Sentences with phrase «totemic works»

Indeed, the painstaking attention that Truitt paid to each of her totemic works in their conception, belies a physical encounter that was of great importance to the artist: «[T] he fact that I have to use my whole body in making my work seems to disperse my intensity in a way that suits me.»

The artists unique vocabulary and research in abstraction will include three totemic works in Gallery 1 and a group of smaller scaled works in Gallery 2.

Not exact matches

Opening reception: Thursday, September 11, 6:00 — 8:00 pm Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present new sculpture and photographic works by Matt Keegan with Landfall, 1970, a totemic column by Anne Truitt (1921 - 2004).

In the work of French - American De Saint Phalle, meanwhile, totemic sculptures recall surrealist works as well as so - called outsider art, in their resistance and playful subversion.

Singular and totemic, this work alludes to the relationship between the observer and the observed, with a weighty and de-compositional read that highlights the tensions between material durability and perceived fragility.

Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.

Additionally, there are pieces made of welded sheets of bent steel that bring to mind Caro, Richard Serra, and Brian Wall, and seem at first the opposite of her totemic, hand molded and painted bronze pieces in the other spaces, the body of work to which Pas de Deux also belongs.

[5] Simpson's sculptures, with their totemic forms, suggest costumes, coverings, or containers for the viewer's body — the audience animates the work with their own memories and desires.

He flourished as a critic in New York from the 1940s to 1960s, but even today, decades after his best - known work and 17 years after his death, he is a totemic and constantly invoked voice on modern art.

These totemic materials predominate throughout the German artist's work, with the myth as a resonating centre of meaning, both personal and historical, even if the story itself isn't really true.

It is in their ability to navigate between the abstract and the figurative, the technical and the totemic, that these works take their place among the twenty - first century's most captivating painterly projects.

Weaving together the socio - political, activist, mystical and animistic traditions, Geers creates works of art that are talismanic and totemic in nature.

A selection of works by Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat, Katherine Bernhardt, Tyson Reeder, Joe Bradley, Chris Martin, Sarah Braman and many others, sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas.

Deshayes homages this powerful moment with the work Lupa, a sculpture made of eight aluminium parts bolted together to create a totemic circuit board that is suspended in - between the rough, the engineered, the organic and the mellifluous.

Ligon writes in the catalog2 (which also includes an essay by Fred Moten) that his inspiration for the show occurred while he was standing in front of Ellsworth Kelly's totemic Blue Black (2000), one of three works permanently installed in the exquisite complex designed by Tadao Ando.

The artist writes, «On the one hand, the totemic cypress stands firmly planted in its place; on the other hand, its motion, its reaction to changing air currents, to the wind, activates the space and the works.

This exhibition reveals the broad scale of Ross» work from the large, free - standing, colorful metal sculptures whose simple forms evoke the totemic monuments of an ancient world to the smaller lyrical wall reliefs composed of wood veneers that create a visual extravaganza when placed next to one another.»

This retrospective of Anne Truitt's works on paper spans the four decades of her career, from the early 1960s — when Truitt first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which she is best known — to the last years of her life.

In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art the design concept for his most monumental work, a 2,715 - square - foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black and white marble panels.

In addition to the wall reliefs, Kelly's work in three dimensions is further represented by Curve XI (1974), an early example of one of the artist's totemic sculptures.

Work by Irish artists using a variety of materials include a totemic cast resin sculpture by Eilís O'Connell, a work by Siobhán Haphaska of lacquered fiberglass, basalt and moss playfully pitching the organic with the mass produced and a bronze installation by Michael Warren in homage to Eileen GWork by Irish artists using a variety of materials include a totemic cast resin sculpture by Eilís O'Connell, a work by Siobhán Haphaska of lacquered fiberglass, basalt and moss playfully pitching the organic with the mass produced and a bronze installation by Michael Warren in homage to Eileen Gwork by Siobhán Haphaska of lacquered fiberglass, basalt and moss playfully pitching the organic with the mass produced and a bronze installation by Michael Warren in homage to Eileen Gray.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

Shown across five monitors, the work seeks to create an alternate reality in which five totemic entities recite an eerily subjective poem.A second piece of work utilises the cables from each of the five monitors, so that they become an integral part of a large black and white paper collage displayed on the other side of the wall, questioning what is the back, what is the front, and what the subject is?

Nearby, sherds of Medieval German stoneware excavated from the mud of the City of London have faces inscribed in them that recall Upritchard's totemic ceramic works.

Totemic in form and looming from high above the viewer, the scale of the latter renders the photograph more intimate than inscrutable by contrast, while the enigmatic quality of the small work heightens, by proximal suggestion, the quasi-religious solemnity evoked by its neighbor.

They may also be seen in the context of Moore's totemic bronzes, such as Upright Motive No. 1 Glenkiln Cross, 1955 - 6 (Alan Bowness ed., Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 3: Sculpture 1955 - 64, 1965, LH 377, pls.18 - 20), and the columnar works of William Turnbull, such as Janus 2, 1959 (Tate Gallery T01382, repr.

Each work condenses the film's dominant themes — death, rebirth, and the twilight era of modern America — into totemic sculptural form, while invoking the complex personal iconography of Barney.

Recent work such as the Totemic Masks of his Totems Series look at the sacred in consumer objects of past and present.

Still believed that his monumental canvases — notable for jagged fields of raw color anchored by contrasting hatching and bisected by spindly, totemic verticals — should be seen together, in isolation, away from other artists» work.

