Sentences with phrase «signature abstract works»

Over the course of her nearly 30 - year career, Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) has emerged as a singular force in contemporary art, an influential «artist's artist» whose signature abstract works in metallic and ultraviolet pigments must be experienced firsthand.

Not exact matches

Tokyo Police Club's signature sound, the niche that they carved out for themselves in a constantly fluctuating music scene (an emphasis on rhythm and abstract, maze - like lyrics with real emotion at their center) is almost completely gone, replaced by a rabid pop sensibility that sometimes works and sometimes really, really doesn't.

The signature style of abstract artist Polly Norman, whose Prehistoric Ride Through a Lavender Sky is our Work of the Week, combines both those media to yield a dreamy, kinetic feel.

The exhibition features a signature work from each major phase of Stamm's oeuvre including the «Dodger» and «Zephyr» series, a «Tag» drawing, and polaroids of Stamm's abstract graffitti «Designators» - black forms from his paintings that he spray painted onto buildings in New York.

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

Consider the most visible trend in recent years of Zombie Formalism, a kind of reductive, easily produced abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name of the artist himself becomes the brand.

Eamon Ore - Giron originally worked in figuration before developing his signature abstract style.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

Thus when the viewer sees the red date and signature of one of Mr. Kim's recent paintings the first association may be with the chop signature of a traditional Korean ink drawing, but it may just as easily be considered as a formal addition to the painting much in the way that Robert Ryman has continued in his work of 1996 to incorporate the date into his own seemingly minimalist, abstract paintings.

He continues to mix observational photography with abstract work, often montaged in his signature displays in which photographs, magazine cuttings and photocopies are taped directly onto the wall at different heights and arranged in vitrines or on tables.

Visiting abstract painter Mike Elsass in his Front Street studio By Bill Franz Photo: Mike Elsass» signature rusted steel paintings hold as many as 40 layers of paint; photos: Bill Franz Mike Elsass may be Dayton's most colorful artist, and he works in what is definitely Dayton's most colorful studio.

His recent works simultaneously employ his signature cartoon - like drawing style and investigate formal implications in abstract painting with psychedelic and often absurd space and color.

Thomas» series of prints often relate to her signature works on canvas and are dynamic, masterful orchestrations of abstract forms and marks realized by hands - on manipulation of printing plates.

These highly finished pieces often featured car and motorcycle motifs, such as the chevron symbol placed at the center of his works, and many include Bengston's signature sergeant's stripes, or abstracted images of hearts.

This painting is the first of 14 abstract representations of the Stations of the Cross, and it is also the first work to feature Newman's signature «zips.»

This collection of his paintings is a departure from this theme and includes stylized portraits as well as purely abstract works in his signature palette of black, white and red.

The ardent drop of blood is assembled from abstracted epigraphic forms, a signature of Farhat's body of work.

In identifying different qualities of abstraction, it helps to know that a calligraphic drive is evident in Valerie Mankoff's abstract work, which has a mannerist, stylized signature.

Combining the seductive invocations of fire with Guyton's signature use of abstract lettering, these works played a critical role in the development of an oeuvre that has come to represent one of the twenty - first century's most searing enquiries into the relationship between art and technology.

While his early works were predominantly abstract, involving intricate patterns and colors, he has since developed a signature figurative style that bridges the gap between the sacred and the profane, and by extension, between high art and popular culture.

Though he never signed or dated any of his works, the exceptionally bright and contrasting colours and the vibrancy of his forms — vaguely evoking flowers, birds, objects and human beings, but more often dissolving into abstract shapes — unquestionably became a signature of sorts.

Referring as well to both abstract expressionism and the signature blue of Yves Klein, the work asks us to reconsider the relationship of abstract art to politics.

Wool's signature text paintings, such as an untitled work on paper from 1992 reading HOLE IN YOUR FUCKIN HEAD, may well describe what all the scampering and art - absorbing has done to you, but you can lose yourself in some of the master's more abstract works, such as Maybe Maybe Not (2003), and perhaps achieve a moment of calm amidst the H Queen's storm.

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

New York sculptor Joel Shapiro, still working his signature, nearly abstract stick figures, showed how personal responses to momentous events — in this case the political debate over torture and terrorism — can find expression in an art idiom that at first looks reassuringly familiar.

Moon's Nahan's Forty Winks, a lithographic musing on Korean American dual - consciousness, offers the kind of rich cultural treading and social relevance that make abstracted works in the exhibit, such as Willem de Kooning's lithograph or Ellsworth Kelly's signature geometric shapes, seem like empty reproductions compared to their much more triumphant works in painting.

