Sentences with phrase «artists grappling»

It's no surprise to me that some of the best artists grappling with the human figure at Miami Basel were artists of African heritage, like Hank Willis Thomas, whose work often deals with portrayals of African Americans in the media and how those ideas have shifted over time.

The works on view, if not quite masterpieces in most cases, are solid, mature examples of serious artists grappling seriously with their medium.

She likens her work to Gutai artists grappling with mud or to the photos of Ana Mendieta covered with plant matter and the works where she left impressions of her body in the ground.

These alternately tragic, comic, sublime, and horrific works reflect artists grappling with dark, suppressed, and frequently taboo emotions and behavior inherent in the contested spaces of religion, culture, and human nature.

In the new book Bio Art: Altered Realities, William Myers collects the work of artists grappling with the implications of genetic engineering, environmental destruction, and the latest digital technologies.

From writers to painters to poets to performers, hear how these artists grapple with doing what they love and getting paid to do it.

Exploring new language with familiar iconography, both artists grapple with contemporary blackness.

Featuring 36 paintings and 53 drawings, many on loan from major museums and private collections, the exhibition draws together a compelling body of work that reveals the artist grappling to reconcile gestural and field painting, figuration and abstraction.

Her essay points to the particular climate of the late 1960s and early 1970s in which artists grappled with central issues of civil rights, gender politics, and anti-war movements — battles that are still questioned and debated today.

Seeing an artist grapple publicly with the complex and personal experience of trying to understand what it means to become subject to a disease such as Alzheimer's — and to articulate that visually, sonically, and spatially — gave occasion to an extensive line - up of public programming revolving around artistic, medical, legal and ethical questions and made apparent how widespread this experience is.

I do not get the impression of an artist grappling with life's finitude.

But the overall impression of this retrospective is one of a great artist grappling with vast changes in his environment and in himself.

They reflect the struggle to effectively express the dissociative and isolating inclinations of a creative nature by an artist grappling with the demands and expectations of a traditional upbringing and lifestyle.

Andy Moses» mid career retrospective at Santa Monica College Gallery evinces a current artist grappling with the Color Field genre.

They're both manifestations of an artist grappling with today's obsession with luxury (one we just might be drowning in).

Return to Earth succeeds by showing how the artists grappled with translating their specific aesthetic sensibilities into a medium usually associated with arts and crafts.

Contemporary artists grappled with the effects of the digital age, further shaped by events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), the first Gulf War, and the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King verdict (1992).

Contemporary artists grapple with the complex issues of our time, ask tough questions, and make works that delight, amaze and sometimes unsettle audiences worldwide.

Carving out a space for personal and political reflection within pervasive streams of information, the works in the exhibition demonstrate the shift from analog to digital concerns, as artists grapple with defining new forms of materiality, and new critical approaches in a radically more virtual world.

Within this framework, a number of artists grapple critically with our place in the world.

Not exact matches

In the paintings currently on view at the First Things Gallery, artist Wayne Adams grapples with Christianity and the presence of God.

Many artists (or writers on art) seem to have been concerned with trying to grapple with the subconscious; with a possible escape from uncertainty; with defining their identity and the world around them; and with trying to comprehend their perceived reality.

The poignancy and tension that run through artist Cannon's art speak to a larger discussion going on today as the United States grapples with thorny questions of ethnic identity, land rights, and cultural heritage.

Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's final message before he passed away, and it revelas an artist still grappling with the complexities and vagaries of the human heart, as well as organs slightly southward.

Baker is grappling with his demons in the conventional music - biopic style: success, fame, drugs, sex, love and the fundamental battle to be understood as an artist.

I find myself tempted to call it the «Gay Straw Dogs» (gay in spirit if not in character) but that's not quite right - it is very much its own fascinating thing; it is very much the work of one man, one artist, grappling with his own art and the idea of himself as an Aartist, grappling with his own art and the idea of himself as an ArtistArtist.

