Sentences with phrase «art conservator»

An art conservator is a person who takes care of artwork, making sure it lasts a long time and is protected from damage. They use special techniques and materials to clean, repair, and preserve art so that future generations can enjoy it. Full definition
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Indianapolis Zoo conservator Norah Fletchall about ways in which their professional lives intersect.
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with the Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (Ball - Nogues Studio) about their recent installation, Gravity's Loom, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
IMA art conservator talks with Carol Stringari, the Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
But its sorry state also made the piece, part of Reinhardt's «Black Square» series painted between 1960 and 1966, the perfect specimen for art conservators at the Guggenheim, and its Manhattan neighbor, MoMA — The Museum of Modern Art, eager to test out the latest restoration technologies.
Last week in this column, I discussed the preservation of Donald Judd's artworks with art conservator Eleonora Nagy.
Paints containing these pigments can dissolve or rub off when a painting is cleaned — making it important for art conservators to find out the exact chemistry of a painting before they begin working on it.
Some of the environments on view have been reconstructed for the first time since the artist's death through the research of art historian Marina Pugliese and art conservator Barbara Ferriani, co-curators of the show, with the collaboration of Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
Art conservator Eleonora Nagy talks about her historic relationship with the conservation of Donald Judd's artworks with IMA conservator Richard McCoy.
She and The Phillips Collection's Art Conservator Patricia Favero were Steve Potter's guests on «Cityscape» to discuss the work of Braque, Cubism and the exhibition at the Kemper.
Armed with Q - tips, chemical coatings, and lots of elbow grease, art conservators do constant battle with tarnish, a thin layer of sulfide that forms on silver when it's exposed to air.
Since 1996 Sherry Phillips has been tasked with preserving and restoring priceless works of art as the contemporary art conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Rebecca Ploeger and Aaron N. Shugar are among a select group of scientists and art conservators helping the Starship Enterprise to live long and prosper.
Afterward, I ask our driver to drop me off in the middle of Vedado to visit a friend of Rosa Lowinger, a Cuban - American art conservator I know from the States.
The catalogue also includes the first English translation of Dubuffet's major essay on Ossorio and an in - depth study of the materials and techniques used in the works of the three artists, prepared collaboratively by Phillips Head of Conservation Elizabeth Steele and Paper Conservator Sylvia Albro with independent conservator Chantal Bernicky and Philadelphia Museum of Art conservator Scott Homolka.
A highly respected art conservator practicing in Roxbury, Connecticut, Yost's experience restoring fine oil paintings from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries has allowed him to translate the techniques of the masters into contemplative landscapes for modern viewers.
«A particularly amazing scene unfolded this week at UNLV's Barrick Museum, where noted art conservator and curator Billie Milam Weisman worked alongside Jerry Schefcik and Aurore Giguet and an assortment of handlers to remove a giant, vigorous and densely textured abstract painting by Ali Smith.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator speaks with Metropolitan Museum conservator Kendra Roth about ancient chariots, fish, and kinetic sculptures, among other things.
Speakers will include art conservator Sandra Amann, artist Fernanda Gomes, critic Suzanne Hudson, and musicologist John Szwed, with moderation duties provided by art historian Kirsten Swenson.
Assistant Curator Katie Adkins (right), who coordinated Doris Duke's Shangri La for the Nasher Museum, enjoys a moment with art conservator Ruth Cox at the opening event.
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, «LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.»
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy looks back at the documentation around the projects in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park before it opens this weekend.
Some of these «environments» on display at the Pirelli HangarBicocca gallery have been reconstructed for the first time since the artist's death through the research of art historian Marina Pugliese and art conservator Barbara Ferriani, co-curators of the show, with the collaboration of Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
HH: You've consulted extensively with art conservators to be sure your painting methods and materials are archival.
«If the top layer [of paint] were completely undamaged, it would be impossible to see this,» says Ian McClure, an art conservator at Yale.
Peter Paul Biró: I'm an art conservator, and in 1983 a fellow came to me and my brother with a big ugly landscape he wanted restored -LRB-...
An art conservator's job involves using details revealed by the scientists» analysis to make sense of it and how it relates to the artist's work.
Working with the museum's art conservators, Walton and his collaborators used non-destructive and non-invasive techniques to extract information about the paintings» underlying surface shapes and color.
During the AVS 61st International Symposium & Exhibition, being held Nov. 9 - 14, 2014, in Baltimore, Md, Patricia Favero, an art conservator at The Phillips Collection, will explain how collaborating with art scholars and scientists aids her explorations of great works of art.
This knowledge will help scientists, art conservators and art historians better understand how painting techniques evolved in the Byzantine Empire and beyond.
Beth Robinson — Beth I. Robinson M.S. is an artist, art conservator and conflict resolution specialist.
A new series on the Getty's blog spotlights the painstaking alchemy that is the job of contemporary - art conservators.
Joining Radical Presence artist Lorraine O'Grady are moderator Glenn Wharton, Art Conservator, Museum Studies, NYU; Lisa Darms, Senior Archivist, Fales Library; and Thomas J. Lax, Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem.
She began her professional relationship with objects while working as an art conservator in North Adams, MA and Guanajuato, MX and continues to bring them wherever she goes.
It's a way of making his real title — art conservator — a little more accessible.
The more recent work reproduces the 1988 piece and pairs it with an overlaid condition report of that painting by an art conservator.
After a trip to the art conservator they are finally here!
The story is that Blachly, who has a day job in an art conservator's studio, secretly took up painting four years ago after a 30 - year hiatus.
I didn't quite have the courage to become an artist initially, so thought of becoming an art conservator or historian, so I know how paintings are really made.
Enter the art conservator, the quiet hero who spends countless hours performing delicate work to restore and conserve damaged pieces of art.
Conservators also experience inherent vice, a problem that occurs when the material the artist used is not compatible with the coatings an art conservator uses in restoration.
Following a long list of protagonists engaged in colour theory - ranging from Wolfgang von Goethe and Wassily Kandinsky to Yves Klein — two meditations on the importance of grey spring to mind: Hito Steyerl's video work, Adorno's Grey (2012) evocatively excavates the seminar rooms of Frankfurt's Goethe - Universität with a team of art conservators to find traces of former faculty member and esteemed philosopher, Theodor W. Adorno's mythological grey walls.
An abstract painter who has shown his work at the Gerald Peters Gallery and David Richard Gallery, Solomon also has been active as an independent curator, gallery director, framer and art conservator and restorer.
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