Sentences with phrase «recognition as a solo artist»

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The expansion will feature a new glass - walled building, to be named the Rothko Pavilion, in recognition of the artist's legacy in Portland — his home as a youth after immigrating from Latvia — and the Museum, where he took art classes as a teenager and where he received his first solo exhibition.

More recently, street art has increasingly gained recognition and acclaim as fine art, with artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey exhibiting in solo shows at museums and galleries worldwide - and commanding increasingly high prices.

He received further recognition as an artist when the Royal Academy elected him an Honorary Academician Extraordinary in 1948, and held a solo exhibition of his works that toured internationally in 1958 - 59 — the institution's first and only exhibition of an amateur artist.

Brown was a San Francisco native, taught by Bay Area Figurationists Bischoff, Oliverira, and Lobdel at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI); exhibited at legendary Beat venues (6 Gallery, Batman); lived next to Jay DeFeo and Wally Hedrick during the painting of DeFeo's The Rose; married noted Bay Area sculptor and fellow student Manuel Neri; counted such disparate artists as Wallace Berman and Bernice Bing as friends; and gained early recognition (a New York exhibition at age 22) resulting in a lifelong teaching post at Berkeley, a Guggenheim fellowship, over sixty solo shows, and inclusion in an equal number of posthumous group exhibitions.

A succession of solo and group shows followed and for the next four years he worked as a full - time artist in London gaining significant recognition from critics and patrons alike.