Tag: Alice Neel

Real Families: Stories of Change

Bringing together portraiture from modern painters and setting them against historic depictions, this exhibition looks at how the idea of family has transformed in the past 50 years
Capturing the Moment: A Journey through Painting and Photography

This exhibition considers the relationship between the two media, from documentary photography of the 1930s to the digital age. There is little new here, but some standout individual works
Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle

In her intimate portraits, with an unflinching eye, Neel lays bare the souls of her sitters. Her work is raw, honest and simply marvellous
Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere

Asawa, who was known for weaving sculptures with wire and studying at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller, is featured in this first UK solo show
Raffi Kalenderian – interview: ‘It’s like banging your head against a brick wall, but if you get through to the other side it feels so good’

For Kalenderian, painting is all about excitement. His radical portraiture – as much of the scene as of the sitter – is a celebration of experimentation and problem-solving. Here, he speaks about what attracts him to his subjects and how…
Alice Neel, Uptown

With an uncompromising certainty of vision, Alice Neel paints individuals, capturing not only their physical likeness and inner character, but also the zeitgeist
House Work

The house and its potential as a home, a prison, a marker in one’s life, is fertile territory and an inspired idea for an exhibition but, in this case, one lacking in impact
Elizabeth Neel: interview
Alice Neel: Painted Truths

Whitechapel Gallery, London 8 July–17 September 2010