Sentences with phrase «sign painters working»

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Paul Hickman: I started my career as a sign painter when I was 15 and after college continued for the next 16 years working with toxic and environmentally degrading materials.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

From the «precursors» who developed Congo's first works on paper when it was still a Belgian colony to the 1970s «popular painters» who worked as sign painters and created comics, and a new generation of artists that emerged in the 2000s, this unique show offers an historic overview of Congo's artistic landscape.

The painter's mark in these works becomes a sign orienting him in an inwards quest to find an emotional self.

Lund uses fabric wallpaper as backgrounds for the works, and their messages have been painted by a sign painter according to Lund's directions.

From 1993 - 1997, Alÿs collaborated with Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta, and Emilio Rivera, all of whom work as rótulistas — professional street sign painters — in Mexico City.

The artist Bob and Roberta Smith — who is one man, Patrick Brill — celebrated the creation of Art UK by presenting a new work in his trademark sign - painter's lettering, proclaiming «through our public collections we all own art», to the parliamentary art collection, one of more than 3,000 collections already represented on the website.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

Baldessari's early works were painted phrases derived from contemporary art theory, painted by sign painters in a standard font often used on signs, thereby changing the «accessibilty» of these texts.

During this period he also worked as a freelance sign painter and typesetter.

Time Machine / Hippie Dandy at Meliksetian Briggs is comprised of Gray's new photo - based sculptural work, an installation of the original paintings made by the Ghanaian sign painters, as well as, ephemera from the artist's year long performance piece, Ray.

Schwabsky writes: «the fact that so many painters today are working along the broad and very porous border between abstraction and images is a sign that this boundary is, in itself, an object of great fascination.

«We've been very lucky to work with so many talented and fascinating people who have been kind enough to talk about everything from Milton Glaser to being a female sign painter to designing title plates (and why we shouldn't be saying «mastheads»); or opening up their studios and sketchbooks for us.»

It was while working in New York as a sign painter by day and an abstract painter by night that he had the idea to import the giant - scale, broadly painted representational pictures from outdoor advertising into the realm of fine art.

A self proclaimed «American painter of signs,» his work explores touchstones of our national culture and identity, focusing on the overt and subconscious power of language.

The same year, Baldessari moved to Santa Monica, where he met many artists and writers, and began to collect photographic images from films and other commercial sources that he would use in his work; during the same period, he photographed himself in deliberately amateurish compositions, and employed local sign painters to execute text - based works.

October: Following the Academy's suggestion that he work at a «people's owned» factory and then reapply, Richter takes a job as a sign painter at DEWAG in Zittau.

Also available are works by and about Richard Avedon from a private collection, including the 1969 silver print Willem de Kooning, Painter, Springs, Long Island, printed circa 1975, estimated at $ 7,000 to $ 10,000, and a selection of rare photobooks, many of which are signed.

As an avid collector of Pop, Op and Abstract Expressionists — including works by fellow artist (and sign painter) Robert Indiana, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Motherwell, Gerald Laing and others — Gallery Director is a role that fits Bill Pugsley like a vintage Zoot Suit.

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.

With a razor sharp style that reveals her training as a professional sign painter, Auerbach makes works on panel and paper that are a refreshing spin on the traditions of Conceptual art and Concrete poetry.

It has been more than 20 years since Robert Indiana has had a show in New York, but in early February the «American painter of signs,» as he once called himself, will find his work all over Manhattan.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

