Sentences with phrase «where layers of paint»

Her mastery combines several techniques in compound compositions, where layers of paint focus to seize the viewers in long «conversations», whether within themselves or among themselves.

Not exact matches

Three layers of yellow chalk paint, a little bit of sanding to distress the paint, and sealing with a clear wax took about 2 hours, where as the rest of the project took 3 days!

Hunter writes: «In the show, twelve recent, mostly large - scale, conventionally stretched works share fast - looking brush strokes; few visible layers of oil or acrylic; a graphic, flat appearance that emphasizes surface; and the impression — confirmed in the curatorial statement — that these paintings did not take long to make... The works in the exhibition raise the question, for me, of what it is that we value about painting right now — where we locate meaning and value in paintings made quickly.»

My figures are painted in the method of the old masters, where I build up thin layers of paint over an extended period of time.

In each painting, a thin, vertical line where the cleansed and painted sections of the composition meet visually vibrates with the remnants of the surface's original layers of paint and separates the two halves of the canvas.

Most of the work in this show comes from the past decade, comprising mostly three - dimensional paintings on plywood, where layered forms and colour combine to create a motley crew of cartoonish figures that are loud, grotesque and irreverent.

This [large grid sculpture to the right of us] is a series, maybe the last of that series, of what I called «Falling Grids,» where I set up a grid of string and poured paint over it with multiple layers and hung it on the wall.

Of central focus to his oeuvre are his monochrome works where — using layers of oil or acrylic gel on hard reflective stainless steel, aluminum or Perspex — he combs the paint across the surface in continuous rhythmic movementOf central focus to his oeuvre are his monochrome works where — using layers of oil or acrylic gel on hard reflective stainless steel, aluminum or Perspex — he combs the paint across the surface in continuous rhythmic movementof oil or acrylic gel on hard reflective stainless steel, aluminum or Perspex — he combs the paint across the surface in continuous rhythmic movements.

Bradford is best known for his collage - layered paintings that express the energy and poetry of life in the city, particularly Los Angeles where the artist lives and works.

The three vertical panels, in addition to referencing the traditional triptych format, appear to be horizontally subdivided into three regions: a relatively quiet area along the top, bordered by a long squeeze of red paint that crosses the surface from left to right; a densely layered strip across the center, where the majority of the collaged elements are concentrated; and a band of brightly colored stripes that fills the bottom.

, where it obscures the numerous layers of paintings, both abstract and figurative, she laid down over a period of seven years.

Where Hook's process is heavily layered and labored, Emily McGrew's canvases are bright, fresh and immediate, their feminine subjects painted from a combination of photography and the artist's embellished memories.

The revelation can be architectural - as in his 1973 work at the Galleria Toselli in Milan, where he had layers of paint stripped from the walls to expose the original plaster surface - or functional, as in his piece for the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles, in which he made public the business operation of the gallery by removing the wall dividing the exhibition area from the office and storage space.

The show is curated by David Manley, who also shows some magnificent paintings, including those on circular aluminium supports that merge layers of polygons, as in Old Sixfiveseven Again, where planes of serial hexagons pentagons and heptagons combine to form a visual, cacophony.

Based on images of part of the large site - specific painting created directly on our walls and floor, she has created a completely new installation of printed fabric that hangs where the original used to be, now hidden under many years of layers of wall paint.

Installed among a number of large, monochromatic pictures, now known as the White Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948 Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948 paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948 and 1952.

His work is about the business of looking, whether he's painting dense Caribbean forests in layers of dripping paint (recalling his multi-million selling near - contemporary Peter Doig), or the Birmingham parks where he played as a child, (his various attempts to paint the scene over-layering each other in a way that brings to mind the master of dour Slade School - realism, William Coldstream).

Half a dozen larger works will be on display as well as a number of pieces from the artists «Incising» series where acrylic paintings on clayboard are lightly carved to exposing the underlining color forms, continuation in the artists curiosity with layering, movement and linear connections.

His exquisitely rendered drawings and paintings draw on dream imagery, where the surface of his work relates to both the mind and the body, and becomes a skin on which to create layers of marks, volumes of text, leading the viewer into another world.

From the psychedelically primordial My Forsaken Love, in which biomorphs traverse a black - fringed molten - pink ground, to the strata - like composition of Standing on the Riverbank of My Hometown I Shed Tears, a canvas filled with sedimentary layers of cell - like dots, eyes and extravagantly decorated lashes, the paintings generate new motifs and arrangements of forms while continuing a lifelong preoccupation with the mysteries of the physical and metaphysical, the tangible and ineffable - the space where seeing and feeling intersect.

[14] Schneemann took the ideas found in her figurative abstract paintings of the 1950s, where she cut and destroyed layers of paint from their surfaces, and transferred them to her photographic work Eye Body.

Time enters this work through the very process of painting, with multiple decisions, a layering of scraped and repainted passages, compounding across their surfaces like maps of their own making, before finally settling into something like a stop along the way, a welcome place where we can rest and draw a breathe before resuming the path.

