Sentences with phrase «as contemporary visual artists»

Early house and rave culture provided a model of democratization of culture, just as contemporary visual artists consider their use of the internet now.

He has established a name as a contemporary visual artist through an extensive exhibiting history over the last fifteen years in public galleries, project spaces and dealer operations within New Zealand and overseas.

This background deeply shapes his work as a contemporary visual artist, which has performative, participatory, and ephemeral characteristics that derive from Carnival.

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Ayorinde added that the project would encourage the ingenious creativity of visual art students across tertiary institutions as well as budding artists thereby boosting the curation of contemporary and home grown artworks.

The organizations have been selected as nominators based on their strong relationships with a diverse group of visual artists and their commitment to preserving the rich histories of contemporary artists in the New York City area.

The exhibition, the artist's first solo show of paintings in New York in six years, continues to reveal Taaffe as a philosopher of painting, offering compelling meditations on art and culture, both contemporary and historical, and visual ruminations on the interrelated families of forms and images in art, architecture, and archaeology.

Patterned after NPN's model performing arts program, the Visual Artists Network was launched in 2007 as a pilot, and in 2009 the program was formally established through the induction of the VAN Partners, fifteen leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.

Panelists include Brian Wallis, Curator of the Walther Collection and former Chief Curator of the ICP; Paul Milkman, scholar and author of PM: A New Deal in Journalism 1940 - 1948; Jason Hill, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Delaware and author of the forthcoming book Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture and Laetitia Barrere, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

DHC / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present French artist Sophie Calle who will speak about her development as an artist through a stunning visual compendium of her work.

Beds in History and Contemporary Art focuses on the historical as well as iconographic significance of the depiction of the bed and will include and juxtapose paintings, sculptures, drawings, photos, and video works spanning from old masters to present - day artists, subdivided into themes and arranged according to visual associations.

Nominated in the Visual Art category are John Akomfrah and George Shaw for their respective exhibitions «Vertigo Sea» at Turner Contemporary in Margate and «My Back to Nature» at the National Gallery (Apollo's coverage of both exhibitions can be found here and here), as well as Artangel's multi-artist project «Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison» (also covered in Apollo here).

It holds works by visual artists that range from Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, and Fernand Léger to extensive contemporary work by William Klein, Derek Jarman, Bruce Conner, Marcel Broodthaers, Matthew Barney, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, and experimental artists such as Paul Sharits and Stan Brakhage.

It continues with works from the world's leading innovators in the arts, as they break through thresholds of space, memory, sound, and genre — from Philippe Parreno who, in his largest exhibition in the U.S. to date, transforms the presentation of visual art into an evolving sensory journey; to Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx as they create a new contemporary ballet; to avant - garde performance artist Laurie Anderson who, through a site - specific installation in the Armory's drill hall, will expand upon her work with storytelling and technology to create a site - specific environment that serves as a meditation on time, identity, surveillance and freedom; and finally to Igor Levit and Marina Abramović as they interpret Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations, to create a concentrated durational performance that reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity.

Neighbours looks at how deeply rooted social customs such as spectacles and celebrations have seeped into the visual arts to inform the work of contemporary artists from this diversified and historically interconnected area.

Featured artists include top - tier contemporary American artists Kara Walker and Mike Kelly as well as the museum's first sound art piece, which was created by Nadine Robinson, and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alum Ian Monroe.

Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

Co-organized by the Menil Collection and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Silence takes a multimedia approach to understanding the ways contemporary visual and sonic artists such as John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Doris Salcedo, and Christian Marclay have practiced withdrawal as a response to the complications and multiplicities of contemporary life.

Previously, at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, she managed a contemporary exhibition program in a 15,000 - square - foot historic space as well as international residencies, public programming, and a studio program for visContemporary Art at Snug Harbor, she managed a contemporary exhibition program in a 15,000 - square - foot historic space as well as international residencies, public programming, and a studio program for viscontemporary exhibition program in a 15,000 - square - foot historic space as well as international residencies, public programming, and a studio program for visual artists.

Aaron Douglas is regarded as the leading visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance as well as the first black artist to create a distinctive modernist style that connected contemporary African Americans with their African heritage.

Many contemporary artists such as Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, and Wolfgang Tillmans have utilized the conventions of portraiture to record their own individual communities, giving visual form to subcultures that have often gone unrepresented in mainstream culture.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

Undertaken as a public - private initiative with support from the City of New York, the five - story, 82,000 - square - foot project will provide the custom - built and expanded facilities, enriched visitor experience and strong architectural presence appropriate to a premier center for contemporary artists of African descent, the principal visual art institution in Harlem and a magnet for visitors from around the world.

Performa: New Visual Art Performance presents an authoritative introduction to the genre, many forms including radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance, and provides a vivid tour through the world of contemporary performance, featuring inventive documentation of works by some of the most significant artists of our time, including Jesper Just, Francis Alys, Christian Marclay, Laurie Simmons, Tamy Ben - Tor, Melik Ohanian, Michael Smith, Christian Holstad, and Gelitin.

Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production.

