Sentences with phrase «artist challenges the notion»

The conceptual artist challenges the notion of a monolithic blackness in the sculpturethat opens «Five Decades,» Which Mike Do You Want to Be Like...?

These artists challenged notions of essentialism, were «adamant about not being labeled «black» artists,» and posed complex questions about what it means to bring «blackness» into visibility.

Spanning several generations, these five artists challenge the notion of the canvas as a flat surface for painted images.

«Each element of the work has been fabricated as the artist challenges notions of reality,» notes Ms. Posner in her essay.

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«He's an artist who challenges notions,» said Ryan Coogler, director of the blockbuster hit «Black Panther,» for which Lamar orchestrated and contributed music, during a recent interview.

In this challenging and lyrical piece, the artist problematizes structuralist and post-structuralist notions of interiority / identity to arrive at a catharsis of shape and texture.

The latter's strangely sensitive characterization of the former in «The Disaster Artist» will likely challenge whatever preconceived notions you have about the duo.

While I certainly agree that making good art takes time, I challenge the notion that art creation can not be made more efficient and easier on the artist.

In an epoch when older painters tended to work for forty years exploring the same image, Wool blew willy - nilly through different images, often concurrently, challenging traditional notions about artist identity and branding and paint handling as well as the Modernist notion of progress.

Ranging from emerging to well - established, these artists challenge an all - too - simplistic notion of colorless «neutrality» as they reveal the variegated spectrum of black, white, gray, and everything in between.

By opening up her studio to the public and being present to interact with museum goers, Dawn challenges the notion of an artist's creative space as an insular and private environment accessible to a select few from the art world.

Developed by the Royal Ontario Museum, Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art challenges preconceived notions of Blackness in Canada through the work of eight contemporary artists, to which the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has added three Montreal artists in its presentation: Sandra Brewster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, Chantal Gibson, Bushra Junaid, Charmaine Lurch, Esmaa Mohamoud, Michèle Pearson Clarke and Gordon Shadrach, as well as Montrealers Eddy Firmin a.k.a. Ano, Manuel Mathieu and Shanna Strauss.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

Harrell Fletcher's approach to art - making involves multiple publics and types of art, challenging conventional notions of who is the artist and what the art is.

Bertrand Lavier is a persistent explorer of reality: through his artworks he challenges and questions the notion of the identity of the artist, and the relationship between the artists ego and the rest of the world, each work is a sardonic dare towards the insufferable codes and rules of the art system and of contemporary culture.

Perhaps best known for his work Piss Christ, which depicts a crucifix submerged in a glass jar of the artist's urine, the masterful quality of Serrano's color saturated prints is unparalleled, transcending the label of «shock art» to challenge outdated notions of beauty and taboo.

Through painting, a medium that has traditionally embraced this binary, these artists are pushing the genre in new, unprecedented directions, challenging the ways in which paintings can be used to deconstruct and rewrite conventional notions of personal identity.

The portrait, titled Hold It in Your Mouth a Little Longer, explores notions of identity while challenging gender and racial stereotypes, themes the artist continues to explore in her first solo museum exhibition in New York, «To Wander Determined,» opening today at the Whitney.

Through painting, a medium that has traditionally embraced this binary, these artists are pushing the genre in new, unprecedented directions, challenging the ways in which paintings can be used to deconstruct and rewrite conventional notions of personal identity, engendering a new visual pronoun.

With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we collaborate with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers to challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference.

On both formal and conceptual levels, the artist and filmmaker challenges common notions of space and boundary, weaving together archival material, scripted text and hypothetical circumstances to chronicle the political narratives of our day.

But the unbreakable bond between an artist's individuality and spontaneous painting as a technique invigorates a sense of shared human experience that challenges fixed notions of progress.

The collaborative works created for this exhibition is the outcome of four disparate painting practices, creating hybrid works which question notions of authorship and challenges each artist's individual practice.

Artists like Judy Chicago, Mira Schor, Martha Rosler, Adrian Piper, Howardina Pindell, and others merged art and activism, elevating everyday materials, methods, and experiences to challenge conventional notions about how and why and where art is created and consumed.

«In the Absence of Color» challenges this notion, presenting a selection of work by artists who pursue black and white and prove that the works are anything but.

