Sentences with phrase «artists explored materials»

Searching for truth in new places, these artists explored materials that came from urban and industrial refuse.

Similarly, some artists explore the material qualities of language by physicalizing text through repetition or displaying it as an object.

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Each chapter in the book is devoted to one of five objects and each builds on the cultural relevance of materials, exploring the connections between artists» materials and their everyday life; showing how materials could be used philosophically and playfully.

Explore tactile qualities and select a range of materials to interpret a style of an artist.

Objectives: Use of found textures, collage materials and paint to interpret a style looking at the way the student experimented with the use of materials to create the style Explore media creatively when interpreting artist.

The workbooks include suggestions for artists to study, images to collect, materials and processes to explore and how to develop ideas based on the research.

She is a trustee of the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in Birmingham and a director of WEAVE, a company promoting the reuse and recycling of discarded materials from local businesses involving artists and educators exploring opportunities for creative learning.

Josephine Baker's life provides so much material for children to wonder about, and this title's beautiful illustrations and rhythmic text invite children to explore this legendary artist.

The curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited fourteen international artists to each activate a room, exploring the relationship between space, time, and physicality with an artwork whose «material» is the human being.

Over the past half century, he has «explored the possibilities of paint, the role of the artist, and the allure of material essence.»

Artist Statement «The intersection of media and materials is a tool to explore and elaborate on our human condition.

Kristian Kragelund is a Danish artist whose art explores notions of time and change created through reactions of different materials and objects.

Building Material explores the ways in which his innovations have found echoes and responses in the work of artists from subsequent generations: Rodrigo Cass, Ivens Machado, Paulo Monteiro, Nuno Ramos, Celso Renato, Lucas Simões, and Erika Verzutti.

In his curated show Digital Skin, now open at Katrina Van Tassel Projects in the Lower East Side (through August 7th), Christian explores ideological and material concepts through three artists whose works are drawn from emotional and personal interactions with the digital world.

Kessling works across a range of media such as photography, film, and performance, and here the images reflect performative tools for exploring identity, often juxtaposing the artist's own body with objects and materials such as dust sheets, clay, fabric and paper bags used with transformative effect — the temporal nature of the performative movement frozen in a single gesture — a single still from an action, or a response to an art - historical identity.

Radcliffe Bailey is a nationally - recognized painter, sculptor, and mixed - media artist who layers imagery, culturally resonant materials, and text to explore themes of ancestry, race, and memory.

Then the show turns to work by the second group, an imposing cadre of trained artists working in Los Angeles like Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, Senga Nengudi and Noah Purifoy, who worked for decades at the margins of the mainstream, exploring aspects of assemblage and found materials as well as political expression in often abstract forms.

Featuring several newly commissioned artworks and installations, the exhibition explores some of the ways sculptural materials and forms are changing as artists respond to the mediated and virtual realities of the world in which we live and work.

The event will focus on how each artist explores the boundaries of painting through a variety of materials and forms, as well as mines U.S. history in their recent work.

Blackness in Abstraction considers the use of black as a method, mode and material in works by twenty - nine artists who have explored the expressive and symbolic possibilities of black as a color.

The exhibition pulled from the museum's collection explores materials and the hand of the artist, bringing substance and gesture to the fore through a series of thematic mini-exhibitions.

Using ephemeral and found materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing turn what may seem like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.

Radcliffe Bailey is a painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist who utilizes the layering of imagery, culturally resonant materials, and text to explore themes of ancestry, race, and memory.

• Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru's 2012 «C - Stunner» glasses, made of found materials, offer a compelling metaphor for the shift in perspective explored in this section.

The exhibit consists of artists whose work explores the high impact, glossy and glittery materials, forms, and processes that evoke and celebrate feminine excess, pleasure, cosmetic artifice, bodywork, sexuality, and the performativity of gender.

The Mono - ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states.

Using ephemeral and found materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing (p. 4 — 5) turn what may seem like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.

In exploring the realm of editions as objects, often referred to as multiples — artists have extended their practice and subject matter into materials as varied as aluminum, lead, bronze and glass.

What distinguishes me from other artists working in fiber is my choice to mainly explore and recycle twentieth century industrial materials that have been primarily designed as tapes or films.

Each artist engages specific material processes by initiating or exploring varying states of flux.

This exhibition explores the work of three renowned conceptual and installation artists — Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, and Gabriel Orozco — whose use of modest, humble materials celebrate the mundane in contemporary life.

Make your own journals using simple book - making techniques, and explore a variety of artist sketchbooks and source materials.

«Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia displays Bertoia's jewelry and explores his investigations of form and material during his early days as an artist and designer at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

Primarily known for her sculptures of tangled webs composed of metal, glass, wood, and cloth, Falkenstein was a prolific artist; she explored different materials in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, printmaking and as a jewelry maker.

Both artists famously explored the abstract potential of industrial tools and materials — Caro's oxyacetylene welding equipment; Olitski's spray guns.

Dancy is «an artist who examines and mines abstraction's potential to move across mediums and materials as it explores [subtlety] and confrontation.»

Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints presents more than 100 woodblock prints, rarely - seen screens, scroll and fan paintings, and preparatory materials that explore the dynamic early work of famous Japanese landscape artist Kawase Hasui.

«Material Histories: Artists in Residence 2013 - 14» presents installations, paintings, works on paper and mixed media works by Beasley, Collins and Deville, three artists who «share an interest in exploring and contemplating the particular histories and experiences of families, regions and cultural groups, as well as their own lives.Artists in Residence 2013 - 14» presents installations, paintings, works on paper and mixed media works by Beasley, Collins and Deville, three artists who «share an interest in exploring and contemplating the particular histories and experiences of families, regions and cultural groups, as well as their own lives.artists who «share an interest in exploring and contemplating the particular histories and experiences of families, regions and cultural groups, as well as their own lives.»

The Austrian - born Pop artist's radical uses of new materials to explore the body, relationality and technology were prescient, intersecting with emerging discourses about feminism and appropriation.

Learn about the artists behind the show's varied sculptures and explore the eclectic ideas, materials, and processes that inspired their creations.

The works gathered here in Drawn in Black and White show that setting limits can be liberating, encouraging artists to fully explore new methods and materials.

The German artist Isa Genzken is a sculptor whose creations revere, explore, and deconstruct both the great masters of art history and her own materials — no easy feat, but one that has earned her widespread critical attention in both the U.S. and Europe, culminating recently in her blockbuster 2014 survey at MoMA.

Founded in 1979 New York City - based artist collaborative Group Material created over fifty exhibitions and public projects in the U.S. and Europe exploring the interrelations of aesthetics, culture and politics.

Certain contemporary artists find so much to explore in one material that artist and medium become almost fused in the art - collective consciousness: think of Richard Serra and rolled steel, for...

Aaron Schraeter is a New York - based artist whose work with found materials explores narratives that are part diary and part metaphor.

Each artist in the exhibition utilizes scale and weight to explore both visual and conceptual implications of depicting the environment: Jane Callister's painterly landscapes deftly intertwine process and imagery; each painting celebrates a material investigation that generates fictional yet enchanting landscapes.

Fervently working at the intersection of art and material culture, the featured artists explore how to value the materials around us and shape our lives and livelihoods through our own making.

Inoue's work deals with scientific inquiry and employs unexpected materials, Aarkrog manifests site - specific interventions exploring phenomena related to time and the body, while Dyrehauge expands the formal and material properties of painting.The artists» studios are adjacent to the Atrium Gallery.

Opening on March 13, 2016, Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling will explore the artist's use of diverse materials to challenge traditional sculptural conventions.