The Morse Museum is known today as the home of the world's most comprehensive collection of works by American designer and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 — 1933), including the chapel interior he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and art and
architectural objects from Tiffany's celebrated Long Island home, Laurelton Hall.
Not exact matches
The typography was refracted by
objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main
architectural and cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge through the lens of London,» ONY explains.
These images are drawn
from his imagination as well as a range of other sources and also manifest themselves across large paintings on paper, used domestic
objects such as batteries, mops and Underground Travelcard receipts, and expansive wall painting installations involving the surrounding
architectural elements.
In his artistic practice, Virtmanis creates visually and metaphorically dense drawing environments that combine relics of sentimental imagery
from past eras, cryptic texts in the form of obsessive, undecipherable calligraphy, collections of found
objects,
architectural scale models, and the residue that is accumulated in the process of creation.
Overview: Inspired by the great
architectural skyline of Chicago and the work of sculptor, installation / performance artist and urban interventionist, Theaster Gates, campers will make bas relief sculptures
from found
objects and create their own skyscrapers.
The show paid homage to Ward's exploration of identity (including his Jamaican roots and his life as an artist in New York) and environment through immersive
architectural installations, as well as sculptures and photographs, forged largely
from found
objects.
Featured works — ranging
from portraits of emperors and empresses, court paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual
objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D virtual technology and
architectural features to offer visitors an immersive experience, as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
In order to address the historic proliferation of the «Pseudo Georgian» aesthetic, two eighteenth century pattern books borrowed
from the British
Architectural Library are also displayed alongside
objects from the artist's own collection — as well as a selection of critical articles culled
from archival copies of Building magazine, one of the oldest publications to address the entire culture of Britain's construction industry.
Bourgeois produced approximately 60 works in the series, assembling found
objects, artifacts
from her daily life (clothing, fabric, and furniture), and sculptures within distinctive
architectural enclosures.
Rachel Whiteread's cast sculptures of everyday
objects and Heidi Bucher's casts of
architectural elements made
from latex and fabrics belong to Marks, which maps artists» powerful memories of spaces in which they lived and worked.
The month - long exhibition of work at the Museum, titled Noguchi + Pratt: An Exhibition, was featured in
Architectural Digest and includes six select student projects in their entirety as well as analyses of Noguchi
objects from all of the students.
Featured works — ranging
from portraits of emperors and empresses, court paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual
objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D printing technology and
architectural features to offer visitors an immersive experience, as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
The films are most often nestled into carefully constructed environments filled with a dizzying assortment of found
objects,
from sculptures, painting and drawings to signs, furniture and
architectural assemblages, that are connected to the overarching narrative yet act like relics.
Their more expansive compositions allow the viewer to ponder
architectural elements or the unusual collections of
objects that she has rendered — a blue plastic doll imported
from Ghana, an arched doorway and television set, an assortment of framed photographs, an empty balcony, oil lanterns on a tabletop — which serve to represent absence and quietude in her otherwise densely textured works.
Objects will be selected
from more than 4,000 works of art and nearly 5,000
architectural drawings, many of which have never before been exhibited.
Offering a Extraordinary Selection of Antiques, Mid-century Modern, Asian, Silver, Folk Art, African, Garden &
Architectural Elements, Americana, Fine Art, Art Deco, Ceramics, Lighting, Jewelry, Contemporary Design & unusual Furniture Decorative
Objects from Antiquity to Present Day with a emphasis on quality.
The second edition (held in 2005) featured works such as Chen Zhen's Purification Room, in which the artist covered a space and its assorted
objects with earth to form a petrified field, and Mella Jaarsma's
architectural, decorative shelters that looked like shrines and totems and fitted snugly around the human body while offering protection
from the elements.
This show features
architectural drawings for prominent buildings such as the Horse Guards at Whitehall and the Treasury, as well as
objects and designs
from his famed commissions at Chiswick House, Wanstead House and Houghton Hall.
From 1988 to 2005 a programme of restoration within the Museum was carried out under Peter Thornton and then Margaret Richardson with spaces such as the Drawing Rooms, Picture Room, Study and Dressing Room, Picture Room Recess and others being put back to their original colour schemes and in most cases having their original sequences of
objects reinstated; Soane's three courtyards were also restored with his pasticcio (a column of
architectural fragments) being reinstated in the Monument Court at the heart of the Museum.
Medieval
objects include:
architectural fragments, mainly
from the Old Palace of Westminster (acquired after the 1834 fire), tiles and stained glass.
Under the rubric of «spaces / places,» holdings range
from the works of Gordon Matta - Clark, which intervene in existing
architectural structures, through Fred Sandback's Minimalist drawings in thread, to the organically formed
objects of Ernest Neto, and include Louise Lawler, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Simon Starling, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Gabriel Orozco and Loan Nguyen.
Installation view with Jo Addison's «A Possible
Object» in front of two elements
from Oona Grimes» multi-part «Flann's
architectural digest»
Objects are poised perfectly — a black glass neon shape near the ceiling positioned behind and above you, something you might not notice straightaway but which you catch sight of as you leave a room; or the hard, white - and - black, upright protrusions
from the wall that, though
architectural, designed, and frozen - seeming, have such a human and tactile presence, glowing and breathing
from behind.