After the late 1980s, Steinkamp — who exclusively uses Autodesk Maya 3 - D animation software to create her signature style — worked with very abstract imagery, inspired in part by digital art pioneers like David Em.

For his New York debut, Cruz has taken his work in an entirely new direction; moving away from his signature representational backdrops, and utilizing automatic gestures to create bold, impasto paintings that are both visually and conceptually abstract.

For contemporary abstract works, see Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011), famous for his signature style of painting, combining elements of calligraphy and graffiti; Frank Stella (b. 1936) a pioneer of experimental minimalism; and Sean Scully (b. 1945), noted for his large - format abstracts.

On May 9, Joan Snyder will open an exhibition titled Sub Rosa at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, which will feature all new work, including «Symphony VII» (2014), a glorious abstract landscape (with four large roses) demonstrating the artist's signature bravura brushstrokes in pinks, purples, yellows, and reds, combined with paper mache, silk, berries, and dried sunflowers.

The most expensive piece of American art sold at auction, this signature work by one of the great abstract painters of the mid-20th century, and a pioneer of Colour Field Painting, is the second most expensive post-war painting sold at auction, after Francis Bacon's Triptych.

In this body of work Mondrian investigates the surface of the sea, a task which helped him formulate the grid that would become signature of his abstract style.

As evident in this unique work, Jazz Me Blue, Reznikoff's abstract paintings evoke jazz's signature improvisation and expressive qualities.

The exhibition will also include some of her signature mirrored print pieces — part abstract painting, part screen print, part text works.

Bois worked directly with Kelly on the book and will share insights about the artist's years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting his signature abstract forms.

He works in a variety of media (steel, plaster, wood, ceramic, plastic) creating abstract, often large - scale sculptures with a signature use of bright vibrant

Named after one of the artist's signature colorful, abstract canvases (Some Pretty Colors, 2001; illustrated at left), the exhibition will explore the development of Heilmann's distinctive painterly style with works that date from 1989 to 2006.

CAM Raleigh presents five of these signature works — all abstract — in which the artist layers oil paint onto a plate - glass or Plexiglas support before scraping off the accumulating «skins,» as he calls them, and collaging them onto a canvas, letting the thickened medium ripple, sag, and wrinkle, marvelously, across the cotton surface.

Schnabel's signature works, both abstract and figurative, have as a base surface either black velvet or broken crockery.

At Art Brussels, the concrete abstract painter is finally getting his due in a solo booth filled with his signature word paintings from the»80s and»90s — an ongoing series in which the artist hides letters and words within graphic, abstract works.

Expanding on his signature abstract geometric style, works from this period demonstrate the expansion of his color - plane theory beyond the use of primary colors and simplified planes.

Ruhwald is converting the rooms in Unit 1 into abstracted spaces using materials from the building and neighborhood along with his signature ceramic works.

To leave in your wake artistic legacies, documents, abstract bodies of work and knowledge, conceptual paradigms, aesthetic philosophies and methodologies, signature styles, mythic identities, is to increase confusion exponentially....

Although many contemporary art collectors own a representative work or two by Martin, the Fishers have abstract paintings and drawings by her reaching back to 1959, before her signature style emerged.

The third grouping is particularly interesting, with Barbara Morgan «s contact proof photos of Martha Graham performing some of her first signature works, in 1935, next to more abstract works by Morgan, a work by Ruth Asawa.

Recalling the artist's early abstract expressionist work, the underpainting is dense with Tworkov's signature flame - like brushstrokes that are covered with a precisely rendered geometric grid of rectangles.

His signature works were his signature works, and they were buttressed by his «mirror paintings,» his palette paintings, his exhibition - announcement paintings, his abstract paintings and then his stop - sign paintings, his leaf paintings, his fish paintings, his paintings - shown - sculpturally - on - weird - hobbled - together - looking - stages, skeleton - paintings, awesome little ceramic doodads and a stunning amount of artist books.

An important factor is the way Munch's late self - portrait Between the Clock and the Bed (1940 — 1942) is linked to Johns» series of abstract cross-hatch works that became something of a signature motif for him in the 1970s.

The work is in many ways characteristic of what one might describe as Snyder's signature style — it is large in scale and brightly colored, its composition is guided by a grid - like structure, and it contains both abstract and narrative elements.