Sentences with phrase «culture portrait series»

This surreal ethnography links ancient hominids of the lesbeing dykeaspora to contemporary lesbian artists via DNA analysis of Conroy's petrie dish Lesbian Culture portrait series.

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Begun in 2014, Brave Beauties is a series of portraits depicting transwomen in South Africa, and as such represents an overt challenge to a culture that continues to violently discriminate against the LGBTQI community.

«Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined» presents a new series of portraits inspired by the culture, heritage and narratives of her native Nigeria.

The exhibition will unite for the first time works from her Predecessors series, an exploration of heritage and identity through intimate and complex portraits of her family, providing a powerful perspective on the African diaspora and an important counter-narrative of postcolonial culture.

Informed by her studies of anthropology, colonial trade and demography, «Kindred Spirits,» her new self - portrait series (detail pictured, 2015), questions the idea of racial - purity paintings and reminds us that cultures are evolving constantly.

In these landscapes, as well as in Foulkes» overtly more political series of «bloody heads» (portraits whose faces have been violently obscured by paint or canceled by collage), Foulkes points out the hypocrisy and guilt within our culture both past and present, within which we can clearly trace Foulkes» unrelenting drive to put himself and his surroundings into his paintings.

Opie gained notoriety in the 1990s with her series of portraits depicting gay, lesbian, and transgender sitters, heralded as groundbreaking during the height of the polarizing «culture wars.»

Traveling around the USA and the world, he posited himself amidst stereotypical tourist sites, from the Eiffel Tower to Niagara Falls, from the Statue of Liberty to the Grand Canyon, ricocheting between nature and culture to develop an extensive and now - famous series of 100 silver gelatin self - portraits, entitled the Expeditionary Self - Portraits or East Meportraits, entitled the Expeditionary Self - Portraits or East MePortraits or East Meets West.

For its latest Art Issue, Visionaire, the iconic art and fashion publication that knows how to surprise us with its thematic issues, decided to offer a different perspective on the continuous rise of selfie culture, asking legendary conceptual artist John Baldessari to create a series of artworks inspired by digital celebrity self - portraits.

Nick Hannes, the Documentary series winner, pursued a project featuring the culture of the elite in Dubai, while Lissa Rivera's striking portraits of her non-binary partner explore contemporary notions of gender and its narratives in today's society.

In his ongoing series Beautiful Strangers, American portrait and documentary photographer Peter Zelewski loves to capture people on the streets of London from a diverse range of ethnicities, cultures and styles.

Collectively, these two series of work, on display for the first time in the exhibition Hull, Portrait of a City, open a discussion as to how we define the culture, landscape and people of Hull.

Varejão is so prepared to back up her work that she has photocopies in her hands of some of the most important books and images that stood out to her while researching a culture and an ethnicity that at first seemed foreign: photos of Hopi women wearing a hairstyle of whorls, drawings of Mimbres's burial rituals, images of her own previous series where cracked paintings looked to make ties with 11th century Chinese Song dynasty ceramics, and American Indian portraits by George Caitlin were only a few of the many pages that she held and showed me during our time together.

Michael St. John solo exhibition «Portraits of Democracy» features a new series of identically scaled, small - format works that depict aspects of our current culture and society through images of people and objects.

Varejão will include works from her two most recent series: Kindred Spirits, 29 portraits of the artist donning the face painting and body ornamentation of Native American tribes intermixed with markings derived from artworks by Minimalist and contemporary American artists, and the Mimbres paintings, which reference the visual culture of the Mimbres people who inhabited the American Southwest in the 11th century.

While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.

Internationally acclaimed, New York - born artist Elia Alba's The Supper Club is a multifaceted art project comprising an ongoing series of dinners in which artists engage in meaningful conversation about art, pop culture, socio - political events and race; photographic portraits of nearly 60 artists of color; and a book to be published in late 2018 featuring the portraits and text related to the dinners / conversations.

His best - known photographs, such as portraits of friends and youth culture denizens, stillifes, images of garments, and the «Concorde» series, have been shown in exhibitions and magazines throughout the world.

The sixth in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed here — gay activist and self portrait artist Lyle Ashton Harris, Chicano photographer and tourist Robert Buitron, Cherokee writer, curator, and video creator Rayna Green, photography critic and professor at University of California - Irvine Catherine Lord, and Chinese - American video artist Valerie Soe — discuss the role of photography and creation of culture.

Through a series of 69 photographic self portraits, Sherman's «Untitled Film Stills» interrogates the image of female stereotypes in popular culture.