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The forty large - scale portraits by the German photography pioneer August Sander, currently on view at Hauser & Wirth's smaller uptown outpost, are a brilliant time warp into an era before the commodification of images and the narcissistic self - presentation of our selfie - culture.

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Inspired by billboard advertising and the experience of going to the cinema, Katz characteristically employs an oversized format in his painted and sculptural portraits in order to play with the viewer's sense of scale.

A closer observation confirms the large scale painting of portraits established by macroscopically precise details.

But her large - scale canvases, defined by gestural, expressive strokes overlaid with mark making, reference the political implications and issues surrounding social agency that draw her to the portrait of de Pareja.

Highlights of the exhibition include a Katharina Fritsch sculpture of a bright orange octopus; two complex new abstract paintings by Terry Winters completed this summer; a Robert Gober sculpture of a sink sprouting contorted children's legs; new portrait and landscape photographs from Paris and New York by Nan Goldin; a Martin Honert sculpture based on his childhood drawings of toy soldiers; a large - scale painted white relief by Charles Ray of his two nephews; and a photograph of Germany's largest soccer stadium by Andreas Gursky.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

Numerous large - scale solo exhibitions of Paolozzi's work have been presented by museums and galleries around the world including Cass Sculpture Foundation and Pallant House Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, National Portrait Gallery, London, Royal Academy of Art, London, Tate Gallery, London and Pace Gallery.

Tim Van Laere, Antwerp sold among others the large scale self - portrait by Rinus Van de Velde at $ 42,000 to an important New York collection, two works of Friedrich Kunath in the price range of $ 30,000 to $ 40,000, and an important video sculpture of Gelitin to a major Belgian collection.

Informed by her «Rear Screen Projection» series from the early 1980s (the artist's first foray into color photography), these gigantic self - portraits bring to mind the scale of Hollywood as well as the artistic movements that have continually mined its grandiose clichés.

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.

His large - scale canvases reiterate historical portraits by Old Master painters, but with contemporary black youth in place of the original subjects.

This show features new work by this accomplished and influential American artist, alongside a selection of his iconic, large - scale portraits from the 1960s.

While the scale and lighting of the portraits appear to be inspired by a Leonardo da Vinci show she attended at the National Portrait Gallery, a greater impression was made by the people lined up outside waiting to get in.

His paintings may resemble billboards, or they may adopt the more intimate scale of the painted sketch, but they are always... portraits in an extended sense — slices of life ennobled by a deadpan iconic American eye.»

Elizabeth Peyton works mostly with small - scale portraits, inspired by the traditional approach to depicting a human figure and personality pioneered by photographers like Felix Nadar and Alfred Stieglitz.

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.

The exhibition features 14 large - scale portraits of Israeli youths, from diverse ethnic and religious affiliations, alongside 11 works — papercuts and textiles — chosen by the artist from the Museum's collection.

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.

He refers to the work as «Portraits of Circumstance,» and the size of the work is most frequently determined by the most typical scale of a photographic portrait (8 ″ x 10»).

Impressive were iridescent mushrooms by Sylvie Fleury at Thaddeus Ropac; Alice, a 1961 canvas by John Wesley at Waddington; Kim Fisher's new large - scale paintings at China Art Objects; Martin Boyce's space - dividing sculpture at Anton Kern and The Modern Institute's shared booth; John Stazeker's new «Film Portrait» collages at The Approach; and Sigmar Polke's 1967 Match - stick Piece at Michael Werner.

Grünes Kleid mit Rot («Green Dress with Red,» 1979) inflates a vaguely - familiar excerpt from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait to a full image motif; the large - scale work Stoff 1 («Fabric 1,» 1981) quotes the folds of a dress in a saint portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas Portrait to a full image motif; the large - scale work Stoff 1 («Fabric 1,» 1981) quotes the folds of a dress in a saint portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas Poussin.

Inspired by Renaissance nativity portraits, these studiedly scumbled and scratched pictures (her superimpositions and erasures rarely avoid predictability) appear less visceral meditations on motherhood than vastly scaled geegaws propped up by classicism and sheer bloat.

Upcoming projects for The Drawing Center include: a collaboration with the Ecole des Beaux - Arts Paris on an exhibition of 400 years of portrait drawings and Runaway Girl, a new video commission by Turkish artist Inci Eniver (both April 2015); an exhibition of Richard Pousette - Dart's drawings from the 1930's (September 2015); a large scale installation by Louise Despont and an exhibition of Jennifer Bartlett's Hospital 2012 pastels (both January 2016).

«Tulkus 1180 to 2018,» a tremendous survey - in - progress by Paola Pivi of over 1,100 photographic portraits of tulkus, or officially - recognized reincarnations of Tibetan lamas, includes the large - scale portraits of Tibetan exiles from David Zimmerman's One Voice series.

Most striking among these is a set of large - scale self - portraits and family studies by Mexican artist Ana Casas Broda at Circulo Bellas Artes through Aug. 30, 2015.

The thirty - one photographs exhibited in Pop Shots: Polaroid Portraits by Andy Warhol, also curated by Hilger, come from the large body of images the artist took in the 1970s and 80s as studies for his large - scale silk - screened renderings of elite clients and anonymous sitters alike.

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.

