Sentences with phrase «young figurative artists»

After MoMA PS1 opened its «Greater New York» quinquennial last fall with a noticeable crop of talented young figurative artists, the website Artspace exulted: «The figure is back, baby!»

A big shout out to NYSS Alums and Faculty for the Award winners from the American Academy: Clintel Steed got the prestigious John Koch Award given to Young Figurative Artist.

Not exact matches

The contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on younger artists are going back to wonderful figurative painters like Neel.

The work of these artists was brought into fresh focus and given renewed impetus by the revival of interest in figurative painting by a younger generation that took place in the late 1970s and the 1980s (see neo-expressionism and new spirit painting).

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

The dynamic group ranges from young Los Angeles - based figurative painter Becky Kolsrud to New York - based performance artist Justin Vivian Bond to the late Austrian painter and sculptor Kiki Kogelnik.

As figurative painting made a comeback in the late»80s and»90s, a younger generation of artists began to see Katz with new appreciation.

The winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's award for best young figurative painter a few years back, she was recently curated into a show by the artist Alex Katz and now has growing market buzz.

Young Milanese artist Fugazza is the latest to take on London's Zabludowicz Collection, where her abstract and figurative works inspired by daily observations — in motherhood, artmaking, or on her mobile device — consider how circumstances shape our destiny.

From Chelsea to Bushwick, a strong showing of young artists fill New York's galleries this fall, spanning fresh figurative paintings, embroidered wall - hangings, and an installation that imagines a robot society.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

But here, the manner is more like Philip Guston's late figurative allegories, which were a huge influence on younger artists beginning in the «80s.

Character Traits brings together nine young artists who reinvigorate the rich intersection of figurative abstraction via distinctive compositions, materials and processes.

Also, we had Leon Golub, who did his large, partially untreated canvases, and then we went from Arnulf Rainer to [Gérard] Gasiorowski, to Raoul De Keyser, who was then still alive and making these amazing abstract paintings, to Robert Ryman, to Malcolm Morley — from conceptual to abstract to figurative — to On Kawara, to Gerhard Richter, who reunites all these dimensions, to Dick Bengtsson, a tricky forgotten Swedish artist who died young, to Ed Ruscha, to Niele Toroni.

The League continues to attract a wide variety of young artists; and the focus on art made by hand, both figurative and abstract, remains strong; its continued significance has largely been in the continuation of its original mission - to give access to art classes and studio access to all comers, regardless of their financial ability or technical background.

The immense influence on generations of young artists is additionally straitened by the fact that Eric Fischl is still innovative, progressive and one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

In 1989 Dora Koch, widow of Academy member John Koch (1908 - 1978), left the Academy a bequest to establish an award in art of $ 10,000 to be given from time to time to a young artist of figurative work.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]

Guerrero Z. Habulan is a figurative artist born in Philippines, a young social realist with a sharp sense of humor.

Teaching at the M.F.A program at Brooklyn College from 1946 until 1976, when he retired, Russell influenced many younger artists in figurative painting including Gabriel Laderman.

His art developed in the London art scene beginning in the 1960s, when a dynamic generation of young artists took painting into a new direction by exploring impulses from both the figurative tradition and popular culture.

When Doig came to prominence in the 1990s, his figurative painting was somewhat out of kilter with the neo-conceptualism of the Young British Artists (YBA).

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

Dreaming Young Girl is an original, one - of - a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Pol Ledent.

Today, you don't see much figurative painting with younger artists.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

A young artist immersed in the Figurative movement in San Franc...

She is known for her figurative, erotically charged paintings which portray a young woman (the artist claims that it is the same girl, although she may seem different).

In 1948, the young artist first visited Italy after having received the Prix de Rome; he returned in 1960 when his work was featured at the Biennale di Venezia, and again in 1970 as an artist in residence in Rome, following the harsh criticism surrounding his first exhibition of figurative paintings in New York.

An extraordinary 2013 figurative sculpture called «No Sex, No City: Miranda,» by the young New York artist Stewart Uoo, incorporates dead flies, maggot cocoons and dust into an image of disintegration that is also a virtuosic star turn.

Historically, young Chinese artists» classical training was figurative and representational.

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.

As a young London artist in the 1950s, Bridget Riley was painting figurative studies and nature scenes when Georges Seurat's Pointillist experiments sparked in her a kind of artistic and perceptual awakening.

By juxtaposing the figurative art of Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray and 30 other young artists with images drawn from cutting - edge technologies and consumer culture, Deitch gives us a sobering glimpse of the post-human world to come.

Already, we see the young artist negotiating between the abstract and figurative, reducing organic forms into geometric configurations and using the branches of trees as a way to frame or delineate space.

It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of figurative painting at a time when abstract imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.

I asked her if she saw a difference between European figurative painting and its young New York cousins, exemplified by artists like Elizabeth Peyton, with her dreamy, jewel - like portraits of rocks stars and friends.

Moreover, in New York the Abstract Expressionism (check out our article about Pollock here, and about Abstract Expressionism here) was already living a crisis, and the Europeans — as well as the young generations of American artists — wanted to come back to the figurative works.

On the occasion of his show at Betty Cunningham, Bailey, in an interview published in the Huffington Post, mentions a wealth of figurative painting being done by young artists, «at a time when painting is being viewed more and more as a niche activity» and «with little recognition among the museum curators and the galleries.»

Artsy counted her among «20 Female Artists Pushing Figurative Painting Forward»; artnet News included Casteel in its list of «10 Exceptional Millennial Artists to Watch in 2016»; and Bloomberg featured her in its roundup of «10 Young Artists to Watch in 2017.»

Though he perversely pursued figurative work in the era of Abstract Expressionism, the influence of his stylized portraits of New York's artworld demimonde, as well as his unmistakable Maine landscapes, can now be seen in the work of countless younger artists.

Parafin presents the British painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the leading figurative painters working today, and an emblematic figure for a younger generation of artists.

Their continued influence on a younger generation of artists is demonstrated by the powerful hold figurative art has today.

Sara Berman's poised and urbane figurative paintings will feature in two upcoming group shows in London this month: Young Gods at Charlie Smith London and Dark Wood curated by fellow artist Henry Hussey at the Transition Gallery.

To protest against what they saw as the dominance of conceptual art and the Young British Artists, at the expense of figurative painting, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson unleashed the Stuckist Manifesto in 1999, taking their name from Tracey Emin's reported criticism that their figurative work was «Stuck!

Famous Irish artists born in, or associated with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (Contemporary Figurative Painter, Landscape Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape Artist).

As a young artist in the 1950s, Pearlstein exhibited both abstracts and figures, but it was deKooning that advised him to continue with figurative work.

The work of these young artists all shared figurative references and visible brushwork, in dramatic contrast to the prevalent painting of the day.

Contrasting Kosuth's brand of Conceptual art with figurative painting by young artists, Kuspit observes: «With Kosuth, self - criticality, and its larger relationship to life, have become overintellectualized, overexposed; art here is no longer subversive, except perhaps to itself.