Sentences with phrase «worked painterly surface»

Not exact matches

The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

Yet these works deny their painterly roots, sitting flat on the surface of the stretched cotton as if the result of a print process rather than from the hand of the artist.

In that period I was beginning to consider painting with oil and both Jensen's scraped, palette knifed surfaces and the surfaces of Hartley's late works, painterly and sculptural also, even when relatively thin, were both helpful mentors in my transition to this difficult rich medium.

Her work, with painterly touches, features borders and stripes over unbalanced surfaces and dramatic contusions that disrupt the composition.

The encounter between geographies, disciplines and histories at the core of Meppayil's work prompts what Benjamin H.D. Buchloh identifies as «a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural space.»

The quiet restraint of these works is like a gentle exhale of breath between bursts of painterly energy and reveals how the phrase «Surface Work» can be mean very different things to different people.

These works, in monumental size and scale, engulf viewers with their expansive, painterly surfaces that depict moments of intense observation in the landscape — what Katz describes as «flashes» of perception or «quick things passing.»

With its vibrant palette of warm golden colors and a surface infused with painterly passion, Joan Mitchell's luxurious canvas, Blueberry, belongs to a group of significant works which demonstrate the artist's unrivaled skill at producing paintings which evoke the rich emotions of nature and landscape.

By tenderly examining the surfaces of their works, one can reconstruct the painterly decisions, additions, revisions, and erasures that lead to the finished image and thereby reconstruct the narrative by which the artists fall in love with their own work.

Not only do the ribbons of paper that activate the work's surface create the illusion of a range of color values, there are other unexpected painterly effects to perceive.

A Nashville resident whose work has been exhibited and collected internationally, Jack Spencer alters the surfaces of his photographs with techniques suggestive of painting — rich tones and colors, softly - focused or veiled forms, slight imperfections and painterly textures.

Rosen's work explores the fundamental properties of ceramics by directly confronting the aesthetic and chemical relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface.

In her lavish and painterly works Homer strews fields of flowers across surfaces rich with incident and creamy impasto.

Tuanus (2000) has the scale of a history painting, the painterly gestures, blobs, patches and scrapes of impressionism, expressionism and American abstract expressionism and the graphic effects of screenprinting and technicolour — a sumptuous surface that belies the work's apparent subject: a drugs raid in central Frankfurt.

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

Working on the ridges — and at times on surfaces mounted behind them — Polke deploys an indescribable abundance of figurative and abstract imagery and painterly techniques.

These deliberate and calculated gestures, which Richter employs to both apply and subsequently remove passages of pigment from the surface, are at the heart of his painterly practice, designed to dissect the nature of painting and produce a work that is part chance, part inspiration, part creation and part destruction.

Through the precise and exact painterly science that Newman mastered in which the flat color of the surface of his paintings is formed in direct proportion to the impressive scale of his works, Newman forged a visual language that aimed to provoke an existential sense of awe and wonderment in the viewer.

Dupont writes: «Serra's use of paintstick and insistence on drawing as black poses an interesting dichotomy with the metal plates of his sculpture... the surfaces [of his sculptures] are in fact incredibly painterly, with texture and color on a thin skin that is delightful in spite of what I am sure is Serra's desire to the contrary... The irony of the paintstick drawings is that the works with literal paint are less «painterly» than those mad of lead and steel plates.

Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.

In Untitled (P 492), Wool employs the silkscreen technique to mechanically reproduce the image of his earlier work where he used a spray gun in order to achieve a rich painterly surface filled with movement.

In this recent work, he has lightened his palette as well as his trademark heavily impastoed surfaces, for an overall effect that is painterly yet more pictorial.

Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.

Thinking about his sound work as an audio parallel to the painterly practice of translating information from the world onto a surface in the studio, Augustus Thompson's installation combines sounds from the studio, outside noises and constructed harmonies into what the artist considers a «sound painting.»

His abstract works complicate the painterly notion of surface, while reconsidering the concept of the handmade.

We've long been touting the sophistication and painterly approach that Mike takes with the surface finish of his work, something that undoubtedly opened the doorway for his inclusion in this highly competitive issue of painters from the West Coast.

The windows are left open and the glasses, originally surfaces of diffuse then just reminders of a past to all of us working in the gallery every day, become painterly sculptures that are organized in a very practical manner.

Working both large and small, he grounds his paintings (all oil on canvas) in traditional Realism, achieving finely rendered details, soft light and surfaces that are delicate and painterly.»

Once adjusted to the dark surfaces, though, one can discern some color in the mix, as well as a painterly hand at work.

Værslev's work navigates between different painterly traditions, and demonstrates how painting continues to offer the potential for effective personal expression while remaining a sober and prosaic locus for painted signs on a surface.

Concrete works, their surfaces hacked and molded into the impression of a thick impasto, are emblazoned with a range of emotive colors, forcing an oscillation between the heft of the material and the pure ecstatic painterly surface.

The tension between the material and the painterly surface of each work is key.

Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91) produced some works combining fields of painterly surfaces with gestural shapes (eg.

Most of his works look as if he has zoomed into the granular detail of a much larger painterly surface, whereas others feel like they have been made by layering abstract surfaces and textures in Photoshop.

Working the garden with a shovel, «[an] object made by anonymous hands», becomes intimate as you move the soil with the painterly surface of Jim Dine's Shovel, 1975.

I recognize three themes in your painting: «strokes and grids,» which comes out of your love of post-Impressionist paintings and minimalism, «fields,» which embodies your own unified geography of overall surfaces that yield both to Abstract Expressionism's and Neo-Expressionism's painterly languages and lastly, narrative or personal history is an ongoing thread that runs throughout your work.

From his first emergence as a mature artist, he eschewed the gestural brushwork and the dense, painterly surfaces that became celebrated in the work of De Kooning, Franz Kline, and others.

The landscape is often Marit's starting point for the decoration of her work and she has a particularly painterly approach to colour and surface texture.

From the outset of her career, Gallace has deployed a range of abstract compositional tools to frustrate the romantic enticements of her subject matter and the painterly seductions of her surfaces, giving rise to a quietly remarkable and contemporary body of work.

This highly painterly rendition of a naked woman is comprised of rich layers of de Kooning's signature vigorous brushwork, evident in the individual swathes of thick pigment that sweep across the surface of the work.

This sense of «humanity» is clearly present in the horizontal bands of both Untitled # 20 and Untitled # 7 whose human scale and meticulously executed painterly surface exude a warmth and calmness that is contained only within the very best examples of the artist's work.

With their richly detailed and complex surfaces, the artist's works stand as testaments to her deep engagement with the painterly process itself.

Curated by Flavin Judd, curator and co-president of Judd Foundation, ICA Miami director Ellen Salpeter, and ICA Miami deputy director and chief curator Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition offers new insight into the artist's work through his painterly investigations into surface, structure, space, color, and pattern.

But when you look at your paintings and the details of them — and I haven't seen any of your work recently, but I saw a show a few years ago at the Pepper Gallery — even though you wouldn't call it painterly, the surface seemed richer and different from the surfaces of photorealist paintings.