It's a problem artists have grappled with forever when their subject is death and the audience knows from the start how things will end.

Using an arsenal of special moves like Yooka's tongue grapple and Laylee's tactical sonar blast, players will explore — and expand — gorgeous 3D worlds drawn up by esteemed environment artist Steven Hurst (Banjo - Kazooie series, Viva Pinata) and through skill discover the plethora of delicious collectibles hidden within.

Just as the ICP must grapple with a rapidly altering field, so artists like Atkins are contending with defining and reshaping a mutating world.

«As such, Saturn Paintings extends the artist's concern with expressing the psychological and existential maladies of a modern age set adrift in seemingly boundless space and endless time, an age collectively grappling with questions about its significance in a universe whose secrets continue to elude us.»

Courtesy of the artist.Bad Boy follows Fischl's maturation both as an artist and sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his legacy and place among museums and collectors.

In Los Angeles, the living is easier, but there seems to be — especially among artists — a constant grappling to define and understand LA as a place.

Presenting perhaps lesser known works by such influential artists upends our usual assumptions and base of knowledge, allowing us to reevaluate our own ideas about this work and affords the challenge and the pleasure of grappling with ideas and the ever - changing web of art history.

Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self - definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention.

In looking at the Hafez quote again, one must reflect on the mission of the role of the artist and his role as a renovator, residing in the universe, grappling with the existential trappings of life and worldly tragedies.

Two weeks ago, Schad grappled with artist Piero Golia's exhibition at Gagosian's Beverly Hills space, posting a review of the artist's concrete cakes and debris - covered paintings, and questioning whether the art lived up to the artist's ideas.

A member of the so - called Pictures Generation of artists that emerged in the 1980s, known for their appropriation of mass media imagery, the work of Richard Prince has consistently grappled with such issues as authorship, reproduction, and context.

Portrait of the Artist Listening to Music shows the painter grappling with his mortality and is one of the largest works the British artist paArtist Listening to Music shows the painter grappling with his mortality and is one of the largest works the British artist paartist painted.

He singled out Jackson Pollock and the French painter Georges Mathieu as artists who «grapple with the material in a way which is completely appropriate to it,» and encouraged group members to emulate this approach.

Curators Bill Arning and Rick Herron grapple with this dilemma and attempt to bridge the gap between Haring's work and legacy with the exhibition Powerful Babies: Keith Haring's Impact on Artists Today at the Spritmuseum in Stockholm.

This moving, penetrating documentary, made by his granddaughter Cosima Spender, is both a brilliant portrait of the artist — a man who told myriad lies about his true identity — and the haunted tale of a family still grappling with his turbulent ghost.

As complex histories and dynamic changes affect Asian political, social, cultural and economic landscapes, it is the artists who grapple with the past, present and future creating a backdrop for new ways of thinking.

The human condition is perhaps one of the most complex and intangible themes an artist could attempt to grapple with, but Bill Viola has based an entire career on it.

The fact that you can be extremely prominent in the art world in one season and virtually invisible the next is something with which artists have to grapple.

Four artists of Arab heritage came together in an international collaboration to create new poetry, music, and visual art works grappling with notions of displacement.

Get to know these artists in depth, and discover the different ways they grappled with history, identity, and optimism.

In light of the modern day obsession with the selfie, it is important to turn an eye on the work of contemporary female artists who address self - portraiture, not with self - promotion in mind, but to interrogate contemporary society and the social and political values we grapple with.»

For biracial Los Angeles - based artist Genevieve Gaignard grappling with these themes in conceptual costumed self - portraits has always been her modus operandi, even before Trump the president came into the picture.

Stepping away from traditional linear narratives, the artist crafts sensual environments laden with playful mistranslation that open a space for the viewer to grapple with the unstable relationship between imagination and reality.

Native American women grapple with the highest rates of sexual violence in the United States and two Native American artists, Rebecca Nagle and Graci Horne, have traveled to Standing Rock to create a Healing Tent and to work on their Monument Quilt proj