Sentences with phrase «american sculptural traditions»

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Leigh's sculptural works in ceramic and other materials reference vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.

Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.

In view of this, one can place similarly engaged works — like Trevor Paglen's South American (SAM - 1) NSA / GCHQ - Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean (2015), a photograph of an undersea internet cable believed to be tapped by the United States» National Security Agency, or Cheyney Thompson's 88.35 Tungsten - 67.45 Cobalt - 45.36 Tin - 28.74 Nickel - 18.23 Iron - 82.29 Bismuth - 58.84 Aluminum - 41.32 Silicon - 24.11 Copper - 13.95 Chromium (2015), a gestural abstract painting made with the ten titular minerals, whose values anchor the worth of all other metals in financial markets — in a 20th - century sculptural tradition that otherwise might have seemed wholly irrelevant.