Sentences with phrase «scale paintings depict»

In the gallery's main space, three large - scale paintings depict the vast expanses of an empty bed and are punctuated by four smaller works, each featuring a single window seen from without, the warm glow of its light intensified by the dark night surrounding it.
Two years in the making, Conn's large - scale paintings depict powerful images of dense forest scenes.
Two large - scale paintings depict a figure almost completely obscured by foliage, which gives the impression of something glimpsed in a dream or recreated from a lost source.
Born in Mexico, the Harlingen - based Gonzalez presents large - scale paintings depicting the hardships of life on the U.S. - Mexico border and the brutality associated with drug cartels and illegal immigration.
Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.
Eric Fischl, a painter, sculptor, and printmaker featured in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, gained acclaim in the 1980s with large - scale paintings depicting middle - class American life with themes of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism.
Born in Mexico, the Harlingen - based González presents large - scale paintings depicting the hardships of life on the U.S. - Mexico border and the brutality associated with drug cartels and illegal immigration.
Our stand is centered around Wonderland (2007), Luc Tuymans» large scale painting depicting his unique interpretation of the Alice in Wonderland attraction at Disneyland.
On view will be a vibrant combination of large - scale paintings depicting the artist's signature brushstroke, using pearlescent hues on iridescent backgrounds and capturing a single gestural passage over the canvas.
At the exhibition's core is a series of large - scale paintings depicting the interiors of two public houses and a restaurant that have been rendered with a distinctly under - idealising eye for detail.
Akinyuli shows new large - scale paintings depicting children, focusing on the sartorial aspect of portraiture to highlight the way in which a person is presented and viewed through their choice of dressing.
He produced a number of large - scale paintings depicting the natural beauty of water, mountain and sky - such as Niagara Falls (1867, National Gallery of Scotland), and Heart of the Andes (1859, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York).
Sandberg has made, and continues to make, drawings and small - scale paintings depicting individuals
This lithograph was created as a study for a large scale painting depicting Gale Huntington, a Martha's Vineyard folk singer, with his daughter

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Created by local Islamorada artist, Elena Madden, the tri-panel painting depicts Cheeca's signature tarpon, a magnificent silver - scaled fish engaged in a well - choreographed dance with a patient fly - fisherman.
He often works in grisaille, creating large - scale oil paintings depicting various configurations of the body.
The exhibition includes more than two - dozen modestly scaled drawings, paintings, pastels and mixed media works, dated between 1966 and 2000, depicting cityscapes, mountains, and farmland.
Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.
For over four decades, Nozkowski has produced richly colored, intimately — scaled abstract paintings that derive from his personal experiences and everyday encounters in the world, using shapes, lines, and color to depict his immediate environment in an improvisational manner.
Eric Fischl made his reputation in the 1980s with large - scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs.
The display ends with Hamed Ewais's Le Guardien de la vie (1967 - 8), a large - scale oil painting that depicts a fighter, weapon in hand, while underneath him everyday events such as a wedding taking place and a child riding a bike are shown, suggesting the possibility of societal renewal following the collapse of the Pan-Arab ideal after the Six - Day War in 1967.
The exhibition is exceptional because it features nearly 50 paintings by court officials and court artists, including magnificent silk paintings depicting important historic events in monumental scale.
For a show I did in Brooklyn last year at This Must Be the Place, I showed domestic - scale paintings that depicted interiors and walls, keeping in mind that the gallery had recently been converted from an apartment.
Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).
He previously depicted food items in pieces such as Pumpkin Sculpture (1998) and the large - scale, cartoonish sculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out his office.
Each artist in the exhibition utilizes scale and weight to explore both visual and conceptual implications of depicting the environment: Jane Callister's painterly landscapes deftly intertwine process and imagery; each painting celebrates a material investigation that generates fictional yet enchanting landscapes.
Alex Israel's Sky Backdrop (2016) depicts Los Angeles's wide skies in scenographic terms, while Mary Weatherford, showing her first large - scale painting since joining Gagosian, captures the shifting atmosphere of the Pacific coast, evoking the sky and sea in painted layers and glowing, neon light.
