Sentences with phrase «whose figurative paintings»

But Mr. Diebenkorn's conversion to figuration in the mid-1950's stunned some East Coast critics, especially those unfamiliar with Park and Bischoff, whose figurative paintings of the early 50's set the stage for him.

She is a teacher and author whose figurative paintings have earned national recognition.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.

Euan Roberts is a London based artist whose figurative paintings and illustrations have been recently causing on a stir on the capital's art scene.

Not exact matches

And Jhaveri Contemporary from Mumbai, will introduce you to the luscious semi-abstract figurative paintings of Mohan Samant (1924 - 2004), whose motifs are sometimes reinforced by delicate bent wires that float above the canvas, resembling drawing in ink.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

Curator Glen Cebulash, whose own work has beautifully deconstructed the figurative into interacting planes and color forms in both painting and collage, opines that realism «is a fascinating and slippery concept and one that confounds as much as it clarifies.»

Her edgy, figurative canvases sizzle with bold women in various stages of undress, and black cats whose hisses resound through her confident paint strokes.

Clare Bonnet, whose painting «Scarlet Peace» is shown here courtesy of the artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, is a Cornwall based artist who mixes figurative painting with abstract mark - making.

THE CURRENT GENERATION of figurative paintings owes a debt to Kerry James Marshall, whose 2016 multicity retrospective cemented the artist's often - stated goal, one that is as straightforward as it is enormous: to put blackness into art history.

The Guggenheim retrospective is titled «The Trauma of Painting»: to those seeking literal trauma Burri is, to use another of Sweeney's phrases, «St Januarius of the Collage», whose discarded materials become flesh and blood in the presence of the living; to those looking for a more figurative trauma, he deconstructs the flatness and purity of modernist pPainting»: to those seeking literal trauma Burri is, to use another of Sweeney's phrases, «St Januarius of the Collage», whose discarded materials become flesh and blood in the presence of the living; to those looking for a more figurative trauma, he deconstructs the flatness and purity of modernist paintingpainting.

Each class becomes a community of figurative artists whose interest in storytelling encompasses all 21st - century media: graphic and illustrated novels, children's books, comic books, and painting series for gallery walls.

In Germany, the Műlheimer Freiheit group, which Dokoupil briefly was part of, explored the contemporary expression of traditional figurative styles in intensely colourful paintings, whose roots could be found in Dada and Surrealism.

The «Cosm» sculptures are surrounded by a series of small paintings whose vertical format echoes the figurative character of the sculptures, placing the two distinct types of object in dialogue.

It wasn't surprising, then, that these abstract paintings, whose abstraction never seemed absolute, soon had figurative elements (mushrooms and tin cans) sprouting up in their midst, elements that Hawkins described as «not non-representational».

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

Today, figurative painting is experiencing an unprecedented revival, with a handful of artists who are regularly exhibiting at major institutions and galleries and whose works are counting serious dollars at auctions worldwide.

She mentioned artists like Antonia Eiríz Vázquez, a painter of powerfully dark Goya - like visions who died in 1995; Raúl Martínez, a Pop - inflected painter and graphic designer, who also died in 1995; and Alfredo Sosabravo, whose vividly colored figurative painting often combines whimsy with a social bite.

Madani's figurative paintings often feature a riotous cast of middle - aged men, balding and stocky, whose libidinal mayhem wreaks havoc on any situation the artist thrusts them into.

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

As a founding member of Chicago's famed Hairy Who (a group of figurative painters often subsumed under the banner of the Chicago Imagists whose ranks also include Karl Wirsum and Suellen Rocca among others), Nilsson is hardly unknown, but these 12 «monumentally - scaled» paintings made between 1984 and ’87 represent a selection of her later work that often goes unremarked upon in favor of focusing on her output from the 1960s.

Hassel Smith, a major figure in Bay Area art whose expressionist abstractions and figurative paintings were admired for their improvisational zeal, potency and humor, has died at age 91.

Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, is the first monograph focused on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962 - 1995), whose life was cut short by AIDS, at the age of 32.

There is an especially immersive gallery devoted to eight radiantly colored canvases by Mark Rothko, and another nearly as intense, with seven by Barnett Newman, as well as generous pockets of paintings by Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and Philip Guston, whose figurative 1969 «Edge of Town,» near the show's exit, designates him as the only artist who got out alive.

``... trippy, drippy figurative paintings that are remixes of specific historical paintings, whose vibe is super fresh and funny.»

Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (1986) is a self - taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner.

Jordan Casteel is a figurative painter whose recent work uses bold color and thick, gestural paint to explore the theme of black masculinity in a domestic environment.

ANGELL GALLERY is proud to present The Anxious Body, an exhibition featuring nine artists from Toronto and New York whose works reflect how social media and the current socio - political climate are influencing contemporary figurative painting.

In 1999, Thomson was the co-founder, with Billy Childish of the Stuckism art group, which set out to promote figurative painting, in opposition to conceptual art, which they identified with the Turner Prize (whose jury chairman was Sir Nicholas Serota) and the Young British Artists, of which Tracey Emin (who had once been in a relationship with Childish) was a leading representative.

It represents a major change of tack for the artist, whose last show comprised large figurative paintings, demonstrating a remarkable agility and versatility.»

Anderson, whose color - saturated, figurative paintings are just as likely to directly reference his Afro - Caribbean background as they are to show quiet interiors and verdant pastoral scenes, has had recent solo shows at Michael Werner Gallery in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Stephen S. Pace, whose exuberant style applied Abstract Expressionist scale and directness to figurative painting, died on Sept. 23 in an assisted - living center in Harmony, Ind..

At the Frieze fair, which opens on Friday, numerous galleries will include work by Biennial artists: New York's Mitchell Innes and Nash, which represents Pope.L, whose massive installation in the Whitney included hundreds of pieces of bologna affixed to the wall in pushpins, will be offering one of the artist's (less perishable) photographs; the Los Angeles - based Night Gallery will feature works by Samara Golden, whose installation in the Whitney, The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes, included miniature interiors and a profusion of mirrors; and Mary Mary, a Glasgow gallery, will feature a booth with works by Aliza Nisenbaum, whose large - scale, figurative paintings of immigrants are also included in the Biennial.

They range from the well known figurative painter Susanna Coffey at Boston's Alpha Gallery to one of the West's best abstractionists, and best kept secrets, Robert Kelly, whose carefully considered paintings are on view this month at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe.

Stephen Pace, whose exuberant style applied Abstract Expressionist scale and directness to figurative painting, died on Sept. 23 in an assisted - living center in New Harmony, Ind..

Artist Christopher Shoemaker (b. 1969) is a well listed artist whose abstract figurative and abstract impressionist paintings are in many private collections throughout the U.S., Canada...

Paul Behnke is a New York - based artist whose abstracted paintings include figurative elements that relate to the intersection of pop culture and spirituality.

Parasnis, whose vivid new «Serenity» paintings are on view at Caldwell Snyder Gallery, cites Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area figurative painters — namely Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira and Willem de Kooning — among his influences for their expressive marks and «spirituality and color.»

Segalman's romantic figurative realist paintings, largely executed in watercolor, oil, or pastel, feature anonymous figures in domestic settings, on beaches or before city architecture whose emotions are evoked by their physical positioning or clothing.

But instead of offering the expansive alternative history so many of us hoped for, the National Academy has showcased the collection of an organization called the Center for Figurative Painting, the brainchild of a man of means by the name of Henry Justin, whose taste is a Rocky Balboa blitz of swagger, flash, and bravado.

But Hockney is also an art world - favorite whose carefully observed portraits, optimistic studies in color, and vigorously experimental compositions are as full of life as they've ever been — and continue to influence generations of artists at a time when we're seeing a new golden era of figurative painting.

Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad.

Among those drawn to these narratives is CNN's Cooper, whose eclectic collection of mostly figurative art ranges from Old Master canvases to hand - painted, wooden barber signs from East Africa.

«Venetian,» is comprised of twenty - four oil on canvas paintings and gouache works on paper whose figurative compositions are subsumed under obfuscating scrims of vertical lines that evoke and upturn the blinds» fragmentation of perspective.

Paschke was known as a member of the late - 1960s Chicago Imagist movement, a group of artists who called themselves The Hairy Who, whose expressive style of figurative painting was rooted in outsider art, popular culture, and Surrealism.

The show, entitled «Human Clay», focused exclusively on figurative works of drawing and painting, and in the brochure RB Kitaj coined the phrase «School of London» to refer to the individual artists whose works were being shown.

Thus genre paintings or figurative works whose subjects are depicted (eg) in a romantic or nostalgic light are excluded from this genre.

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye is a figurative painter whose oil paintings focus on figures that exist outside of a specific time and place.