Sentences with phrase «as abstract sculpture»

Instead you're invited to pay attention only to what is around you, and in front, lending itself tremendously to Mahmoud's show, as abstract sculpture typically requires even a modest suspension of disbelief.

As abstract sculpture, his wide - open forms derive from David Smith.

And in a sense it is, for much the same structures turn up as abstract sculpture in past installations, at least once of breathtaking density.

You might see this 20th - century piece from Mali as an abstract sculpture carved from wood.

Forms pictured briefly in novels or film are crafted as abstracted sculptures; a pattern from a film still is rendered as a wooden screen, low - tech resin casts playfully suggest mineral forms in an alien landscape or vintage curios.

As part of this process they subject forms and figures to varying stages of virtual and material transformation, here resulting in theatrical atmospheric smoke being flattened onto carpet and horizon lines being rendered as abstract sculptures.

Not exact matches

No Norman Rockwell prints or velvet Elvises here: the gallery — whose average sale rings in at around $ 500 — features a mix of colorful abstracts and soothing landscapes as well as unique sculpture, pottery, and art glass.

Ụkwa Ruo Oge Ya Ọ Daa — There's a time for everything is a current show at London's October Gallery, showcasing Nnenna Okore's intricate abstract sculptures inspired by organic elements in nature, such as roots, veins, and flora.

Tons of paintings both oil, & acrylic, abstract, landscapes, sculptures in stone, cement, polymer clay, 3D canvas art, rock sculptures, fairies, fairy house lamps and stash jars, as well as handcrafted soaps, lotions, candles, bath salts to die for and it's all natural ingredients!!

Although an abstract sculpture, the installation is also a scientifically precise representation of the chemical composition of moon dust as it was gathered during the Apollo 17 mission.

I'm kind of lost when Robin talks about one of the main threads of BC17 as «whether or not what we feel as «physicality» in abstract sculpture is inevitably some kind of metaphor for a «bodily» sensation.»

Each of the installations, which vary in form — from sculpture and photography to sound and architectural intervention — investigates a different element of the in - between as both a physical location and an abstract condition.

Their invention would prove elemental to the Bauhaus in coming years, as well as inspiring the first modern abstract sculpture.

In addition to her widely popular Infinity Rooms, such as LOVE IS CALLING, Kusama creates vibrant paintings, works on paper, and sculpture with abstract imagery.

Jones works with deconstructed academic books and reference volumes, reinventing the materials as three - dimensional works — abstract collage «paintings» and sculpture.

This exhibition focuses on her early abstract metal sculptures and paintings as a starting point for future examination of a long and continuously inventive career.

He is renowned for his invention of wire sculpture — coined by critics as «drawings in space» — and the mobile, a kinetic sculpture of suspended abstract elements whose actual movement creates ever - changing compositions.

Housed in the Empire State Plaza's underground Concourse gallery, this sprawling bunker of generic hard - edged abstract painting and minimal sculpture was regarded by students and faculty alike as something of an embarrassment of riches, the last vestiges of overblown Greenbergian dictates on advanced art.

As I've said, the lion share of both abstract and representational painting and sculpture produced in America since 1950 is left out.

While Stella's assumptions regarding Minimalism as well as contemporary abstract sculpture \ are based on the relationship between a moving spectator and a stationary object, cinema posits a moving image in front of a stationary spectator, reversing the terms of the equation,

To pick up on one of the main threads, whether or not what we feel as «physicality» in abstract sculpture is inevitably some kind of metaphor for a «bodily» sensation:

The deer sculpture complements an Amish quilt, included in this context as a reminder that the square is not a shape unique to abstract painting.

The site - specific immersive installation features two 170 foot murals and several abstract wooden sculptures intended to raise questions about the current economic, ecological, and civic state of the nation, as well as the individual's role in it.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

Perhaps the most commonplace is to stand back and look at the buildings — to contemplate the city as an abstract geometrical sculpture filled with lights and motion and anonymous people.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

I may yet remember Jason Gringler's shattered mirrors as painting from Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Sheila Gallagher's painting in plastic from Dodge, Rachel Beach's abstract sculpture of reclaimed wood from Blackston (like Dodge, on the Lower East Side), videos by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook of art students from Tyler Rollins, or Patrick Jacobs's peepholes onto constructed other worlds from The Pool NYC.

