In 1970, he took a beautiful black - and -
white photograph of his artist friend Michael Buthe — and then painted the face over with primary red, blue and yellow hues, a typically nose - thumbing gesture.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2001, 36 pages, 8 black and
white photographs of the artist, 10 color reproductions, essay by Barbara Cavaliere.
Among other pieces, it sold a large - scale black - and -
white photograph of the artist's own bookshelves for $ 60,000.
Not exact matches
Lange's compelling black - and -
white photographs, exquisitely reproduced, provide the drama in this biography
of the famous
artist who showed the nation the faces
of individual people caught up in the great events
of the time.
These black - and -
white life - size
photographs of naked women in their 90s posed against a pure
white ground, as if they were already in another world, were shocking when they were first shown, about 12 years ago, when the
artist was in his early 40s.
He then included some
of my
photographs in a group show he co-curated with Marilyn Minter and Fabienne Stephan at
White Columns — Early Work — with gallerists who had once been
artists: Gavin Brown, Maureen Paley, Jeffrey Deitch, Pat Hearn, and Konrad Lueg (aka Fischer!).
The
artist creates works as signifiers
of the destruction
of the natural world by «colonial powers», via a series
of tabletops containing mineral fragments and
photographs of equatorial scrublands.The minerals are representative
of the original environment now re-contextualized within the
white cube
of the gallery space becoming «art», and forming a dialectic concerning «value».
In the 1930s, she lived in France with the legendary English writer Ford Madox Ford; her brother Jack Tworkov was far better - known as a painter; in New York in the 1940s, she was in the heart
of the Abstract Expressionist scene (she's the woman in the
white blouse between Bradley Walker Tomlin and Robert Goodnough in a much - reproduced
photograph of the «Studio 35
Artists» Session»
of 1950), but never gained much recognition for her own paintings.
Joan Semmel looks like two different
artists in the group show («Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel and Nancy Shaver: Black and
White Photographs 1975 — 77») curated by Robert Gober at Matthew Marks and in her jewel
of a solo («Joan Semmel: Self - Images») at Mitchell Algus.
The five sections
of Before Pictures are named after Crimp's addresses in Manhattan, and each begins with a beautiful black and
white photograph of a building he lived in, taken by the
artist Zoe Leonard.
New York — Pace and Pace / MacGill Gallery are pleased to inaugurate their representation
of British
artist Richard Learoyd with an exhibition
of his large - scale color and black - and -
white photographs made over the last decade.
Using her distinct style
of juxtaposing black and
white photograph and red - boxed letters, she illustrated the hidden power
of corporate control, a topic dear to both
artist and band.
Created three years later, A Pot
of Boiling Water (1995) also records an equally fruitless process in a series
of twelve black - and -
white photographs: the
artist carries a pot
of boiling water as he walks through the traditional hutongs
of Beijing while pouring hot water onto the ground, drawing a wet line that vanishes almost immediately.
The Brazilian - born
artist works with photography and painting to make mixed - media artworks that take cues from John Baldessari's renowned dot works by painting circles and geometric lines over black - and -
white photographs of landscapes.
As one
of the three
artists who comprised Renaud's first exhibition in 2002, Deschenes has presented significant and distinct bodies
of new work with each incarnation: Blue Screen Process (2002), Black and
White (2003), and for this exhibition, a new body
of works that stem from the
photographs recently exhibited in Bracket (London) at Campoli Presti.
Celacanto Provoca Maremoto is a mural covering four walls, made up
of 184 painted canvas panels —
white - and - blue squares that recreate original tiles the
artist photographed, depicting parts
of angels, wings, and other decorative motifs, as well as the texture
of cracked tiles.
Ten days after the Women's March
artist Jonathan Horowitz exhibited a pile
of free posters at Petzel Gallery — an altered image
of Trump
photographed from behind playing golf, in all
white except for his red MAGA hat.
German
artist Gerhard Richter has created Strontium, a large - scale mural for the new de Young derived from digitally - manipulated
photographs, that together form a geometric black and
white motif representing the atomic structure
of strontium titanate, a synthetic substance often used to create artificial diamonds.
