Alternatively, it's a yellow truncated triangle in an arrangement of coloured geometric or
architectural shapes on a flat surface.
Not exact matches
Nicholas Kirkwood's collections focus
on the curvature of the foot, with
architectural designs and sculptured
shapes creating elegant and refined silhouettes that fuse the traditional with the contemporary.
The circular drum - like sculpture was intended to create an ever - changing
architectural kaleidoscope of organic
shapes and colours, but the 12 tracks do this
on their own.
The gallery environment will be based
on shapes created by the overlapping of floor plans from her childhood home in Pico - Union, her father's house in Guadalajara, her live / work studio in Lincoln Heights, and other
architectural references of personal significance.
«Donovan has morphed the immediate tactility of these seemingly animate metal coils into massive, undulating
shapes that rise up from the floor, projecting silver tentacles that reach into all directions, or meander up and across a wall and ceiling like ivy gone wild
on a fence, in sinuous arrangements that claim and redefine the
architectural spaces that host them.»
A full wall of softly defined abstract images
on separate canvases
shaped one wall of the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles / OMO art space — rectangular and square the images remind the viewer of
architectural constructs.
From 2008 to 2010 Silverman collaborated with Nader Tehrani
on «Boolean Valley», a conceptual, installation piece that traveled from the San Jose Museum of Art to MOCA Los Angeles, to the Nasher Sculpture Center, in which they made a cone -
shaped form
on the wheel, slip cast it 200 times, then cut each cone horizontally in two and laid out the resulting 400 pieces as a complicated, topographic, landscape installation that responded to each of the
architectural spaces within which is was installed.
His unrealised
architectural proposal from the late 1940s is based
on the idea of a tooth -
shaped building, aiming to unite the aspects of living, working and leisure whilst fully integrating the structure into its natural environment.
Calling himself something of a globetrotter, he loves to explore cities in search of
architectural subjects to capture, focusing
on graphics and colours, as well as different
shapes and perspectives.
The highlights: Sylvia Jeffriess's shimmering blue print with various snippets of text
on aluminum, Nickolas Calabrese's two gritty abstractions, one framed in a craggily
shaped frame (cf. John Seal's recent outing with goofily constructed frames at Gavin Brown's Enterprise downtown), and Megan Plunkett's large photos that appear to have been snapped inside a van and spliced together with
architectural projections.
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.
His paintings are known to create a feel of
architectural fascination, often making use of contrasting colors and
shapes to draw the viewer in with a unique perspective that focuses
on the placement of lines,
shapes and color relative to each other.
Since discovering the potential of working with pencil and
architectural stencils
on paper, Despont has adopted an intuitive process in which she allows her drawings to develop as she creates them, resulting in an almost devotional object comprised of dense colors and
shapes.
One starts to notice how the
shape of a square is used throughout the room in
architectural features, most notably
on the gridded window frames
on the opposite side of the room, where the rounded edges of the sculpture are echoed by thin sheets of linen translucently softening the sharp angels
on the repeated square grids.
, which she began in 2012, zigzags, smoke plumes, and
architectural shapes collide
on canvases and translate into sculptures that feel rooted in the language of advertising, yet indicate that something more personal and mysterious is at play.
Alluding to iconic mid-century modernist
architectural forebears, such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, and the Minimalist sculptors who followed shortly thereafter, such as Donald Judd and Carl Andre, Gillick's three - dimensional 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 walls, floors, or ceilings.
Since the beginning of his career in the mid - «60s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) has combined the classic elements of composition —
shape, line, and color — to create abstract works of
architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines
on subtly modulated planes of color.
It sort of reminds of me of Kirsten Hollister's
architectural -
shaped cloche
on the side table next to her sofa.
Their bold
architectural shapes, textural foliage, exciting colours, drought - tolerant nature and love of free - draining soil are turning them from the ugly ducklings of the gardening and floristry worlds into must - haves for anyone bent
on creating a living spectacle that is both dramatic and ecologically conscious.