Sentences with phrase «against the gallery walls»

A few are resting against a gallery wall of art, while others feature just one central piece of artwork.
Flat plaster sculptures lean against the gallery walls shaped like huge pieces of torn paper.
The exhibition begins with a door numbered 1703 propped against the gallery wall in the foyer and ends, via a series of the artist video works, in the back room of the gallery.
Leaning against gallery walls will be gritty and colorful pipes which the artist found and altered only by cutting and rearranging.
All untitled — with the exception of two works — and either lying on the floor or leaning casually against the gallery walls, their interplay of texture and weight of varied readymades and their interaction with the gallery space convey what the artist calls an «anti-monumentality»: a formal attribute as well as creative sentiment that calls into question the notion of art's «aura» and contemporary value structures.
They were stacked in clusters against the gallery walls, back - to - back and face - to - face and sometimes separated by sheets of cardboard or covered by plastic, suggesting they were on their way in or out of storage and weren't yet meant for public viewing.
McCracken created glossy, reflective polyester resin planks that leaned lazily against a gallery wall.
Doubling as installations, his sculptures incorporate images of nature and found objects including rocks and house plants to create literal portals into nature against the gallery walls.
In As folhas mortas (2004), newspapers whose texts have been excised hang like flimsy paper skeletons against the gallery wall, ephemeral grids that suggest the fragility (and flexibility) of truth.
This extensive wall installation consists of more than 200 real tomatoes splattered against the gallery wall on which beautifully crafted porcelain tomatoes are installed, evoking with a poignant sensitivity the interplay of a political uprising.
A large purple wooden square, the same color as the backdrop in film, rests against the gallery wall furthest from the entrance.
A neon sign with the title of the exhibition, referring to the title of the art - history guidebook 1,001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (2007), rested on the floor against the gallery walls, which were covered with dozens of small A4 paper - sized monochromatic canvases arranged in a grid.
Ultra thin, brightly colored, variably shaped aluminum set flush against the gallery wall creates the impression of an object naturally merging with the wall space.
Her paintings glow like gilded angels against gallery walls painted purplish blue.
Akin to Robert Gober's quietly disturbing doors that do not open and sinks without plumbing, Goode's white wooden staircase against the gallery wall is dysfunctionally eloquent.
The turntables are covered in glitter, rendering them useless but transforming them into dazzling objects, which act almost like sparkling disco balls, reflecting light against the gallery walls.
Eva Rothschild SOUTH LONDON GALLERY The advance notice was striking: The gallery's tabloid - style newsletter featured a set of images in which individuals stand against a gallery wall holding...
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by a fifteen - feet high and eighteen - feet long slab of what appears to be a concrete freeway divider propped against the gallery wall at roughly a 45 - degree angle.
A lump of dried, varnished elephant dung forms one bared breast, and the painting is displayed leaning against the gallery wall, supported by two other lumps of elephant dung, decorated with coloured pins: the pins on the left are arranged to spell out «Virgin» and the one on the right «Mary».
A triangular piece of the same structure rested against a gallery wall, while a third part, a flying wedge erected high on steel scaffolding anchored by absurdly puny black sandbags, stood opposite.
Leaning against the gallery wall and seeming to support it, Iglesias's works dramatically transform the space they occupy.
The sculptures newly commissioned for Government are either the perfect size to be carried or they quote their surrounding architecture, where they are then to be found lurking, propped against gallery walls.
Thackara writes: «Often compositionally beautiful, the black - and - white images reveal onlookers lingering before paintings, leaning against gallery walls and columns, lazing on benches and soaking up the environment of Rothko's work.
Here, Belerique cites both kinds of screens with sheets of glass that lean against the gallery walls, subtly referencing the space's domestic architecture, while mirroring the former home's west - facing windows and their views of Lake Ontario.
She also began making free - standing sculptures from hollowed tree trunks and wooden slabs that could rest against gallery walls.
At the Studio Museum in 2001, he supplied the very image of rebellion: for «Freestyle,» the first in the museum's five - year roundups of emerging artists, he contributed a mock donkey, its rear legs kicking up against the gallery wall.
Seated and propped up against gallery walls, the dolls imitated hunched - over human forms.
The second, High School Student, 1990 - 1992, was a fun surprise to find leaning against the gallery wall, foot crossed, as if waiting in a hall for class to begin.
The exbition includes several examples of her mixed - media «leaning» pieces - very large rectangles of Sheetrock leaning against gallery walls, on which are hung various photographic and canvas - based images, so that the Sheetrock panels function both as sculptural elements and as display walls themselves.
Delicate, gently bowed branches or stalks of bamboo adorned with brightly colored bulbs and funnels and bits of mesh, and displayed leaning against the gallery walls, these improvised forms with found objects suggest fantastical fishing poles or butterfly nets.
Artist Claude Zeras has created deceptively reductive sculptures that appear to be ordinary pieces of cut wood leaning against the gallery walls.
INDUCTION: Tauba Auerbach and Éliane Radigue invites you to experience how vibration and flow can induce states of consciousness through paintings, glass sculptures, and a sound installation that will physically move you as you lean against the gallery walls and feel its sonic pulse.
The exhibition will feature three oversized paintings — the artist's largest works created to - date — which will be exhibited on flat aluminum blocks on the floor and leaned against the gallery walls.
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