Joan Jonas's interest in the arts began at a young age and was cultivated by
several significant artists and noteworthy institutions.
Not exact matches
«A
significant element of my work is representing time and place through a merging of sculpture, painting, and photography; this idea was catalyzed in part by my trips to Marfa over the past
several years,» says the
artist.
That's because there are
several key «value indicators», that inform how an
artist's work performs at auction: gallery exhibitions, solo museum shows, museum collection representation, and
significant press coverage.»
Opening at Blenheim Palace on 10th October, the exhibition will showcase works conceived by the
artist over the last
several decades, in addition to
significant, site - specific works, created especially for the Palace.
But another subset of «emerging» that has gotten a
significant amount of curatorial, critical and market attention over the past
several years is
artists from decades past who might have very accomplished but overlooked practices, and who have only lately been reintroduced to and supported in the marketplace.
Chareau and his wife were keenly interested in contemporary art, and the exhibition reunites
several pieces from their collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by
significant artists such as Piet Mondrian, Amedeo Modigliani, Max Ernst, Jacques Lipchitz, and Robert Motherwell.
The collection also includes
several drawings and prints produced by
artists better known as sculptors: Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Louise Nevelson, and a
significant group of preparatory studies by Seymour Lipton.
Bringing together for the first time all of Johns» light bulb sculptures and related drawings and prints — including
several drawings and modified prints from the
artist's own collection — this volume offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine Johns» practice through a single image and reveals
significant relationships between his two - and three - dimensional work.
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.
It also has published
significant catalogues that have accompanied its exhibitions, and has been instrumental in the publication of
several artist monographs.
Among the new arrivals is a
significant set of 10 time - based media works from the collection of Peter and Mari Shaw, including Melik Ohanian's The Hand (2002), and Promises (2001) by Anri Sala; 12 Japanese paintings from the literati, Zen and Kano schools, from the Gitter - Yelen collection;
several examples of American furniture design; and an exceptional 16th - century stained glass window by French
artist Jean Chastellain depicting The Adoration of the Magi.
Jonas (born 1936), a brilliant practitioner (and pioneer) of video, performance, and installation art, is among the most
significant artists of the past
several decades.
Several galleries will highlight works that are
significant to our current social issues, including includes Accola Griefen Gallery, who will present the work of Marie Watt, an American
artist and member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
Reflecting the numerous strategies of production and display that co-exist within art photography today, on view are framed prints, wall - sized installations, light boxes and digital videos by
significant artists across
several generations, including Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Anne Collier and Elad Lassry.
Added Art AIDS America Co-Curator and Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo Jonathan Katz, «With the representation of
several significant Chicago
artists of color and the sheer scope of space that the Alphawood Gallery has committed, truly the Chicago exhibition is THE definitive Art AIDS America showcase.
... For example, even though I have undertaken
several research visits to the US, and have been privileged to visit many
artist studios, and to collect a
significant amount of material on African - American
artists, I have yet to see examples of work that in any way deals with the hostile political realities of life for Black people in Britain.
His curation projects have included
several international exhibitions, most notably «Transplantation: a Sense of Place and Culture», a
significant exhibition of work by Australian and British jewellery
artists which is currently touring Australia until August 2015.
In addition to
significant loans from prestigious private collections and institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the exhibition will include seminal work from
several of the
artists» personal collections.
It is a truly
significant acquisition for the National Gallery by an
artist whose career took him to
several European capitals, including Venice, Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Warsaw.»
Second Nature represents the first survey of Los Angeles sculpture from this period — and a bigger commitment to sculpture for the Hammer, following the museum's
significant 2005 exhibition Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, in which
several of the
artists in Second Nature made an appearance.6 It also marks a sort of «snapshot,» as Valentine describes it, of a decade of exceptional, medium - intensive artistic production in Los Angeles.7
Showing a number of contemporary
artists, as well as representing
several estates of historically
significant artists, the gallery confronts the canonical dialogue between modern and contemporary art through exhibitions that feature
artists working in multiple disciplines including painting, photography and sculpture.
On view will be
several smaller - scale, early works in metal and cord from the 1960s;
significant permutational works from the 1970s that change over time; reliefs and site - situational constructions from later in the
artist's career; and a selection of drawings and
artist's books, thus demonstrating the scope of formal and conceptual invention that the
artist achieved within his defined idiom.
And it's incredible that before Varnedoe died, he planted seeds for
several retrospectives of
significant living and contemporary
artists, which began with Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, and then Martin Puryear.
Her eponymously titled Katharina Grosse, the
artist's first gallery exhibition at Gagosian in New York, follows a series of recent,
significant US public and private commissions, and includes works from
several interconnected groups of untitled paintings produced during the past twelve months, plus new, cast metal sculpture.
It is interesting how the diversity and multiplicity that has existed in Kallat's own practice, from materials and media to ideas and meanings, is also evident in both the Museum's centuries - old exhibits as well as the
artist's works on display — thereby making «Earth Families» a befitting stage to showcase the oeuvre of one of India's most
significant contemporary
artists, whose work is part of
several public and private collections across the world.
Rosenquist, an inductee of the Florida
Artists Hall of Fame, received
several significant commissions while living in Aripeka, Florida.
RISD Museum's latest exhibition runs through January 4, 2015, and features
artists from four distinct American regions that had a
significant impact on figurative art in
several mediums.