In contact with nature he made
several small oil paintings that he turned into large - format works in his studio back in New York.
Not exact matches
Interspersed among them were
smaller oil paintings of bodily fragments: a lipstick - smeared mouth, a single breast and
several renditions of two faces entwined in a kiss.
Also on view are
several early non-ballpoint works; an early lithograph Untitled (1979); a drypoint etching Untitled (1980); two
small crayon and
oil on paper works Untitled B (1980) and Untitled R (1980); an acrylic and
oil on board Untitled 84 - 6 (1984); and Untitled 82 - A (1982), a stunning example of an early
painting drawn with a sharp nail and a precursor to his recent acrylic and
oil paintings.
Tête d'homme (estimate: # 800,000 - 1,200,000) was one of a
small group of 12 intimately sized, experimental
oil paintings which emerged in 1932 at a pivotal moment in the artist's career, following
several years marked by what the artist termed a «crisis of personal consciousness».
As striking in their way as any of Church's major
paintings are his
small oil studies and sketches, many executed wholly or partly in the field and
several in the studio as designs for the major works.
Amy Sillman «s newest work includes high and low, fast and slow, large and
small, and ranges across mediums, from large - scale
oil paintings to a 7 - minute digital animation and
several hundred inkjet prints made from stills of the animation.
Like the title, the five large
paintings and
several smaller pieces, made with
oil paint on linen, play with perception through form and color.
Dakar - based artist Soly Cissé will show nine
small monochrome
paintings deftly straddling the figurative and the abstract, Claire Gavronsky will show an
oil painting addressing notions of memory and loss, and
several works by the incomparable Robert Hodgins illustrate the flex and the power of the medium.