Sentences with phrase «about contemporary artists as»

As a curator in residence at Residency Unlimited, New York City, Herrera analyzed the artistic scene in the city, had studio visits, interviews and wrote about contemporary artists as a means of generating future projects.

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Learn about Keri Smith as a contemporary illustrator and Guerrilla artist and her ideas to prompt creativity Some CREATIVE ACTIVITIES - Good homework project tasks as well to set.

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But all these works come from a place of deep personal perspective and wildly messy emotion, and, as a newcomer to Goodman's works, this strikes me as relevant to a contemporary conversation about women artists and female identity writ large.»

Opening: Survival Research Laboratories at Marlborough Contemporary As more and more artists make work about the internet, the art world has started looking to the technology sphere for new additions to art history.

AWARD / HONOR Theaster Gates accepts the Artes Mundi 6, described as the UK's leading prize for international contemporary art, on Jan. 22 in Cardiff, Wales and announces he will split the prize money (40,000 pounds, about $ 60,000) among fellow artists shortlisted for the honor.

In the April 1999 issue of American Artist magazine the contemporary realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned portraits, «I tell my clients that when my portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.

As a curator and project coordinator, Baker has authored and edited numerous publications on contemporary art, writing about artists such as Kiki Smith and Andrea ZitteAs a curator and project coordinator, Baker has authored and edited numerous publications on contemporary art, writing about artists such as Kiki Smith and Andrea Zitteas Kiki Smith and Andrea Zittel.

DHC / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present French artist Sophie Calle who will speak about her development as an artist through a stunning visual compendium of her work.

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.

Although he died before its completion, Boetti's work continues to be written about and studied as an important paradigm of the newly international approach of contemporary artists.

HangarBicocca, the contemporary art space in Milan supported by Pirelli, presents bau bau, Céline Condorelli's solo exhibition, comprising about twenty works made between 2008 and 2014, as well as a selection of the artist's writings.

In the wake of last year's group exhibitions The 5th of July and It Can Howl, which featured work by New York - and Los Angeles - based artists such as Martine Syms, Nancy Lupo and Katherine Bernhardt — as well as the more regionally inclusive revival of the Atlanta Biennial, co-curated by Fuller, ART PAPERS editor Victoria Camblin, Jacksonville - based independent curator Aaron Levi Garvey and Joan Mitchell Center director Gia Hamilton of New Orleans — there has been some local hand - wringing about whether Atlanta Contemporary's exhibition schedule prioritizes Georgia artists or the rising stars of the New York scene.

Frequently cited as one of the top international residency programs, the Bemis Center offers artists private live / work studios, financial support, technical / administrative assistance, and opportunities for intellectual discourse about contemporary art through free public programs.

In a piece for RA Magazine last summer about positive discrimination and women artists, she wrote: «Contemporary artists are in constant dialogue with art history and, as a generalisation, art history is overwhelmingly about male artists.»

Cecilia Vicuña's exhibition «About to Happen» at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans is billed as the first major solo exhibition for the artist in the United States and features an array of media: performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site - specific installation.

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.

The excesses of this method — such as the giant dragon the artist created for the Fifty - Fourth Venice Biennale — are here held in abeyance, allowing a sublimated conversation about contemporary masculinity to energize his experiments in form.

In 1983, he raised funds to purchase several contemporary works by Black women artists and positioned the College as an institution where objects by and about women of the African Diaspora would be accessible, exhibited and regularly discussed.

avafoperates with a hedonistic spirit, and engages in frequent collaborations with musicians, designers, dancers and other artists, challenging conventional assumptions about authorship and the role of the artist's persona in society and the contemporary art world with their core beliefs as foundation: «share, generosity, contaminate, be contaminated, devour, be devoured, travel, and spread».

As a part of an ongoing inquiry into the place of the human body in contemporary art (occasioned by the release of Phaidon's new book Body of Art), Artspace's Dylan Kerr spoke to Thomas about artists who have influenced his own approach to the body.

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?»

Several of these artists engage with strategies of conceptual art, addressing themes about contemporary experiences such as technology and the internet, notions of migration, local and mainstream cultures, or ideas of representation.

Join contemporary artist and subject of the current retrospective Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic as he talks about his career and creative process.

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.

Speaking Badly about Stones focuses on the socio - critical aspect of the artist's work that addresses contemporary topics such as (over) consumption, energy waste and (hyper) capitalism.

