Not exact matches
While Edelson, Alexander, and Hershman Leeson focus largely on the female body, Graham Anderson's figurative
paintings, which were on
view at Klaus von Nichtssagend, dissolve the
nude male into a decorative abstraction.
New
paintings on
view feature monumental
nude figures and intimately scaled body parts.
Billy Childish: flowers,
nudes and birch trees: New
Paintings 2015 Installation
view September 10 - October 31, 2015
In the 1970's she began to depict
paintings of her close family, and major series of
nude, which had the notion of eroticism, in regard to the female point of
view.
As mentioned above, The Blue
Nude, representing the idea of the disfigured body, or the simplification of the body into an ornamented surface, like in his
painting Red Room, are just one of the ways that the figure could be
viewed to represent different symbols.
Color and black & white single panels, diptychs, triptychs, and a five part reclining figure were all made using a 40 - by - 80 inch Polaroid camera and will be on
view alongside the 10 - by - 21 foot Big
Nude, a 1967
painting on loan from a private collection and never before exhibited publicly in New York.
On
view in the current show are large oil
paintings, including PieFace (2008), Travellers (2008), Figure in Interior (2008), Snowman (2008), Reclining
Nude (2009), The Smoker (2008), Pond (2007), among others, in addition to small oil
paintings, including Figure in Landscape (2008) and Chrissy (2009).
The central theme of his
paintings and prints is space: from the intimate close - up
views of his early
nudes to the broad panorama
views of his monumental pictures of the Grand Canyon, executed in late nineties.
On
view will be contact sheet of details for Big
Nude, 1967, the inspiration for Close's first large - scale
painting based on a photograph.
A lion with a blue - plumed pirate hat, an obsidian
nude with her face blacked out, a mysterious rider on horseback — the settings and characters in Peter Doig's newest
paintings, now on
view at Michael Werner Gallery, are at once strange and somehow totally familiar, like scenes from myths or dreams.
Many things on display in «14 Rooms» would make for excellent clandestine iPhone photo fodder: there's Damien Hirst's Holly, Gretel, in which two identical twins were reading the same Jodi Picault novel under a Hirst spot
painting; Marina Abramovic's Luminosity, from 1997, featuring a
nude woman suspended on the wall and washed in the glare of a spotlight; an early Bruce Nauman performance called Wall - Floor Positions; and, as an epilogue, Jordan Wolfson's [Female Figure], the now - famous robot that was on
view at David Zwirner earlier this year.
On
view will be a video from 1978, dozens of
painted chairs, and a large series of recent works on mylar, including a 10 - foot tall image of a man proudly sporting an enormous penis and a triptych depicting three crouching,
nude, spread - legged women, all
painted in Applebroog's signature style of simplified human forms with bold outlines.
On
view are «Large Dark Figure» (1962 — 63), a shadowy, abstract
painting, and «Two Sisters» (1976), a highly realistic work of two female
nudes, both of which reveal the range of her exploration into how best to capture her subjects.
Turning the perspective of her compositions to her own body as subject, she began
painting the
nude female figure, shifting the point of
view from outside of the canvas as the viewer, to a simultaneous observer and subject.