Sentences with phrase «abstract armatures»
Morrow will create a winding installation of a colorful abstract armatures suspended from the walls and ceiling will be wrapped in layers of donated textiles to create an environment that will grow, change, and be re-arranged.
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The abstract armatures often seem to contribute more to the aura of seriousness than they do to the subject.
Where the Statue of Liberty's copper skin pieces produced by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi were soldered together on a metal scaffold, and unveiled in 1886 as an image now almost universally recognizable, WE THE PEOPLE is a series of copper skin fragments dispersed according to the logic, or abstract armature, of the global art system.
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The press release notes that the artists «all make paintings that engage abstract or abstracted forms on the armature of an implied grid.
His description of Saul's early paintings and drawings runs the gamut of art - historical references:»... Max Beckmann collides with jingoist all - American Thomas Hart Benton within an abstract structural armature of Willem de Kooning, all slathered with a cheeky overlay of Mad Magazine irreverence.»
There is a sense of estrangement in both paintings (as there is in much of the work in this room), with their subtle departures from the conventions of abstract painting — Thompson's perfect geometry drenched in oil bleeds; Martin's imperfect geometry quavering on a flimsy armature — stirring a shift in expectations and the anxieties that accompany it: a locus of confusion, hostility, and acceptance that the art critic and historian Dore Ashton called «the unknown shore.»
Chakaia Booker is best known for the material and process that characterize the majority of her work: cut - up automobile tires that are reassembled on wooden or steel armatures to create abstract sculptures.
«Her works epitomize a shift in abstract expressionism from chance, hazard, and the uncontrolled freedom of the unconscious to a new direction with breath, freshness, and light within a highly structured armature...» (P. Schimmel quoted in J. Yau, «Joan Mitchell's Sixth Sense,» Mitchell Trees, exh.
The three artists in this exhibition all make paintings that engage abstract or abstracted forms on the armature of an implied grid.
Other works in the show range from the luminous marble of Carrara — long beloved by artists and architects as well as abstract sculptors such as Sergio Camargo — to concrete, which offers the artist new and entirely different plastic possibilities thanks to the interplay of cement and steel armatures.
Lined up along a wall are seven «slut - sticks», wooden armatures bound with stretched fabric and leather, becoming abstract figures in stages between dress and undress.