The 2017 Frieze Teens learn about the inner workings of the contemporary art world through visits with leaders in the field including artists Nicole Eisenman, Caroline Larsen and Jean Shin; trips to major exhibitions at city museums including The MET Breuer and the New Museum; and participation in events such as Pioneer Works» Alternative Art School Fair.

I was unsure about pursuing a career in art before I saw works by other contemporary artists of African descent, such as Wangechi Mutu, Julie Mehretu, Kerry James Marshall, Chris Ofili, Yinka Shonibare, and El Anatsui.

With the popularity of textiles in contemporary art, from street artist HOTTEA's yarn bombs to Erin Riley's risque erotic tapestries, now is as good a time as any to learn about the material these projects are built upon.

Kusama was one of the artists I wrote about as being a precursor to establishing this new field of Asian contemporary art.

Join us for a Sunday Salon with Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Anne Goodyear as she speaks about contemporary portraiture in relation to the current exhibition Portrait of an Artist KJ Shows.

NMWA Associate Curator Virginia Treanor guided 18 photographers through the exhibition and highlighted show - stopping works by midcentury and contemporary women designers while illuminating the artists» processes — photographers enjoyed hearing about Polly Apfelbaum, who used a punch card as a stencil for her Handweaver's Pattern Book installation (2014).

WW: You've talked about the museum as being a place for giving artists a platform for expression during contemporary times.

About the Fondation Louis Vuitton The Fondation Louis Vuitton is an institution that serves the public interest dedicated exclusively to contemporary art and artists, as well as 20th century works to which their inspirations can be traced.

Moderated by Artistic Director, Elizabeth Ferrill, Esteban del Valle takes us on a journey through his experiences as a young art student, to gallery representation, to supporting himself as an artist, and answers your most burning questions about becoming a vital participant in the contemporary art world.

While this does reflect her feelings about the «British cultural suspicion of contemporary art» as a reason to leave in her case, many other artists also left London to work in affordable spaces in Berlin when their studios in London became unaffordable.

We interview Brooklyn - based artist Tessa Perutz about Massif Central, a company she founded that produces a line of contemporary art scarves featuring artists such as Tal R, Jonas Wood, Keegan McHargue, and Joshua Abelow.

As contemporary artists seek to address the worlds in which they live, their art raises important questions about whose bodies and whose stories matter.

«At the time, I knew nothing about American contemporary art,» said Berri, who visited Castelli's New York gallery as it hosted its 30th - anniversary exhibition, presenting major works by its principal artists alongside American masterpieces.

Jori Finkel of The New York Times was quick to note: «As chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for the last three years, Helen Molesworth has been a fierce advocate for artists who did not fit neatly into the white - male - blue - chip art world,» something that could have been said about Raicovich and Rodríguez each in their own way.

Like his contemporary, the German artist Joseph Beuys, Kiefer understood that art is about destruction as well as creation.

Her ideas about surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of artists as varied as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann, as well as Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern abstraction.

The dinner bubbled with cheer, however, as Violette and his tattooed buddies joined artists Kai Althoff and Wangechi Mutu, collector Beth Swofford, and dealers Jeff Poe and Rodolphe Janssen to chow down and chew fat about, among other things, the insanely funny new YouTube video pitting Adolf Hitler against Jeffrey Deitch in the former's unsuccessful bid for director at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Through public talks and intimate seminars and studio visits with UH students, internationally recognized scholars, curators, artists, and critics will investigate the idea of the contemporary as both a temporal and aesthetic framework to broaden critical understanding about how we situate current artistic practices.

With billboard - size aerial photographs of Hackney and Tottenham, the locations of the London riots — some gleaned from contemporary news reports, others taken from inside a specially chartered helicopter — the Canadian artist reconstructs recent events, raising questions about public versus private memories, as well as racial and class tensions.

«Contemporary artists increasingly draw upon digital technologies to make their work, and it is important for us as a teaching museum to weave these works into our ongoing conversation about contemporary creativity,» said Ian Berry, Dayton Director of Skidmore's Tang TeacContemporary artists increasingly draw upon digital technologies to make their work, and it is important for us as a teaching museum to weave these works into our ongoing conversation about contemporary creativity,» said Ian Berry, Dayton Director of Skidmore's Tang Teaccontemporary creativity,» said Ian Berry, Dayton Director of Skidmore's Tang Teaching Museum.

-- As one of the key members of Gran Fury, what is your opinion about contemporary artists dealing with AIDS / HIV in their practice?

«The Great Hall Project series was designed to foster a dialogue between artists, the museum, and the community about contemporary art and New Orleans as a source of creative inspiration,» said NOMA Director Susan Taylor.