Sentences with phrase «alchemical material»

Glass is a mysterious and alchemical material that combines all of the elements: wind, water, air, earth (silica).

They remind us that plastic might be the most alchemical material of all, and, to quote Giovanni Anselmo, electricity is «part of nature» too.

Not exact matches

Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus on the alchemical recuperation of aimless surfing into substantial works of literature.

With alchemical Pluto and Mercury retrograde also in Capricorn, we need to set some serious soul goals — ones that satisfy our deepest desires while bringing material rewards.

The collision of material preservation and more internalized alchemical detail exposes Reus» relationship to object making as one which communicates the universal meanings embedded within all materials, but also the transformative strategies we use to mobilize the everyday.

Calzolari's glacial frozen structures developed a light frost over their surfaces as time passed, as the material went through a process of alchemical transformation.

His experimental spirit was preserved, and his interest in alchemical properties led him to incorporate all sorts of materials into his artistic practice: meteor dust, smoke, uranium rays, lavender, cinnabar, and even a purple pigment from the mucus excreted by snails, all belonged to his recipe list.

Anicka Yi, employing bacteria and manufactured smells as materials, brought her alchemical meditations on memory to Kunsthalle Basel, while Rachel Rose's kaleidoscopic videos made waves at the Whitney.

In her new body of work, long in the making, Pondick explores the materials resin, acrylic, and modeling compound, finding ways to use their properties that are alchemical and mysterious.

Kim Harty's work examines the alchemical relationship between the artist and raw materials, and exploits the process of transformation inherent in art - making.

Knust enacts alchemical processes to excavate and exhaust the potential of found materials, willing his objects to reveal their intricacy, provenance and faults.

Energetic and alchemical transformations of material are central to her work: the objects comprising Akashi's sculptures are physical manifestations of the intangibility of a breath of air or a burst of flame.

They play a role in a very personal universe distinguished by a hermetic and alchemical poetry, where each material is subject to transformations, but also causes them.

These bizarre materials, along with more conventional artistic media, were all mixed in the cauldron of an alchemical mind to produce works — paintings, drawings and photographs, collages, sculptures, performances and film installations — which play with styles that range from abstract expressionism through pop to conceptualism.

What comes across is her utter commitment to art making, the alchemical quality of the materials and her devotion to the drama of the human body.

Berlant's alchemical touch transforms inexpensive materials like tin into expressive forms, resembling brushstrokes in a variety of sizes and shapes.

The material out of which my work is composed acts as an alchemical conduit between the garment and the clothesline; it acknowledges the latter as a symbol of the ancestry and familiar bonds which have greatly informed my work.

His modus operandi was characterised by the alchemical process of transforming elements and the investigation of materials such as tobacco, musk, lead, luminous materials and frozen bars (Lago del cuore, Piombo rosa).

After completing two years in medical school, he refocused his efforts toward creating an alchemical art that incorporated these disciplines with nature and found materials.

While in Savannah for the deFINE Art festival at the Savannah College of Art and Design, we paid a visit to the studio of Louisiana - born artist Marcus Kenney, known for his collage paintings comprising hundreds of stickers, product labels, and similar materials, and alchemical sculptures using vintage taxidermy and fabricated animal forms.

In DisInterRuptions at Rafius Fane Gallery, artist Jeffrey Schiff explores the alchemical possibilities of materials.

-- Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere «This informative and lavishly illustrated volume, with its step - by - step demonstrations, personal histories, and interviews, provides readers with privileged access to the distinct philosophies and painting practices of artists, illuminating their alchemical transformations of raw materials — of charcoal and pigments and oils — into unique and inspiring expressions ofhuman values.»

This exhibition, entitled ☽ ⦶, takes its name from an interpretation of the alchemical symbol for lunar caustic a material more commonly known as silver nitrate.

His transmutation of scavenged materials borders on the alchemical, and the resulting canvases are nothing short of spellbinding.

The exhibition continues Peligian's alchemical seduction of material possibility: aluminum, oil, enamel, latex are equally employed to generate an altered state existing somewhere between atmosphere and stratosphere.