Sentences with phrase «thinking about contemporary artists»

Thinking about contemporary artists who have created inflatable sculpture, Kellner realized she'd hit on an idea for «a perfect summertime sculpture exhibition that would be fun and show some really strong work by some really strong artists,» she said.

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About Site - Art21 was founded in 1997 with the mission to increase knowledge of contemporary art, ignite discussion, and inspire creative thinking by using diverse media to present contemporary artists at work and in their own words.

I tried to think like a Yahoo! commenter while watching Coogler's film because I felt like the message of the film was already speaking to my choir and I wanted to consider how filmmakers and artists can reach beyond the echo chamber to try and change some minds about the issue of race in contemporary America.

The field of contemporary art, both in how it's presented and how it's thought about, is now populated by the contributions of older artists made back in the day, as well as the exciting work they are making now.

But I don't think Tibbits, in invoking those shows, is really complaining that the MFAH and the Menil don't show enough contemporary Texas artists, although his screed prompted Christopher Sperandio, in a Facebook post, to call for project spaces at Houston museums and Glasstire's Lucia Simek to reminisce about the DMA's recent Available Space group show of work by contemporary North Texas artists.

It's exciting to think about O'Keeffe and Still as American contemporaries (O'Keeffe died just 5 years after Still) who were responding to similar socio - political climates artistically through themes based in the spiritual and abstract, but it is also worth exploring how these two artists relate to larger twentieth - century ideas that led to the notion of the «single - artist museum» in the first place.

In its genuine collapsing of the art - life divide and its affirmation of the value of bringing art into unlikely places, the piece reminds me of what I've admired about The Art Guys since, as an art student in Boston in the mid-1990s, I picked up their Contemporary Arts Museum Houston catalog and thought, «There are artists in Houston?»

MS: This is a question I find tough to answer, but it makes me think about what the conceptual artist Liam Gillick once said: «Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place.»

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

For a normal visitor, if he or she wants to understand, they have to understand the artist's thinking or what an artist wants to talk about, then they can enjoy the works as they enjoy other contemporary arts.

Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, exhibition catalog, Naples Museum of Art, Arkansas Art Center (2007) NYArts, «Ink Scissors Paper,» by Pamela A. Popeson (July 17, 2007) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 19, No. 6, cover image (June, 2007) Iowa City Press - Citizen «Old Card Catalog Gets Art Makeover» by Rob Daniel (April 2, 2006) Virtual Comunidad 2005 / Now: Here: This, exhibition catalog published by Artists Unite (December 2005) Manhattan Times, «The Photography of Fleeting Moments,» by Mike Fitelson (February 2005) BLIR, Issue # 05 (September 2005) J.T. Kirkland's Thinking About Art, «Artists Interview Artists», interview by Douglas Witmer (August 17, 2005) NY Arts, «Illuminated Brush Strokes,» by Pamela A. Popeson (March / April 2004) NY Arts, «Sky Pape at June Kelly Gallery,» by Carl E. Hazlewood (November 2001) Artnet.com Magazine, Drawing Notebook, by N.F. Karlins (October, 2001) Cover, «Processing Natural Order, Sky Pape at June Kelly Gallery,» by Chloe Veltman (September, 1999) Review Magazine, «Sky Pape, Inklings: Drawings at June Kelly Gallery,» by Mark Daniel Cohen, pp 8 - 10 (June, 1999) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 11, No. 4, cover image (1999) ARTnews Vol.97, No. 1 «Peer Reviews: The Best of 1997» by Paul Gardner, pp 89 - 95 (1998) The Café Review, Spring issue.

From thought - provoking sculptures to a haunting video to a photographic installation, each of the chosen works engages with contemporary culture, reflecting the artist's looking at and thinking about life today.

In How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art David Salle strips away complicated theory and describes contemporary art in the plain language artists use when talking to each other.

For this month's Summer Session we're thinking about celebrity, and what better contemporary artist to embody this topic than Jeff Koons, for whom celebrity and consumerism are the hallmarks of his most famous pieces?

About Jan's work, artist, curator and writer Michelle Grabner states, ``... his paintings expand the best of contemporary non-objective work in their shear boldness and fearless scope, the entirety of the painting's dynamics are always greater than the architecture that supports them... The impact of van der Ploeg's paintings is located at the intersection of sensation and thought, between the work's graphic visual impact and its conceptual underpinnings.

Dedicated to providing readers with an informed and expert view of New York's contemporary arts, our lively conversations and reporting highlight current perspectives on contemporary art and provide an insight into what artists, curators and galleries are creating and thinking about.

