Sentences with phrase «abstract shadow plays»

Stevenson Gallery, a Cape Town space with a consistently incisive programme, has given its booth over to the protean Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen, whose work swings between documentary scenes of Senegal and Uganda and near - abstract shadow plays.

Not exact matches

Projected light creates dynamic shadow play that turns the Marciano's huge first - floor gallery into an abstract 3 - D film.

In Chou's photographs, these three - dimensional structures are completely dissolved and flattened into abstract geometric forms, their subtle gradations of colour entirely derived from the play of light and shadow.

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

Favoring stripped - down winter landscapes and nearly empty interiors, Wyeth savored windows» ability to isolate nearly abstract forms outdoors or to transform an interior with a play of shadow - in fact, he declared himself an «abstract painter.»

Of course, we've featured the abstract photography of Weiss previously, enjoying the way he captures bold shapes and lines that play with light and shadow.

Berlin - based installation artist Monika Grzymala and Seattle - based Victoria Haven have both created site - specific pieces for the show: Grzymala kicks up a storm of cross-hatched black - then - white tape while Haven creates delicate abstract optical illusions, playing with shadow and perspective.

Working intuitively, the artist translates both the fixed and mutable qualities of a singular object or grouping before her — shape and form, texture, colour, shadows and highlights, the play of light across a surface — into abstract compositions that evoke a specific atmosphere.

In these works, viewers explore human experiences through examinations of abstracted forms, the power of nature, plays of light, shadow and reflective surfaces, and the unknown possibilities of infinity.

Maintaining the connection to the real world, Gall's paintings are still abstract in their subject and play with the illusion of cut - outs — the meticulously painted holes, shadows and apparent kinks perfectly imitate the materiality of paper.