Sentences with phrase «city as canvas»

City as Canvas: New York Graffiti from the Martin Wong Collection, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

Additionally, the exhibition features renderings, models, photographs, and video footage tracing the creation of public artworks by various international artists who «have used the city as their canvas».

Aspiring to be the «Albert Barnes of graffiti,» Wong donated his collection to the Museum of the City of New York in 1994 — «City as Canvas» is the first selected

For the past six years, the annual Nuart Festival has invited an international team of Street Artists to use the city as their canvas.

Martin Wong, the artist behind City as Canvas lays out over 150 works.

The city as canvas: How self - expression, politics, and protest reclaim the streets Made in collaboration with its featured artists, Trespass traces the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, not just as a fringe visual movement but as a social phenomenon and central expression of youth.

City as Canvas: New York Graffiti from the Martin Wong Collection — Museum of the City of New York, NY

The animation is excellent as well, particularly the animation team's job at showing a colorful New York City as its canvas.

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City were on the canvas - bloodied - as Mane fired home a rocket into the top corner and Salah punished a poor clearance from Ederson by lofting an effort over the out - of - position Brazilian.

Signature DNA Unleashed, a Kansas City, Mo. - based company that offers a range of pet DNA portraits (from table - top formats to large canvas prints), as well as rings and dog tags engraved with the DNA image, launched at the 2011 SuperZoo trade show in Las Vegas and has been in business for a little over a year.

The city is transformed into a canvas of colour in the autumn as the leaves change, and during the winter the mountainous backdrop is covered in snow.

In the Afternoon at 13:45 pm Guided Cusco tour, visit to the City as well as the nearby Inca Ruins of Tambomachay, Puca Pucara, Quenko and Sacsaywaman, the famous temple of the Sun Koricancha «the golden temple» in Inka times and the main Cusco Cathedral to observe his architecture, silver and gold altars, the chapels of different saints venerated by Cusqueños and paintings in canvas that belong to the XVII century famous Painting Cusco School.

Located in Kuala Lumpur's luxury shopping, commercial and nightlife downtown district known as the Golden Triangle, the city's first luxury property commissioned the renowned New York - based design studio Alexandra Champalimaud, to create an exceptional new environment which would be a canvas for extraordinary new experiences.

The two share a dedication to the diversity of New York City and, in his introduction to the fully illustrated catalog, he describes her as an essayist on canvas.

Canvas, 31 - day performance / interactions, writing, sweat, sunscreen, Long Island City weather and dirt, audio interviews, still photography, safety pin, printed cardstock, PDF file and video, delivered as DVD in custom cloth sleeve with insert.

From New York City, Liam Everett makes small and medium size paintings that explore the disparate imagery that appears to him as he's in the act of working the oil paint into the canvas.

As a leading participant in the rise of graffiti - based art, Lady Pink's canvases have entered important art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, The Met in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groninger Museum of HollanAs a leading participant in the rise of graffiti - based art, Lady Pink's canvases have entered important art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, The Met in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groninger Museum of Hollanas those of the Whitney Museum, The Met in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groninger Museum of Holland.

Lodewijks uses urban environments as a canvas for his abstract chalk drawings, from residential buildings in quiet suburbs to street surfaces in bustling city centres.

Exhibiting in his home city, the painter famous for his smiling self - portraits has included Christian iconography in this latest set of canvases as well as recent work leading the viewer to think about the role of Western influence in China.

A member of the so - called Mission School in San Francisco together with such artists as Barry McGee and Chris Johanson, Alicia McCarthy makes paintings that blur the line between street art and gallery work, using found wood as canvases and often imprinting them with the same intricate rainbow motif that she graffitis on her city's walls.

Jennings began as a Color Field painter, working on canvas and linen, and maintained a studio at Waverly Studios in New York City.

Yet it is only by ignoring that word included so explicitly on every canvas, that we could define these paintings as (simply) views of a city and its surrounding natural setting.

Ms. Mehretu, who received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997, has always layered her canvases with diagrams and information as a starting point: architectural plans of arenas or fortified cities underpin her small dashes and shapes that move in swarms across her early paintings.

About this canvas, executed soon after she returned to New York City from a trip to Nova Scotia, the artist said, «The landscapes were in my arm as I did it.»

With the city as their backdrop, canvas, stage and inspiration, this exhibition is the first major presentation -LSB-...]

Inspired by the city's lagoon and canals, Twombly splashed acrylic on to canvases shaped like baroque ceiling paintings, as if Monet was meeting Jackson Pollock and Tiepolo.

Infact, as a keystone for the exhibition as a whole, Samuel Erenberg's mementoes, 2012, a series of modest canvases nunning alongthe interior terrace of Limerick City Gallery of Art, lays out some of the terrain to be covered.

Everyday events such as a picnic in the park, supermarket shopping or drinking at an inner - city bar are transformed into grand, sometimes humorously epic scenes where the artists» cartoon - like figures fuse together with the trails and currents of energy that animate the canvas.

