Not exact matches
Richard Diebenkorn, the versatile artist best known for his association with the Bay Area
Figurative Movement and later for his «Ocean Park»
series of paintings, will have his catalogue raisonné published this fall by Yale University Press in conjunction with... Read More
«Controversial for his exuberant
figurative paintings in dung and glitter, Ofili has here contributed a relatively somber composition, choosing a detail from a
series of pencil drawings entitled «Afro Margins.»
The second half
of his solo exhibition includes a
series of collaborative
figurative sculptures — papier - mâché legs outfitted in Riepenhoff's pants and shoes holding large - scale
paintings by artists from Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta, including:
«The Beautyful Ones»
Series # 2 demonstrates Njideka Akunyili Crosby's rich use
of color and collage in her complex,
figurative paintings.
His simple, wavy stick figures
painted over metallic backgrounds, or wonky chevron patterns, are a
figurative version
of his older
series of «DUMB AND EASY» text
paintings exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery in 2011.
We tend to think
of the history
of art as a
series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the
figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.
Carroll's photographs call to mind multiple art historical influences — Greco - Roman
figurative sculpture and its distinctive treatment
of draping done in marble, the opulent cascades
of textile pattern in Northern Renaissance
painting, and the still life genre — in related
series in Still / Life exhibited together for the first time.
Pollock's energetic «action
paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women
series of Willem de Kooning's
figurative paintings and the rectangles
of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field
paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstract).
An adjacent canvas, one
of a
series of new
figurative works in the exhibition, depicts a
painting Murillo encountered in a collector's home in Bogotá — showing a young boy selling fish — against Regency - style wallpaper and antique furniture.
He worked in
series, completing sets
of abstract and
figurative paintings that he often exhibited together in order to explore the assumptions connected with each mode
of painting.
Following this
series Diebenkorn
painted a group
of still liv s, another
of figurative works, and numerous cityscapes.
Sundaram Tagore Chelsea is pleased to present Susan Weil: Now and Then, an exhibition
of new sculptural
paintings and drawings alongside a selection
of mixed - media works from past
series that combine
figurative illustration and photography with explorations
of movement, time and space.
It includes
figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many
of which are based on photographs, such as the
series S. and Child, a personal and intimate variation on the traditional subject
of the Madonna and Child.
Each class becomes a community
of figurative artists whose interest in storytelling encompasses all 21st - century media: graphic and illustrated novels, children's books, comic books, and
painting series for gallery walls.
The «Cosm» sculptures are surrounded by a
series of small
paintings whose vertical format echoes the
figurative character
of the sculptures, placing the two distinct types
of object in dialogue.
The Chunk
series consists
of three, six - foot - square acrylic
paintings plus two smaller
paintings where large portions
of the canvas contain black or brown blocky
figurative structures accompanied by explosions
of straight lines
of bright colors with soft round forms capping the ends.
After several years assembling hanging installations
of two - sided
figurative paintings, Mastrangelo has recently returned to wall - mounted work in a
series of impressive
figurative collages made by adhering shapes
of brightly patterned fabrics to fiberglass scrim with acrylic binders.
In the main gallery, a new
series of notebook
paintings surround three
figurative sculptures.
Armstrong has produced a
series of figurative encaustic and oil
paintings, as well as a
series of encaustic sculptures.
Doyle has also created a
series of smaller
paintings, simultaneously abstract and process - based, that are a departure from his
figurative style and further the theme
of nature / human equilibrium.
After his last truly Futurist works — a
series of paintings on war themes — Severini
painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories
of classical balance based on the Golden Section to
figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.
[9] After a period in which he experimented with
figurative constructions, Close began a
series of paintings derived from black - and - white photographs
of a female nude, which he copied onto canvas and
painted in color.
The show features a new
series of large - scale sumi ink
paintings on canvas in Gibson's scruffy yet sensual
figurative style.
Beginning with his earliest work, Diebenkorn sustained virtuosity in not one, but many different styles, from the gestural Abstract Expressionist
paintings of his Sausalito, Albuquerque and Berkeley
series, to the Bay Area
Figurative movement, and finally, the consummate splendor
of Ocean Park.
Overpainted
Paintings are a
series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to
figurative art found in junk shops.
Lima (Dancer
Series) is an original, one -
of - a-kind
figurative painting signed by artist Katia Zhukova.
Iris -1 (Portrait
Series -2) is an original, one -
of - a-kind
figurative painting signed by artist Katia Zhukova.
Erin Dunn, who currently has a show
of figurative watercolor
paintings hanging at Tomato House, offered up two pieces
of stop - motion animation, the second
of which (titled Frog) featured a
series of short vignettes centered around a curious handcrafted monster - like figure, all bedazzled, puffy
painted, and full
of fur.
Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing
series of almost black and white
figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut
of painterly techniques, to the point the
painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.
For the nineteenth exhibition in the Projects at Clifford Chance
series, we are pleased to present a show
of new
figurative paintings, Forms
of Figuration.
Featuring a
series of new
paintings, Egan's
figurative still - lifes swallow the viewer into vivid, kitsch scenes wherein a melancholic nostalgia grows unbridled.
It would chronicle the early
figurative paintings of Richard Diebenkorn, a widely acclaimed artist who came to the forefront in the»70s with a highly prized
series of luminous abstractions.
For her newest exhibition at Sullivan Goss, Martha Mayer Erlebacher has
painted a
series of classically - informed nude
figurative paintings.
Kent Williams was recently interviewed for Artweek where he shares how he balances
figurative art with abstraction and also reveals some plans for future
series of paintings.
In this free exhibition, British artist Tom Ellis presents a newly commissioned
series of works pairing his enigmatic
figurative paintings with self - made furniture.
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.
The presentation at ABMB includes his earliest
figurative work from the 1950s; classic drawings and
paintings of the early 1960s, including two from his Ice Box
series; as well as historical themes
of the 1970s such as his mural - size, Custer's Last Stand # 1 (1973).
Though Fischl is best known for his
figurative paintings, this monograph presents a 2007
series of 13 sculptures and corresponding large - format gouache works.
After several years assembling hanging installations
of two - sided
figurative paintings, Mastrangelo has recently returned to wall - mounted work in a
series of impressive
figurative... read more... «IMAGES: Susan Mastrangelo»
Between 1941 and 1945, he completed a distinctive
series of pictures in tempera
paint that were based on the prior Market sketches, combining
figurative work within the abstract - like maze
of daily Market activity.
In two
series from 2009, Digital
Painting and After Francis Bacon, Paricio used an unusual mix
of hard - lined, flat geometric and amorphous shapes in primary and jewel colours alongside swathes
of thick, spattered
paint on canvases that were gradually edging towards the
figurative.
In this he was not quite alone: Guston also gave hope to many
figurative painters through the
series of big semi-abstract still life
paintings and interiors
of c1959 - 62.
Reaching an advanced age has found Kusama
painting more prolifically than ever and for the last few years she's also been working on a parallel
series of more
figurative paintings which she calls My Eternal Soul and which are on show at Miro's Mayfair gallery.
Despite — or, possibly, because
of — its racial connotations, it's been the noncolor
of choice for an unusual number
of recent London exhibitions, among them Indian modernist F. N. Souza's black - on - black
figurative paintings from 1965 at Grosvenor Gallery; Korean sculptor Meekyoung Shin's «Untitled (Black Series),» 2013 — comprising exquisite vases made of soap manipulated to mimic coal - colored ceramics — at Sumarria Lunn Gallery; and the late English filmmaker Derek Jarman's assemblaged «Black Paintings» from the 1980s and early»90s at W
paintings from 1965 at Grosvenor Gallery; Korean sculptor Meekyoung Shin's «Untitled (Black
Series),» 2013 — comprising exquisite vases made
of soap manipulated to mimic coal - colored ceramics — at Sumarria Lunn Gallery; and the late English filmmaker Derek Jarman's assemblaged «Black
Paintings» from the 1980s and early»90s at W
Paintings» from the 1980s and early»90s at Wilkinson.
A beautiful large abstract
figurative titled The Moment by Canadian artist Jane Evans, from her limited Shadow
series of paintings.
Subsequent exhibitions include Inter + Vista, an exploration
of contemporary vignettes via
figurative and formalist practices, shown at L + M Arts, Los Angeles in 2013 and most recently «Colony», a
series of paintings depicting the conditioned movements
of a group
of young adults ensconced in the setting
of anonymous apartments, exhibited at Galerie Haas in Berlin in 2016.
The exhibition features the
figurative series «Me and My Shadow» and «Oedipus Rex,» a
series of small
paintings installed on board that were created and installed as set design at Lincoln Center.
What's on view: The gallery, which is separated into two exhibition spaces, contains a
series of Fraga's amorphous,
figurative paintings on crinkly found paper in one space, while in the other, his collection
of altered found objects and materials forms the basis
of a spacious, room - sized installation.
Among these are the artist's most famous, landmark
paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman
series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations
of all his most important
series, ranging from his
figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions
of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions
of the mid 1950s to the artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions
of the following decade.
A close friend
of the poet Frank O'Hara, she collaborated with him on Oranges, a suite
of figurative paintings that incorporate passages from his 1949 poem
series.