Marking a departure
from iconic mid-century modernist
architectural forebears (Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and the Minimalist sculptors who followed shortly thereafter (Donald Judd and Carl Andre), when Gillick works in three dimensions, his
objects tend to be industrially fabricated in materials such as steel, aluminum, and Plexiglas and to take the shape of autonomous platforms, shelves, cubes, and
architectural interventions on the wall, floor, or ceiling.
First of all is the «subversive design» of Ettore Sottsass for the Studio Memphis followed by the graphic design of Peter Saville and Neville Brody;
architectural models and rendering, together with preparatory drawings by Philip Johnson for the AT&T skyscraper (1978); works by Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman and Ai Weiwei; the 1986 stainless steel bust of Louis XIV by Jeff Koons; the reconstruction of the monumental work by Jenny Holzer «Protect Me
From What I Want» (1983 - 85); performances and costumes, including the «Big Suit» worn by David Byrne for the documentary «Stop Making Sense» of 1984; extracts from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isoz
From What I Want» (1983 - 85); performances and costumes, including the «Big Suit» worn by David Byrne for the documentary «Stop Making Sense» of 1984; extracts
from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isoz
from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising
objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isozaki.
Counterintuitively perhaps, both Elisabeth Kley and Will Corwin reach back into antiquity in order to represent the body as a hybridised entity: Kley's cinerary urns and sigils look at the figure in reverse — anthropomorphising the
object, while Corwin reassembles the body
from found
objects and
architectural details.
Detailed Description: Utilizing inspiration
from geological forces,
architectural forms and the natural landscape, artist John Ruppert melds distinctions between these influences through his large installations, video projections, photographs and sculptural
objects.
Steinbach will reconfigure the architecture of the galleries with standard
architectural building materials including metal studs, sheetrock, prefabricated shelving, paint, and wallpaper — all of which will provide new frameworks to display works
from the Hessel Collection in addition to everyday
objects selected by the artist.
Document presents new context - specific works
from Alice Konitz, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, and Sterling Lawrence; three artists who each reproduce
objects, either through de-contextualization or re-presenting forms of
architectural displacement.
This gallery displays important
architectural sculpture, devotional
objects and stained glass
from the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
Underlining and highlighting the transition
from the past to the present, the complex identity of which it is important to conserve, it has been decided to graft the exhibition in its totality — walls, floors, installations and art
objects, including their relative positions — onto the historical
architectural and environmental structure of Ca» Corner della Regina, thereby inserting — on a full - size scale — the modern rooms of the Kunsthalle, delimited by white wall surfaces, into the ancient frescoed and decorated halls of the Venetian palazzo.
This approach provides a framework for displaying a wide - ranging selection of
objects from the Museum's collection, offering visitors a rare opportunity to see an automobile in proximity to an oil painting, an etching juxtaposed with an
architectural model, or a film alongside a sculpture.
For more than two decades, Jessica Stockholder has been fashioning a new language for sculpture and installation art, one that applies a painter's sense of form, pattern, texture and color to three dimensional spaces through the use of a staggering variety of media,
from heavy duty construction material to mass - produced commercial products and even live horticulture.Her sculptural and
architectural interventions spread themselves over the spaces they occupy; planes of vivid Technicolor hues abut precisely arranged and patterned
objects and assemblages of unlikely materials combine and bloom amidst the colorful chaos.
In individual photographs as well as series, Kelm explores a vocabulary of subjects ranging
from everyday
objects to
architectural and landscape photographs to portraits.
Seror borrows
objects and techniques
from the performing arts and conference settings to construct scale paper models of
architectural spaces.
The images, music, and text that appear throughout «Future People» come
from the archival holdings at the Arts Bank, which include the Johnson Publishing Archive, the Lantern Slide Collection at the University of Chicago (art and
architectural history
from the Paleolithic to the modern era), the Edward J. and Ana J. Williams Collection (racist
objects that the Williamses bought to take off the market), and Frankie Knuckles's record collection.
The curators with the ten
architectural teams for Venice Takeaway, in the main gallery space housing the Research Emporium which presents the films,
objects, photography and writing
from the teams on their trips around the globe in search of new ideas to change British architecture.
Forest, in contrast, will feature paintings and sculptures in an
architectural installation surveying the artists»
object - based practice, the oldest work is
from 1997 and goes through the present.
Khedoori frequently depicts
architectural forms
from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace
objects and spaces familiar yet decontextualized.
The sculpture will be informed by
architectural and infrastructural
objects from the built environment.
From drawing, she intervenes graphically in
architectural spaces,
objects or any image, that become hybrid.
The found
objects incorporated in her sculptures range
from architectural remnants such as chair legs and balusters to scrap construction pieces revealing the ravages of tools and time.
Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast the surfaces and volume of everyday
objects and
architectural space, she creates evocative sculptures that range
from the intimate to the monumental.
Artists» approaches vary;
from the subtle as found in Alan Saret's ethereal wire clusters or Fred Sandback's floor - to - ceiling extension of acrylic yarn, which delineates the gallery's corner as the sculptural
object; to the large - scale, as in Spencer Finch's installation in the front gallery that re-creates the quality of light of a candle - lit interior and Ricci Albenda's video portal into an imagined
architectural space.
Highlights include works
from the British Arts & Crafts movement; Dutch and Italian Art Nouveau
objects; and
architectural design drawings.
Other core duties include constructing CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawings and 3D visuals for the purpose of presentation, offering help to interior designers, graphic designers, and architects with regard to spatial planning and designing details, and creating 3D models
from basic
architectural plans, preliminary rough sketches, or real - life
objects using advanced software.