Sentences with phrase «scale figurative work»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Other highlights from the exhibition include Michelle Ramin's figurative, watercolor and colored - pencil on paper works and Joo Lee Kang's animalia works of ink on paper drawings, wallpaper installation and large - scale sculpture.

2007 Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon Some kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Size Matters: XS, Recent Small - Scale Paintings, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow - Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens In The Fullness of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

«It was an honor... The variety of submissions was impressive, ranging from intimate figurative drawings to large - scale abstract paintings and from sculptural constructions to gallery - sized installation work.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which he does with immense if wry conviction.

But his body of work completed over many decades, the artist died in 1993 at the age of 71, includes many figurative, landscape and still lives that served as a foundation for his large scale abstractions.

Her fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style is carried out on a scale that boldly distorts the familiar figurative elements of her work, and serves to heighten the sense of the physicality of paint and the process of painting itself.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which

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.

He has continued to work with clay with a primary interest in large - scale work, including public projects, figurative work, and sculptural vessels.

Through immersive text - based installations, large - scale public text pieces, publications, sound projects, and discursive programming, my work engages with both figurative and literal language to explore how we narrate the connections between the past, present, and future.

- 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.

Best known for creating powerful, immersive, large - scale installations, Nelson selected historic and contemporary figurative works from the V - A-C collection for his presentation, by artists including Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, Constantine Brâncusi, Alberto Giacometti, Sherrie Levine, Henry Moore and Willem de Kooning.

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

This exhibition of work by New York - based artist Summer Wheat (U.S., born 1977) features a suite of large - scale abstract - figurative paintings that serve as both portals to imaginary worlds and as mirrors that reflect interior states of being.

Altfest is a figurative painter whose intimately scaled works convey a distinct approach to realism and a sustained commitment to looking.

Burr's various working forms - large scale platforms and installations, mirrored folding screens, found object arrangements, hinged figurative forms, pinned collages, and blanket paintings, for example - are sometimes created for particular situations and bear the marks of that context.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

and possibly the fact that here they are not given a room to themselves but are juxtaposed, as are most of the figurative works here, with large - scale abstract paintings in this loosely chronological hang.

As a founding member of Chicago's famed Hairy Who (a group of figurative painters often subsumed under the banner of the Chicago Imagists whose ranks also include Karl Wirsum and Suellen Rocca among others), Nilsson is hardly unknown, but these 12 «monumentally - scaled» paintings made between 1984 and ’87 represent a selection of her later work that often goes unremarked upon in favor of focusing on her output from the 1960s.

Altmejd's work often draws a corollary between the body and architecture with architectural landscape punctuated by figurative elements or figurative sculptures blown up to gigantic scale or infected with inorganic material.

In it's sixteenth season the gallery has a reputation for the unusual, with large - scale paintings, figurative ceramics and three - dimensional works.»

His primary work is in figurative art; portraiture, classical studies of nudes and landscape painting, although commissioned work has included large scale abstracts.

Scale shifts to create figurative works that meander through space like air conditioning ducts — breathing structures that inhabit and divide a room.

After gradually moving toward working with three - dimensional forms, in 1970 she made the artistic changes in scale and material and began creating figurative and non-figurative sculptures from burlap and resin, eventually moving to bronze, wood, stone, and steel.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

In another set of interactions, works by the perennially influential Philip Guston appear across three generational shifts: a Social Realist drawing of Klansmen, dated 1930, hangs amid politically progressive paintings by Jacob Lawrence (the great War Series from 1946 - 47), prints by Louis Lozowick, Hugo Gellert and Mabel Dwight, and photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke - White and Walker Evans; his modestly scaled abstraction, «Dial» (1956), is installed between Mark Rothko's imposing «Four Darks in Red» (1958) and Louise Bourgeois» classically phallic «Quarantania» (1941) in the galleries devoted to Abstract Expressionism; and a large, brooding, late figurative canvas of heads, shoes and eyeballs, «Cabal» (1977), turns up beside paintings by artists twenty - five to thirty years his junior, along with one from Cy Twombly, who was two years older than Guston, born in 1911, and one by Alma Thomas, who lived from 1891 to 1978.

From there he moved to New York where his landscape and figurative work gave way to large - scale gestural abstraction.

More recently, Upritchard's work has, in part, focused on small - scale voodoo - like figurative sculptures that reflect on the naivety of 1960s and»70s alternative culture.

His early works were sculptures made of dough, clay, and gypsum, while later he turned to large - scale works from aluminum, bronze, and steel — always theming the figurative.

Laurel Holloman decided to combine the large scale murals of The Fifth Element to create a visual journey that interplays the abstracts work with newer slightly figurative landscapes of animals and plants.

Quinn's vivid, large - scale paper works are an assemblage of facial features which can be read as abstract - figurative works and that deal with the complex construction of identity.

From Leipzig, Galerie Kleindienst presents the work of Tilo Baumgärtel, a painter who pairs odd figurative activity with stage - like woodsy spaces in a series of large - scale drawings, unframed and pinned in a grid format.

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.

At the Frieze fair, which opens on Friday, numerous galleries will include work by Biennial artists: New York's Mitchell Innes and Nash, which represents Pope.L, whose massive installation in the Whitney included hundreds of pieces of bologna affixed to the wall in pushpins, will be offering one of the artist's (less perishable) photographs; the Los Angeles - based Night Gallery will feature works by Samara Golden, whose installation in the Whitney, The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes, included miniature interiors and a profusion of mirrors; and Mary Mary, a Glasgow gallery, will feature a booth with works by Aliza Nisenbaum, whose large - scale, figurative paintings of immigrants are also included in the Biennial.

Her large - scale mixed - media works on paper blend figurative painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and collage.