Sentences with phrase «text paintings»

Secrets pulled from the bowl are turned into text paintings on canvas, and a small set of these canvases are displayed above and around the station for writing.

This influence can be seen in the way he approaches text paintings such as Stranger # 37 in its all - over composition and evidence of the artist's process.

He began making text paintings in the late 1980s, drawing on the insightful words of James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston.

All have served as the basis for Glenn Ligon's series of text paintings and neons exploring race, identity, language and abstraction.

IT WAS THE FIRST LOT OF THE NIGHT, a white - on - white text painting by Glenn Ligon.

The horizontal boards that make up the walls of the deconstructed «home» become like lined paper, with texts painted directly on the inside walls by prominent, contemporary African American writers and poets: Tisa Bryant, Danielle Legros Georges, Robin Coste Lewis, and Kevin Young.

He began making text paintings in the late 1980s, drawing on the candid speech of Richard Pryor, blunt lyrics by Ice Cube and the eloquent, passionate and insightful words of literary figures James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston in an ongoing exploration of black identity and the challenges of navigating White America.

From his earliest text paintings in the late 1960s to his more recent «storyboard paintings», Baldessari has always reveled in the playful dislocation between text and image, expanded here in this most recent body of work.

This month, one of his signature text paintings fetched $ 4.2 million at Christie's, and this piece — derived from a 1993 painting sold when the artist was repped by Leo Castelli — has the full - throttle, all - American gusto of his best work.

The white on white text painting, executed with oilstick, graphite and gesso on panel, was originally painted in 1990 and enhanced in 2003.

He came upon the idea for text paintings in 1987 when, while walking in New York, he spotted a white van spray - painted in black graffiti.

In 1989, Mr. Wool debuted his now - iconic stenciled text paintings at SFMOMA, and in 1997 Kara Walker showed her black paper cut - outs of plantation scenes featuring acts of sex and violence for the first time on the West Coast.

This exhibition is Ross's fifth solo exhibition and for this one, he has created a series of minimalist text paintings.

Here we find painted sculptures with «low» cultural references, graffiti - inspired text paintings and large installations with performative elements.

In an interview with Artspace, Indiana notes that he began to combine his graphic text painting with classical sculptural forms once he left his urban environs: «How could I resist?

Gardar Eide Einarsson will be represented by a new text painting rendered in black, white, and gray.

A shrine, or a tribute to abstract expressionism, or so I thought, as Saskia Pintelon's more - image - than - text paintings came into view.

Bob and Roberta Smith's iconic text painting Letter to Michael Gove was shown in the Academy's 2014 Summer Exhibition.

In his usual fashion, the artist juxtaposed his low - brow, inexpensive multiples (in this case engraved brass belt buckles) with his humorous, angst - ridden, pseudo-confessional text paintings.

His simple, wavy stick figures painted over metallic backgrounds, or wonky chevron patterns, are a figurative version of his older series of «DUMB AND EASY» text paintings exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery in 2011.

For the current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Israel has collaborated with the celebrated author to create text paintings — fragmented narrative combined with lush stock imagery — that mine their native landscape.

At EXPO CHICAGO Powhida will exhibit from a new body of work that combines installation with his signature trompe l'oeil text paintings.

Sean Landers is best known for his layered text paintings, which typically advertise his artistic triumphs and failures in tragicomic fashion.

Zürcher Studio itself presented Brian Belott's hectoring text paintings, which both mock daily life and convey how it mocks us.

Although Wool pretty much shut down his franchise in text paintings after 1992, there are a pair of late stragglers in the show, one from 1997 and the other from 2000; but the artist keeps changing his tactics, trying new ways of creating «false fronts and psychological stances.»

An introduction to the Californian Conceptual artist's witty work, from his wry text paintings to his colorfully dotted film stills.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

Franklin Evans papers the stairs with its history, while Andrea Geyer's text paintings cite older artists and patrons.

In the early 1990s, he made a few text paintings based on spicy quotes from Pryor routines.

When Pablo Helguera dedicates his project to text paintings announcing that all proceeds will go to his favorite causes, even politics becomes a sales pitch.

In other text paintings, Tompkins incorporates close - ups of the female body, drawn from her own provocative oeuvre.

I tried to make these Myspace glitter text paintings once, but they were not translating.

He had been known for his big text paintings and was experimenting with much more pared - back abstract work.

Imagine an Ed Ruscha text painting, and remove the painting.

This plays out in colorful text paintings, in which self - help - inspired affirmations — such as «I found myself,» «I see myself in you,» and «To thine own self be true» — are painted both backwards and forwards as if reflecting off one another in a mirror.

Rauschenberg combine paintings, Rothko color - fields and Baldessari text paintings are all parroted and strung together into one joke that is not only laughing at the unfortunate protagonist of its internal riddle, but also at the past fifty years of artistic production.

The young Brooklyn gallery Real Fine Arts has an extravaganza, with Nicolas Ceccaldi's portraits of the writer Michel Houellebecq and Morag Keil's funny text paintings, as well as a larger abstract canvas by Jon Pestoni.

Artist Daniel Joseph Martinez (born 1957) has recognized the relevance of this allegory to present times, and through text paintings, photographs and sculptures, he has traced contemporary Los Angeles onto Foucault's conception of Narrenschiff.

There's a Joseph Kosuth text painting here, «Andy Warhol (Art as Idea as Idea)» (1968) with an Andy Warhol quote on it: «People are so fantastic.

Hundley's work recalls the vernacular text paintings of Ed Ruscha, the surrealist gestures of René Magritte, the imagined mise en scènes of Karen Kilimnik, the nostalgic assemblages of Carol Bove, the personalized mailers of Ray Johnson, and the spare poetry of Carl Andre.

Perhaps best known for his monochromatic and highly textured text paintings that draw their content from American history, popular culture, and literary works by writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, Mary Shelley, and Walt Whitman, his work explores issues of history, language, and cultural identity.

There was a charming suite of Jack Smith works on paper at Gladstone, a smart new Glenn Ligon text painting at Regen Projects, and some Robert Overbys punctuating the booth at Andrew Kreps.

PH: That's something I saw a little bit later, but there is this tradition of these kind of queer text paintings, kind of humble and small, him and Paul Thek, which is the next one.

Their designs — based on Rosenquist's 1961 I Love You with My Ford and Ligon's 1988 text painting No. 417 (Sweetheart)-- launch today at the Standard Spa, Miami Beach, where they will be available to guests looking to take a dip.

Still, walking through the neighborhood last week I became so preoccupied by a striking text painting on an otherwise nondescript parking garage that I walked straight past the enormous, seemingly un-missable studio of artist Steve Powers.

In the past few years Tompkins has been recognized for her spirited «Fuck Paintings» — large canvases consumed by closely cropped images taken from pornography — and «WOMEN Words,» small text paintings made up of words and phrases used to describe women.

In 2004, the gallery served as the site of Glenn Ligon's first solo gallery show in Los Angeles, an exhibition of his gritty text paintings, which borrow passages from a vast array of cultural figures, from Ralph Ellison to Richard Pryor.

These ranged from a retrospective of Carmen Herrera's minimal abstractions at the Whitney, a new suite of feminist text paintings by Betty Tompkins at Gavlak, and the inclusion of Huguette Caland in the Hammer Museum's Made in LA biennial.