Sentences with phrase «with small abstract paintings»

«It began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random», he explains.

Not exact matches

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

From a distance, David Allan Peter's small - scale abstract paintings appear to buzz with dashes of vibrant color.

Contributed by Leora Lutz «Lampblack» (and the show title of the same name) is a new perfume created by Bruno Fazzolari in conjunction with a series of small, abstract paintings on appropriated...

It may mean something that almost all the abstract painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel - on - steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black - and - white grids radiant with half - hidden color.

The lyrical abstraction of these paintings is contrasted with smaller geometric abstract paintings, rigid in structure and form, but handmade, with deliberately imperfect and variably weighted lines, in an ironic and humorous way.

These drawings and paintings form only a small part of Mammen's oeuvre, however, with her later work expanding to include sculpture — clearly influenced by the likes of Henry Moore, with an interest in the permeation of mass and space — and various styles of abstract painting, incorporating both a Picasso-esque period and a later phase of collage and childlike strokes, calling to mind the likes of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

On the other hand, we were greeted by the strange miniaturist refinements of Kai Althoff, who made a very powerful impact with a group of small paintings and drawings, some of them abstract.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera, (June 6 — August 30, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he selected small books from flea markets, manipulating and altering the found objects; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes - overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

It showed a woman trying to hang a small flower picture next to a giant blackish abstract painting, with her husband looking on quizzically.

At the Hole's booth, the gallery had installed several abstract paintings that the street artist known as Katsu had created by attaching a paint applicator to a small computer - guided drone, with the artist able to control its flight and spray paint on the canvas via a trigger.

Doug Trump's Drive to Aix is a small mixed media painting on museum board with abstract expressionist influenced gestures and composition.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

A small, flat silhouette in the shape of a vessel is painted on one side with a nude female Venus figure, and on the other side with abstract patterns in washy colors — a careful method with a quick look inherited from Modern painting masters.

Ribbeck's small - format abstract paintings are usually rendered on MDF with acrylic paint and ballpoint pen, the

Doug Trump's Hand to Hand is a small mixed media painting / collage on museum board with abstract expressionist influenced gestures and composition.

Perhaps most known for founding the Galería de Arte Color - Luz, Loló Soldevilla (1901 — 1971) produced only a small but considered body of work, spanning kinetic sculpture, hard - edge painting, and geometric collages that reveal her sustained and thoughtful engagement with historical and contemporaneous abstract tendencies.

In our case we chose to create — or suggest — a dialogue between historical works on paper, abstracts from 1968 to 1988 by Eugene James Martin (1938 - 2005), and bring them into a conversation with small - scale paintings by three abstract painters, Clayton Colvin, Odili Donald Odita, and Leslie Smith III, all of which have a profound drawing quality in their work.

The main gallery spaces showcase Portman's architectural feats and are flanked by smaller rooms filled with abstract paintings and sculptures from his personal collection of his own work.

The second half of the show has small paintings (and photos thereof) in the dandyish mode in vogue at the moment — Tim Eastman's swaths of linen adorned with sketchy flowers, Alissa McKendrick's pale mint and peach abstractions (hung next to a wall drawing of a small cat made with faint paint) and Cliff Borress's photographs of abstract paintings in plushly appointed rooms.

In his new work, the painterliness is more expressive and composition pared down: a small sad donkey wails into the large abstract atmosphere, or in another painting, a goofy horse with a heroic cape pounces into a large field of vibrant pink brushwork.

Light and shadow become palpable forces in Schreiber's ethereal photographs of artwork ranging from Barry Flanagan's small metal sculpture «Hare With Telescope» to kinetic abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter to Rirkrit Tiravanija's «Young man, if my wife makes it...,» a metal bowl of Asian food done in plastic, complete with wooden chopstiWith Telescope» to kinetic abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter to Rirkrit Tiravanija's «Young man, if my wife makes it...,» a metal bowl of Asian food done in plastic, complete with wooden chopstiwith wooden chopsticks.

Critic Dore Ashton, who visited the University of New Mexico in 1950, notes: «One of my enduring memories was seeing, for the first time, a painting by Richard Diebenkorn — a golden vision of the Southwest, abstract, with small currents of shadow drawing by the winds in the sands, and filled with the special light that still emanates from his paintings.»

The work is small in scale, which when perceived from afar appears to be abstracted landscape yet it opens up with a layered depth of paint and color when viewed more closely.

These spiky constructions — which are like abstract root systems — were inspired by nature, as were the artworks Asawa made while a student at Black Mountain: small oil paintings on paper, a potato print, a work in ink on paper made with a BMC (Black Mountain College) laundry stamp.

Some artists to check out: Amy Robin Miller, who paints large - scale abstract pieces as well as smaller works with pen and ink.

Brandon Opalka will show a series of small abstract paintings made with oil and spray paint.

