Sentences with phrase «sculptures by black artists»

The exhibition included no paintings or sculptures by black artists.

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Two artists contributed sculptures, some in black (by Jean Tinguely) and others flamboyantly colored (by Niki de Saint - Phalle).

New York - based artist KEVIN BEASLEY presents mixed - media sculptures inspired by two very different cultures and time periods — Bernini's 17th century Baroque alter piece in Rome and an iconic image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.

As remarkable were the architect's 2014 artist commissions — the word Paradise spelled out with knives by Farhad Moshiri, Guy Limone's Red, Black and Grey - White Tapestry composed of photocopies of digital collages, and Erwin Wurm's sculpture of Marino as a skeleton, wearing only his trademark hat and coat.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Here, Olowska created a sculpture inspired by Noguchi's and then draped it in the black cloth that was Graham's signature, a homage to the kind of performance that the artist has been exploring in her work since the days she ran Nova Popularna, an underground bar and performance space she opened in Berlin with Lucy McKenzie in 2003.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

thru 3/11; New Pictures thru 3/3; Etc. / MoMA PS1 / 22 - 25 Jackson / Long Island City Donut Muffin curated by J. Duffett & T. Gonzales / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11 - 03 45th Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/10 How Much Do I Owe You / No Longer Empty @ The Clock Tower / 29 - 27 41st Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/13 Nancy Dwyer; Visual Conversations / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38 - 27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 4/7 Emerging Artist Fellowship / Socrates Sculpture Park / 32 - 01 Vernon Blvd. / LIC / thru 3/31 Process and Progress: Engaging in Community Change / Bronx River Art Center / 305 E 140 / The Bronx / thru 5/30 Joan Semmel / Bronx Museum / 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx / thru 6/9 Contemporary Cartographies / Lehman College / Bedford Park Blvd West, The Bronx / 2/5 thru 5/11 Reception 3/18 Vital Signs: Dean Dempsey; Susan Fenton, Amy Jenkins; Lorie Novak; Dread Scott / Pelham / 155 Fifth Ave. / Pelham / thru 3/30 OTHER: Walter De Maria / The Broken Kilometer / DIA / 393 West Broadway / ongoing Walter De Maria / The New York Earth Room / DIA / 141 Wooster / ongoing A. Ruppersberg; R. Artschwager; El Anatsui; V. Overton; S. Finch; T. Houseago; Lilliput (group) / High Line Park Leo Villareal / Madison Square Park / thru 2/15 Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder / Madison Square Park / thru 4/5 Opening 3/1 Monika Sosnowska / Public Art Fund / Doris C. Freeman Plaza: 5th Avenue @ 60th / thru 2/17 Mark di Suvero / Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 / ongoing Oscar Tuazon / Public Art Fund / Brooklyn Bridge Park / thru 4/26 SELECTED EVENTS: Monday, 2/4, 6:30 PM / David Diao on Barnett Newman / DIA / 535 W 22 — floor 5 / $ Tuesday, 2/5, 6:30 PM / Donald Baechler on his work / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 7 PM / Vitaly Komar on his work / SVA / Amphitheater / 209 E 23 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 8 PM / Trenton Doyle Hancock on his work / Columbia / Prentis Hall / 632 W 125 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 6:30 PM / Rebecca Rabinow on Matisse / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 7 PM / Mierle Laderman Ukeles on her work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE Thursday, 2/7, 6:30 PM / Christopher K. Ho reads, with curators Sara Reisman & Herb Tam / MOCA / 215 Centre / RSVP / FREE Friday, 2/8, 9 AM / Performa: Black Surrealism film program / NYU Einstein Aud.

May to September were electric building - filling months at the New Museum, with four standout concurrent solo shows by women artists: the late under - known Italian visionary Carol Rama, the gnarly art of Kaari Upson, the materially complex alchemical sculptures of Elaine Cameron - Weir, and the steamy, seductive portraits of a beautiful community of black dancers and others by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as «SoundSpill,» Zabludowicz Collection, New York (2013), «With the Tip of a Hat,» the Artist's Institute, New York (2012), «Novel,» a screening for Time Again hosted by the Sculpture Center, New York (2011), «Outrageous Fortune: artists remake the Tarot,» Hayward Touring / Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2011), and «The Great White Way Goes Black,» Vilma Gold, London (2011).

Other exhibition highlights on view in October include Little Black Dress, curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley; Addio del Passato, presenting photographs, sculpture and film by Yinka Shonibare MBE; Stretching the Limits, a group exhibition by fiber - based media artists; Reveal the secrets that you seek, featuring installations by Bharti Kher; and Figures, four large - scale wall hangings by renowned American sculptor Lynda Benglis.

The work is the first non-sculpture work by the artist to come to auction, and another work by the artist, a sculpture made of black marble titled Recognition, was also a top seller for $ 125,000.

Of course, the rise of black - owned spaces has impact far beyond the market, and many prominent non-profit spaces, such as Rick Lowe's Houston - based Project Row Houses and artist Mark Bradford's Los Angeles - based Art + Practice, are positioned as «social sculpture,» an expanded concept of art coined by the German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys, who sought to use art to address societal issues.