As a result, the large - scale images of crowds depicted in tones of brown and grey lead on to paintings of great luminous spheres.
This contrast is visible in the display of three large scale paintings on the top floor of the space, all of which depict ladders.
It was her now - famous large - scale painting from her M.F.A. thesis show at Parsons titled Class of 2007, which depicted her fellow classmates, who were all white, as black inmates, while Nina, the only black student in her class, painted herself as a gun - toting white prison guard with flowing blonde locks.
Known for her large - scale pattern paintings depicting constellations of everyday items that have been isolated from their original context, American artist Katherine Bernhardt has created a new ensemble of colourful and dynamic images that take inspiration from both Brussels and New York.
Self - taught artist Purvis Young made lurid and kinetic large - scale paintings and murals depicting the people of his hometown of Miami.
Consequently, McKenzie's work often walks a thin line between those categories of inspiration — for instance, her large - scale painting installations depict hyper - realistic interiors so as to ultimately double as décor and stage sets.
In a group of large - scale paintings — exhibited for the first time — businessmen are depicted as Orthodox icons on altarpieces.
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.
Attending to the cyclical nature of the artist's work, the project examines the transformations in Braque's creative process as he moved from painting small, intimate interiors in the late 1920s, to depicting bold, large - scale, tactile Cubist spaces in the 1930s, to creating personal renderings of daily life in the 1940s.
Alex Rubio's large - scale paintings and prints depict the people, places, and memories rooted in San Antonio's Chicano heritage.
Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time centers around the Frick's grand - scale Harbor of Dieppe and Cologne, both painted by the artist in the mid-1820s, and unites them for the first time publicly with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in Brittany.
The Q&A was the highlight of the day for me, bringing authenticity & humor to an otherwise complex and serious conversation.Mokgosi grand - scale paintings focus on post-colonial Africa depicting realistic rendered subjects inspired by the style of European history paintings.
Instead of depicting nature as a sublime force in the manner of Caspar David Friedrich or J.M.W. Turner, the Japanese artist Yutaka Sone addresses the natural world through sculptures, paintings, and drawings that depart from art - historical tradition by using tricks of scale and perspective to render the most familiar aspects of the environment uncanny, and strangely intimate.
Richter's large - scale paintings question the context of history painting in a society whose historiographic idea of progress has been significantly altered, hence Richter's lone, heroic figures depicted singularly or in an ecstatic mass.
Running counter to what he perceives as a tendency toward embellishment, his photographic series The Geometry of Color, on view at Lehmann Maupin in New York, depicts simple yet vibrant large - scale geometric wall paintings.
Traditionally, history painting refers to large scale canvases that depicted an important event or action involving several people.
The second part consists of six delicately colored pencil drawings which are designed to look like hand colored postcards and depict views of the hospitals in Germany and Austria where the T4 Euthanasia programme took place between 1939 and 1941, whilst the third part consists of five large scale oil paintings which display the insides of Nazi Gas Chambers.
Placed within the vibrant, immersive environment created by the paintings, Kusama's new stainless steel sculptures depict fantastically scaled, individual flowers featuring the artist's distinctive bold palette.
Working with local artists to give his pieces a local flavor, he paints large - scale murals that often depict children and fantastic, illusion - filled worlds.
Be Strong Boquan (after a line taken from a performance video that's featured in the show), is composed of large abstract paintings, the first thing you encounter is «Deimos» (2015), a Cinemascope - scaled video projection depicting enormous orange wheels careening across an unspecified expanse to the beat of Sylvester's 1978 disco anthem «Grateful.»
At the other end of the scale, just eighteen by thirteen inches, Celmins has painted a close - up of a glazed ceramic plate, depicting it as an allover pattern of white cracks on greenish - gray field.
Though he's best known for his large - scale paintings with deliberately distressed surfaces depicting traditional clay jars covered with Farsi calligraphy, Moshiri's «Candy Store» paintings are saturated with color and layers of iconography.
Presenting multiple exposures fused together, this large - scale work depicts the artist in his studio in Cologne, seated among examples of his squeegee paintings.
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