Sentences with phrase «artist occupies the position»

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Having recently turned seventy, Riley occupies an unusual position within the field of contemporary art — a senior artist whose work, with each new development, generates fresh interest.

Gilbert & George occupy a unique position among contemporary artists of the last half - century and have built up a vast body of work that has earned them international acclaim.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

Michael Craig - Martin occupies a position in the UK similar to that of John Baldessari in the US — an illustrious mentor to younger leading lights and a seriously important artist in his own right.

As a way to emphasize the Museum's strong commitment to new art and new ideas, Outside the Box lecturers speak about the exhibitions or themes emergent in artists» works from the various positions they occupy, be they academic, personal, political, etc., and engage in rich investigations that illuminate and probe the Museum's current exhibition program.

As a result, the Zabludowicz Collection, founded in 1994, occupies a special position in the contemporary art landscape, affording critical sustenance for fledgling artists as they build their careers — and often providing a launching pad for the kind of future art stars sought after by other collectors.

Wallace's work occupies a unique position among the currents that have animated art and engaged artists since the 1980s: appropriation, the «end» of painting, and the reinvestigation of Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual art.

«Through combining production modes of making and presenting (at once creative, analytic, interpretive), and by inhabiting the roles of photographer, curator, designer, critic, and historian all under the rubric of artist, Tillmans occupies a rare if not singular position in the field of contemporary art.»

The museum's unique collection of international contemporary art is a selective collection of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive visual language, objects and images with great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects of cultural production.

Explicitly positioning the artists as artwork, the pair will spend the duration of the performance, on a plinth with a surface area just too small for two people to comfortably occupy.

For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag artist José Pérez Ocaña, among others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano, whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.

To this end, lecturers will speak about the exhibitions or themes emergent in artists» works from the various positions they occupy, be they academic, personal, political, etc., and engage in rich investigations that illuminate and probe the Museum's current exhibition program.

While it appears that artist Mandla Reuter is influenced by this conceptually critical approach to art making and those artists associated with Institutional Critique, he reengages its spirit, fusing it with related and unrelated investigations, to occupy his own, unique position in the questioning of space and display, unearthing new questions in turn.

O'Grady maintains that Baudelaire and Jackson, artists separated by nearly 150 years, occupied pivotal positions in their genres and shared surprisingly similar traits, including dramatic flair, aspirations to greatness, unrelenting perfectionism, drug addiction, and ambiguous sexuality.

As a black artist in the 21st century, Gates is acutely aware of the position he occupies, and the amount of consideration and adaptation it takes to experiment, and possibly fail, on such grand scale.

Did you know that only a small group of African Americans occupy curatorial positions at mainstream museums, relatively few African - American artist

The artist's notebooks, usually occupying this secondary position for signposts to an artist's intentions, instead forms the core of the show, presented in the main artery of the gallery space alongside several of his paintings, and photographs by Peter Hujar in the gallery's upper level.

Thus, every artist takes a «cartographical» approach to scrutinize how their respective locations only exist in reference to other positions occupied on the same map by the other participants in the show.

Elsewhere: Nairy Baghramian has posed questions of the notion of «site specificity», positioning a series of bronze sculptures in a location once occupied by the works of Richard Serra and Andreas Siekmann; Ayşe Erkmen has submerged a number of shipping containers in the municipal harbour, allowing visitors to walk on water; Cerith Wyn Evans has lowered the temperature of the bells in St Stephen's Church, slightly altering their sound in the process; Michael Smith is offering bespoke tattoos designed by participating artists and esteemed friends (of course, those over the age of 65 get a special discount).

Caroline Seck Langill is a writer, artist, and independent curator who occupies the position of Associate Dean, Facilities, Policies and Planning in the Faculty of Art.

Riddy's process involves visiting and re-visiting the scenes in his photographs until they conform to the image he has created in his imagination, and this would seem to suggest that the artist therefore occupies the position of the observer waiting for the right opportunity to jump in with his camera lens.

As an artist he occupied a nonconformist position: radical, humorous and always engaged in a quest of ambiguity.

Under the direction of Fiorella Resenterra, the MADC has occupied a unique position in Central America, a region replete with interesting artists but lacking in a strong cultural infrastructure.

The black paintings are illustrations, indeed instantiations of the rule; their chessboard grids are reduced to near invisibility: there are no other positions, no other squares to occupy, no other artists allowed.

Beginning his career in the 1960s, he occupies a unique position in the contemporary art world: he belongs to the Pop tradition but is not a Pop artist.

Tracey Emin Artforum International; September 1, 2013; Kastner, Jeffrey; 700 + words... synopsis of the strangely conflicted position occupied by Tracey Emin these days need look no further than the artist's biography... induction, when a dangerously pissed Emin made a shambles of a Turner Prize roundtable involving a roomful of British art - world panjandrums...