Much more persuasive are the quieter, smaller - scale paintings by Dupuy - Spencer or Aliza Nisenbaum in which the artist seems to have forged a genuine bond with her very specific subjects instead of treating identity as an abstract category.

Using small changes in value throughout each painting, along with broad, often abstract strokes, I work to convey a natural landscape.

The London exhibition of work by Paul Klee in 1945 seems to have had a big impact, with Pasmore's first 1948/9 abstract works of small coloured triangles and squares looking very similar to Klee's painting from two decades before.

Wightman's abstract works are simpler, with the colours and forms worked out first in small modelli on paper; his landscapes are originated from found images, sketched in Photoshop and then transferred as cartoons to canvas before collaging and painting.

POLLOCK - KRASNER HOUSE AND STUDY CENTER - «Color and Time: Paintings by Roy Newell, 1956 - 2000» opens today with an exhibition of 28 small abstract oils.

Alex Ramsay: Paintings and related works 2000 - 2010 In this selection of works made during the last ten years Alex Ramsay explores his concern with mapping and notions of narrative through a series of large scale abstract paintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturPaintings and related works 2000 - 2010 In this selection of works made during the last ten years Alex Ramsay explores his concern with mapping and notions of narrative through a series of large scale abstract paintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturpaintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturpaintings, and a group of small sculptural works.

Medium - size yet imposing collages by Josh Smith contrast with the subdued elegance of Monique van Genderen small format paintings, whose abstract shapes respond to Jean - Pascal Flavien drawings.

Jessica Stockholder's wacky small - scaled constructions mix found objects with abstract forms and painted surfaces in a similar way to her installations.

Phong Bui (Rail): It must have been in late May of 1988, just a few days before Meyer and Lillian Schapiro left for South Londonderry, Vermont, where they had gone every summer ever since in the late 1930s, that they showed me a small abstract painting, with a loosely painted grid and rather somber palette of burnt sienna, raw umber, sap green, and deep blue, which, I was told, you had given them.

The exhibitors trended towards work that explored craftsmanship with a strong showing of painting — including a collection of small abstractions by Andrew Masullo (currently in the Whitney Biennial) at Daniel Weinberg Gallery and Michelle Muldrow's paintings of abstracted store aisles at Jen Bekman Gallery.

«Garden Party» blends four distinct areas of Gray's newest work — re-interpretations of Flemish still lifes, grip tape collages, large abstract «spectrum» paintings, and smaller «snapshots» of vases, horses, and sculptural busts that seem excerpted from his larger works — to cohesively to present a larger picture of his experimentation with traditional subjects in art history through contemporary media and techniques.

With titles like «Willow,» «Climbing Vine,» and «Angelic Blue» and a press release that emphasized «color, light, and surface,» it required time and quiet attentiveness to get beyond the suggestion that this work, a group of thirteen relatively small, unprepossessing stripe paintings, simply falls on the lyrical, colorist end of today's spectrum of abstract painting.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

In addition to creating a body of small, seemingly abstract paintings that faithfully replicated images he saw behind his closed eyelids, Bess engaged in at - home self - surgery, making an incision in the underside of his penis with a razor blade and creating a new orifice.

A solo show by Gianni Politi organised by Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome), a re-presentation of the works the artist produced for his first solo show at the gallery, which included three types of work: abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint; small portraits on canvas; and bronze stretchers of varying sizes realized with multi-coloured patinas, marble and painted wood inserts.

Politi will show abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint and small portraits on canvas, freely interpreting and transfiguring Modern Italian art.

«Come Together» pairs Thomas Nozkowski's small elliptical abstract paintings with works by his wife, Joyce Robins.

Then the abstract piece is a very structural motif, almost mathematical, that is made up of a grid overlaid with layers of flat colour in block like shapes and is playing off the structure and colour in the other small painting.

Their work has a directness that short circuits concept and fashion, and encourages an engagement with the materiality of the work and the felt experience of it; they are John Eaves RWA, from Bath; Frank Bowling RA, OBE, who works in London and New York; Patrick Jones, based in the Exmouth area, and John Bunker, from London Curated by Nick Moore, Bristol - based painter, musician and writer, the title of the exhibition derives from associations such as deep, profound, personal, direct, close; all words one could use to describe the qualities of these small abstract paintings.

Abstract part 2, a spirited show of small, colorful work at Marcia Wood Gallery through January 18, continues the conversation about abstract painting begun with its predecessor, abstract part 1.

Highly regarded for abstract paintings with an athletic reach of scale and gesture, Fishman has long been occupied with the potential that small scale and sculpture hold for her art.

Affecting formal inconsistency while taking hard - edge abstraction to task, Cordy Ryman's small - scale non-serial abstract paintings made of acrylic, enamel, spray paint, staples, foam, Velcro, Floam, glue and Styrofoam are layered, non-referential, brittle and bent with provocative juxtapositions that use a selection of mundane, everyday materials that first appear as a series of naïve constructions.