Sentences with phrase «bricolage by»

El Anatsui, Sanford and Hank demonstrate symbolic bricolage by referencing their knowledge of culture, history, spirituality and their experiences as black men living and working within dominant society.

A few minutes later, the eighth record fell when Bricolage by Carol Rama, whose previous world auction record had only been set in October 2016 during The Italian Sale at Christie's, sold for # 185,000 / $ 226,000.

Not exact matches

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

She acknowledges that the coalition is dominated by schools like Bricolage, schools that embrace progressive teaching approaches that tend to rely much more on projects and much less on testing than traditional schools.

Bricolage Academy «will deliberately preserve New Orleans» diversity, culture and spirit of innovation» by emphasizing science and entrepreneurship to a group of students from families at all income levels, according to its website.

Through by a million - dollar grant from the Walton Family Foundation, 4.0 Schools funded Densen's research as he planned the concepts underlying Bricolage Academy — including a significant emphasis on listening sessions around New Orleans — and will next help him hire a leadership team and begin training educators for the school.

This year's Spring Fling was a special evening filled with fun and excitement thanks to our spectacular silent auction items, a raucous live auction led by Meghan Toner, our emcees, the delectable food and cocktails including those by Bricolage, Ganso, Frankies and Palo Santo, our parent volunteers, and some impressive dancing made possible by DJ Parler's expert spinning.

Tom Sachs, described by Emma Allen for the New Yorkeras a «mix of mad scientist, obsessive tinkerer, cult guru, taskmaster general, starry - eyed theoretician, and workout champion,» is an original advocate of bricolage, or DIY, and one of today's most inspiring and influential sculptors.

Seminal Bricolage will be supported by an interactive online performance by Martina Gold called «When Our Lips Speak Together» on July 11, 18, 25, and August 1, accessible via a secret code retrievable from email [email protected] with subject line «Martina NSFW».

Collage, bricolage and shifts in surface texture are hallmarks of the work by this Spanish artist, who often incorporates found objects and materials into his paintings.

The exhibition, featuring Agnes Calf, Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaite, Mikko Kuorinki, and Tabita Rezaire among others, takes French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss» «The Savage Mind» text as a starting point, citing the term bricolage as an associative practice experienced by many non-western societies, wherein «solutions are invented following paths made of fortuitous, unstable and contingent discoveries».

Lachell Workman's installations explore bricolage and the physical and material properties of visibility, by absenting, covering over and leaving blank.

His Haute Bricolage show at Mary Boone in 1999 was by all accounts a financial boon, and exhibitions of his work are usually accompanied by juicy scandals of some kind, whether it is the night Boone spent in jail as a result of his show in her gallery or the outrage that bubbled from his Prada Death Camp sculpture shown in a recent Jewish Museum exhibition.

The work is somewhat genre - defying too, subverting the tradition of American macho - modernist concrete by invoking a form of theatrical accumulation and bricolage.

This volume presents Tom Sachs» most recent bricolage sculptures, some of which play off works by Lichtenstein and Richter, as well as singer James Brown, African sculpture and Sèvres porcelain.

Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce «American Bricolage,» an exhibition of recent sculpture by Hope Atherton, Chris Burden, Alexander Calder, Greg Colson, Wim Delvoye, Tom Friedman, Tim Hawkinson, Toland Grinnell, Jon Kessler, Tom Sachs, Richard Wentworth and H.C. Westermann.

On Wed, July 6 at 7 pm, Cruz will perform How To Order A Chocolate Cake, in addition to performances by artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson.To work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.

It inflects the display of four sculptures whose visible debts to Robert Gober's surreal conflations of objects and Charles LeDray's miniaturization of the everyday are balanced by the artist's own strange sense of bricolage, scale and mordant allusion.