Founded in 2011, OOA Gallery (Out of Africa Gallery) maintains a mission of fostering and promoting contemporary African art, working closely with a diverse roster of artists and developing ...

"It's very, very figurative," said Martin Guesnet, director for Europe at the Artcurial auction house and a keen observer of the art market, with a mix of skepticism and admiration. He isn't wrong; ...

Dressed in an ivory white leotard and tutu, a tall Black figure poses in retiré. Arms and legs angular, chest turned towards the light. It’s a traditional oil on linen — the frothy movement of the ...

As you walk into the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s new exhibit “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now,” a sense of warmth and intimacy fills the room, unlike the traditional environment of ...

Next year will see Europe’s leading art spaces continue to celebrate new figurative art. Here's who you need to know about. Buffeted by the arrival of abstract art in the 20th century and threatened ...

There's a reason the words "naked" and "truth" go together. In the 2013 Annual Figurative Works Exhibit at the Garth Gallery in Columbia, the variety of paintings and sketches on display tell a ...

SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna University will host an opening reception for the 15th annual Figurative Art Exhibition at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Lore Degenstein Gallery. This national, juried visual art ...

Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

Paul Resika is an American artist born in 1928 in New York City, United States. He studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York and was influenced by Hans Hofmann. Resika has been associated ...

Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), has held his job for 16 years now but has the energy of a man who is just getting started. That bodes well for ...

Among the most well known and commercially successful American artists today are Kehinde Wiley and John Currin, both figurative painters of amazing skill, and both drawing inspiration from the art of ...

David Ohlerking's stopping for a rest and a bite to eat, sitting on the low black couch in the Austin Figurative Gallery, his glorified hole-in-the-wall in the Super!Alright!-anchored complex at the ...