Sentences with phrase «when pioneering artists»

When pioneering artists and scholars first demonstrated the potential for using computers in arts and humanities research in the period after the Second World War, their work often provoked antipathy because of this anxiety to maintain a distance between art and the machine.

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In 2005, Moran met Jonas, a pioneering performance artist, when she asked him to collaborate with her on a project for Dia: Beacon.

Artists Space, the nonprofit gallery and pioneer of New York's downtown art scene that was forced to move from its SoHo home last year when its landlord planned to build a penthouse on the building, has found a place to put down roots: 80 White Street, in TriBeCa.

There were no signs in her work of the organic monumentalism synonymous with the sculptors and conceptualists who first decamped for the desert, and she didn't seem the type to erect a permanent museum of her art, as did the assemblage artist Noah Purifoy, a pioneer when he left L.A. for Joshua Tree in the 1980s.

More than forty years after its first appearance, Hyperrealism continues to fascinate the public, many of the group's pioneers are still painting and new artists often use techniques like slide projection and gridding when working.

The Os Gêmeos work was one of the first in a series of artist murals that have been exhibited in the mural space on Houston Street at Bowery, beginning in 2008 when property developer Tony Goldman — who was a pioneer of the revitalization of SoHo as well as Miami's Wynwood Arts District — teamed up with art dealer Jeffrey Deitch to commission the recreation of a Keith Haring mural that had been there decades earlier.

The works of Weiner and West mentioned above demonstrate Kagge's aim, when the opportunity arises, to acquire important works by artistic pioneers that are of interest to the key artists in the collection and that can contextualise their artistic concerns.

Anglim Gilbert has an extraordinary trove of mostly delicate drawings of women's bodies by the pioneering Lynn Hershman Leeson; all were discovered when the artist recently moved house.

So when I bought Goodman Gallery from Linda Givon in 2008, I knew I was not only inheriting a successful commercial art gallery, but receiving the baton from a pioneering woman and taking on the responsibility to continue to collaborate with artists who address power structures and seek to enact social change.

: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960 - 1980» explored a robust period in the city's history when a pioneering group of African American artists established an influential creative community and produced important works commenting on the state of culture, politics and identity.

After training at the University of Wisconsin, Levine began to attract critical attention in the early 1980s when, along with artists like Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and David Salle, she distinguished herself as one of the pioneers of Appropriation art.

Despite the efforts of the above pioneers, along with those of inter-war artists Marcel Jean (1900 - 93), Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) and Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)- see their respective works Spectre of the Gardenia (1936, plaster head, painted cloth, zippers, film strip, Museum of Modern Art NYC); Object (1936, stuffed parrot, silk stocking remnant, cork ball, engraved map, Museum of Modern Art NYC); and Poem - Object (1941, Museum of Modern Art NYC)- junk art did not coalesce into a movement until the 1950s, when artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) started to promote his «combines» (a combined form of painting and sculpture), such as Bed (1955, MoMA, New York) and First Landing Jump (1961, combine painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board, Museum of Modern Art NYC).

Two works by pioneering video artist Nam Jun Paik, one a robotic sculptural installation including various screens, the other a subtle video manipulating images of The Beatles, fail to captivate when set amongst the work of the other more contemporary artists who seem to whiz and bang comparatively.

She began her professional arts career in 1988, when she assumed the role of director of A Space, a pioneering artist - run centre in Toronto.

When Betty Parsons wasn't working tirelessly to promote the brave new works of pioneering artists, she herself was creating artworks.

The final exhibition for Sharon Lockhart's season at The Artist's Institute takes darkness as a point of departure, bringing together a night painting from Alex Katz's personal collection with the pioneering flash photography of Harold Edgerton, two artists whose works have been touchstones for Sharon's latest series of photographs, When You're Free, You Run in the Dark.

Overlooked in her discussion of Sherman is the recognition that her dressing - up, role - playing, selfie - photo schtick was already old when she revved it up in the late 1970s, and that, for some time, such pioneering feminist artists as Martha Wilson, Martha Rosler, Suzy Lake and others had already been examining women's society - defined roles and images through photographic, performance - based artistic projects.

A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings.

«60 Years of Performance Art in Switzerland» explores performative art, taking as its starting point the; 60s, when pioneering performance artist Jean Tinguely realized his first self - destructive actions.

These and other seminal works of land art are associated with that meteoric moment in time, when revolution was transforming American society on all levels and a group of pioneering artists risked a radical new path.

The Washington, D.C., museum is a pioneer, having acquired works by African American artists since the 1930s when it brought two paintings by James Lesesne Wells into its collection.

The exhibition associates this idea of «offshore art» with past developments in Land Performance and Conceptual Art of the 1960s and 70s — a time when artists moved the creative process beyond the studio — and forms new dialogues with contemporary artists whose processes continue the interdisciplinary and site - specific practices that began with pioneers such as Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson.

An pioneer of first generation Abstract Expressionism, Philip Guston broke ranks with his peers toward the end of the 1960s when he transitioned to applying his rich gestural brushstrokes and jittery lines to figurative subjects, often derived from the gritty urban visions that came to the artist during insomniac nights of coffee drinking and cigarette smoking.

In our January 2017 issue, when his first posthumous museum retrospective was on view at Tate Modern in London, we gathered reflections from six artists about how the American pioneer affected them.

Like Graham, Long is one of a group of artists shown by Nicholas Logsdail in the earliest years of the Lisson Gallery and his legacy as a pioneering conceptualist and one of the originators of the Land Art movement is especially relevant now, as evidenced by the recent re-staging of «When Attitudes Become Forms» at the Fondazione Prada.

Anuszkiewicz, who trained under Bauhaus artist Joseph Albers, helped to launch the American Op Art movement at a time when Victor Vasarely was pioneering the movement in Europe.

She worked in collaboration with the Scottish artist Elsa Stans eld from 1972 untill 2004 when Elsa unexpected died.They are known as European video pioneers and their work is in the collection of mayor museum as Moma NewYork, Tate Gallery, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.They participated in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, in NewYork, Montreal, Tokyo, and Sydney.Since 2007 Madelon continues the work under her own name.