Sentences with phrase «among traditional artists»

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The art museums, the Neka and Agung Rai, among others, display traditional as well as contemporary work done by not only local but also expatriate artists.

She is the second artist to participate in the RSVPmfa series, in which the Museum invites artists to respond to and work among its collections, architecture, and landscape in order to acknowledge that art today often extends beyond traditional gallery walls.

Among the hundreds of artists I consider each year while publishing New American Paintings, I have noticed a considerable uptick in the number of young painters working with recognizable imagery, some in, dare I say it, almost traditional modes.

As an important figure in the second generation of Southern California ceramicists to deny the boundaries of traditional crafts, Shire has led the way for a surge of interest in ceramics among younger contemporary artists.

Atlanta's Craig Drennen and Garrett Bradley of New Orleans are among the 28 artists who have received a grant from Art Matters, the New York - based philanthropy that is «particularly interested in subversive or provocative content, and artistic practice that expands definitions of a traditional medium.»

In short, Serra is among a significant group of artists whose transformative work irrevocably changed the practice and definition of modernist drawing, and challenged drawing's role in the traditional hierarchy of media.

I am taken by the fact that many artists are seemingly less concerned with Western formulas, Pop and Expressionism among them, and are focusing instead on developing ways of working with more traditional materials including ink, brushes, and xuan paper.

Saudi artists address issues that resonate throughout the world: environmental degradation, economic disparity, urban growth and loss of traditional culture, social inequality of women and minorities, and escalating tensions between and among ideologies.

NET ETH: Going Out of the Darkness documents a group exhibition of contemporary and traditional First Nations artists - among them Indian Residential School survivors and their descendants - whose work is a powerful testimony to the personal healing process.

The exhibition highlights the unusual materials — soil, gunpowder, petroleum jelly, dried ficus leaf, among others — that artists have drawn with and drawn upon, along with diverse applications of the medium's traditional form.

The artists featured in the exhibition Family Pictures — LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, Carrie Mae Weems, John Edmonds, and Gordon Parks among them — work in a similar vein, pushing against traditional notions of documentary photography in radical and intimate depictions of domestic life.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

Parallel to her painting practice, in the 1980s, Graves was among the avant - garde artists pioneering sculpture in the «traditional» medium of bronze casting, and was awarded major public commissions for large - scale, site - specific installations.

Also included in the German quinquennial — considered among the most important iterative exhibitions of contemporary art globally — were the artist's paintings and site - specific performances, which took place both in Documenta's traditional home of Kassel, as well as the half of the show that curator Adam Szymczyk mounted in Athens.

Considered the father of Russian Constructivism, Tatlin, among fellow artists such as El Lissitzky and Aleksandr Rodchenko, promoted the use of industrial - related materials and questioned the traditional representation of space in art.

Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists.

He was among a generation of British artists who wanted to extend the possibilities of sculpture beyond the confines of traditional materials.

Among the highlights are Warhol's silkscreen cow wallpaper and pillow balloons — works that inspired other artists to look beyond the traditional canvas space — and his full - length acrylic and silkscreen image of graffiti artist Jean - Michel Basquiat.

As the many shows of mature painters this weekend evidence, the surge of interest in this traditional medium among younger artists didn't come out of nowhere — it has just been lying dormant while we rode out the various «post -» s.

Margaret McCann: The Figure responds to David Hockney's «Secret Knowledge» to some degree — several artists, among them Judy Fox, F. Scott Hess, Jerry Kerns, Edgar Jerins, Alex Kanevsky, Steve Mumford, Richard Phillips, Rona Pondick, Judith Schaecter and Nicola Verlato openly describe how they use traditional as well as modern techniques like photography, Photoshop, or 3D computer programs.

On the occasion of Cunningham's continuing series of Events taking place at upstate New York's Dia: Beacon — where his dancers and musicians have performed amid works by Nauman, Serra, and Warhol, among others — Artforum asked art historian Douglas Crimp to reflect on this newest offering from the choreographer, whose capacity for creating beauty even while challenging traditional modes of spectatorship has made him one of the foremost artists of the postwar era.