Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco blogs about both the «beauty of small paintings,» and the particular problems and rewards of
working on an intimate scale.
Charles Seliger (1926 - 2009), the youngest of the Abstract Expressionists, Myron Stout (1908 - 1987), and Mark Tobey (1890 — 1976) also
worked on an intimate scale.
Not exact matches
All the visitors from the future I've met so far share this quality: They are performance artists who
work best
on an
intimate scale.
Both Brockman's and Gonzales's efforts track large -
scale movements of people, but Alain Barrat of the Center of Theoretical Physics in Marseille, France,
works on a more
intimate project called SocioPatterns.
Synopsis: «A psychological - horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological
scale and
intimate character storytelling of King's best - loved
works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out
on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
And South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut remains their defining statement, a
work combining epic
scale (a land war with Canada, a trip to the depths of Hades, a daylight raid
on the Baldwin compound) with
intimate character comedy (Satan's grief over his lover Saddam Hussein's infidelity is genuinely touching), wrapped in a biting commentary
on censorship and topped off with belting show tunes worthy of West Side Story.
Perhaps it's because, even in his most conceptually elaborate
work like «Open Your Eyes,» his
work has such an
intimate scale that the prospect of him taking
on a massive sword - and - sandal endeavor like «Agora» doesn't quite gel.
After
working on some of the biggest franchises of the last generation, the team collectively decided to form a studio focused
on unique games built
on a more
intimate scale.
Rose Sharp writes that Goodman's oeuvre «is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions); smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup
on canvas; and
intimate small -
scale works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.
Teresita Fernández's latest solo show of new
work As Above So Below, opening at MASS MoCA
on May 24, 2014, combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose
scale shifts from
intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.
He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly
on the wall in
works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the
intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.
Still
working today
on photographic projects of unrivaled global
scale, this
intimate exhibition will showcase a rare portfolio of 20 of the most important images from Salgado's early Latin American series.
Also amazing
on an
intimate scale, are the four
works in Jackson's «Cozy Bubble» series, featuring doll sized beds centered in protective shell - like frames, with a variety of interiors designed to provoke delightful dreams.
From the start of his long career to his later
works, Pepi made generous use of this license to unleash bold strokes
on an
intimate scale.
Whereas many
works in the Turbine Hall have been
on a vast
scale, Sehgal's
work is likely to be
intimate performance art involving personal interaction between visitors and actors.
He keeps to the
intimate scale of
works on paper, even when he turns to canvas.
Her «thing» is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions); smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup
on canvas; and
intimate small -
scale works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.
Her
work ranges from
intimate installations incorporating Vera scarves to large -
scale tapestries, based
on photos of crumpled aluminum foil or plumes of smoke and made
on computer - driven looms.
But where Picasso's
work was about suffering
on a large
scale (Guernica) and sex at an
intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism
on a grand
scale.
The new polished marble sculptures of German duo Venske & Spänle take
on more
intimate (and sellable)
scale in
works related to their public artwork «Autoeater.»
What began as a platform to support emerging artists through a means of exhibiting
works that encourages intervention, both
on a domestic -
intimate level and
on an urban
scale, and exchange between participating artists, organisers and the community where the event takes place, has eleven years later become a massive contemporary art laboratory that triggers endless readings and interrelations.
Vuillard's interest in patterned surfaces and domestic intimacy led him to produce many of his most compelling
works around 1900 in two radically different formats:
on the one hand, large -
scale paintings, conceived as decorative ensembles and commissioned for private, domestic spaces; and,
on the other,
intimate color lithographs, produced in series and destined for broader circulation.
It just seems like we're given sort of a snapshot of his mind at
work,
working through formal invention
on a small,
intimate scale.
This pair of
works reveals Frankenthaler's innate gift for handling different
scales, making paintings and
works on paper that are compelling whether they are supersized or
intimate.
She continued to put in her eight - hour shifts, «to play it hard» at her St Ives studios,
working on those large -
scale public commissions, and returning to her first love of carving marble
on a more
intimate scale.
Some fans of the artist Orly Genger may know her from the cult - favorite line of
intimate sculptural bracelets she makes with the jeweler Jaclyn Meyer, but true core of her art will be revealed to a mass audience: she's actually a shaper of ambitious, monumental
works,
on the
scale of an El Anatsui or Richard Serra.
«We have always
worked very closely with our artists to provide the right space,» Leboeuf emphasizes, adding that the «Madison Avenue location was a wonderful inspiring first step in New York, but we as we grew, we needed a more flexible space that can be
intimate yet
work on a larger
scale for artists such as Jean - Michel Othoniel, KAWS and Xavier Vieilhan.»
