Sentences with phrase «artists challenge our expectations»

Reflecting on life's ephemerality, these artists challenge our expectations to optimistically remind us that we are part of a large continuum.

Not exact matches

The «wallpaper», which formulates a deceptively innocent pattern, is in fact created from endoscopic images of the artist's own internal organs - Rehberger often plays with the viewer's ideas and expectations in order to challenge preconceptions and routine «thinking habits».

By manipulating our expectations of what does and does not belong in these ostensibly collectively owned spaces, artists challenge what public spaces are, how they're made, and who they're made for.

It is designed to provide a forum for established artists whose working methods challenge the expectations of the artist in the community and who will most inspire the students.

The exhibition will explore the artists» commentary on and challenge of social values, expectations, and conventions that are a part of everyday life — raising questions about national and global issues including gender - specific violence and sociopolitical conflict.

Leigh A. Arnold curates this group show of «of women artists whose work focuses on challenging traditional gender expectations, role - reversal, and Feminist / post-Feminist sensibilities.»

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

Drawing on the language of social media, hyper - globalization and dissonant collage they will present work which will challenge viewers» expectations and offer a peak into what the next generation of young African and diaspora artists are up to.

The most recent HATCH exhibition at the Chicago Artists Coalition brings together three artists whose work is deeply grounded in techniques that add dimension to their imagery and challenge a modern expectation of photography in a digitalArtists Coalition brings together three artists whose work is deeply grounded in techniques that add dimension to their imagery and challenge a modern expectation of photography in a digitalartists whose work is deeply grounded in techniques that add dimension to their imagery and challenge a modern expectation of photography in a digital world.

Paintings are also included in the exhibition, but the artists use strategies that challenge our expectations of painting's forms or the artist's role as author.

What the artist seems to have taken away from that first exposure to a new visual vocabulary was disjointedness, a slippage and challenge of expectations.

In 1976, she founded and continues to direct Franklin Furnace, an artist - run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artists» books, installation art, video, online and performance art, further challenging institutional norms, the roles artists play within society, and expectations about what constitutes acceptable art mediums.

An international group of artists in the exhibition engage in practices that challenge and upend our expectations for the continuity of performative compositions, lines of movement, and thought.

The artist doesn't disappoint, introducing the show with a confident, bombastic and lengthy title and artist statement that confront and challenge the outsized expectations and criticism of her work.

These artists join a photographer exploring the personal through costumes of elaborate dresses made from nature and sculpture that questions the state of art making itself and how scale can challenge expectations.

She collaborated with the curators in choosing the works on display, many of which center on artists using live performance and their own bodies to challenge or toy with expectations around both identity and art - making.

Joanna Marsh, The James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum says, «The artists nominated this year «continue to show a sustained commitment to distinctive work that challenges conventional thinking and expectations about the nature of art.»

Under Jeremy Strick the Nasher has shown willingness to push at the boundaries of its core mission, exhibiting a broad range of contemporary artists who relate to, extend, or, in some cases, challenge the expectations for sculpture suggested by its permanent collection.

With an emphasis on championing the voices of emerging artists and bringing forward new concepts through curated exhibitions, CPW's year - round exhibition program brings forth work that challenges expectations, broadens our understanding of the world around us and connects audiences to the future of the photographic field.

How Tlingit artist Alison Marks challenged colonial gender roles and expectations in her recent exhibition «One Gray Hair.»