Sentences with phrase «scale figurative»

On view May 2 through August 12, 2018, these large - scale figurative paintings rethink the tradition of historical European compositions by depicting daily life in southern African nation - states and post-colonial ideals of democracy.

Taylor's large - scale figurative works are a hybrid of portraiture and history painting, commemorating heroes of the Civil Rights and Black Panther movements, as well as martyrs to racially - motivated violence and police brutality.

In recent years he has increasingly turned his attention to public projects, including neon rainbow signs and large - scale figurative works, like his new exhibition of nine 16 - to 20 - foot tall stone figures at Rockefeller Center.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana; lives and works in New York City) produces large - scale figurative paintings that rethink the tradition of historical European compositions.

This work sparked her desire to create large - scale figurative paintings.

His large - scale figurative paintings are equally as grand, ornate, and rich in symbolism as traditional portraiture; however, Wiley subverts the canon by depicting male protagonists of African descent, a demographic that has been virtually omitted from the Western painting tradition throughout the centuries.

Deeply rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Nelson actually came to attention in the 1980's for large - scale figurative work.

Having previously explored the dynamic potential of portraiture, landscape, and still life, Redwood embraces genre painting or scenes from everyday life, imagining a suite of large - scale figurative works suggesting a time to come after an unlikely culprit.

An astonishingly confident show of large - scale figurative paintings with multiple reference points in the 20th century history of the medium, this is clearly someone to watch out for in the future.

Although he produced a few small - scale figurative history paintings under the influence of Delacroix and the French Romantic school (eg.

Leslie shifted to a large - scale figurative style by the end of 1962.

Innes has been making a name for work that is not in the style we have primarily come to expect from recent Scottish art — large scale figurative painting.

Known for his large - scale figurative paintings, the Montreal - based artist presents A Strange Feeling, his wrestling - tinged exhibition, which opens this Friday at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Paul Georges, an American painter best known for his large - scale figurative allegories and satirical self - portraits, died on April 16 in Normandy, France, where he had a home.

Brooklyn - based artist Kehinde Wiley creates large - scale figurative paintings as firmly rooted in contemporary design, music, literature, and sociopolitical issues as they are in the history of portraiture.

Verne Dawson, represented in the Biennial with a large - scale figurative painting, was also shown at the Whitney in Down by Law.

Color combinations vibrate in these large - scale figurative works that reference Matisse, Blaxploitation, religious icons such as the Madonna and psychedelia.

The Los Angeles based painter is known for his large - scale figurative canvases.

Miles has large - scale figurative works across the country - a national landmark in California [the Grape Crusher in Napa Valley] and several figurative works in the collection of Walt Disney [Seven Dwarfs at Walt Disney headquarters]; Miles» largest mobile sculpture is hanging in Noblesville, Indiana after it was commissioned by the owners of Performance Marketing Group.

Salgado's large - scale figurative paintings are made up of deftly placed smears and drips of spray paint that create artworks dripping with energy and sheer grittiness.

Combining drawing, painting and collage on paper, Akunyili Crosby's large - scale figurative compositions are drawn from the artist's memories and experiences.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

Finally, Arjan Martins presents a group of large - scale figurative paintings that evoke and critique commonplace symbols relating to Brazil's colonial and slave - trading past.

He later introduced large - scale figurative paintings.

Focusing on the Mayflower voyage along with themes that echo Plymouth's rich past, her large scale figurative paintings explore the shifting perception of history across the ages.

The exhibitions central work is a large scale figurative painting titled «Bedroom Wall».

- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale figurative and landscape oil paintings.

Katz's brightly colored, large - scale figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop art despite the fact his work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.

October 15 Julie Heffernan is known for her lush and sensuous large - scale figurative (and still life) paintings that at first glance seem to have stepped out of either the Italian or Spanish Renaissance or 17th century Dutch genre still - life or grand manner landscape painting.

Abakanowicz's large - scale figurative sculptures achieve this alluring duality, providing the viewer both a listless crowd and static memorial.

Nathan Sawaya works with the popular toy to create large - scale figurative sculpture.

While conceptual artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Cornelia Parker, and Tacita Dean engaged the public (in one way or another) with cheeky videos and installations, painters were smitten with large - scale figurative work.

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.

For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale figurative sculpture grown from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.

He painted large - scale figurative allegories and numerous self - portraits.

Wylie's bold, large - scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art, such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as well as art history and film.

Eric Fischl made his reputation in the 1980s with large - scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs.

Not exact matches

Hizzoner wants to lift the figurative blindfold that symbolizes impartial justice and put a thumb on the scale that blind justice is supposed to be holding.

The second half of his solo exhibition includes a series of collaborative figurative sculptures — papier - mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff's pants and shoes holding large - scale paintings by artists from Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta, including:

Known formerly for her figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.

Unlike his figurative work, these paintings are larger in scale and made using a much different technique, utilizing a broom to paint and later flooding the surfaces with chlorine and water.

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

The exhibition presents large - scale oil paintings that are figurative, psychologically imbued, beautifully rendered, and wonderfully sublime by one of the most significant Realist painters of his generation.

Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his works, playfully disrupts the history of figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated with it.

Enrico David's recent exhibition comprised mostly figurative, small - scale sculptures.

The exhibition, which opened yesterday, includes five large - scale hyper - color figurative paintings and eight monochromatic watercolor paintings.

Mason's forms have been described as figurative, and for more reasons than simply their scale.

The work is an example of the Neo-Expressionist trend known as Transavanguardia, which focuses on expressive figurative work done on a large scale.

OK, so gravity is «responsible for many of the large scale structures in the Universe», but maybe gravity is figurative!

His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour.