Lawrence Asher Gallery: Lisa Adams The Future of Paradise Past
“Her (Lisa’s) work’s not so much a process of entropy as imperfection, things
don’t become cockedup, things are cockedup right from the start. It’s a
message that broaches a spirituality of imperfection. Once it does so, it’s up to
the vie...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: Bryan Ricci – Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling
Using a meticulous application of oil paint droplets, Bryan Ricci constructs hyper-real creatures that rise from the panel surface. A natural background created from his color photography provides the natural habitat.
The generous brush stroke...
Lawrence Street Gallery: Abstract Odyssey: Anita Boulan-Stromberg and Sri Guha
"My love of nature combined with my interest in color and texture lead me to create paintings and prints that can be described as abstract landscapes. Some are purely about color and design, while others reflect feelings. My latest endeavor is cre...
Lawrence Street Gallery: Title: 32 - Celebrating a New Space with Gallery Fundraiser
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The 32 artists of the Lawrence Street Gallery create unique artistic pieces in a wide range of media including ...
Physics Room: 'Through my repeated attempts to repair the window, I have developed pneumonia' by Robert Hood and Simon Lawrence
Their
Physics Room project is an extension of the artists' collaborative practice
and interest in narrative, with the addition of computer aided video pieces
and further functional sculptural elements exploring the neurosis of the
modern-day o...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions--Ron Mueck
Ron Muecks sculptures, though inanimate, seem alive---eyes are wet,
vessels swell with blood, and you can almost feel the heat and breath
emanating off the body, says Lawrence. The skewed sizes of the figures give
this realism a psychological e...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Bent & Broken Shafts of Light
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner's material is language. For him, language serves as
the universal and infinitely versatile medium for the communication
of an artistic intention He always uses language concretely, never
metaphorically. When he says stone, wate...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: SMEAR – I’m Tired of Being Sexy
The Artist's comment, "SMEAR - I paint because I have no choice. After being an ink-stained graffiti writer in the streets of Los Angeles for more years than I care to disclose, the choice of making marks on surfaces with some sort of tool is out ...
Lawrence Street Gallery: Two Solo Exhibitions of Paintings by Patrice Erickson and Margaret Nern
Patrice Erickson's pieces are rendered in oil using traditional painting techniques. "Working in a contemporary realistic manner challenges me both technically and emotionally. I strive to present the viewer with recognizable imagery that suggests...
Lawrence Gallery Salishan: Barry Mach: Solo Exhibition of Paintings
Barry began painting around the age of 11 and has continued to develop for over 30 years. Beginning with self-taught photo-realistic drawings and copying paintings of the old masters, his work progressed through a wide range of mediums and styles...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Lawrence Weiner: AFTER ALL/NACH ALLES
. His art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth. A work can be made or merely spelled out on a museum wall, but it can also be read in a book or heard if uttered aloud. In a radical restructuring of the traditional artist/viewer relations...
Lawrence Gallery: Abstract Painter Jennifer Gray
The artist continues, " In addition to vorticity, I have also been considering the stillness of water; the light bouncing on the surface and how that relates to its depths. These abstracts are not connected to a particular trip or other artist’s inf...
Lawrence Gallery Portland: Yuri Tremler and Jacek Rudnicki OIls
Yuri Tremler's striking and spontaneous palette clearly expresses a gamut of emotional states and moods. Painted with the accuracy of a designer and the delicacy of a colorist, his works both inspire and calm. He uses the female form and contrasts...
Auberge d’Italie: Lawrence Buttigieg: Views of the Female
In his work Buttigieg relies on close observation of the subject and the expressive use of colour. Without question, his representations of people are a balance of physical form and feeling. The artist believes that the whole body reflects the i...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints – Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L’Ouverture
Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own expe...
Memphis Brooks Museum: In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is an honor for the Brooks to be selected as a venue for this important and moving Smithsonian exhibition," said Kaywin Feldman, Director of the Brooks. "We hope that no child in our community will miss this unique opportunity to experience Ki...
ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center: Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections
Rhapsody includes works by Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare
Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Robert Colescott, Renée Cox, Charles Gaines,
Sam Gilliam, Eugene Grigsby, ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: An Acre of Art
...
