Not exact matches
Evertz, who moved from Berlin to NYC at the age of 19, sees her work as bridging two opposing
aesthetic traditions: a philosophical Northern
European and a pragmatic American approach to painting.
Concerned with the resolution of opposing elements — materially, formally and culturally — Dhanjal's work draws heavily on his experience of Indian
aesthetic traditions, blending them with the influence of
European and specifically British modernist sculpture.
Drawing from the histories of the Civil Rights and Black Resistance movements, Black
aesthetic tradition, and the historical avant - garde, Becoming Imperceptible invites you to reimagine both our history and future and opens up a rigorous conversation about system and form in the
European, African, and American avant - gardes of the last century.
Catherine Opie fuses the observational
tradition of American photography with a
European poststructuralist approach to identity politics in a practice that seeks to determine the
aesthetic and cultural languages that articulate community.
Reacting against an American academic and
aesthetic tradition that was subservient to
European aesthetics, the members of The Eight established their own artistic society in the bustling neighbourhoods of New York and set out to create a native American painting.