Mediengruppe Bitnik (read — not mediengruppe bitnik) is an artist collective, with two members Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo working on and within the Internet!Mediengruppe Bitnik's work engages many of the core tenets of post internet developments, in particular challenging notions of surveillance, social interactions, and internet consmerism.

Kult Gallery is strongly dedicated to showcasing original artworks created by both local and international young street artists and illustrators that challenge conventional notions, and it is one of the coolest street art exhibition spaces in the world.

The Archive of Affect reminds us that there are many voices still unheard and unwritten, and that artists can play an important role in challenging traditional notions of place, history, and personhood.

Beyond Zero is a homage to these historic moments and explores how contemporary artists continue to challenge conventional notions of time and space.

The artists in Us Is Them continue that tradition by creating enlightening and thoughtful works that challenge and rearrange stale notions of identity and obsolete notions of difference.

In New York in the 1960s, Judd was among the first in a group of artists who challenged notions of subjectivity and pictorial illusionism by creating art from industrial processes and materials.

A New Spirit in Painting also featured members of an older generation, including Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, and Pablo Picasso, presenting works that challenged standard notions of these artists» oeuvres.

The artists in US IS THEM continue that tradition by creating enlightening and thoughtful works that challenge and rearrange stale notions of identity and obsolete notions of difference.

These artists took from Gauguin the challenge to traditional easel painting, especially his notion that all art should be decorative.

Gloria Cardona interviews Molly Soda on Comfort Zone, the artist's second solo show with Annka Kultys Gallery, and writes «Molly Soda Challenges the Notion of Private Areas as Safe - havens ``.

Through each of the artists» engagement with the formal and conceptual properties of the medium, they challenge the notion that photography presents a faithful representation of reality and incite us to look more closely at how images are manipulated, styled and filtered to create fictions that we, the public are too - often ready to accept.

Playing to the artists complex notions of femininity that often challenge common definitions of beauty, the Mickalene Thomas range aims to mirror Mickalene's embellishment technique via texture and design.

Through sensual manipulation, magnified memories, and fixated research, these artists interact with the unknown by employing digital media and charged ephemera to simultaneously challenge and negotiate our notions of control.

These expanded practices are direct challenges to notions of the artist hand, authenticity, perception and the medium itself.

Sonnier was part of a group of artists who challenged preconceived notions of sculpture in the late 1960s by experimenting with materials.

He never seizes to challenge our preconceived notions and questions of cultural hierarchy, the mythology of the artist and his position in society, or modes of production.

The permanent reinstallation of Judy Chicago's «The Dinner Party» led to «Burning Down the House,» a show that challenged the notion of the museum as «master's house,» the historical domain of male artists.

From her investigation into the notion of artificial beauty to references of futuristic architectural ideas from the early 20th century, Korean artist Lee Bul has, over the past two decades, garnered international renown with a diverse and intellectually challenging body of work that includes sculptures, performances and installations, while always maintaining an intriguing relationship with modernist ideals.

Instead, the shape of the exhibition opening in June will be formed largely by artists who resist or defy categorization, challenging notions of what an L.A. artist is.»

The show features a roster of 31 artists, all women, whose artwork subvert masculine archetypes, and challenge more docile notions of femininity by highlighting the qualities of strength, fitness and agility that are characteristic of physical skill and capability.

Sean Newport creates wood sculptures that conceptually challenge the perceived notions of reality, and lastly, the multidisciplinary artist Yetunde Olagbaju concerns herself with time travel, space, source, vulnerability, ancestry, and the human relationship to the Blackness of the universe.

This video, which won the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Principal Prize in 2010, is a witty and direct challenge to the notion of the artist's identity and institutional regulations imposed upon the viewing of art and the behaviour of a supposedly captive audience.

In her acclaimed series After Walker Evans: 1 — 22 (1981), the artist explicitly challenged notions of originality, authenticity, and identity by taking photographs of reproductions of Evans's photographs documenting the Great Depression of the 1930s.

July 8 - 31, 2009 In «Portraits,» American Artist - in - Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high - art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd's «Criminal / Victim» series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side - by - side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt.

The works in Beyond the Spectrum attest to the array of approaches and styles within American abstraction, and they challenge two persistent tendencies: to conceive of abstraction as the purview of white artists and to limit notions of authenticity to figural representations of African American culture where black artists are concerned.