West Gallery: Su Schnee An exhibition of recent large - scale, mixed - media works on paper by Montreal artist Su Schnee will open at Mercer Union on Tuesday, January 6 at 8:00 p.m. Su Schnee's striking and evocative imagery falls within the parameters of two classical themes: landscape and portrait.

Ezawa will also present a selection of light boxes that further his investigations into stolen works of art, including to - scale recreations of Edvard Munch's The Scream, versions of which were stolen in 1994 and 2004, and Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, which was appropriated by the Nazi regime in 1938 and was famously repatriated to the Bloch - Bauer family in 2006.

Cooper Union's latest exhibit, Image of the Studio: A Portrait of Graphic Design in New York, does just that by examining how living and working in New York shapes contemporary studio practice on the level of scale, geography, and day - to - day organization.

George Adams Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of four large - scale, portrait paintings by Jack Beal, Gregory Gillespie, Alfred Leslie, and James Valerio.

Chagoya will be represented by «Double Agent,» one of his large charcoal drawings from 1989, Saul by a study for his 1992 portrait of Jeffrey Dahmer, and DeForest by a large - scale canvas from 1978.

Ezawa also presents a selection of light boxes that further his investigations into stolen works of art, including to - scale recreations of Edvard Munch's «The Scream», versions of which were stolen in 1994 and 2004, and Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, which was appropriated by the Nazi regime in 1938 and was famously repatriated to the Bloch - Bauer family in 2006.

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.

Ranging from large - scale installations to intimate ceramic portraits, the multimedia exhibition showcases works in combinations of neon, video, glass, drawing, painting, and clay with innovative approaches to both new and traditional media.At the opening reception one artist will receive the $ 10,000 Arlene Schnitzer prize selected by the Museum's curatorial staff.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

Struth uses the mural - scale prints that have become a trope in contemporary art, not least in Germany — he is a peer of Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, having graduated from the same Kunstakademie Düsseldorf program taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher — and the size and deep color of his images are crucial to their effect: In the museum work in particular (Struth also makes streetscapes and portraits),

Separate from the works exploring the portrait genre, the new installation also features a selection of sculpture including Cornelia Parker's Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), Tara Donovan's Untitled (Pins), and a small - scale marble footstool by Jenny Holzer, SELECTIONS FROM SURVIVAL: PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.

To begin with you come face to face with a row of small - scale pictures: cinematically close - cropped portraits apparently lit from within by the cool blue light of digital screens.

This November, Muholi will participate in Performa 17's «South African Pavilion Without Walls,» by presenting large - scale portraits in public spaces across New York City, including Times Square.

On Wed, July 6 at 7 pm, Cruz will perform How To Order A Chocolate Cake, in addition to performances by artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson.To work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.

Many of the works in this exhibition have never been shown in the UK before such as Michael Snow's play on the immediacy of the image, Authorization, the mutilated, distorted, blurred self portraits by Lucas Samaras, who discovered the malleability of the format's wet dyes and Guy Bourdin's intimate, small - scale surreal visions.

«Winter Eclectic Exhibit,» Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren St., Hudson Cost: Free Contact: 828-1915 or http://www.carriehaddadgallery.com Notes: Contemporary «Double Landscape» paintings by Tony Thompson, straightforward portraits by Tracy Helgeson, large - scale abstract paintings by Jenny Nelson, outsider - art - inspired mixed media works by Judith Hoyt and witty narrative paintings by Ashley Cooper.

MUNICHTHOMAS RUFFHAUS DER KUNST · February 17May 20 · Curated by Thomas Weskl Having earned early attention with his monumentally scaled late -»80s portraits, Thomas Ruff has since spent his career...

The Mpane exhibition features an elegantly carved, life - sized sculpture; boards transformed into portraits of Congolese youth by meticulously subtracting surface layers; and a large - scale work composed of wood strips, held together by a mesh backing, painted and then broken into pieces resembling tile squares.

Nearby, another of the fair's standout portraits hangs in a line of three impressive large - scale paintings by Cheyenne Julien, being shown by Los Angeles gallery Smart Objects.

Phillips acquired a number of exceptional masterpieces including: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 — 81) by Renoir; The Repentant St. Peter (c. 1600 — 5) by El Greco (the first passionate expressionist); St. Peter Repentant (1823) by Goya (the bridge between the Old Masters and moderns such as Cezanne); Portrait of Paganini (1832) by Eugene Delacroix; The Uprising (1848) by Honore Daumier; Mont Sainte - Victoire with Large Pine (1886 - 7) by Cezanne; Wheat Field at Auvers with House (1890) by Van Gogh; Portrait of Elena Pavlowski (1917) by Modigliani; and the large - scale still - life called The Round Table (1929) by Georges Braque.

Highlights of the Norwich leg include All That Is Solid (2015), a recent film by John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison concerning the transience and impossibility of capturing the unrecorded voice and the undocumented past; Spirit is a bone (2014), portraits of Moscow citizens by artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin created through the use of a facial recognition system recently developed in Russia for public security and border control surveillance; as well as a series of posters that reproduce on a 1:1 scale a scene from Ryan Gander's studio in which a still life has been constructed from research material on the subject of «The Still Life».

Seven new large scale digital portraits by acclaimed painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie will be shown at the gallery.

From his large - scale, passport - style portraits to shots captured by a high - performance telescope, the show spans the habitual to the cosmic.