Sentences with phrase «as a stage set»

For example, a freestanding Combine, Minutiae (1954), was created as a stage set for a Cunningham performance; while his First Time Painting (1961), another Combine, was made by the artist while on stage at the American Embassy in Paris as part of the performance Homage to David Tudor.

For example, I think of painting as a stage set on which symbolic action is performed.

Guyton / Walker and Liz Deschenes both treat an imagined artist's studio as a theater, with painting as its stage set.

The exhibition centres on a group of sculptures designed as a stage set for Constellations 2012, a play by British writer Nick Payne which explores the notion that everything you can imagine is simultaneously happening in a parallel universe.

Using the deserts of Eastern Washington as stage sets, he constructs material plays about his process.

Violette riffs on that generation, but he means theater more literally — not as a shared space for art to address the viewer, but as stage set and spectacle.

Continuing with the use of lens - based phenomena, humble celebratory gestures, and primitive constructs, Ekberg further develops two distinct bodies of work; images created in the woods or nature, and images using his apartment as stage set.

A similar history opens with the red paintings, which Merce Cunningham asked him to adapt as a stage set for dancers in 1954.

McKenzie creates oversize paintings that present trompe - l'oeil visions of 19th - century interiors, positioned as a stage set within the gallery.

Landscape and architectural spaces function as stage sets in my paintings.

Here, the backyard swimming pool serves as a stage set for a variety of personal dramas that can scale up to reflect a society in crisis.

This ambitious site - specific installation functions as a stage set for an unrealised drama, presenting a highly - choreographed environment of a grand domestic setting.

Her paintings often operate as stage sets, artworks, and ritual objects simultaneously, and engage with abstraction beyond the parameters of Western art history.

Although the artists» works are distinct in terms of form and content, they are united by a structure conceived as a stage set where the viewer is invited to reflect on the individual works and the viewing experience itself.

Using the Rocky Mountains as a stage set to perform the historically romanticized role of the artist in the landscape, Kjartansson questions the cultural narratives that mediate our experiences of nature.

And so he does here, creating an environment of paintings, drawings, embroideries and collages that serve as a stage set for a multicharacter narrative about masculine stereotypes and how they thwart the path of true same - sex love.

A 2014 sculptural installation by Abigail DeVille, called «Intersection,» originated as a stage set and became, with some gouging and puncturing, a witty, right - on sendup of Richard Serra.

Several oil paintings are props assisting the development of an action or stage in a story, sculptures are designed as stage sets, with an illusionist facade and visibly constructed backgrounds.

The carefully selected books are handled in ways which pull out the performative practices of their authors and subjects, with her constructions created as their stage set.»

Not exact matches

By setting the stage, you will be cementing your role as the hero that your the team needs.

You see that Orphan Drug Act (and a confluence of other factors as well, both regulatory and economic) helped set the stage for the Wild West marketplace we have now, in which gun - slinging drug makers can charge into town and charge whatever the heck they want for their wares.

People go up on stage and set themselves up as if they're the hero.

Markets set a positive stage for the Fed's potentially historic turn as U.S. stock futures rose ahead of the market open on Wednesday and bond markets and the dollar were steady.

(IAC announced in December that the dating website will be reorganized as a separate business called Match Group, with its own chairman, potentially setting the stage for a spinoff.)

Standing on a stage set up on a high school football field, Rutan and Paul Allen, the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder who has sunk some $ 25 million into SpaceShipOne, struggled with the kitchen - table - size ceremonial check as some 600 local space fanatics cheered lustily.

To infiltrate these corporate spaces and get them up to speed, I book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage, as well as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate setting.

The stage was set for him to get his wish: reports over the past few years had said that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (R&A), golf's governing authority everywhere outside the U.S., was likely to give Trump the 2020 tournament, officially known as the Open Championship (to golf fans, simply The Open).

The company then invited two game developers on stage to show off the new games that will appear on its set - top box, as well as the system's new controller, which is designed to enhance the Apple TV's gaming experience.

As part of the requirements for a BFA in musical theater, my major at the time, I had to learn about the process for designing and building a set for the stage.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

The jobs he had as a teenager set the stage for the rest of his life as a highly successful salesperson.

She is one of the four co-founders of Leap Ventures (her counterparts in this enterprise being Hervé Cuviliez, Henri Asseily and Noor Sweid), with the company set up as a late - stage venture capital firm for startups in this region, thereby fulfilling what was a definite need for the market here to further evolve and grow.

«It's obviously still very early days, but there's tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes, setting the stage and we're making progress putting in place a new team and structure as well as cascading that structure and accountability down the whole organization,» chief executive Guy Laurence said in a conference call with analysts Thursday.

During Hurricane Harvey, we saw how a city's layout can worsen the effects of a storm, as Houston's urban sprawl and scant zoning likely set the stage for catastrophic flooding.

Hollywood has long used the business world as a setting for its stories, be it as backdrop or centre stage.

The Simpson trial set the stage for the Casey Anthony trial, the Oscar Pistorius trial, and any other recent case that played out in public (and on television) almost as much as it played out in the courtroom.

From an early stage, the powers that be in Mexico were set on developing their country as a startup hub.

As BlackRock's Heidi Richardson suggests, the stage is still set for more volatility, and...

As BlackRock's Heidi Richardson suggests, the stage is still set for more volatility, and there are steps investors can take to prepare for it.

The UK may be setting the stage for a slow erosion of its competitiveness, as a hard Brexit increases risks for its intellectual capital.

To be fair, optimism isn't all lost as we recognize that we are at a point in time when innovation and technology could be setting the stage for a prolonged period of real growth.

The Roundtable report sets out recommendations to increase access to growth capital for Canadian innovation economy companies as they progress beyond the seed and startup stages.

Commenting on Mr. Greenspan's remarks, David Hale of Kemper / Zurich International pointed out that as a result of Europe's more «rigid» (that is, unionized) labor markets, «If France or Germany had enjoyed America's success in reducing unemployment, their trade union movements would be pushing up wages aggressively and setting the stage for a monetary tightening to slow down the economy's growth rate.»

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Debt securities are beneficial to early stage companies with little traction and revenue, as they don't require the company to set a valuation.

At that year's 18th Party Congress, fixed as usual for the autumn, the stage seemed set for Bo to join the ranks of China's most powerful men in the Politburo and to provide a permanent counterweight to Xi.

The Saudi stock benchmark advanced to the highest since 2015 last week before FTSE Russell said it's classifying the country as a secondary emerging market, with actual inclusion set to happen in stages starting a year from now.

The terrorist attacks set the stage for a decade of setbacks that have led many people to regard the stock market as a lost cause.

I have seen early stage companies set aside an option pool of 10 % to 15 % of their equity for such purposes and draw down equity from the pool as needed over time.

I see Notley as trying her hardest to provide services through the oil price crash while at the same time setting the stage for a transition to renewables.