In addition to Truitt's signature totemic columns, two horizontal works are included.

The 40 works on view date from the early 1960s, when she first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which she is best known, to the last years of her life.

2017 Builders, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX Fantastic Facade, LVL3, Chicago, IL Deconstructed, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD 2016 Helter Skelter, Launch F18, New York, NY Water Work, Soho House curated by Patrick Muhundro and Andrea Bergart, New York, NY Transaction, Knockdown Center curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom, Queens, NY Knife Hits, Spring / Break Art Show, New York, NY Faulted Valley Fog, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY Painting Reassembled, SUNY Westchester Community College curated by Erika Mahr, Westchester, NY 2015 Surface Matters, Knockdown Center curated by Holly Shen and Sam Katz, Queens, NY Handmade Abstract, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY Object» hood, Lesley Heller Workspace curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, New York, NY 2014 Ultra Deep Field, Rockford University Art Gallery, Rockford, IL Site Lab, Old Morton Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI BRIC Biennial, BRIC Arts in partnership with LIU University, Brooklyn, NY Insider Joke, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2013 Rushgrove House, Rushgrove House in conjunction with the Royal College of Art, London, UK Limber: Spatial Painting Practices, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury UK and the Grandes Galleries de L'Erba, Rouen, France Material, Storefront Bushwick, curated by Liz Dimmitt, Brooklyn, NY Middle Zone, Projekt 722, curated by Corydon Cowansage, Brooklyn, NY No Longer Preseidents But Prophets, Delicious Spectacle, Washington DC Inside Voices, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Drawing Today, Fort Worth Drawing Center, Fort Worth, TX Paint Things, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2012 Bleach Blue, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Primary, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD Masculinisms, Garden Party / ARTS, Brooklyn, NY Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Fakin It, Meyer Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH 2011 Living Arrangements, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO Off the Wall, Visceglia Gallery at Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York, NY Out of Practice, Art Blog Art Blog curated by Nudashank, New York, NY RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI New Insights, Art Chicago with NEXT cuarted by Suzanne Ghetz, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL 2010 Interriuer / Exterieur, Dubois Galerie, Pont - Aven School of Contemporary Art, France Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University Totemic, The Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Known as In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, the new body of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful aesthetic.

The individual heads are combined into a series of totemic sculptures titled a wave or a tower or a stack of niggas on a plate (all works 2015) and presented in the half of the room wallpapered with holographic film.

Jamie Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used within the work to impose forms of power and control.

In addition to Truitt's signature totemic columns, three horizontal works are included.

Priapus is a new edition based on a cast plaster work made by Sarah Lucas as part of her Penetralia series, a group of totemic objects inspired by her move to the Suffolk countryside and combining casts of a penis with fragments of found flint and wood.

This pyramidal totemic sculpture is a form of delocalized psyche and its exoskeleton — composed of steel cubes of various sizes stacked to create a three - dimensional grid — evokes the geometric compositions of Sol LeWitt and the modular works of Carl Andre.

MG I always liked the way your work connects to a long history of figurative sculpture, which to me is strongly interwoven to the basic ideas of art making: funerary sculptures, totemic figures, magical or cultural objects.

Bickerton's mixed media work, titled Tormented Self - Portrait (Susie at Arles) No. 2 (1987 — 88), went beyond appropriation and re-signification of commercial imagery by creating a totemic tableau.

Organized by LACMA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, this exhibition is Pousette - Dart's largest in a museum on the West Coast and will showcase the artist's transcendental mysticism in fifty drawings from 1940 to 1992, representing his progression through as many styles — from the totemic, which marked his early years, to the abstract black - and - white of his later works — as there were decades of production.

The earlier works were totemic, iconic; these new ones are scapes.

The book traces the development of several important bodies of work, from the Penetralia sequence begun in 2008, a series of plaster and fiberglass sculptures of totemic pink phalluses, to the recent series of NUDS sculptures, which consist of nylon tights stuffed with fluff and fashioned into ambiguous biomorphic forms, redolent of Louise Bourgeois.

The art work, along with two other golden totemic sculptures on view (The Figure of the Question of Death and The Figure of the Interrogative Philosophy), illuminate Byars» interest in the transient experience of beauty and evoke simplified versions of the human form and the physical manifestation of «question.»

It was Viola's totemic clay figures that inspired the scale of my work.

Last year, he followed up with an exhibition called «The Oracle,» a show that brought together a range of contemporary and historic works: sculptures by the esteemed Henry Taylor, 19th century carvings from the Sudan, totemic ceramic pieces by Ruby Neri, and Joseph's «m.A.A.d.» video, an extraordinary multichannel rumination on the real and the imagined in the city of Compton.

She was affected by the monumental and totemic qualities of Maya art, elements of which she subsequently incorporated into her own work.

Richard Deacon's first exhibition with Lisson Gallery Milan brings together floor - hugging ceramic and modestly scaled but totemic wooden works: flat earth and standing trees.

In addition to the fabric heads, it also included a series of cell - like vitrines housing curious scenes of ecstasy and torture; a group of totemic figures, reinterpreting in fabric her early sculptures from the 1940s and»50s, and a selection of graphic works.

The works on view here include expansive canvases by Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 — 2011), Joan Mitchell (American, 1925 — 1992), and Lee Krasner (American, 1908 — 1984); intimate collages on paper by Anne Ryan (American, 1925 — 1992); a major bronze sculpture by Dorothy Dehner (American, 1901 — 1994); and a totemic wood sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (American, born France.