Sentences with phrase «aesthetic practices»

Many of the participants in Lives were younger conceptual artists engaged in the openly aesthetic practice of vernacular sociology, behavioral psychology, and local ethnography.

Krista Thompson, professor of Art History at Northwestern University will be speaking about her new book Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice in relation to the exhibition Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez currently on view.

Both papermaking and the art of working with paper are highly regarded aesthetic practices in Japan.

Büttner thereby also examines her own art in direct confrontation with aesthetic practices which are both close to and different from her own.

In this shift social communication becomes aesthetic practice.»

«Low» culture aesthetic practices, «high art» conventions, and spiritual signifiers are appropriated and manipulated to create hybrid works that blur the line between art commodity, fetish objects, craft, kitsch, fashion, entertainment and gendered extensions of the body.

The exhibition takes its inspiration in part from the 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic film of the same name, and serves as an abstract documentation of the ways that humans have responded to the ecological crises of climate change with scientifically informed aesthetic practices.

Antena views aesthetic practice as part and parcel of language justice work.

Organized in a collaborative effort between curator Julie Fishkin, and artist Saya Woolfalk, the fifteen artists in the exhibition engage the dichotomy between communal pasts and the individual experience, intertwining them visually through the manipulation of common materials and reexamination of time - honored aesthetic practices.

It brings together the studio work of these two artists along with their social practices as a way of sharing, integrating and complicating aesthetic practices and personal histories.

From Yves Klein's utopian plans for an «architecture of air» to Robert Barry's Energy Field (AM 130 KHz) from 1968 - which encourages a heightened awareness of the physical context of the gallery - this exhibition span diverse aesthetic practices and concerns.

The work of this Dutch artist spans diverse media and reference points: the work's aesthetic practice holds on the transformation of imagery, and studies the suspension of visual information and physical touch.

This significant new work synthesizes Uklański's ongoing interest in craft and aesthetic practices from the fringes of Modernism, while also suggesting Feminist forms and the seminal role of visual pleasure.

Her reflection on the contemporary is also important, whether empathetic or as a critique of the «contemporary» as a narrow, normative aesthetic practice.

These works evoke the actual use of hide in a range of Native American aesthetic practices (such as clothing, drums, and shelters) and the history of the shaped canvas in modern and contemporary art.

This approach dovetails with what Kobena Mercer (2016) named «cut - and - mix aesthetics,» or call and response in visual art by African American and Black British artists, as paradigmatic of post-1980s black diaspora aesthetic practice.

Artist Statement I am an installation artist and like to promote art and visual culture as agents of change through aesthetic practice.

«What I was really eager to explore is the relationship between aesthetic practices and politics or political practices,» she said about her initial attraction to the Center.

EN MAS» includes scholarly essays by leading art historians Shannon Jackson and Kobena Mercer along with the two curators Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, which offer formal and theoretical analyses of the artists» projects as well as explorations of Caribbean aesthetic practices and their impact on art and performance studies more broadly.

Her book Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice — written about the intersection of popular photography, performance, and contemporary art in the circum — Caribbean will be published by Duke University Press in 2015.

This exhibition provides the occasion to reconsider Head Shots and the questions it raises about sexuality, identity, and intimacy, about enactment and visibility, and about the value ambiguity and withholding might offer contemporary critical, feminist aesthetic practices.

Aesthetic practice in Menlo Park is looking for a front office Aesthetic Assistant to run the office.

Or can aesthetic practices — after - images — bring about transformation — that does not imply cure or resolution — of the traces — after - affects — of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas inhabiting the world whose traces artists also process as participants in and sensors for our life - worlds and histories?

The artists of the Arte Povera agreed not only to deny the aesthetic practice of Abstract Art and the consumption - oriented design, beyond their differences in theoretical positions, they had a common goal.

Definitely not a retrospective, this show unveils the latest stage in Shapiro's aesthetic practice that spans five decades by exhibiting the commissioned installation along with five of permanent collection pieces and one borrowed from the collection of Nancy Nasher and David Haemisegger, the amazing 20 Elements, 2004 - 2005.

The aesthetic practice of Cirio suggests peaceful methodologies of re-appropriation of civic forms of shared participation and civility that may still be possible to salvage from what Adorno defined as the «age of total neutralization» within which Cirio, as an artist, does not seek false and easy reconciliations.

Discourses of national identity, human rights, and the administration of justice are recurrent themes in his art, and the techniques of his audio - aesthetic practice have become the basis through which he has become known as a «private ear,» conducting forensic audio analysis for several legal investigations.

Framing surveillance as an aesthetic practice, Special Works School hones in on its psychic, material, and embodied dimensions, working from the positions of both surveillor and surveilled.

Her aesthetic practice can be seen as rippling outward from the land itself.

As with his previous bodies of work, Rhodes channels the aesthetic practices of public visual economy into his abstractions.

Jonathan Monk creates artworks with satirical, personal or humorous twists on the aesthetic practices and artistic ideologies of the 1960's and 70's.

As Robert Slifkin notes in his essay written for the exhibition catalogue: «while Roszak certainly identified himself first and foremost as a sculptor, coming of age as an artist when such medium - specific monikers were fundamental to aesthetic practices, he consistently produced finished drawings... that can not be considered ancillary to any specific sculpture... A relentlessly productive artist, Roszak invested all of his creative practice with equal vigor and intensity.

Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan's installation Monument of Sugar (2007), which is comprised of a 16 - millimeter film essay and 304 blocks of sugar, circumvents international trade regulations by converting a valuable commodity (sugar) into a work of art, exposing the complex sugar trade between the European Union and other countries, while also exploring the larger intersection of social and political issues with artistic and aesthetic practices.

Works by Constantin Brancusi, Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Eduardo Chillida, and other artists that made important contributions to abstract art during the twentieth century are presented alongside a variety of abstract forms from earlier eras, showcasing the rich history of this aesthetic practice.

Although their aesthetic practices differ, Baer, Neukamp, and Simpson all produce work that abstracts its original source material in order to create a new visual conversation between forms in space.

The inherent beauty of still life is steeped in a rich history, both as an aesthetic practice and a visceral reminder of the passage of time.

Gaines's keynote concerned art as an aesthetic practice versus art as a cultural practice, and as he dug into the work of Adrian Piper and a group he termed «first - generation Conceptual artists,» he related the stakes of reading, teaching, and understanding artwork in the twenty - first century.

Modern Fuel's programming strives to reflect the diversity of aesthetic practices both regionally and extra-regionally, according to submission criteria as determined by the Artistic Director and Programming Committee.

During the sixty - one years of the existence of the American Abstract Artists group, abstract art has evolved from a foray into largely unexplored imaginary territory into a mainstream modal of aesthetic practice.

Combining influences from popular culture and art history with snippets of personal history and autobiography, the works on exhibit offer a personal and humorous twist on the aesthetic practices and artistic concepts of the 1960's and 1970's.

Initially skeptical of utsushi as an aesthetic practice, Tabaimo has come to regard it as an important binding agent, connecting artists and their ideas across long spans of time.

Renowned faculty, visiting artists, and guest lecturers are at the forefront of their fields and represent a diverse set of aesthetic practices and cultural perspectives.

Krista Thompson, Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, is the author of An Eye for the Tropics (2006), Developing Blackness (2008), Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (2015), articles in American Art, Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Representations, and Small Axe and co-editor En Mas»: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean (in production).