David Claerbout's paintings
on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's
intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large -
scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance
work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the
work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's
work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.
From large -
scale installations to
intimate displays, the
work on show will exemplify the abiding interest in clay as a medium for making and exploring ideas.
Piri Halasz reviews three exhibitions of
works by Jules Olitski: Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski at American University, Washington D.C. (through December 16), Jules Olitski
On An
Intimate Scale at George Washington University, Washington D.C. (through December 14), Anthony Caro and Jules Olitski: Masters of Abstration Draw the Figure at Freedman Art, New York (thorugh February 2, 2013).
After having focused in recent years
on large -
scale public commissions, Dahlberg produced a new series of
works with a more
intimate and personal approach, echoing an inner... Continua a leggere
Occupying the first and second floor galleries, the installation gives audience members an
intimate vantage point as dancers periodically move through variations
on daily barre
work that alternates between five fixed training objects and room -
scale environmental interventions.
Her
work references both the transformative effects of photography as well as the sculptural relationship of objects to the body, alternating between an association with objects that are
intimate, wearable or ornamental and an idea of
scale that verges
on the architectural or monumental.
Her
works unfold
on an
intimate scale.
Featuring new large
scale paintings and
intimate works on paper, Walker's exhibition focuses
on the figure of a woman within the psychological spaces of a modernist Hollywood Hills home.
The artist's eerie, ghost - in - the - machine sensibility
works surprisingly well
on an
intimate scale — these are Cornell boxes for the digital age.
New and existing large -
scale installations as well as smaller, more
intimate works explore a variety of organic and inorganic forms, such as the life cycle of jellyfish or the routines of a shipping crew
on a freighter.
The installation combines «Circa Trilogy,» large -
scale works that reference iconic representations of the historical past, with two series that focus
on the more
intimate and pragmatic politics of the everyday: «News from Home» and «7 Days.»
'' In another room of the gallery, small cast bronze
works — evoking a charred table and created from a dismembered draftsmen's mannequin — are presented
on an
intimate scale, recalling early
works of Shapiro's from the 1970s.
Although best known for his
work in steel, Caro has also
worked in bronze, wood, lead, ceramics, and paper,
on both large and
intimate scales.
Many of the
works in this exhibition have never been shown in the UK before such as Michael Snow's play
on the immediacy of the image, Authorization, the mutilated, distorted, blurred self portraits by Lucas Samaras, who discovered the malleability of the format's wet dyes and Guy Bourdin's
intimate, small -
scale surreal visions.
Richard Tuttle has long been known as a major post-minimalist artist who
works on an often
intimate scale in mixed media that ranges from sculpture to drawing to installation, prints and artist books.
Ranging in
scale from small,
intimate works on paper to large canvases in muted colors with pops of pastel hues, this body of
work focuses
on general scenes of leisure: the day - to - day of society life, debauched nights, and
intimate exchanges between imagined players.
In the new body of seventeen
works on view at MCQ Fine Art, Ryan has reduced
scale, from the bright and sassy wall constructions for which he is known to intriguing,
intimate works the size of manila envelopes.
Still, the fair does bear the inevitable burden of being twinned, by scheduling convention, to programming in Sharjah, where the Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is
working with very different stakes and
on a much more
intimate scale.
These new
works signaled, in the words of critic Peter Schjeldahl, «the creation of a new high style able intelligently to capture
intimate nuances of contemporary Eros
on a public
scale.»
His
work — ranging from small
intimate drawings to large -
scale public murals — has been shown nationally and internationally, with the most recent exhibitions at the High Museum of Art,
on the Atlanta Beltline, and as a part of the City of Atlanta's Elevate program.
Taking these specific aspects of Freud's
intimate and insular studio practice as a starting point, The Ethics of Scrutiny explores themes of vulnerability, longing and loss that permeate the painter's
work, while also looking to the
works of other artists who address
on a wider
scale the complexities of representation.
The exhibition is presented in two parts: A front gallery with two highly finished
works; a pastel
on paper, «For «Dream of Life» from 1988 and a shaped canvas, «Dust Tracks» from 1993; and a second gallery filled with many smaller
scaled works that give us an
intimate snapshot of her creative process.
Related to but distinct from his
works on canvas, Bishop's paintings
on paper retain similarly monochrome palettes, while differing in their
intimate scale and at times irregularly - shaped support.