Vintage black and white photographs evocative of Twentieth Century American ideals find their home under the same roof as cutting - edge video installations and suspended sculptures by contemporary artists.

Many of the artist's works evoke his African - American identity and the broader struggle for civil rights, from sculptures incorporating fire hoses, to events organized around soul food, and choral performances by the experimental musical ensemble Black Monks of Mississippi, led by Gates himself.

Central to the exhibition is The Black Man in Africa has Strong Warriors and Beautiful Cities (2018), a powerfully incandescent rendering composed of fluid lines which blur the division between painting and sculpture, taking inspiration from Robert Rauschenberg's Green Shirt (1965) and featuring imagery from the storied Black Panther Coloring Book created in 1968 by artist and aspiring Black Panther Party member Mike Teemer.

1980 Islamic Illusions, Alternative Museum, New York, NY Retour Aux Sources, Une Exposition en Afrique D'Artistes Afro - Americains 1980, Galerie D'Art Mitkal, Abidijan, Cote D'Ivoire Afro - American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists, Institute for Art and Urban Resources - PS 1, Long Island City, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Art Center, South Bend, IN; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA Dialects, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY Color and Surface, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY The Nineteen Seventies: Prints and Drawings, Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston, MA 10 + 10: An Invitational, Miami - Dade Public Library, Miami, FL

The exhibition «consists of 50 works of mixed - media collage, assemblage on wood panels, and sculpture presented in an installation designed by the artist that reimagine safe destinations for the black American traveler during the mid-twentieth century.

Tomorrow Treadway Toomey Auctions is offering paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture by 74 black artists.

Across pieces by heavy hitters such as Ellen Gallagher, Glen Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker, different aspects of the Civil Rights movement — boycotts, protests, revolutionary Black Power movements, antebellum history — were filtered through a collection of text - based works (Ligon and Adam Pendleton), portraiture (Marshall and Simpson) animation (Walker), sculpture and an archival collection of Black Panther newspapers (loaned by New York - based artist Rashid Johnson).

To accompany two solo shows of Lubaina Himid's work at Spike Island and Modern Art Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary has brought together works by more than 25 artists associated with the Black Arts Movement in a major survey of painting, sculpture, film and archives.

Imposing materiality comes into play with the heavy black paintstick apparition Artaud (2009) by Richard Serra, and a host of cerebral sculptures by artists ranging from Franz West to Eva Rothschild.

Divergent views of the heavens and the sky in Slavic (Koschei the Deathless, Baby Jaga, Tugarin Zmeevich, Zmeu Gorynich) and Western mythologies (Icarus and Deadalus), as well as later, turn - of - the - century attitudes inherited from such diverse sources as the Wright brothers and Vladimir Tatlin's Letatlin flying device, play into various sculptures and actions, most prominently in a 8 - foot pair of wearable wings, made of black umbrellas, constructed by the artist and his wife in a furious all - nighter, after the discovery of an account of Tatlin's shared project.

«Black Block» Is Newest Brooklyn Buy — So taken is the Brooklyn Museum with their current exhibition of large - scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, that the institution has decided to purchase «Black Block,» an unusually monochromatic wall hanging comprised of everyday materials, which is currently on display in the institutions's current show, «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» and will be traveling to museums in Des Moines, Miami Beach San Diego once the exhibition ends in August.

Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

Gallery artists living and dead confront power structures and their impact on migration, censorship, struggles for democracy and equality across the globe: Ian Hamilton Finlay's wooden block / guillotine «La Révolution est un bloc», Yayoi Kusama's enveloping sculpture «Prisoner's Door», Chris Ofili's «Union Black» flying over the gallery entrance, Wangechi Mutu's action painting «Throw» and work by Elmgreen & Dragset, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kara Walker and others.

These Illuminated Lips, a 1966 series of lamp sculptures by the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow, repeat in coloured polyester resin, varying from flesh tones to ice white against black.

In the Giardini Pavilion, a great two - part Richard Serra sculpture, titled Pasolini (after the Italian film director), shares a space with recent, black seascapes by Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier.

For example, by 1975 artist DAVID HAMMONS was already creating sculptures from black cultural detritus (hair, food, artifacts, etc.) that ironically commented on black identity.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

The Swiss artist Urs Fischer, known mostly for his sculpture, has also made editioned «paintings» — laser prints of untitled landscapes or interiors that achieve a nearly abstract, cracked - mirror effect with uneven bands of red, white, or black that the artist adds by hand, using a fine paintbrush or felt - tipped marker.

Invisible Man, the inaugural exhibition in the new downtown Manhattan gallery, mounts painting, installation, and sculpture by Torkwase Dyson, Kayode Ojo, Pope.L, and Jessica Vaughn, four black artists who address aspects of blackness in abstract and conceptual forms that imply bodies unseen.

The artist decided during the process with the aluminum producer to show the back of the cast and then finally take away the alumium - ness by patinating the entire steel and aluminum sculpture in gunmetal black.

