Sentences with phrase «large plaster sculptures»

In this body of work, large plaster sculptures modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era and quotidian objects such as garden ornaments are each anchored by a blue «gazing ball» of hand - blown glass.

Large plaster sculptures embedded within the gallery walls extend the scope of the exhibition to fill the entire space.

Not exact matches

The sculptures had been created by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter as plaster models for two even larger bulls that ornamented the livestock exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

It was during this period he began experimenting with large constructed works using cardboard, plaster, and plywood; by 1965, sculpture became his principal medium.

The show, organized by the ICA's senior curator, Jenelle Porter, consists of installations of painted plaster sculptures, as well as cast porcelain and cast paper vessels, an array of large - scale works on paper, and some mouth - blown crystal vessels.

Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female body through raw, fragmented forms.

There are two large sculptures studios linked to two smaller project rooms, including a welding room, kiln and areas for plaster, stone, and wood working.

Taken at the Rodin Museum in Paris, which was the home and studio of Auguste Rodin for the last nine years of his life, Wermer's photographs depict his marble sculptures and plaster models for several larger bronze commissions, along with a selection of works by Camille Claudel.

After his first solo show in 1981, at the Galleria Spatia in Bolzano, in 1984 he exhibited large size sculptures in plaster at the Galleria L'Attico in Rome, an important solo show presented by Giuliano Briganti.

Saint Phalle attempted her first large - scale sculpture, enlisting Tinguely to make an iron armature, which she covered with plaster and paint.

These are situated atop large, white - plaster sculptures that have been alternately modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, or after such quotidian objects from the contemporary residential landscape as a rustic mailbox, a birdbath, and an inflatable garden snowman.

Blackman's formal pairing of opposites — black and white, horizontal and vertical — are referencing the sculptures too, nodding to the larger process of mixing water and plaster dust (at a 50/50 ratio) to make them.

Last summer, Rachofsky and Faulconer purchased the largest sculpture from Koons's recent Gazing Ball series of white plaster figures with blue glass globes that, following its loan to the Koons retrospective opening this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, will take up residence in the Warehouse.

Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.

Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) is a larger, wood version of Hepworth's first sculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war, Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 AugSculpture with Colour (Oval Form) is a larger, wood version of Hepworth's first sculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war, Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Augsculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war, Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 AugSculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Augsculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 August 1939.

Two of the more obvious examples of resistance in Robson's exhibition are Virginia Maksymowicz's fulsome Panis Angelicus, a cast plaster sculpture of what appears to be an upper section of a Corinthian column overflowing with cast - plaster loaves of bread and broken plaster ornamentation, and Leslie Friedman's Tasty, an installation of wall - mounted screen prints and a large pile of shiny oversize soda cans.

Andy Holden's work incorporates a wide variety of media and forms of presentation, from plaster, bronze and ceramic objects, to music, performance and large outdoor sculpture.

It would be larger, and it would concentrate on sculpture in which plaster is the primary material.

Working in a stunning variety of materials — including wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art: carving large trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand into a large - scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.

At its annual meeting in March, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art made possible the acquisition of Piano / Piano (1963 — 1965/2011) by Richard Artschwager, a major example of the wooden sculptures that employ Formica as a laminate, for which he is known; Plaster Surrogates (1982/1989) by Allan McCollum, the last large grouping available of the artist's signature works in this series; and Condensation Wall (1963 — 1966/2013) by Hans Haacke, a breakthrough kinetic work from the artist's early career.

West continued to make plaster and papier - mâché sculpture, and in the mid-90s began making bulbous tubes and large - scale wiry loops, often with seats; readers may remember seeing one such work, «The Ego and the Id,» in Central Park from 2009 - 10.

Many of us may be familiar with Moore's large plasters from the 1950s and 60s on view in the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre.

Brooklyn - based sculptor Diana Al - Hadid is best known for her large - scale installations, hulking sculptures comprised of haphazard stacks of intricate honeycombed walls, cast organ pipes, and striated avalanches of plaster.

It also provides a vivid sense of how sculptures were made, from small virtuosic clay studies to larger finished works in bronze, marble and sometimes tinted plaster, the medium used most often in the exhibition's many, astounding portrait busts.

Large - scale works to be exhibited include John Chamberlain's The Sylvester Barge, a «couch» sculpture made in 1982 of urethane foam and nylon cord measuring 6 x 15 feet; a ceiling - mounted «Tarpaulin» painting by the young English artist, Gary Hume; and Katharina Fritsch's Knot, a new painted plaster sculpture of rat - tails that relates to her 1993 Rat - King installation at the Dia Center for the Arts.

In this large group of small sculptures, Elisa Lendvay masterfully tinkers with plaster, Sculpey, wire, bones, stones, markers, and a playing card found on the beach of Montauk.

Singing from a large bed - like platform in the middle of the large hall, the nieces will be surrounded by marble, columns, skylight, and the plaster casts of classical sculptures that look down from the balcony.

He works in a variety of media (steel, plaster, wood, ceramic, plastic) creating abstract, often large - scale sculptures with a signature use of bright vibrant

This presentation includes plaster and mirror reliefs, large - scale mirror sculptures the artist refers to as «geometric families,» and works on paper, revealing the central role drawing has played in Monir's practice and focusing on a sculptural and graphic oeuvre developed over more than 40 years.

She is known for her large imposing sculptures made from what she calls «crap» materials, such as; plywood, plaster, cement, polystyrene, spray - paint, PVA, scrim, cardboard, felt and rubber.

She is known for her large imposing sculptures made from what she calls «crap» materials, such as; plywood, plaster, cement, polystyrene, spray - paint, PVA, scrim, cardboard, felt and...

The ambiguous title of her sculpture, There Can Be No Arguments, 2010 is a seemingly definitive statement that invites us to consider its relationship to the materials comprising the work — in this case baby pink plaster powder clinging to the surface of a large polythene sheet.

Usually made in response to the space where they will be shown, and often created with ephemeral materials, her works have ranged from delicate cellophane, paper and polythene hanging pieces suspended with ribbon or tape to large - scale floor - based sculptures made from plaster, chalk powder and soil.