Bloom Projects gives contemporary artists whose work has begun to garner significant attention an opportunity to move beyond their studio practice, encouraging experimentation and giving them the resources necessary to further their careers as professional visual artists.

Exploring and questioning contemporary life through visual imagery, the approach of Pictures Generation artists is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture and decoding the roles that images play as forms of representation, as icons, and as symbols.

Featuring inventive documentation by the 100 artists who made the first PERFORMA so extraordinary, it offers an exhilarating view into contemporary visual art performance and «performs» as a collective artists» journal might.

Composed by Stevie Jones, and performed together with Georgie McGeown, visual artist Vikki Morton (Muscles of Joy, Suckle) and Trembling Bell's Alex Neilson, Light the Currents is a bright and buoyant acoustic arrangement in two parts; the first written for a special performance at an exhibition of artwork by Katy Dove at Dundee Contemporary Arts in October 2016, the second written afterwards as a response to the exhibition and the experience of playing there.

Contemporary art values its Deleuze and Guattari but not its Merry Melodies, a curious enigma when artists like Mike Kelley or Raymond Pettibon, who plumbed the depths of so called «low» visual culture, are so revered as innovators.

As a strong supporter of the visual arts, over the last few years Library has hosted ground - breaking curated exhibitions and effectively promoted emerging and established contemporary artists and galleries alike.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

He has served as a founding member of Common Field, a nationwide network of contemporary, experimental, and noncommercial visual art spaces, and as a founding board member at the Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell.

With backgrounds in contemporary visual art, media and fashion, the eight artists featured in the exhibition have been identified as leading makers whose quilts act as non-functional art pieces.

Odeya has collaborated extensively with dancers, visual artist, filmmakers and theater directors as both a composer and soloist and has worked with artists such as Meredith Monk, Butch Morris and LA's contemporary orchestra — Wild Up.

From 2004 to 2014, Audi served as Artistic Director of the Holland Festival, presenting works in music, dance, theater, and visual art by such artists as William Kentridge, John Baldessari, Tacita Dean, and Ryoji Ikeda; directors Peter Sellars, Sam Mendes, and Ivo van Hove; choreographers Mark Morris, William Forsythe, Lemi Ponifasio, Akram Khan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; and contemporary composers John Adams, Nico Muhly, and Louis Andriessen.

Borrowing its subtitle from that influential 1929 canvas, which is owned by LACMA, and placing the piece at the center of sixty - five of the Belgian Surrealist's visual conundrums and just as many works by thirty - one contemporary artists, this exhibition seeks to unveil Magritte's pervasive influence.

Not only does the Gallery 2 program broaden the audience's basis of visual reference and education — as it is important to explore the relationship of contemporary practice and historical lineage — but it also affords the gallery the opportunity to work and build relationships with artists who are represented by other galleries, artists whose trajectories hold a different primary focus than the gallery, as well as young artists.

Project space that gravitates toward visual and performing art that does not suppress emotional intensity and we encourage more contemporary artists to embrace the personal as political.

It will include a radically dense overview of 20 emerging Polish artists, selected by KAJA PAWEŁEK, the curator of Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, as well as «an abridged dictionary of Polish art», a visual essay compiled and commented by SEBASTIAN CICHOCKI from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

The exhibition includes selected works of a number of Icelandic contemporary artists, as well as several foreign ones, that reflect the narrative part of Icelandic visual art.

As the Native Arts and Cultures pilot Mentor Artist Fellowship approaches its six - month mark, we'd like to update our followers on the progress of our 2017 cohort, twelve traditional or contemporary visual artists who are sharing their knowledge as mentors,.As the Native Arts and Cultures pilot Mentor Artist Fellowship approaches its six - month mark, we'd like to update our followers on the progress of our 2017 cohort, twelve traditional or contemporary visual artists who are sharing their knowledge as mentors,.as mentors,...

As the organization matured, this philosophy was advanced by nurturing, supporting, and exhibiting the work of underrepresented and emerging artists and curators and by welcoming the public to directly engage with contemporary visual arts in the Lower East Side.

Together, these historical and contemporary objects depict a visual narrative of the Northwest while providing insight to significant works by artists such as Northwest School members Carl Morris, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey, legendary Oregon artist C.S. Price, and the acclaimed Jacob Lawrence, who is best known for depicting important moments in African - American history.

ART21 is a nonprofit contemporary art organization dedicated to introducing broad public audiences to today's visual artists — stimulating critical reflection as well as conversation through the production of films, publications, digital resources, and educational programs.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by African Diasporan artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The London - born director, who began his career as a visual artist, and still exhibits his work in the context of contemporary art, also holds the rare triumvirate of an Oscar, a Bafta and the Turner Prize.

Join Gold Award artists Jason Benjamin, Kate Bergin, Victoria Reichelt and Kate Shaw as they discuss their practice and the role of art prizes in contemporary visual arts culture.

In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic language used in Hail reflected in the work of contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.

Harlem Postcards Fall / Winter 2016 — 2017 is the latest installment in an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists to reflect on the many sides of Harlem: as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimulation, artistic contemplation and creative production.