Sentences with phrase «scale portraits»

She makes large - scale portraits of naked black men, gazing at the viewer, relaxing in comfortable domestic settings.
Works on view are intimately scaled portraits that make use of mood and atmosphere to capture the personalities and psychological landscapes of the figures, personas invented by the artist.
This show features new work by this accomplished and influential American artist, alongside a selection of his iconic, large - scale portraits from the 1960s.
They drew on the work of many contemporary artists to create large and small scale portraits, abstract canvases and collaborative sculptures.
It would turn out to be his last large - scale portrait until 2002.
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In 2017, Muholi participates in Performa 17's «South African Pavilion Without Walls,» by presenting large - scale portraits in public spaces across New York City, including Times Square.
Long - Sharp Gallery will display The 99 %: United We Stand, an installation of intimately scaled portraits by artist Jason Myers that portray faceless, nameless members of the 99 %.
The intimately scaled portrait paintings featured in the exhibition engage viewers in an investigation of mood and atmosphere, highlighting van Bart's innate ability to capture the psychologies and personas of her invented figures.
For their debut solo exhibition, the pair has created a new large - scale portrait series of rock»n' roll icons presented as royalty.
Y.Z. Kami's large - scale portraits recreate the visceral experience of a face - to - face encounter.
Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.
«Using only palette knives, acrylic paint and canvas, I started on a journey of creating 10 large - scale portraits using the authorized work of National Geographic photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Martin Schoeller, along with renowned environmental photographer Art Wolfe.»
Moletsane's vibrant, large - scale portraits for the Art Wall draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
New large - scale portraits zoom in on Kami's chosen faces.
The modestly scaled portrait (or, at least, modestly scaled by the artist's standards) was nominated by the modern and contemporary collections curator, Michael Rooks.
VIA's grant supports a series of large - scale portraits entitled When You're Free, You Run in the Dark to be exhibited at The Artist's Institute, as well as a series of related public programs, in advance of a new film about the girls» summer music workshop, which premiered at the Polish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.
These pieces reference the topography of a range of subject matter from Botticelli's La Primavera (1477 — 1482), to a half scale portrait of the artist's head nestled, as if sleeping, inside the skin of his arm.
The resulting work, Fela: Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen... (2002), ended up being one of the most talked - about works in the exhibition, and likewise represented another breakthrough for Barkley, which ultimately got him painting large - scale portraits again.
Join artist and illustrator Jason Polan for a large - scale portrait drawing workshop in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater.
Poignant and powerful large scale portraits challenge mass media's representation of femininity and beauty.
Re / Western features seven large - scale portraits taken from iconic scenes from the western genre, but with the leading characters repainted as women.
His large - scale portraits sell for up to $ 250,000 and have been bought by major collectors as well as such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
After two decades of mainly portraying the world's leading musicians, Søren Solkær set out to do a large scale portrait project about individuals who create art in the public space.
Headlining the auction, Francis Bacon's Study for Self - Portrait is the penultimate self - portrayal in the artist's pivotal corpus of intimately scaled portrait heads.
The large - scale portrait Mum (2017) employs a technique of thicker paint lines to denote figuration rather than the thin ridges of paint that he often uses on aluminium.
In the late 1960s, Chuck Close's realistic and heroically scaled portraits of his family and friends sent shockwaves throughout the art world that are still being felt to this day.
The exhibitions encompass the artist's well - known monumentally scaled portrait sculptures, as well as a selection of more modestly sized outdoor sculptures and also works on paper.
Hauser & Wirth pays homage to photographer August Sander's oeuvre through a display of 40 rare large - scale portraits made between 1910 and 1931.
Among the notable images are two large - scale portraits by young Atlantan Omar Richardson, who also has a piece in «Movers & Shakers» at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
This retrospective includes dozens of Peyton's intimately - scaled portrait paintings of people that the artist admires, often copied from glossy magazines, and featuring several troubled figures such as Kurt Cobain, Pete Doherty and Sid Vicious.
The large - scale portraits in Devotion recognise the significance of these close - knit relationships: mother and son, and between friends.
This fall she will unveil a large - scale portrait series: Think of them as abstract Technicolor «head - scapes» borne from the full - bodied gestural ethos of Bill de Kooning.
Kansas City based artist Ben Parks paints large scale portraits.
His large - scale portraits recreate the visceral experience of a face - to - face encounter.
After receiving his MFA from Yale, Close gained recognition in the 1970s for his massive - scale portraits which were painted using a photorealist style, making them nearly indistinguishable from their photographic equivalent.
Featured will be new large - scale oil paintings of artists Kara Walker, Laurie Anderson, and Zhang Huan; works from Close's ongoing self - portrait series; intimately scaled portraits of musician Paul Simon and arts patron Agnes Gund; a collection of prints; and immaculately crafted Belgian Jacquard tapestries.
Though best known for her editorial work (think Vogue, Interview, i - D) this month Collins fills Ever Gold Gallery with large - scale portraits of women crying — all shot collaboratively between the artist and her vulnerable - yet - brazen, brilliantly lit subjects.
The painting in question is, like all of Anderson's recent movies, a large - scale portrait of an individual who, in his particular failures, losses, commitments and dislikes, embodies something fundamental about the time and place in which he lives.
Her most recent work, she said, draws from Chuck Close's large - scale portraits and David Hockney's landscapes.
The blank stare of a giant Homer Simpson; a gurning Mickey Mouse; a half - erased Batman cowl: this is the vocabulary of Joyce Pensato (b1941), the born - and - bred Brooklyn artist who for the past 30 years has been creating eerie and explosive large - scale portraits of cartoon characters and cultural icons, marrying pop art sensibilities with abstract expressionist - inspired execution.
Chantal Joffe's large - scale portraits, mostly of women and children, express a strong psychological and emotional force with a humorous touch.
His large - scale portrait and still life photographs were the subject of the recent exhibition, Richard Learoyd: Dark Mirror, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2015 - 16) and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles will mount a solo exhibition of his work later this year.
Winnie Truong is a Toronto based artist working in pencil crayons on paper to produce large scale portraits that challenge our ideas of beauty and discomfort.
Burgert's monumental paintings are an unsettling collision of traditional scenes (interiors, still lifes, full - scale portraits, art - historical quotations) and nightmarish visions.
Nara's «Julien» is an intimate full - scale portrait of a young boy, painted in gentle swathes of grey.
The focus of Elizabeth Peyton's work is the small - scale portrait.
«Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures» features the large - scale portraits the photographer made of high school students across the country, a 15 - year endeavor.
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