Sentences with phrase «addressed by the individual artists»

A host of subjects is addressed by the individual artists, ranging from issues directed by environmental concerns to those with intuitively inward visions.

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Key themes addressed by this year's selected artists are the formation of self and the individual's place in a turbulent society.

Through the visions of SunTek Chung, Larry Bamburg, Deborah Grant, Andrew Guenther, Hilary Harnischfeger, Adam Helms, Matthew Day Jackson, Karyn Olivier, Sigrid Sandstrom, Allison Smith, Ian Sullivan, Will Villalongo, Roger White, Raphael Zollinger, and an exhibition essay by Mary Robbins, this exhibition seeks to address a collective and individual response to a particular moment in time: artists as social and cultural cartographers.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

PRESENCE features work by 19 artists that address a range of themes including consumerism, technology, connectivity and the individual's place in the world today.

With a particular focus on their parallel biographies, Beuys Kantor examines the major 20th - century events and the complex relations among Germans, Poles, and Jews that altered the world view of that time and shaped the individual histories of these two renowned artists — and that reveal today issues of myth, memory, conflict, and war addressed directly and indirectly by each of them in their work.

Contributions include a concise and incisive overview of Borremans» practice; a revealing, in - depth interview between the main author of the book, Jeffrey Grove, and the artist, addressing process, influence and philosophical and critical issues; as well as more than 50 individual entries and mini-essays on individual works in the artist's oeuvre by notable writers, curators, filmmakers and musicians.

The exhibition spans four distinct thematic sections, beginning with works by five internationally renowned individuals — Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, and Cindy Sherman — who have been pioneers in addressing psychology in their art, and who have strongly influenced other artists over the past ten or more years.

Snap Judgments explores African photography in terms of content and style, organized into four main thematic groups that reflect the issues addressed by African artists today — landscape; urban formations; the body and identity; and history and representation — around which Africa's experimental artists have articulated individual artistic styles and languages.

Within the overall chronological flow, individual galleries address particular topics, ranging from specific locales that nourished influential groups of artists to preoccupations shared by figures of the same generation.

Examples of events already held by presenting venues include a conversation between San Francisco - area artists and high school students at a screening of Suzanne Lacy's The Roof is On Fire; an artists» talk with Hong Kong - based video artist / activists; a mural project with the Juvenile Justice Center of Mahoning County in Ohio addressing themes of community, social justice, and individual rights; workshops connecting veterans with civilians with Warrior Writers, a Philadelphia - based arts organization; and presentations by Sahrawi artists during the Arts and Human Rights Festival in the Sharawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Western Sahara.

Park McArthur, artist, will address Untitled (Love Letter From The War Front), 1988 by Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 — 1996) Named in honor of the Whitney's new address, 99 Gansevoort Street, 99 Objects is a series of in - gallery programs focusing on individual works of art from the Museum's collection on view in America Is Hard to See.

The broad range of vision engages one with its formal and narrative authority — from elegant self - contained cerebral works like On Kawara's «Today» series, in which the artist paints only a date of the year against a background of color, and Roni Horn's wall - sized photographic series composed of 36 progressive clown portraits of perceptual ambiguity, both artists neatly isolating individual permutations of life's sequential narrative, to Peter Fischli and David Weiss» collaborative film, «Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go),» in which the unconstructed imagery is punctuated by bursts of random narrative that addresses life's impermanence.

Contributions include a concise and incisive overview of Borremans's practice; a revealing, in - depth interview between the main author of the book, Jeffrey Grove, and the artist, addressing process, influence and philosophical and critical issues; as well as more than 50 individual entries and mini-essays on individual works in the artist's oeuvre by notable writers, curators, filmmakers, and musicians.