Amsterdam has these beautiful old streetlamps, and I saw so much street art in the daytime, but no artist was using city lights and streetlamps as a canvas.

Graffiti and street artists have an intimate relationship with the cities that they use as a canvas.

Mexico City artists exit their homes and studios to use the growing megalopolis as their canvas.

The Rose's exhibition included large - scale canvases like Love and Violence (1965)-- in which a man grabs a woman by the throat, while frames from a horror film unfold below against a blood - red background — as well as photo and video documentation from the 1960s through the 1980s of Drexler's theater pieces, which premiered at such avant - garde New York venues as the Judson Poets» Theater and Theater for the New City.

Chalk (about the work of Bart Lodewijks) From residential buildings in quiet suburbs to street surfaces in bustling city centres, Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks uses urban environments as a canvas for his abstract chalk drawings.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, The Invisible Side of the Universe, New Orleans, LA 2015 LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Margaret Evangeline: On War, Baton Rouge, LA 2014 Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Sabachthani, Lansing, MI 2012 Heriard - Cimino Gallery, Dreaming In Quicksilver, New Orleans, LA Kim Foster Gallery, As - If, New York City Stux Gallery, Timebomb, New York City Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Everyday Magic, New York City Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Bayous and Ghosts, 2 - person with Hunt Slonem, Roanoke, VA Butters Gallery, Recklessly Blooming, Portland, OR 2011 Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Steel, 2 person with Suguru Hiraide, Dallas, TX 2010 Heriard - Cimino Gallery, Writing to Alexandrie, New Orleans, LA 2009 Elizabeth Moore Fine Art, Hot House, New York, NY DTR Modern, Distinct Conceptual Voices, Boston, MA HPGRP Gallery, A Feeling in My Bones, New York, NY Olin Gallery of Roanoke College, Margaret Evangeline Paintings and Video, Salem, VA 2008 The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Silver Bullets and Holy Water, New Orleans, LA Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL DTR Modern, Steel Canvas, Boston, MA 750 7th Avenue Exhibition Lobby Margaret Evangeline: Large Paintings and Works on Metal (1998 - 2006), Curator, Helen Varola, New York, NY

More movement than museum and using the body as a canvas, Art - A-Porter showcases new ideas coming from the city's avant - garde scene.

De Kooning's most perfectly beautiful paintings, perhaps, came even earlier, in the late Forties when he had been concerned with the city as an experience as well as with the human figure, with which he often had odd difficulties, and made some kind of fusion between the two themes, resulting in a sequence of miraculously «occupied» canvases, free of the human figure but alert, bristling with its presence.

This year, Roz Dimon, an artist known mostly for her interactive paintings, shows her new digital works, as well as older canvases which will include New York City scenes, portraits, still - life and her «Information Paintings.»

This artist is also known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the bombing of German cities in the Second World War, and for machined graphite sculptures of such banal objects as a water cooler or an air conditioner.

Photography students at Nottingham College are celebrating International Women's Day on Thursday, March 8 with an exhibition which uses the city's biggest outdoor digital screen as a canvas for their... Read more

The colours seem to shimmer, like neon lights, drawing you into the canvas, just as a person is drawn to the bright lights of a city.

But what gained him international acclaim are McEwen's paintings created using wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the carpet bombing of German cities and towns in the WWII, as well as his graphite sculptures of banal, everyday objects such as ATM machines, water coolers and air conditioners which recall the funeral solemnity of memorials.

In his 2010 essay «Tuymans, Loyola, Leibniz,» Mexico City — based artist Pablo Sigg describes painter Luc Tuymans's canvases as involving a «suspension of the surface that is separated from the depth and weight of matter.»

His use of such evocative materials as bales of raw cotton, rope, and canvas bags like those of cotton pickers evoke black life under slavery; rusted debris found on city streets connotes urban degeneration.

For the first time in history, New York City's iconic water tanks will be used as canvases for public art.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, educated in Paris and living between Los Angeles and Berlin, he uses the construction and deterioration of metropolitan cities as a starting point for his canvases.

Each painting — usually a square, as were the three big ones recently on display at Team Gallery in New York City — is constructed of rectangular color areas, loosely painted, laid one next to the other like blocks of stone; the horizontal line of each color block is separated from those above and below it (and from the top and, usually, the bottom edges of the canvas) by a continuous or broken line of colored «mortar.»

Think of it as a real - time landscape painting, where the ever - evolving city is the canvas and your window is the frame.

While touring a few of the many small exhibition spaces scattered throughout the city, I was pleasantly reminded that painting requires neither heroic - sized canvases nor the prestige of whitewashed airplane hangars to succeed as significant art.

More recently the wall project, got permission from the city to beautify the North — South roads in Mumbai as a canvas with everything being an inspiration, art, music, nature, love, the abstract, real life and the city itself.