Kunstlerhaus Cinema: MOVED PICTURES OF LAWRENCE WEINER
Weiner’s filmmaking represents a continuous line of concerns in his oeuvre. Capturing reality
in moved pictures in context with his statements and linguistic structures, the films are
cha...
Binney and Smith Gallery, Banana Factory: Native American Potter Lawrence Namoki
“Lawrence uses only clay native to Hopi land, natural dyes for the painted surface of his works and the traditional Hopi firing process using sheep dung,” says Banana Factory Director Diane LaBelle. “Anyone who visits the Banana Factory while he’...
Tullie House Museum and Art Services: Eyemusic, the Creators of ColourDome: Fabulous Sound Machines
All of the individual sound sculptures are framed in a world of colour created by artist Peter Jones and composers Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher. Other contributors include Johannes Bergmark, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley, Dan Knight and Will ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint
Lawrence, who moved to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, was influenced and
stimulated by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance, among
them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W. E. B. DuBois, who fostered pride...
Norton Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
Born in 1917 in Atlantic City,
New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence
was raised in Harlem where he
not only witnessed the poverty
and prejudice that most
African-Americans faced in th...
Tacoma Art Museum: Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
Evans, who grew up in Georgia and South Carolina, became interested in art
when he began visiting museums while he was in the U.S. Navy during the
...
Cincinnati Art Museum: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from
the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection
Organized by the
Royal Academy of
Arts, London and touring with the assistance of
the Denver Art Museum. Supported by an
...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: Fumiko Amano: Sonic Landscapes
Mixed media on panel >Fumiko Amano was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. She has been exploring various mediums to express herself since she was a child. She started taking piano lessons at three, and she was composing music by seven. B...
Lawrence Gallery Sheridan: Don Bishop: Northwest Landscapes
As Don Bischop's work evolves, Bishop
identifies a strong influence from the tonalist, impressionist, and Hudson
River School of thought. His work is described as a soothing dance between
romanticism and the impressionist movement.
Don B...
Corning Museum of Glass: Museum Film Wins Best of Show and Gold Awards
Dreams Into Glass won the Best of Show Grand Award for best informational
production. 1999 Grand Award winners were selected by The New York
Festivals' international board of judges from the highest scoring Gold
WorldMedalists in the competiti...
ArtSpace: GLOW: Reiko Aoyagi, Phillipa Lawrence, Artstation
Focussing on the possibilities of these elements either metaphorically or literally, the artists will work with a range of materials to produce large scale, site specific installations involving 600 gold-leaf covered light bulbs, huge inflatable ...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy
American Art from Historically Black Colleges and
Universities
Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the
Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Oakville Galleries: Weathervane: Curated by Karen Love
The exhibition features works by Marlene Creates, Paterson Ewen, Rodney Graham, Tania Kitchell, Mark Lewis, Richard Rhodes, Seifollah Samadian, Alan Storey, T & T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner and Chris Welsby.
...
Whitney Museum of American Art: The Whitney Biennial 2002 Opens in New York
The 113 artists and collaborative teams in the exhibition represent a
wide range of ages, backgrounds, and sensibilities. Established artists,
like sculptor Kiki Smith, painter Vija Celmins, filmmaker Ken Jacobs, and
composer ...
Lawrence Gallery Sheridan: Catherine Foster: Peace Prevails Project
From Foster's Artist Statement, "My true passion is the creative process. From the moment of inspiration to the development in my mind to the actual creation I maintain a dialogue with the artwork and my inner self. It is that special time betwee...
Lawrence Gallery Salishan: Paintings by Doug and Sheryl Dawson And Alabaster Stone by William Pickerd
Doug Sawson was a self-taught artist and began drawing and painting Oregon
landscapes while he was on business trips. He has won numerous awards.
Dawson had the distinction just three years after he began painting of
winning simultaneous "Bes...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Present Tense 23: Jonathan Monk
Monk was born in 1972 in Leicester, England.Spanning painting, performance, installation, photography, and video, and alluding to a wide variety of both autobiographical and art historical references, the work of Jonathan Monk defies categorisa...
William Havu Gallery: Three Dimensions: Lawrence Argent, Stephen Daly, Mary Bates Neubauer and David Mazza
Stephen Daly is the area head of the sculpture department at the University of Texas, Austin. We will be showing his large cast bronze piece "Controller" as well as a selection of other works. Daly works in many mediums including cast aluminum, ...
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