As a cross-disciplinary artist, Gates» expresses his meaningful and empowering works through an array of artistic practices including painting, sculpture, audio, and performance art.The title of the exhibition references The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois», a publication considered among the most important work in African American literary history and sociology.

So the black gold from the mines is at the centre of this exhibition of large - scale installations and sculptures: The deep black of coal, its shimmering surface and tactile qualities were used as aesthetic resources by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, David Hammons, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet or the ZERO group.

It was the first commission by a black British artist and was part of a national fundraising campaign organized by the Art Fund and the National Maritime Museum, who have now successfully acquired the sculpture for permanent display outside the museum's new entrance in Greenwich Park, London.

250 of the works in the collection were collected by Dr. Hammonds and included sculptures and masks from Africa, paintings from Haiti, and a variety of art forms by Black American artists.

Caught in an unceasing dichotomy: colony and metropolis, white and black, poor and rich, progress and destruction of the earth, traditional and contemporary society are subjects approached by the artist via atypical sculptures.

The show features work by 29 artists total — Carrie Mae Weems, Rashid Johnson, Robert Irwin and Louise Nevelson, to name a few — who explore the color black through various media, including sculpture, painting, video, photography, installation and, in Mutu's case, performance.

Its highly ambitious first show was curated by Paul Schimmel and scholar Jenni Sorkin, and explores the way in which 34 female artists (such as Louise Nevelson, Louis Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Ruth Asawa, Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, Jessica Stockholder, Karla Black, and Liz Larner) over the past 70 years have radically shaped and changed the conversation around sculpture in modern and contemporary art.

Published for a show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Shift concentrates on recent politically charged work by Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum (born 1952), sculptures of black steel cages holding biomorphic glass forms, iron barricades riddled with bullet holes and a curtain made from barbed wire.

ATLANTA — Black rubber fragments from recycled tires have been painstakingly twisted, knotted and folded to create the complex and expressive abstract sculpture «Mixed Messages,» by artist Chakaia Booker.

Emerging black artists starred last month at the Armory Show, New York's biggest contemporary art fair, where Nicodim Gallery sold out of paintings and sculptures by South Africa's Simphiwe Ndzube on the first day...

Nearby, the young artists Loren Kramar and Ebecho Muslimova were examining a sculpture of a quarter - rainbow, created by their Cooper Union classmate Joe Kay, which lay 20 feet below a towering black painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat.

Nineteenth - century landscape paintings by a self - taught black artist hang on the walls, Baroque sculptures of dancing figures face each other in an otherwise sterile vitrine, and baseball caps from Knuckles's collection are displayed commercially in a row within that nearby open - ended vitrine.

1987 Message Units, 516-277-4338, New York, US About Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, US Saga 87 (premiere foire), Eric Linard Editions, Grand Palais, Paris, FR Ohne Die Rose... Grusse an Beuys von 199 Kunstlern, Stadtisches Museum Haus, Monchengladbach, and Koekkoek, Kleve, DE XXX Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, DE Group Exhibition, Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, DE Hyperspaces, Art City, New York, US Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Snow, Weiner, Nannucci, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, CA; MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, CA; Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, CA; Forrest City Gallery, London, Ontario, CA; Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, B.C., CA Marc Hostettler und die Editions Media, Graphik - Sammlung ETH, Zurich, CH Stichting Fort Asperen, Asperen, NL Group Exhibition, Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan, IT Group Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT Jack Goldstein, John Lamka, Lawrence Weiner, Piezo Electric, New York, US Folkwang Video, Videogalerie Gerry Schum, Essen, DE Incrocio - Un Racconto, La Saleriana, Erice, Sicily, IT Aspects of Conceptualism in American Work, Part II, Avenue B Gallery, New York, US Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas, XXX Anos de..., Centre Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, MX Leo Castelli: A Tribute Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US Comic Iconoclasm, ICA, London, UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IR; CornerHouse Gallery, Manchester, UK Dessins, Gallerie Catherine Issert, Paris, FR In Print - Artists» Books, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, AU Director's Invitational, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, US Musee St. Pierre Art Contemporain Lyon, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York, US Hommage a Leo Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR Group Show, Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, DE Group Show, Galerij de Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE Nachtvuur, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, BE

The artist has screen - printed monochromatic collages directly on to the soft plaster of the sculptures, resulting in sections of blacks, whites and smeary greys reminiscent of old newspapers, scuffed by time and difficult to read.

This book features new, monumental sculptures by German artist Georg Baselitz (born 1938), in bronze and burnished black, accompanied by a radical body of paintings titled Black Paintblack, accompanied by a radical body of paintings titled Black PaintBlack Paintings.

In addition to Farmanfarmaian's mirrored sculptures, visitors will encounter Montana artist Andrea Fraser's poignant pyramid of cast off Brazilian Carnival costumes, British artist Hew Locke's symbol - laden parade mural made from black Mardi Gras beads and Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's glitter - coated collages inspired by Caribbean dance clubs.

It was the first commission by a black British artist and was part of a national fundraising campaign organised by the Art Fund and the National Maritime Museum, who acquired the sculpture in 2012 for a permanent display outside the museums entrance in Greenwich Park, London.