Sentences with phrase «several generations of artists who»

That's the focus of our collection: we collect works by several generations of artists who deserve recognition but have been overlooked; whose stories aren't necessarily known but deserve to be.

Not exact matches

Their extravagantly installed exhibitions, the artists» free - wheeling individual approaches, and their varied and compelling work have all had a wide - ranging and profound influence on several generations of their students and on many younger artists since then, including such well - known figures as Chris Ware (SAIC 1991 — 93), Sue Williams, Gary Panter, and Amy Sillman — as has been documented in the recent film Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists.

He is part of a generation of artists who gained prominence when abstract expressionism's specter remained strong; several of its leading figures — like Still, De Kooning, and Motherwell — were alive and making important work.

The collection includes works by artists associated with the loosely knit group known as the «Pictures Generation,» such as Cindy Sherman and John Baldessari, who appropriated images from the mainstream media, as well as several members of the Düsseldorf school of photography.

At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose work and life can not be separated from one another — a painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one of the most significant of his generation.

They represented several generations of Chicago - based artists who apply activist intentions, conceptual strategies, and experimental artistic approaches to complex social issues; they epitomize a larger «critical mass» of peers who have sustained and invigorated this kind of critical art practice in Chicago.

Edgar Orlaineta is a Mexican artist who has developed several functions in his environment, not only as an artist but also as a cultural and contemporary art promoter, for example, during 1996 to 1998 he ran a project space called Art Deposit where a lot of artists from his generation had a chance to exhibit their work for the first time.

The collection boasts several works by artists such as Vibeke Tandberg, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Ann Cathrin November Høibo and Fredrik Værslev — a generation of Norwegian artists who have made their mark internationally.

The exhibition presents works by fourteen artists of European and American provenance over several generations who operate in terms of both form and contents between a conceptual reception of painting and an investigation of influences from the mass media.

Several generations of Murillo's family, including his parents, have worked there in various capacities, and the artist, who was born in 1986 and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1990s, retains close ties to the site.

«A very early practitioner of socio - political Happenings and installations,» notes Kathleen A. Edwards, UIMA's chief curator, who organized the show, «Picard was several generations older than groundbreaking female performance artists such as Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke.

He is a treasure that has traversed generations, and witnessed several eras worth of modern art on the arms of both the artists themselves and the jetset folk who are most privy to it.

The exhibition brings together over 40 international, women artists from several generations who explore a diverse range of materials and techniques.

This show explores the influence of his depictions of ruddy - cheeked, sturdy - limbed, pleasure - seeking peasants and mysterious landscape paintings on the several generations of Bruegels who followed in his footsteps and other contemporary artists.

Indeed, Schanbel, a nearly household - name artist who has been a vast influence on young artists today (you could argue he's spawned a generation of acolytes and copycats), has only cracked $ 1 million at auction once; in contrast, Cecily Brown has several times.

Gilbert & George Artforum International; January 1, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 312 words LONDON Gilbert & George TATE MODERN February 15 - May 7 Curated by Jan Debbaut Gilbert & George claim that «Most people who saw our last retrospective [in the UK] are dead,» but their influence on several generations of younger British artists is clear.

Spearheaded by a generation of American artists - strongly influenced by European expatriates - who had grown up during the Depression and were influenced both by World War II and its Cold War aftermath, abstract expressionist painting was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and encompassed several quite different styles.

This month the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opened the first extensive survey of Lewis, an important but overlooked figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement — and a man who might well have been predicting history's arc for several generations of African - American artists in overcoming institutional neglect.