«My oils are layers upon layers of paintings at a time where my taste was changing as fast as I personally was,» says Sullivan.

Liat Yossifor's gestural paintings are the result of three - day sessions where she approaches each canvas with one thick layer of oil paint.

This filtering technique is also evident in Grosse's recent canvas works, where stencils are placed over areas of the canvas at various stages of the painting process, resulting in chromatic layers that record her thoughts and actions.

If you want to follow an acrylics lesson using oils, where the style of the lesson is more towards realism, you'll need to wait much longer between painting layers than the instructor does during their lesson.

The paint is matte and, in some areas of the work, you can see where she has added another layer of color over a shape to readjust its edge or to change the hue.

New York (TADIAS)-- Addis Gezahegn's work «depict dreamlike deconstructed and layered renderings of urban landscapes rising above the ground,» states the announcement from Addis Fine Art Gallery where his most recent paintings will be displayed in a solo exhibition in Addis Ababa from January 30th through March 31st, 2018.

SHIPPING: All paintings are packed very carefully in cardboard boxes (recycled where possible) with generous layers of bubble wrap to protect them.

For me, these powerful paintings also reference Gustav Klimt's decorative patterning and, among contemporary artists, the densely layered figurative collages of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Nigerian - born artist who came to the United States at the turn of the century and received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in 2006 from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where William now leads the MFA Program.

The story of experimentation continues with a long stretch of painted fabric by Robert Kushner hanging in front of a corner where a video screen showing his 1978 Duet, from the performance piece Layers, reveals that the object originally functioned as a prop.

The regained breath of space allows taking in with one glance each of the gallery walls, where works are knowingly grouped so to highlight, respectively, the heterogeneous material supports Ryman used, the attention he gave to the joints between the painting and its backdrop, the manifold modes of paint application, and the muted nuances coming across layers of his signature white paint.

These artworks manifest as a double layered painting where colorful mixtures of Japanese sumi ink, charcoal, and watercolor on the underside of the framed glass interacts through light and perspective with the complimentary painting beneath the glass.

Shortly after, she made her first shooting paintings (Tirs), where capsules embedded in a layer of plaster were shot and exploded their paint across the work of art, like blood.

Known for his tactile, map - like collage paintings, Bradford's trademark monumental, mixed - media abstractions layer string and advertising posters stripped from the streets of his notoriously gritty neighborhood, where he maintains his studio.

Working from these images, with brush and palette knife, she works wet - on - wet creating a kind of sculptural space where paint sits upon paint in one uniform layer.

Over in the Pratt Alumni Painters exhibit at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, paint is morphing off the walls, particularly in Kris Scheifele's work where, through the use of acetate, layers of paint were formed into three - dimensional objects free of any canvas.

Working on canvas allows Otto - Knapp to layer each detailed yet atmospheric image, subverting the difficulties of watercolour by producing substantial paintings that accentuate the imperfections of the medium, such as the drips where the paint fails to absorb.

Many of his works including the Global Miniatures (2009), display Bayjoo's signature style of creating politically and culturally charged collages where symbols of national identity — flags, maps and cultural motifs — are combined with translucent layers of paint, reflecting on the effects of colonialism and migration.

Depending on the temperature, humidity, viscosity of the fluid and the pressure, paint will react with the material differently each time, where the bleeding fragments of runny color, around and in between the lettering, remind of the Pollock's dripping, while the thick layers of paint give out a bas - relief impression.

His monumental, layered works often painted after black and white photographs explore the shadow side of human ambition and investigate the line where ethical and aesthetical values cross.

They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms... his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through the final layers of paint.»

Precision might seem like a harsh, unemotional descriptor for admittedly dreamy works, but Akunyili Crosby's paintings thrive upon a scaffolding of order and structure, where fixed compositions allow layers of emotional narrative to surface unhindered, uninterrupted.

The refracted light, bouncing off the glittery silicate, creates ineffable layerings of space, where skeins of color seem to hover above the previously applied layers of paint, a softly sensual contrast that halts the the aggressive, creative - destructive momentum governing the painting's gestation, forcing an about - face in the character of the work.

Alongside solid blocks of color are moments where Whitney allows a hint of the history of the specific painting to peak from beneath an obscuring layer.

The paintings are woven from small obsessive brush - marks, reminiscent of the caked edges of a painter's pallet; where colours build - up by random application layer upon layer.

Sounds like your painting has «sunk in'this is where different amounts of oil have soaked into the support (your canvas) and made the painting look dull and «dead» this is exactly what you want to have if you are building up the painting in layers, if you have finding it hard o judge the colours you can «oil out» the canvas.

The diffused sprayed layers don't feel like a specific picture plane, instead they are a space where parts of the painting can act or perform.

The paintings are executed in oil, built up with many layers of luminous color, including bright yellow, red, and several different blues, in addition to black and white, pale gray and subtle white - on - white works, where shadows are an integral part of the image.

The stained surfaces create layered, non-hierarchical spaces where colors, shifting planes and chunks of paint float like fleeting thoughts.