Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art Highlights Major Works by Abstract Painters

NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British Art launched its 2010–11 season with an exhibition of major works by postwar British artists who came to maturity in the 1960s. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie features thirty paintings and fourteen works on paper by Patrick Caulfield, John Walker, R. B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, and Ian Stephenson, in addition to paintings by John Hoyland, England’s foremost abstract painter, all drawn [...]

Julian Opie Takes His Human Figures to the Valencian Institute for Modern Art

VALENCIA.- Opie is considered as the current representative of modern portrait. He applies ultimate technologies painting and, as well as the computer art works, he incorporates vinyls with inside light, LED panels or liquid glass screens in his sculptures and installations. This exhibition gathers 31 paintings, four sculptures (one of them placed in the open area at the entrance of the Valencian Institute for Modern Art), four art interventions on the front windows and banners in the hall. All of [...]