Sentences with phrase «through everyday materials»

It is this paradoxical history that Bradford's sanded paper pulp surfaces address through their everyday materials; they essentially grin and flip the bird at the entrenched systems of art historical dominance built by wealthy European patrons and artists while offering it a big bear hug.
Aspen Mays employs an array of non-traditional techniques in her work as a means of exploring cosmological questions through everyday materials.

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After going through a pretty serious period of doubt about my faith, I found myself with a heightened sensitivity to the use of God's name in everyday speech, especially concerning 1) material blessings, 2) theological positions, and 3) life decisions.
The Food Recovery Challenge is part of the EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program, which seeks to reduce the environmental impact of food and other widely - used everyday items through their entire life cycle, including how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled, and disposed.
Through using recycled material, the Radius Source Toothbrush puts an eco-friendly spin on an everyday hygiene product.
With this kit, children discover «why» as well as «how» common electronic components work through the use of everyday materials.
The website features style tutorials, product showcases, and how - to videos covering everything from crafts to cooking — many of which are user - generated — along with everyday brave challenges, personal stories, research and reading material... But the Brave Life Project, as a program, also exists outside the digital realm through a long - term charitable component.
I ended up essentially creating my own course through my sculpture class where I would create dresses out of everyday materials for my projects.
Most of the «comedy» in the movie is channeled through Donna's stand - up material and everyday musings, which are so gratuitously vulgar and childish that it boggles the mind how anyone could be even remotely attracted to her.
Not only do we offer great rates everyday and flexible terms, we provide research materials to help you through the auto - buying process.
He transforms everyday materials, such as newspapers or clothes, through labor - intensive processes.
Through the incorporation of materials culled from the everyday, she is able to address numerous artistic traditions including abstract expressionism, minimalism, and color field painting.
Roused by the radical spirit of David Hammons and Shanique Smith, Spann takes objects of the everyday, readily found in hardware stores or at home, and transforms their meaning through context and the introduction of other materials.
Comprising approximately seventy - five works produced from 1987 through the present, this exhibition examines how Hodges transforms both everyday and precious materials into poignant meditations on themes including time, loss, identity, and love.
The evocative installations deal with conflict, stress and the desire for balance and movement in everyday life through stretching the physical limits of the body in combination with unanimated materials.
Lee creates poetic object - based installations fashioned from everyday materials and household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures of painting, drawing, and placement.
«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic vistas.
Through the ingenious use of everyday materials, artists and artisans create memorable works of art that celebrate both the vibrant joy of life and reverence for the deceased that pervades Mexican culture.
The reinvention and incorporation of used objects and everyday materials is a common thread that runs through Tom Pfannerstill's carved wooden objects and Gavin Zeigler's mixed media work.
«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic
Elevating found and everyday materials through delicate arrangements and subtle tactile manipulations, Gedi Sibony explores the quiet symbolism of raw materials.
For this commission, on view through Aug. 19, the artist developed a multi-channel sound installation of compositions that subtly examine the material history of the two sites and their acoustic qualities, using everyday objects and acoustic environments unique to each site, and drawing on his practices of focused listening and architectural acoustics.
Richard Tuttle revolutionized sculpture in the 1960s by challenging preconceived notions of the genre through his use of everyday materials such as paper, rope, plywood and cloth.
Get ready for some everyday materials transformed through art.
Jim Lambie's show Spiritualized translates everyday materials including shirts, jars and belts into liberated objects transformed through new color, shapes and context.
In 22 mixed - media works on paper on view at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Stephen Lapthisophon invites viewers to consider their everyday lives through his use of common materials in the execution of these abstract and personal works of art.
Pascali is associated with Post-Minimalism and, specifically, with the Italian Arte Povera movement, whose protagonists sought to incorporate everyday life into art through the use of natural, organic and, often, unorthodox materials.
Through shifts in scale and substitutions of materials Loesberg recontextualizes everyday items from our built environment into objects of rarefied ubiquity.
According to Albers the compositions of precious and everyday materials emerged through a process of experimenting with the combination and interaction of materials.
Through her use of everyday materials, typically associated with the female gender, You invites the viewer to explore the boundaries between women's work, craft, the ready made and the language of abstraction.
Through a kinetic juxtaposition of materials including a cymbal and piece of concrete David Beattie explores the physicality of sound and how we experience it in our everyday, while Dennis McNulty's research for a commission in Norway has led to a layered, performative multi-component work that takes 1930s science writing and a 1980s pop song by a-ha to join ideas of universal time.
Jenny Yurshansky's work negotiates the space between the poetic and the empiric by manipulating everyday materials into unparalleled forms through sculpture, site - specific installations and interventions.
Through the manipulation of various materials, Mathison transforms everyday objects into charged artistic declarations.
The constant stream of images that society produces and encounters everyday on their electronic devices, such as tablets, and our physical relationship to them in the way we hold, swipe and tap them is being thought about when making these works as well as how that relates to making sculpture and the process of constructing form and image through material processes.
They ask the participating artists to examine the very tenets of materiality through the lens of phenomenological inquiry, and to consider «everyday encounters with the material world», exploring the ways in whey contribute to our collective sense of identity, value, and place.
The book features essays by Diedrich Diederichsen and Johanna Burton, offering insight on the artist, who through processes of manipulation, abstraction and shifting resembles recognizable elements anew; piercing the patina of familiarity covering the density and complexity of our everyday material lives.
Emphasis on the process is central to her practice; as she physically transforms the materials through painstaking manual labour, raising questions about everyday working experiences of marginalised people.
Shaver uses utilitarian materials as a force of transformation, whereby the everyday object is recast as a unique abstraction through a layering of materials and crafted geometric shapes.
The New York — based artist seems to aim for a kind of material transparency, through a practice that also constantly directs our attention to the modest and the everyday.
The three artists connect to this movement through their interest in everyday materials as well moving away from pure sculpture in favor of analog and digital work in their respective art practices.
Steinbach is interested in the shared social ritual of collecting, arranging and presenting everyday objects and materials, an experience that on a basic level extends to us all, whether it's through -LSB-...]
According to Celant (Flash Art, 1967), Arte Povera aimed to break down the barrier between art and life, mainly through the creation of performance and assemblage art made out of everyday materials.
«Over the course of the past 30 years, through her use of meaningful, everyday materials, often in unexpected and socially - charged public spaces in her native Colombia and elsewhere around the world, Doris Salcedo has created a body of work that is both aesthetically striking and politically resonant.
This search for authenticity provoked a shift toward art that sought to forge connections to the everyday, whether through materials, subject matter, process, or conceptual orientation.
Against this background, he creates installations that expand through space, consisting of textiles, wood, everyday materials and found objects.
Espírito Santo's work deals with structure, design, place, surface, space, light and material, and is based on a subtle subversion of Minimalism through abstracted everyday items.
May 23 Part I explores Rauschenberg's idea of the Combine, his term for works that incorporate ordinary objects and materials into painting, through recent musical compositions that use everyday sounds and images.
Gallagher's work tends to take installations as its primary medium, working through everyday objects and materials to create works that evoke contemporary creations of the digital age.
Through a selection of paintings, sculptures and wall works, seven different artists attempt to strip everyday objects and scenes from their associative context, «making visible the characters and materials that weave in and out of peripheral consciousness».
The artist transforms everyday objects into models of perfection through his control of techniques and knowledge of materials.
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