Sentences with phrase «environmental artists such»

There he met other future Minimalists and Environmental Artists such as: Eva Hesse, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Robert Smithson, and Michael Snow.

Not exact matches

Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these artists reference subjects such as war and terror, social and racial tension, urban and environmental disaster, psychological break - down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations.

These land art or «earth art» environmental scale sculpture works exemplified by artists such as Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell (Roden Crater).

One such bag by New York based Japanese artist Hiroshi Senju depicts a waterfall on the back, and is also the carrier of an environmental message.

Such an idea of creating environmental fiction underpins this group exhibition curated by artist Sean Lynch.

What we are seeing is the success of a generation of artists, now mid-career, who were educated at Glasgow at the height of its powers (some, but not all, coming from the environmental art department which had such effect on those who passed through it).

Talking to Action addresses critical issues such as migration and memory, spatial mapping, environmental issues, gender rights and legislation, indigenous knowledge, and racial violence in work created by contemporary social practice artists and collectives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the United States.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

The legendary American artist here offers insight into the creation and themes — such as feminism and environmental changes — of a selection of her intriguing video installations.

There, she was active in avant - garde circles during the formative years of pop art and minimalism, exhibiting her work alongside such artists as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow — figures who have cited Kusama as influential to the development of assemblage, environmental art and performative practices.

With the foundation's money, Mr. Scull commissioned environmental works from such then - unknown artists as Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria, and also gave artists stipends, bought them food and clothes and paid for their materials.

Numerous young artists, of different backgrounds and practices, draw inspiration from the spirit of such a traditional movement, addressing the theme in a new light to discover innovative perspectives by presenting a variety of formulations dealing with a number of issues to characterize today's social and environmental concerns.

The artist's past work effectively communicates his political concerns: be it highlighting environmental issues such as de-forestation, living under dictatorship, threatened minority groups or human rights issues.

Responsible for commissioning new sculpture, the Trust enabled such well - known artists as Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker and Katarina Fritsch to produce site specific works dealing with aesthetic, social and environmental issues.

Through connected artists such as Yves Klein — who also became a member of French art movement Nouveau Réalisme — Jean Tinguely, and Lucio Fontana, ZERO would re-define painting, explore the monochrome, and serial structures, and produce artworks made from flames and smoke, filling whole galleries with their environmental works, they would turn to the deserts and skies as viable sites for art.

British conceptual artist Simon Starling (born 1967) interrogates the histories of art and science, as well as other subjects such as economic and environmental issues, through a wide variety of media including film, installation and photography.

Employing the traditional tools of drawing such as graphite and ink on paper, the featured artists react to contemporary conditions, as well as the histories — social, economic, environmental and cultural — that shape today's global politics.

Among this year's draws: Ballroom Marfa is bringing internationally known environmental artist Agnes Denes» «The Pyramids of Conscience,» a trio of structures filled with liquids such as water from the Rio Grande and crude oil.