The images» continuing power, more than 60 years later, to speak about race and violence is being demonstrated once again in protests that have arisen online and at the newly opened Whitney Biennial over the decision
of a
white artist, Dana Schutz, to make a painting based on the
photographs.
Be sure not to miss booths by Benrubi Gallery from New York, a leading gallery with a focus on 20th Century and contemporary
photographs; Blindspot Gallery from Hong Kong, a gallery with a primary focus on contemporary image - based works; Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery from New York, a gallery with a major commitment to representing new media
artists who are exploring the intersection
of arts and technology; Dittrich & SCHLECHTRIEM & V1 from Berlin, a gallery representing emerging, mid-career and established
artists from around the world; Fraenkel Gallery from San Francisco exploring photography and its relation to other arts; Gagosian Gallery from New York, Hong Kong, Beverly Hills, Athens and Rome; Hamiltons Gallery from London, one
of the world's foremost galleries
of photography; Galerie Lelong from Paris focusing on an international contemporary art and representing
artists and estates from the United States, South America, Europe, and the Asia - Pacific Region; Magda Danysz from Paris, Shanghai and London dedicated to promoting and supporting emerging
artists and favouring a larger access to contemporary art on an international level; Mai 36 from Zurich focusing on trading and presenting international contemporary art; Pace Prints / Mac Gill, a publisher
of fine art prints and
artist editions affiliated with the Pace Gallery; Richard Saltoun Gallery from London specialising in post-war and contemporary art with an interest in conceptual, feminist and performance
artists; Roman Road from London; Rosegallery from Santa Monica, an internationally recognized gallery
of 20th and 21st century works on paper; Taka Ishii Gallery from Paris, Tokyo, and New York devoted to exploring the conceptual foundations and implications
of contemporary (photo) graphic practice;
White Space from Beijing; and Yumiko Chiba Associates from Tokyo, among others.
This exhibition brings together the
artist's iconic black and
white self - portraits, a group
of colour
photographs that have not been publicly exhibited since 1983, rare sepia landscapes and, in collaboration with the
artist's estate, introduces a group
of his
photographs in a large - scale format for the first time.
Later works include Warhol's black - and -
white photographs of newspaper vending boxes, his grids
of «sewn»
photographs featuring newspaper headlines, significant silkscreened paintings, and his collaborations from the 1980s with younger
artists Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat.
(A pendant show here, Kerry James Marshall Selects, offers a revealing glimpse
of the
artist's sources and inspirations: a stern portrait from the workshop
of Hans Holbein, flowing figure studies by Veronese, a social - realist lithograph by his former teacher Charles Wilbert
White, and a
photograph of Gerhard Richter's wife, smudged with paint.)
Featured throughout the exhibition is a black and
white photograph Meckseper took
of the Niedersachsenstein monument built by the Expressionist
artist Bernhard Hoetger in her hometown, the early 20th century
artist colony, Worpswede.
Painting walls, floor and most
of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation
artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage black - and -
white photographs of actors and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each
of her works.
Extensive installation views capture the dynamic combination
of visual imagery and text that has come to characterize Pettibon's practice, and a selection
of gritty black - and -
white photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath offers an intimate glimpse into the
artist's working process.
Having garnered an international reputation as one
of the leading
artists to emerge from the New York Pictures Generation
of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons has thoughtfully and methodically moved through her various photographic series, such as Early Black and
White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and other banal props; and Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a series of black - and - white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human
White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and other banal props; and Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a series
of black - and -
white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human
white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human legs.
Thus Don McCullin, quoted on the information board
of a new display at Tate Britain
of around 50 black - and -
white silver gelatin
photographs, chosen and printed by the
artist himself.
Drawing upon her own recollections
of the South, the memory
of her friend and mentor,
artist Cy Twombly, and their shared past in Virginia, Sally Mann presents a series
of color and black - and -
white photographs of objects in Twombly's studio.
Vintage black and
white photographs evocative
of Twentieth Century American ideals find their home under the same roof as cutting - edge video installations and suspended sculptures by contemporary
artists.