May 1, 2014 — May 1, 2015 American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio Exhibitions in Colleges and Museums, 2012 - 2015 Painting Center, «Wit», Curated by Joanne Freeman, New York, NY, 2013 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013 - 2008 (Annual Exhibition) Paris CONCRET, «American Abstract Artists International», Paris, France, 2012 Parc Floral De Paris, «Le Salon des Realties Nouvelles», Invitational, Paris, France, 2012 The Ice Box, Crane Arts, «Abstraction to the Power of Infinity», Curated by Janet Kurnatowski, Philadelphia, PA, 2011 OK Harris Gallery, «American Abstract Artists 75 Anniversary», New York, NY, 2011 Galerie oqbo Deutche Kunstlerbund, «75th Anniversary American Abstract Artists International», Berlin, Germany, 2011 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, «75h Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists», Ithaca, NY, 2011 Sideshow Gallery, «Material Matters»: American Abstract Artists, Curated by Kat Griefen, Director AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2007 Florence Lynch Gallery, «Material Sign» (four person exhibition), Curated by Stephen Westfall New York, NY, 2006 RB Stevenson Gallery, «New Year Gallery Selections», San Diego, CA, 2003 2002, 2000 Art Resources Transfer, «A Conversation Exhibition», New York, NY, 2003 The Affordable Art Fair, «Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art», Pier 92, New York, NY, 2002 Klein Art Works, «Blotto» (four person exhibition), Chicago, Ill, 2000 Condesa Lawler Gallery, «Abstract Index», New York, New York, 1999 Art Initiatives, «Dealer's Choice», New York, NY, 1999 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1992, 1985 The Gallery at Hastings - on - Hudson, «The Legacy of the Abstract Expressionists», Hastings - on - Hudson, 1990 0scarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY, 1987, 1985 Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA, 1986 Ruggiero Henis Gallery, «Mixed Media», a sculpture exhibition Curated by Fredericke Taylor, New York, NY, 1989 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 San Francisco Art Institute, «Four Painters», San Francisco, CA, 1981 «Art Today USA II» (organized by David Galloway, Teheran, Iran, 1976 Newport Harbor Art Museum, «Market Street Program», Los Angeles, CA, 1973 San Francisco Art Institute, «Drawing Invitational», San Francisco, CA, 1973

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

Located on the corner of the Bowery and East Fourth Street in the East Village, the work was hand painted by sign painters and was installed during the summer of 2005.

Her works are graphic, and appear commercially manufactured, however each work is meticulously hand - made, with a brush or pencil; she paints or draws the discrete objects herself, and employs a sign painter to produce her large - scale architectural interventions.

His work references his early creative career as a sign and billboard painter, and the media soaked images of popular culture.

From 1939 to 1949 Thiebaud worked as a cartoonist, sign painter, and illustrator.

In the late 1980s, however, he became disillusioned with his working methods and abandoned his own art for two years to train as a professional sign painter.

Rosenquist worked as a commercial artist and sign - painter in the late 1950s and put this training to use in vast, billboard - style canvases which appropriated images from advertising.

Barbara Desassure (1930 - 2001) Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 inches (canvas) Signed and dated 1974 lower right Desassure worked in East Tennessee and was heavily influenced by the Knoxville professor - painters of the late 20th...

After leaving school the next year, he held a series of odd jobs before returning to sign painting, joining the sign painters union and working mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the wosign painting, joining the sign painters union and working mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the wosign painters union and working mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the woSign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the world.

It was his work as a professional sign painter that would profoundly shape both his approach to art and his artistic persona.

Indiana called himself a «sign painter» to suggest the humble origins of his artistic activity in the American work ethic and to indicate his fascination with the use of words in signs.

Murphy's experience as a professional sign painter (working at Steve Powers» ICY Signs) also shines through in a group of color vinyl abstractions adhered to opaque plastic, conjuring the low - budget advertising of bygone eras.

The Los Angeles — based artist, sign painter, and fabricator has been instrumental in producing the iconic works of a great number of big - name leads, including Kay Rosen, Stephen Prina, Mike Kelley, and Lawrence Weiner.

Apart from the three works signed by Picasso, the paintings include pieces by Renoir and Andy Warhol, as well as Romanian painters Corneliu Baba and Nicolae Grigorescu.

Mark Grotjahn: Sign Exchange explores this early series of works, displaying the signs the painter received in exchange for his paintings.