But then I was thinking about posting a poster for the film on the notice board here «this was when the space was the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Center; lots of artists were working here.

Today We Should Be Thinking About Jo Baer, Thomas Baylre, Jimmie Durham, Robert Filliou, Haim Steinbach, and Rosemarie Trockel compiles these reflections and documents the legacies and contemporary conversations that surround these artists today.

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Other institutions tackle the «I'll never understand this» response to contemporary art by quoting artists in their labels, by featuring a response from a community member, or by asking a viewer for his or her own thoughts about a work.

«Haptic Tactics» aims to develop new ways of thinking about and engaging with contemporary abstract work made by queer artists.

Marc Quinn on artwriting (2000) Back in 2000 in interview, Marc Quinn, the British artist known for using unusual art materials like ice, blood and excrement, shared his thoughts about his experience with contemporary artwriting — and the positioning of his iconic work, Self, made from nine...

An all - star roster of contemporary artists will be presented to take on the mammoth task of thinking about how art has been changed by the Internet.

Haptic Tactics is an exhibition that seeks to develop new ways of thinking about and engaging with contemporary abstract work made by queer artists.

The Jewel Thief will combine works by over fifty contemporary artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art.

This artist's book / monograph positions appropriated advertisements, snapshots, found images and studio pictures alongside reproductions of paintings and drawings, providing a view of the artist's thinking about representation of the contemporary landscape.

I've got 3 generations of Utah artists in it, which I'm really excited about in terms of thinking about the differences and specificities within each of the practices and then putting that within a larger international contemporary art dialogue.

The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to announce the fall and winter speaker line - up for the 2012 Nasher lecture series, 360: Artists, Critics, Curators, which brings art world speakers to the Nasher for conversations about the ever - expanding definition of sculpture and the thought - processes behind innovative contemporary artwork, architecture and design.

Still, it made me think about what contemporary artist would do best with this assignment.

«What I want to show visitors is that 1) artists don't work in a bubble, and that 2) contemporary artists, though they are pursuing new modes in the world and new ways of thinking about art and making art, they are still very much looking to their predecessors,» she said.

In «Terrain,» the artist asks us to «think about these imprints left by the material processes of work as the evidence of our presence on the earth... how contemporary human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics of the labor which enables our lives.»

The exhibition combines visual displays by professional futurists with works by contemporary artists, encouraging us to reflect critically about things to come: How shall exhibitions stimulate our thinking?

The light shining in from being near the river glows into the space activating the color fields vibrating in the paintings, DoN thought about how this is the way a true artist lives, in a bright airy studio right in the hub of the lively contemporary arts scene in Old City with the energy and time to think big.

Educator - led studio classes encourage students to think deeper about contemporary art and the real artists making it.

One thing that was really interesting to me as this exhibition was developing is the way that artists are using materials that may be slightly historic, of a moment that is not now, to reflect and think about contemporary ideas.

Joanna Marsh, The James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum says, «The artists nominated this year «continue to show a sustained commitment to distinctive work that challenges conventional thinking and expectations about the nature of art.»

«I want to think deeply about the force of change in contemporary art today, where the art market, the global art world, is forced to recognize the creative output of African artists,» says Smooth, who is also a curator at the Hood Museum of Art, Darthmouth College and curated the 11th Dak» Art Biennale.

The project will present a selection of contemporary Slovak and German visual artists whose work involves critical thinking about issues of cultural exchange, identity and nationality.

Location: Floor One, The Whitney Shop Come celebrate the release of contemporary artist David Salle's new book How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art in the Whitney Shop.

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«If you think about the contemporary landscape, you see a lot of younger artists experimenting with this sort of deconstructivist style of abstraction, which is considered sort of post-canvas and about prying apart the physical elements of the canvas,» DiQuinzio says.

From August 2015 to May 2016, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco convened a small group of artists, curators and art historians from the Bay Area and formed a research group dedicated to thinking about, talking about, reading about and writing about the work of American artist David Hammons.

A few years ago I published an article called «Neo-maternalism: Contemporary Artists» Approach to Motherhood» in The Brooklyn Rail about artist mothers, and I'm thinking of writing a sequel that covers the exasperating teenage years.

About van der Ploeg's work, artist and curator Michelle Grabner writes, ``... his paintings expand the best of contemporary non-objective work in their shear boldness and fearless scope, the entirety of the painting's dynamics are always greater than the architecture that supports them... The impact of van der Ploeg's paintings is located at the intersection of sensation and thought, between the work's graphic visual impact and its conceptual underpinnings.

Six contemporary abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — select one of their own recent paintings as well as works by other artists who have been significant in their thinking about their work.

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