Sentences with phrase «where figuration and abstraction»

Not exact matches

Following in the tradition of The Club (1948 — 1962), an organization on East Eighth Street, where lectures and panel discussions openly aired the debate between figuration and abstraction, and inspired by The Club's renegade members who organized The Ninth Street Show (1951), an exhibit that shook up the establishment, downtown artists developed bylaws and launched their own spaces.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

Composition with Two Figures, 1979, and Face and Feather, 1979, push the question of figuration versus abstraction to its limits, to the point where it becomes difficult to distinguish the human figure within the abstract composition.

Different in scale and style, his painterly production contemplates both intimate and delicate paintings where figuration fades into abstraction, as well as more exuberant and confrontational works that deploy references to pop culture, sexuality and consumerism.

And that is where it is in De Keyser too — crossing and recrossing the border between abstraction and figuration, and between the process of making a painting and the invention of an imaAnd that is where it is in De Keyser too — crossing and recrossing the border between abstraction and figuration, and between the process of making a painting and the invention of an imaand recrossing the border between abstraction and figuration, and between the process of making a painting and the invention of an imaand figuration, and between the process of making a painting and the invention of an imaand between the process of making a painting and the invention of an imaand the invention of an image.

A similar tension is prevalent in Förg's sculptural work, where bronze masks flout a fine line between figuration and abstraction.

Art critic Jonathan Goodman once wrote that Puder's paintings are «at the cusp between representation and abstraction, where the overall gestalt is accessible as figuration but also presents itself as a nonobjective arrangement of forms.»

We visited the artist in his studio, where he revealed his working practice, from his battle between abstraction and figuration, to why he prefers to use acrylic paints.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which also represents Thompson, is showing African - American artist Beauford Delaney; his portraits, city scenes, and abstractions are marked by spirited, liberal brushstrokes, and tell the stories of the intellectual circles he traversed in New York, and Paris, where he moved 1953 and was inspired to abandon figuration.

The exhibition will consist of a new body of work where — as usual — the boundaries between abstraction and figuration are unclear, and where the artist captures blurry memory leftovers with the intention to establish an intimate dialogue with the viewer.

Simon Lee Gallery in Hong Kong is proud to present the group exhibition Fractured where the featured works play in both figuration and abstraction

It's not immediately clear what unites these artists, much less around Daniëls — few, if any, have had a direct relationship with the artist, but all seem to share with Daniëls (and, it should be said, with Kantarovsky too) an interest in the moments where figuration exceeds itself and spills into abstraction.