & Oxtails Dinners.»

Born in 1955, Wool made his public mark with the text paintings, and their chill still sets them apart, despite a banality convenient to the art market and collectors.

Secrets pulled from the bowl are turned into text paintings on canvas, and a small set of these canvases are displayed above and around the station for writing.

Wool's signature text paintings, such as an untitled work on paper from 1992 reading HOLE IN YOUR FUCKIN HEAD, may well describe what all the scampering and art - absorbing has done to you, but you can lose yourself in some of the master's more abstract works, such as Maybe Maybe Not (2003), and perhaps achieve a moment of calm amidst the H Queen's storm.