They include Li Pinghu, Tang Maohong and Birdhead — a photography duo made up
of the
artists Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, who take atmospheric black - and -
white photographs of their native Shanghai.
Many
of Arden's earliest works from the middle
of the 1980s, some
of which appeared in his first solo exhibitions at
artist run centres like Western Front in Vancouver in 1986 and YYZ Artist's Outlet in Toronto in 1987, consist of found, black and white archival photographs of urban scenes in Vanc
artist run centres like Western Front in Vancouver in 1986 and YYZ
Artist's Outlet in Toronto in 1987, consist of found, black and white archival photographs of urban scenes in Vanc
Artist's Outlet in Toronto in 1987, consist
of found, black and
white archival
photographs of urban scenes in Vancouver.
Webb, Todd A collection
of over 300 black and
white photographs by an
artist Alfred Stieglitz compared to Ansel Adams.
photograph © Todd White Photograph courtesy of the artist and McKe
photograph © Todd
White Photograph courtesy of the artist and McKe
Photograph courtesy
of the
artist and McKee Gallery.
Based on a black and
white photograph from the 1930s reproduced in the Sunday Express, a copy
of which his mother found under the carpet
of the house they moved to in 2006 when his family reluctantly left the farm following the death
of his father and the subsequent financial hardship
of farm trading, the image has poignant autobiographical association for the
artist which he often revisits.
Other nostalgic highs include Rosalind Fox Solomon's black - and -
white documentary
photographs of down - and - out
artists, AIDS patients, graffiti - covered subways, Reagan posters, and Princeton grads, which poignantly expose the contradictions
of a city marred by class divisions.
In 1951, a year after 18 irascible New York
artists posed for a now - infamous black and
white photograph, Jean Dubuffet delivered a lecture entitled «Anticultural Positions» to a rapt audience at the Arts Club
of Chicago.
Comprised
of a video in three parts with soundtracks in English and French, along with dozens
of black - and -
white photographs, Secret reflects on the
artist's experience inhabiting a semi-deserted apartment in Le Corbusier's concrete housing block, Unité d'habitation, located in Firminy, France.
Over the past year and a half, the
artists and individual works on view in American Legends have rotated for various reasons, among them conservation requirements (works on paper and
photographs can typically be on view for only six months) and loan commitments (for example, Marsden Hartley paintings are on view in Berlin and the
White House is borrowing work by Edward Hopper), but the inclusion
of postwar
artists was a substantive change, inspired in part by our simultaneous work on the Whitney's Robert Indiana retrospective.
Black - and -
white photograph of cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint in
artist studio, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
Rubinfien, who is known as a protégé
of Winogrand, provided context for the prolific
artist's work as a slideshow
of black - and -
white photographs was projected overhead to a packed auditorium.
Each
artist approaches the impossible task
of taking on the celestial infinite with very different sensibilities and materials: black and
white analog
photographs, muted but richly saturated color, collage, charcoal drawings based on negatives and video / performance.
An exhibition
of this calibre deserves to be in the main gallery rather than tucked away in a side room; but these
photographs and videos are by women
artists, and with Donald Trump entering the
White House, it looks as if treating women as second...
My personal collection
of photographs from
artists across the globe is dominated by small, black and
white, silver prints.
Image: © the
artist Courtesy
White Cube 3 September — 2 October 2010
White Cube Mason's Yard Known for works that meditate on notions
of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and historical memory, Almond brings these themes together in two bodies
of work: a series
of time - lapse
photographs taken in the Faroe Islands, -LSB-...]
Untitled (Double Portrait
of Artist with Frustula Sculpture), n.d. Black - and -
white photograph with original paint marks, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
On view in an adjacent gallery will be a selection
of Robert Mapplethorpe's black and
white photographs of flowers, along with an audio recording
of a conversation between the
artist and Marieluise Hessel that took place in 1988.
The
artist then cut and painted directly on the negatives, resulting in
photographs that have the appearance
of a faded black - and -
white film.
In celebration
of the 100th anniversary
of Minor
White's birth, Howard Greenberg Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition
of the
artist's
photographs.
Her
white wall paintings begin with the
artist taking close - up
photographs of an empty
white wall.