That exhibition thematized the relationship between Liu's paintings and his three - dimensional sculptural forms via explicit formal echoes: Black - and - white geometric paintings were adroitly paired with rectilinear pseudotopiary sculptures in which bands of foliage were interspersed with horizontal neon lights, while the oscillating static playing on stacked TV sets chimed with the abstract canvases as well.

When dealing with an artist as subtle as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.

Gaining notice in the art world while still a student, she soon began building a wider following with abstract wire sculptures that expressed both the craftsmanship she had learned from Mexican basket makers as well as her ambition to extend line drawings into a third dimension.

At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue paintings with some subtle white abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.

While technically, every Fontana ceramic is a literal depiction of a battle scene, crucifixion, flowers, animals... these particular ceramic sculptures, in their dynamic immediacy, raw visceral quality, and hand - hewed gestures, generate a form that is as much an image as it is an abstract trace of the artist's process.

When I finally was exposed to high art in high school and I would see books at the bookstore on pop art or abstract expressionism, I responded immediately in that same way as my grandfather would if he saw a fancy Greek or Roman sculpture somewhere.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

However, the image's conceptual origins go back to the beginning of his career as an artist, with an abstract sculpture that he called the Rhythms of Life, a theme that has obsessed him ever since.

In Hog on Ice, Pinks, and Creamed Onions (1989), John Chamberlain uses black and white lucite relief to form varying lines in abstract forms, evoking the linear patterns that appear as a result of manipulation and exposure in the artist's crushed automobile sculptures.

Widely recognized as one of the most important American artists of the last fifty years, Ellsworth Kelly redefined abstract art through his bold paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawing.

Whereas artists such as Donald Judd (1928 — 1994) and Carl Andre (b. 1935) enlisted industrial fabrication and materials to make their works, Truitt hand - painted her sculptures in multiple layers to create abstract compositions of subtle color in three dimensions.

Also on view is a group of bronze sculptures from Nagle's Hands On series (1991), which use the cup as a formal vehicle rather than a utilitarian tool, employing slight variations in structure and texture to create abstract geometric and architectural forms.

Peter Shelton's sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical as well as architectural motifs.

Hoyland was spurred on by the formal crispness and rich colour of Caro's abstract sculptures, as well as by Caro's ability to make it big while remaining in Mickey Mouse England.

Just as she seemed to find her feet in the 1950s, the male - dominated genre of abstract expressionism exploded, making stars of male contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and overshadowing her sculptures.

«Song for Rythm 1», with its pole and baseplate, is for me an extreme example of the problem of literal structure in abstract sculpture, and as you say, its an old problem.

While these sculptures can be seen as purely abstract forms, they also can be read as directly indexing nature, due to the grains of sand affixed to the plastic cloth used in the casting process.

Each work appears abstracted or even unfinished as the debris of the artists» studio — gathered sawdust, wood shavings and tools — lie scattered around the sculptures.

He approaches this topic in a different way in Woman, 1981, and his Brushstroke Head sculptures from 1987 by treating the shape of a brushstroke as an abstract image in its own right, which he then uses to compose the face and body of a woman.

Though that abstract sculpture, by a now - forgotten artist named Joe Messina, sold for $ 125 to the collector and heiress Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny, who told Mr. Sandler to deliver the piece directly to the Museum of Modern Art, to which she donated.

In sculpture, video and photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots of shop signs in Lahore into abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions of Old Master paintings as digital fields of colour.

A second room devoted mainly to sculpture, Room 6 houses his more three - dimensional works, a few abstract pieces such as Totem (1986 - 89), his later paintings and Kate Moss pieces.

No medium or methodology dominates; this is not one of those biennials people are going to look back and remember as «the video one», «the abstract - sculpture - and - stand - up - comedy one» or whichever other fruits are in season that year.